Found cheaper? We match it — see conditions. Incorporation and secretary transfer also carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Every invoice you've sent has your name on it. Not just the business's — yours, personally, whether you meant it that way or not.
Customers, invoices, maybe staff — all already real. What isn't real yet is any legal separation between you and the business carrying them.
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things that don't come across just because the company is incorporated
What actually moves when the business becomes a Sdn Bhd
Four things, moved individually, or not moved at all
CONTRACTS
Every contract you've signed
Stays signed by the sole proprietorship. The Sdn Bhd isn't a party to it until it's individually novated or re-signed — the counterparty has to agree, not just be told.
BANK
The business bank account
Doesn't become the company's account. The Sdn Bhd opens its own, from its own incorporation documents and resolutions.
LICENCES
Licences, permits & registrations
Held in the old business's name stay held by it until each issuing authority reissues or transfers them to the new company.
STAFF
Anyone already employed
Is employed by the sole proprietorship, not automatically by the Sdn Bhd. Continuity has to be preserved deliberately when the employer changes.
+ none of this happens because the company gets incorporated — incorporation only creates the new legal person; everything above still has to be moved into its name separately
+ skip one and it doesn't fail loudly — a contract just keeps being owed to the wrong entity, or a licence lapses quietly under a business nobody's checking anymore
What actually separates you from the business, right now
A sole proprietorship has several things that look like separation. Add them up and see what's actually left:
That's not an oversight or a loophole to close — it's what a sole proprietorship is. One registration, held by one person: you.
The Sdn Bhd doesn't inherit the sole proprietorship's file — it starts its own
A sole proprietorship and a Sdn Bhd aren't the same legal person before or after conversion — incorporating the company creates a new one. Nothing attached to the old business moves to the new one automatically; each contract, account, licence and employment relationship has to be individually moved, reissued or re-signed.
A sole proprietorship has no legal personality separate from its owner — in law, the business and the person are the same. A company incorporated under the Companies Act 2016 is, from the moment of registration, a distinct legal person from the people who own and run it. That's exactly why nothing carries across automatically: the Sdn Bhd isn't the old business continuing under a new name, it's a different legal person that has to be given each contract, account, licence and employment relationship on its own.
The one question that decides this
Anyone can register a new Sdn Bhd. Almost nobody tracks what still has to move into it before the old business can stop trading.
What happens after the company is registered
On the incorporation itself, an incorporation agent and OCTIS do exactly the same job:
The real order, and why it isn't optional
This is the actual sequence — most of it can't happen out of order, whatever gets promised:
Sdn Bhd incorporated & registered with SSM
nothing else on this list can start before this — a company can't hold a bank account, a licence or a contract until it legally exists
Company bank account opened
banks ask for the incorporation documents and the first resolutions — both only exist after step one
Licences, contracts and registrations moved individually
each counterparty and each authority decides whether to novate, reissue or re-sign — nothing here transfers by itself
The old business stops invoicing only once the new one can
stop earlier and there's a gap where neither entity can legally bill; stop later and income keeps landing on the entity you're leaving
The one moment that starts the clock on everything else
Registering the company doesn't move anything into it. It just makes moving things into it possible for the first time.
The document that moves an asset between the two entities
If the sole proprietorship holds something the company needs to own instead — equipment, stock, a vehicle, IP — this is what formally moves it:
There's no published market rate for this — every asset transfer is specific to what's actually changing hands, so nothing to anchor against. Drafted by licensed lawyers on our panel; the price doesn't move once agreed.
What moving the company's records into your dashboard costs
RM 0
separate onboarding fee. Bringing the new company's registers, licences and filings into your dashboard is already inside the plan, whichever tier you're on.
The plan the Sdn Bhd runs on, once it exists
Essential is Launch plus more. Professional is Essential plus more — the secretary and the platform are in all three, the incorporation and the move across sit before them:
| Plan | What's included |
|---|---|
| Launch — RM 80/mo, billed annually | Licensed company secretary, registered office address, statutory registers & lodgement reminders, e-signature, up to 3 shareholders & 3 directors |
| Essential — RM 120/mo, billed annually | Everything in Launch, plus invoicing and 1M AI tokens/month, up to 5 shareholders |
| Professional — RM 180/mo, billed annually | Everything in Essential, plus up to 10 seats & 10M AI tokens/month, up to 6 directors & 8 shareholders |
This is what the company runs on once it exists — the incorporation and the move across are the separate, one-time steps before it. Most conversions start on Launch and move up once the new company is trading properly.
Who does the work
OCTIS's own licensed company secretary
The incorporation, the registers and the licensed secretarial appointment are handled by OCTIS's own licensed company secretary — not a referred third party.
Guarantee
Not claimed on this page
This conversion does incorporate a new Sdn Bhd, and whether that counts as the published guarantee's 'New Company Incorporation' is being confirmed — until then, this page doesn't claim it. Cancel any month is what applies without qualification.
Not included
SSM's own government fees
Charged by SSM directly for the incorporation lodgement and any licence-related filings — not part of the monthly plan.
If an asset needs moving
Asset Transfer Agreement — RM 3,000, one-off
Only needed if the old business holds something — equipment, stock, IP — that needs to formally become the new company's. Drafted by licensed lawyers on our panel, priced separately from the plan.
Not covered
- SSM's own government fees for incorporating the new company and for any licence-related filings are charged by SSM directly — not part of the monthly plan.
- The 30-day money-back guarantee is not claimed on this page. It covers exactly two services under the published Appendix, and whether a sole-proprietorship conversion's incorporation step qualifies as one of them is being confirmed. What applies here without qualification instead: no lock-in, cancel any month, and your records leave with you.
- If the business is still small enough that unlimited personal liability isn't yet a real exposure — few or no contracts, no debt, no employees — converting now mostly buys structure you don't need yet. There's no penalty for waiting until the exposure is real.
- The Asset Transfer Agreement (RM 3,000) only applies if the old business holds an asset that needs to formally become the new company's. Most conversions don't need it, and it isn't something to buy reflexively.
- Converting doesn't do the outreach for you. Telling existing customers, suppliers and any licensing authority that you're now trading as a different legal entity is still a conversation you have to have — we handle what has to be filed and drafted, not the calls and emails that come before it.
Does converting to a Sdn Bhd automatically bring my existing contracts, bank account and staff across?
No — a Sdn Bhd is a new legal person, not the old business renamed. Contracts have to be individually novated or re-signed, the company opens its own bank account, licences held in the old business's name have to be reissued or transferred, and staff continuity has to be preserved deliberately. None of it happens just because the company is incorporated.
In what order does all of this actually happen?
Incorporation first — nothing else can start before the company legally exists. Then the bank account, which needs the incorporation documents. Then licences, contracts and registrations, moved individually. The old business only stops invoicing once the new one can bill in its place — otherwise there's a gap where neither entity legally can.
What's the Asset Transfer Agreement, and do I need one?
It's the document that formally moves an asset — equipment, stock, IP — from the old business to the new company, RM 3,000 fixed, drafted by licensed lawyers on our panel. You only need it if the sole proprietorship actually holds something that has to become the company's; most straightforward conversions don't.
Is this covered by the 30-day money-back guarantee?
This page doesn't claim it. The guarantee covers new company incorporation and transfer of company secretary under the published Appendix, and whether a sole-proprietorship conversion's incorporation step qualifies as the former is being confirmed. What applies here without qualification: cancel any month, and your records leave with you.
Do I need to convert straight away, or can it wait?
It can wait. If the business is still small — few contracts, no debt, no employees — unlimited personal liability isn't yet much of a real exposure, and there's no penalty for converting later, once it is.
The business was never separate from you. Registering the company is what makes separation possible — but only for what's actually moved into it.
Tell us about the sole proprietorship and what it trades as. We incorporate the Sdn Bhd, and map what still has to move — in the order it actually has to happen.