Australian pricing, in Australian dollars
Training gets sold with the price at the bottom of the page, so here it is at the top. Below is one published Australian course fee, read off the provider’s own booking page, set beside what a CARSI course costs. Every figure is dated and linked, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.
$765
One-off cert example
From $20
CARSI per course
8 September 2026
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Two purchases
A certification course and a continuing education course are not competing products. You buy an IICRC certification once per discipline, from a school approved by the IICRC and its examination. Keeping that certification current is a separate, recurring cost for the rest of your career. CARSI is an accredited IICRC CEC provider and sits on the recurring side. CARSI does not deliver IICRC certification, and no CARSI course will make you IICRC certified.
So the honest question is not “which is cheaper”. It is: once you hold a certification, what does it cost you every year to keep it?
The ledger
Read these as two separate line items, not as two prices for the same thing. The first is a one-off certification bought from a school approved by the IICRC. The second is continuing education, which recurs for as long as you hold the certification.
One-off · certification
Decon Systems · 3 days, delivered over 5 online webinar sessions
$695 incl GSTplus a $70 exam fee paid to the IICRC$765 in total
One IICRC certification, bought once. Three days of your week.
Recurring · continuing education
Online, taken in your own time
From $20bought one course at a time
A CARSI Southern Hemisphere Restoration Designation, and any IICRC CECs that course carries tracked in your dashboard. No days off the tools.
Comparison price read from the provider’s published booking page on 8 September 2026. It is one Australian provider and one course, quoted so you can verify it — not a survey of the market, and not the only option worth looking at.
Off the invoice
A three-day course costs you the fee plus three days you were not earning. We are not going to invent a day rate for you, because yours is the only one that matters. Take what your crew bills in a day, multiply by three, and add it to the course fee. For most restoration businesses that second number is the larger of the two.
That is the whole argument for online CECs. Not that classroom training is bad — hands-on certification training is worth doing properly and in person. It is that your recurring credit-keeping should not keep costing you days on site.
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Message CARSI supportNo, and any provider telling you otherwise is misleading you. IICRC certification is earned through a school approved by the IICRC and its examination. CARSI is accredited as an IICRC CEC provider, which is a different standing: CARSI courses carry CARSI Southern Hemisphere Restoration Designations in their own right, and where an individual course has been approved by the IICRC, the credits it carries are shown on that course and tracked in your dashboard.
Two different purchases. A certification course is a one-off you buy once per discipline from a school approved by the IICRC. CECs are the recurring cost of keeping that certification current, year after year. This page is about the recurring half, because that is the one that repeats for the life of your career.
Chiefly because they are not the same purchase, and the prices are not substitutes for one another. A certification course buys an IICRC certification, once, through a school approved by the IICRC and its examination. A CARSI course buys a CARSI Southern Hemisphere Restoration Designation and, where that particular course has been approved by the IICRC, credits toward keeping a certification you already hold. Delivery costs differ on top of that: a classroom course carries a venue, an instructor for three days and your travel, and takes you off the tools while it runs. Treat them as two separate line items in a training budget rather than as alternatives to each other.
Courses are bought individually, from $20. You pay once for the course, your completion is recorded, and any IICRC CECs the course carries are tracked in your dashboard.
It was read directly off the provider's own booking page on 8 September 2026 and is quoted with the source linked so you can check it yourself. Prices move; if you are reading this well after that date, open the link and confirm.
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