Rego Status — paid-tier feature

Stop guessing when it's due. AutoBrain checks every vehicle's rego daily, shows the current status on each vehicle card, and tells you the moment it's about to expire. Included on Enthusiast and Garage hosted plans.

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Daily expiry tracking

A background job runs every night around midnight (your account timezone) and refreshes each vehicle's rego expiry from the state source. Open AutoBrain in the morning and the date on your vehicle card is already current — no manual refresh.

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Status badge on every vehicle card

Every vehicle card carries a colour-coded rego status badge: green when current, amber inside the warning window, red the day it lapses. Tap the badge to drill into the state record and full vehicle details.

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Expiry notifications

AutoBrain pings 30 days, 7 days and 1 day before rego expires, plus a separate alert the moment the state reports the registration as expired or unregistered. Mute any of them in Settings.

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Rego Lookup tool — VIN + rego

Already have a plate? Run the Rego Lookup tool directly from AutoBrain to pull make, model, VIN, body, colour, fuel type and current registration status — same backing service that runs the free rego lookup on the website.

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Every Australian state & territory

NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT and NT — the lookup and daily refresh run through the state-by-state AutoBrain Rego Lookup service.

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Private by design

Lookups are scoped to your account, snapshots are written to your own vehicle record, and nothing is shared with other owners or used to train models. Self-hosted AutoBrain uses the same code path against your own rego-lookup-api.

How Rego Status fits in

Daily tracking, badges and notifications ride on the paid plans; the basic Rego Lookup tool (type a plate, get make / model / VIN / rego) is the free foundation underneath. Self-hosted AutoBrain gets the same code path against your own rego-lookup-api.

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Rego Lookup

On-demand plate lookup from any Australian state. Returns VIN, body, colour, fuel and current rego status. No daily refresh, no badges, no notifications.

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Rego Status FAQ

Which plans include Rego Status?

Enthusiast ($5.90/month or $59/year) and Garage ($11.90/month or $119/year). Free keeps the basic on-demand Rego Lookup tool only — no daily refresh, no badge, no notifications.

How often does the data refresh?

Once a day, around midnight in your account timezone. The AutoBrain backend queries the state rego feeds (through the AutoBrain Rego Lookup service) and writes a fresh status snapshot to your vehicle record.

What notifications will I receive?

Expiry heads-up at 30 days, 7 days and 1 day out, plus a separate alert the moment the state flips your rego to expired or unregistered. Mute any of them under Settings → Notifications.

Which states are covered?

Every Australian state and territory — NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT and NT. The lookup tool and the daily job route through the state-by-state AutoBrain Rego Lookup service.

Does it work for shared vehicles?

Yes. Garage plans cover up to 5 vehicles; every vehicle gets its own badge and its own notifications. Shared ownership rules (who gets the alerts) follow the same logic as the rest of AutoBrain's vehicle-sharing.

Is my rego data shared with anyone?

No. Lookups are scoped to your account, snapshots are stored against your own vehicle record, and nothing is shared with other owners or used to train models. Self-hosted instances keep every lookup on your own rego-lookup-api.

Get Rego Status today

Try any paid plan free for 7 days. Cancel before the trial ends and you won't be charged.

Self-hosting? Rego Status uses the open rego-lookup-api plus the same daily Celery beat the rest of AutoBrain runs — wire your key and enable the rego refresh beat on your own infra.