Rules & compliance

Two Queensland window-covering companies are in external administration. Their ABNs still read Active

Public registers both companies checked 28 August 2026

If you are about to pay a deposit on blinds or shutters, the check almost everyone does is ABN Lookup, because it is free and it is the one people have heard of. On 28 August 2026 we looked up two Queensland window-covering companies on both public registers. ASIC records each of them as under external administration. ABN Lookup records each of them as Active. Both are correct, they answer different questions, and only one of them is a warning.

28 August 2026 ASIC company register and ABN Lookup, both read 28 August 2026

What the registers say, as at 28 August 2026

Made 2 Trade Pty Ltd	ACN 125 805 389, ABN 96 125 805 389. Trading names recorded on the ABR: TWO Australia and The Window Outfitters. Queensland. ASIC status: external administration. ABN status: Active, and registered continuously since 6 June 2007.
All Shutters & Blinds Pty Ltd	ACN 128 996 529, ABN 26 128 996 529. Queensland. ASIC status: external administration. ABN status: Active, registered since 1 January 2008.
Not this company	All Seasons Blinds & Shutters Pty Ltd, ACN 685 023 536, is a different company with a similar name and is registered normally. Nothing here concerns it.

Why the two registers disagree, and which one to believe

They are not in conflict. They record different things. An ABN is a tax identifier issued by the Australian Business Register, and it stays active until it is cancelled, which is an administrative step that can lag a long way behind events. The ASIC company register records the legal status of the company, and it is the one that changes when an external administrator is appointed.

So a consumer doing the obvious free check sees Active and reasonably concludes the business is trading normally. An active ABN is not evidence that a company is solvent, trading, or able to fill your order. It is evidence that nobody has cancelled a tax registration. If you take one thing from this page, take that.

What we are not saying

This is a report of public-register status and nothing more. External administration is a formal legal status, not a finding of wrongdoing, and nothing on the registers suggests wrongdoing by anyone. Companies enter external administration for many reasons, plenty of them having nothing to do with how they were run.

We are also being deliberately narrow about the words. ASIC's register records these companies as being under external administration, which is an umbrella that covers voluntary administration, liquidation and receivership. We are not telling you which one applies, because we could not confirm it from the official source: ASIC's Published Notices service, which carries the appointment notices, returned a Page not found in a real browser and an empty response to a scripted request when we tried it on 28 August. Trade coverage has described one of these companies as being in liquidation. That may well be right, and it is not something we will repeat as fact on somebody else's authority when the register we can read says something broader. The appointment dates and the administrator's name are the two things a creditor most needs, and they are exactly what we could not get.

If you have paid a deposit

ASIC publishes a plain-language guide for creditors, Information Sheet 45. Its definition of who counts as a creditor is broader than most people assume, and it covers a customer with an undelivered order directly. You are a creditor if the company owes you money, and ASIC lists among the ways that can happen that you paid for goods or services that you have not received.

That is the good news and the bad news in one sentence. You have a claim. You also have an unsecured claim, which sits a long way down the queue. ASIC describes the order in which money is paid out: after the costs of the administration, including the administrator's fees and subject to any secured creditor's rights, funds go first to priority creditors, including employees, and then to unsecured creditors, and it notes that there can only be one dividend paid to unsecured creditors.

Practically, that means three things. Lodge your claim, because you cannot receive anything without doing so, and the administrator provides a proof of debt form for it. Expect the process to take time. And do not assume a deposit comes back in full, or at all.

If you paid by card, ask your bank first

Before anything else, if you paid a deposit by credit or debit card and the goods were never delivered, contact your bank about a chargeback. This is a scheme rule between you and your card issuer rather than anything to do with the administration, so it runs on its own timetable and its own deadlines, which are typically measured in months from the transaction or the expected delivery date. We are pointing you at your bank rather than quoting a time limit, because the limits differ by scheme and card type and a wrong number here would be worse than none.

What about the warranty on blinds already installed

A warranty is a promise by a company. If that company cannot pay, the promise is worth what the company is worth, and a warranty claim is another unsecured claim. This is the part buyers of window coverings are most exposed to, because the product is long-lived, made to measure, and typically sold with a multi-year warranty on components and motors.

One distinction is worth understanding. Australian Consumer Law guarantees attach to the supplier you bought from. If you bought through a separate retailer or installer that is still trading, your consumer guarantees against that business are unaffected by another company's administration. If you bought directly from a company now under administration, that route is not available to you. Which of those you are in depends on whose name is on your contract and invoice, so read them before you conclude anything.

The two-minute check, before you pay anyone

Both registers are free, public, and take under a minute each.

Get the ACN or ABN from the quote, invoice or website footer. A trading name alone is not enough, and this story is a good illustration of why: two of the three names above are trading names, not companies.
Check the ASIC company register for the company's status. Registered is normal. Anything mentioning external administration, or strike-off action, is a reason to pause.
Check ABN Lookup as well, but read it for what it is: the entity name, the trading names, and how long the ABN has been registered. Treat Active as administrative, not as a health check.
Match the name on the quote to the entity you just looked up. If the quote says one thing and the register says another, ask why before you pay.

None of that would have prevented a company from failing after you paid. It would have told you what you were dealing with on the day, which is all any register can do.

Sources

ASIC company register, searched 28 August 2026: Made 2 Trade Pty Ltd, ACN 125 805 389, status recorded as external administration; All Shutters & Blinds Pty Ltd, ACN 128 996 529, status recorded as external administration; and All Seasons Blinds & Shutters Pty Ltd, ACN 685 023 536, status registered. Searchable at ASIC's registers.
Australian Business Register, ABN Lookup, searched 28 August 2026: ABN 96 125 805 389 (Made 2 Trade Pty Ltd), status Active, effective 6 June 2007, GST registered, trading names TWO Australia and The Window Outfitters, Queensland; and ABN 26 128 996 529 (All Shutters & Blinds Pty Ltd), status Active, effective 1 January 2008, GST registered, Queensland.
ASIC, Liquidation: a guide for creditors (Information Sheet 45, read 28 August 2026): the definition of a creditor including a person who paid for goods or services not received; the order of payment to priority then unsecured creditors and the single-dividend note; and the proof of debt process.
ASIC, Published Notices: attempted 28 August 2026 for the appointment notices for both companies. The search returned a page-not-found in a browser session and an empty response to a scripted request, so the appointment type, appointment date and administrator's name are not reported here.

How we did this, and what prompted it. A trade publication reported an insolvency in this industry. We do not cite trade press for facts, so we treated it purely as a prompt and went to the public registers ourselves; every status, number, name and date above was read first-hand from ASIC and the ABR on 28 August 2026 and is current as at that date. Register statuses change, so check them yourself before acting. Companies are named here solely as the public registers name them, in their capacity as companies. No individual is named, no cause is alleged, and none is implied. This page is general information about public records and consumer processes and is not legal or financial advice; if you are owed money, the administrator and, if you need it, your own adviser are the people to talk to.

Paid a deposit to one of these, or know of another that has gone under? Request a correction and we will check it against the administrator's own notices and log the outcome.