Enter your details once. Surname Switch prefills your official forms, drafts every email with AI, and hands you one tracked checklist of your actual companies, in the right order to notify them.
Take a breath
Married in Australia? Your certificate is all the proof you need, so you can get straight into it. Married overseas or choosing a new name? We walk you through the one extra step, then handle everything else.
Get StartedHow it works
Answer a few questions, and we handle everything else. The AI does the writing. You just review and hit send.
Married here or overseas, divorced, deed poll. We sort your exact rules, including whether anything needs registering first.
Government, banks, super, utilities, your employer and more. The common ones come already ticked.
One entry powers every message and prefills every official form. Nothing typed twice.
Your plan arrives in the smartest order. Each card is one action: send the email, submit the form, tick it off.
Fill in once. Goes everywhere.
AI messages are just the start. The same details you enter once get dropped into every official government form automatically. Medicare. The electoral roll. Your super fund. All filled out and ready for you to review and submit.
Marriage, divorce or deed poll. Every state and territory. All the places that matter, in the order that makes sense.
Why Surname Switch
Pricing
Start with Lite and guide yourself through, or go Powered and let us write every message and prefill every form. One-off payment either way, no subscription.
Your full plan, step-by-step guides, and a direct link for every organisation. You handle the sending.
AI writes every message and we prefill every official form. All that is left is a quick check before you send.
Your progress saves automatically in your browser and can be emailed to yourself to continue on any device.
Your situation
Marriage, divorce or deed poll. Each has different rules. Start where you are.
Your details are used to fill your forms and write your messages, then they stay with you - never stored on our servers. We never keep copies of your ID. See exactly how we handle your data →
Common questions
Usually not. If you married in Australia and are taking or adding your partner's surname, your official marriage certificate from Births, Deaths and Marriages is all the proof you need. There is no separate registration and no deed poll. You show that certificate to each organisation in turn.
If you married in Australia there is no government fee at all, because your marriage certificate is already your proof. If you need to register a formal change of name, your state registry charges roughly $130 to $220. Surname Switch is $25 for Lite, which is your personal ordered plan, and $65 for Powered, which also prefills your official forms and writes every message.
Building your plan takes about three minutes. Sending the notifications is usually one or two sittings of a few hours. Processing then varies by organisation: government ID takes days to weeks, while banks, utilities and subscriptions are usually faster.
Around 50 for most Australians: driver licence, Medicare, passport, the ATO, Centrelink, the electoral roll, banks and credit cards, super, insurance, your employer, energy and water, internet and mobile, and loyalty programs like Qantas and Velocity. Surname Switch tracks 47 organisation types plus named providers, and you can add anything specific to your life.
An Australian service that does the name-change admin for you after marriage, divorce or a deed poll. It works out whether a formal change applies, builds one ordered plan around your actual organisations, and on the Powered plan prefills your official forms and writes every notification message with AI. Plans start at $25 and cover all 8 states and territories.
Free guides
You do not have to buy anything to use these. Work out what applies to you, then come back when it is time to tell everyone.
Your personal name change plan, every message written, sorted into the right order. Takes about 3 minutes to set up.
From $25. No subscription. All 8 Australian states and territories.