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Bill the NDIS visit before the carer is back in the car.

Roster the run, log the progress note from the kitchen bench, claim the right line item at the right SCHADS rate, HCP, CHSP, DVA and self-managed funding side by side. All-in from $58/mo on Starter with the Rostering & Payroll app, replacing ShiftCare + Xero + your NDIS claiming tool. The plans themselves run $0 to $69/mo.

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Key takeaways

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  • Australian aged-care providers operate under the Aged Care Quality Standards (8 Standards, enforced by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, ACQS Commission) and (for in-home/community care) the NDIS Practice Standards.
  • Funding sources to track separately: Home Care Packages (HCP Levels 1 to 4, Commonwealth-subsidised), Commonwealth Home Support Programme (CHSP), Department of Veterans' Affairs (DVA), NDIS plans, private-fee clients. Each has different billing rules, claim cycles, and reporting obligations.
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  • OneBookPlus is the all-in-one alternative to the typical aged-care stack, AlayaCare (quoted, no published price) or LeeCare or ShiftCare ($9 to $25 per user a month) + Xero (from $37/mo) + a CRM. Vendor prices verified 2 August 2026. Bundled from $0/month (Free), $29/month (Starter), or $69/month (Growth): visit scheduling + NDIS billing + compliance notes + family portal + accounting.
  • Mandatory data flows: SCHADS Award rate compliance (Social, Community, Home Care and Disability Services Industry Award 2010), STP Phase 2 payroll reporting for staff (lodged to the ATO through STP-enabled software, not from OneBookPlus), incident reporting (must be retrievable for ACQS audit), client consent + advance care plan storage.
  • OneBookPlus is purpose-built for small-to-mid AU aged-care providers (1 to 50 staff), vs enterprise platforms designed for state-government home-care divisions or 200+-employee not-for-profits. Multi-funder billing is built in. SCHADS-aware rostering and payroll are a $29/month add-on, and they work out pay, PAYG withholding and super without lodging STP.

Everything You Need

Purpose-Built for Care Agencies

From visit scheduling to NDIS claims, OneBookPlus replaces the spreadsheets, paper forms, and disconnected tools holding your agency back.

Visit Scheduling & Tracking

Carers open their phone in the carpark and see today's run, addresses, times, travel allowances, who's next. Tap to start, tap to finish, and the timesheet writes itself.

NDIS & HCP Billing

One visit, one line item, the right rate, locked in at scheduling so the claim is correct before the carer even arrives. NDIS, HCP, DVA, CHSP and private funding all sit side by side.

Compliance & Audit Trail

Every note, edit and status change is stamped with who and when, so when an auditor asks for the last six months of a participant's care, you export a PDF instead of digging through paper.

Care Notes & Incident Reporting

A carer types the note from the kitchen bench before they leave. If something's gone wrong, a fall, a missed med, flagging it as an incident pings the owner's phone within seconds.

Family Portal & Visibility

Tick a box on the notes you're happy to share and the daughter in Perth sees them on her phone. Clinical detail stays internal; the reassurance she's looking for goes through.

Rostering & Shift Management

Drop a carer onto a visit and an SMS lands on their phone with the address, the time, and the participant's name, so you're never the one ringing on a Sunday night to confirm.

Client Profiles & Care Plans

One profile holds the NDIS plan number, the funding type, the next of kin, the dog's name, the gate code, all the things a new carer needs in the 30 seconds before knocking.

Invoicing & Billing Automation

Hours times rate, GST added, ABN on the bottom, completed visits roll into invoices ready to send to plan managers or self-managed participants. No spreadsheet, no Friday-night admin.

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Free booking page included

Your care business gets a booking page. Free.

Stop paying a website subscription you do not need, and skip the up-front designer quote. Every OneBookPlus care provider gets a branded booking page on the free plan. Want it on your own domain like a proper business website? The Website Builder app is $29/mo and we host it for you.

Freeyour-business.onebookplus.com.auoronebookplus.com.au/book/your-business
$29/moyourbusiness.com.au: your own branded domain, hosted by us

24/7 emergency callout booking

A discharge planner or anxious family submits a new-client referral at 9pm, name, funding type (HCP, NDIS or private) and start date land in your dashboard, ready for the morning intake call.

Branded with your colours, logo & licence

Brand color picker in settings. Logo upload. Trade licence number shown on every page so customers know you're legit.

Show service prices upfront

Personal care from $72/hr (SCHADS). Overnight active assist $1,100/shift. Customers see prices before booking, kills the price-shopping phone calls.

Mobile-first: looks great on phones

Your booking page is built mobile-first, so a customer searching on a phone can book without pinching to zoom.

Bring your own domain: we host the site

Already own yourbusiness.com.au? Add the Website Builder app ($29/mo) and point your domain at the site we host for you, through a guided DNS and SSL wizard. We don't sell domains, keep yours wherever you registered it.

Local SEO baked in

Schema.org markup for care services + suburbs you cover. Google finds you for 'home care provider in [suburb]' searches.

Care providers website cost, typical

What care providers pay for a website

  • Website builder

    Squarespace's cheapest plan billed monthly, verified 2 August 2026. Wix publishes no fixed Australian rate.

    From $24/mo
  • Web hosting + SSL

    Bundled in builders; separate if custom site

    $15 to $40/mo
  • Designer (one-off)

    Only if you want a custom-built site

    $1,500 to $3,000
  • Bookings on Calendly

    Per seat, billed in US dollars, verified 2 August 2026. Separate from your website.

    From US$10/mo

Typical recurring total

~$39 to $64/mo

+ US$10/mo per seat if you add Calendly for bookings, billed in US dollars, and $1,500 to $3,000 up-front if you hire a designer

With OneBookPlus

Included on every plan

  • Branded booking page, free plan
  • Hosting + SSL, free plan
  • 24/7 customer self-booking, free plan
  • Connect your own domain with the Website Builder app, +$29/mo (BYO)

Your total

$0 to $29/mo

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Simple Workflow

How OneBookPlus Works for Care Providers

From onboarding your first client to generating compliance reports, four steps to a better-run agency.

1
Step 1

Set up clients & carers

Add care recipients with their funding details, NDIS references, and preferences. Register your care team with qualifications and availability.

2
Step 2

Schedule visits

Create one-off or recurring visits. Assign carers, set visit types, funding sources, and billing rates. Carers are notified by SMS automatically.

3
Step 3

Deliver & document care

Carers check in, log progress notes, vitals, mood, and any incidents. Everything is timestamped and attached to the visit record.

4
Step 4

Bill & report

Completed visits auto-calculate billing totals. Generate NDIS-ready invoices, export compliance reports, and keep families informed: all from one dashboard.

Schedule your first visit, Free

Get a carer receiving SMS rosters the day you sign up

Who it's for

Built for every care provider

Whether you run a home care agency, NDIS support service, or community care organisation, OneBookPlus adapts to your workflow.

Home Care Package Provider

Managing HCP clients across suburbs, coordinating carers, and billing against package budgets. Needs visit scheduling, carer rostering, and HCP-compliant invoicing.

NDIS Registered Provider

Delivering support to NDIS participants across multiple line items and categories. Needs NDIS billing, progress notes, and audit-ready documentation.

Sole Carer or Small Team

One or two carers delivering personal care, domestic assistance, or community access. Needs simple scheduling, mobile note-taking, and basic invoicing.

Multi-Site Care Organisation

Operating across regions with dozens of carers and hundreds of clients. Needs team management, compliance reporting, and centralised visibility.

What a five-tool stack costs each month

Named tools, at each vendor’s own cheapest published plan, and ours underneath. Vendor pricing changes, so check each one before you decide.

ShiftCareRostering & scheduling
$9/mo per user
SupportAbilityNDIS management
$50/mo +/mo
XeroInvoicing
$37/mo
CareMasterCare management
$45/mo
MailchimpFamily updates
Not published
Total monthly cost$141/mo + Mailchimp

Or use OneBookPlus

$58/mo

Everything in the list above, on one bill.

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No credit card · Free forever · Cancel anytime

Example walkthrough

Wednesday, home-care visits coordinated and claimed

An illustrative walkthrough of a typical home-care coordination day

You open the dashboard at 7:30am and see 14 visits scheduled across a team of six carers. Two visits were added yesterday; the assigned carers have already received SMS notifications with client details and times.

You notice a conflict: two visits overlap for the same carer. You reassign one to another available team member directly from the roster view, and the new carer gets an instant SMS.

By 10am, three visits are marked complete. A carer flags an incident on a visit; the alert lands in your notifications and you review the note: severity, actions taken, and who was informed. The client's family has been updated via the family portal.

At lunch, you review the week's billing. Completed NDIS visits have auto-calculated totals from the hourly rate and actual duration. You generate invoices for the plan manager in one click, with line items, categories, and participant references already attached.

End of day: 12 of 14 visits completed, two cancelled with documented reasons. All notes are logged, the compliance records are up to date, and tomorrow's roster is confirmed.

How we compare

OneBookPlus vs care management software

See how we compare to the tools care agencies typically use.

FeatureOneBookPlusShiftCareSupportAbilityCareMaster
Visit scheduling & trackingYesYesYesYes
NDIS line item billingYesYesYesYes
Care notes with vitalsYesYesYesYes
Incident reporting & alertsYesNoYesYes
Family portalYesNoNoYes
SMS notifications to carersYesYesNoNo
GST invoicingYesNoNoYes
CRM & contact managementYesNoNoNo
Booking page for referralsYesNoNoNo
Free plan availableYesNoNoNo
PriceFrom $0/mo$9+/mo per userSubscriptionSubscription

Built for Australian Care Providers

100%

NDIS & HCP billing compliant

$0

Free plan to get started

24/7

Instant incident alerts via SMS

1 app

Rostering, notes and invoicing in one place

Aged-care savings calculator

What does your scheduling + NDIS claims stack cost?

Adjust the numbers to match your service. We'll show the monthly tool savings, plus the admin hours we hand back to your carers each week.

Carer scheduling (Visualcare, Procura, AlayaCare)

Monthly per-carer or flat platform fee

$/mo

NDIS claims tool (Brevity, ShiftCare)

Claim-processing platform

$/mo

Family-portal app

Communications & care notes platform

$/mo

Accounting (Xero)

Monthly subscription

$/mo

Active clients on plan

Used to size value of admin hours saved

clients

Admin hours per week (today)

Rostering, claim coding, family updates

h/wk

Your current tool stack

$305/mo

= $3,660/year

With OneBookPlus Starter

$29/mo

Replaces everything in the list. One bill.

Tool savings$276/mo
Per year$3,312
Over 5 years$16,560
Admin hours back to clients+$1,169/mo

~6.0 h/wk of carer time freed up (60% of admin) at $45/h SCHADS rate.

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Free plan available · No card required · Cancel anytime

One day, written by itself, an illustrated day of an Australian home care agency run on OneBookPlus

An illustrated day, not real customer data. Scroll through it from morning to 5pm: the AI receptionist answers and books a missed call, the work runs from the app, the GST invoice is sent on the spot, payment lands and the books balance themselves, a review invite is queued for the next daily run, and the day closes with the ledger already written.

7:20am

While you're sorting the roster

The daughter's call, mid-roster.

Karen's mum needs daily help at home. She calls the first care provider on Google, you.

AI Receptionist

Answered mid-roster, intake booked.

The AI answers in two rings, books an 11am intake visit and texts Karen a confirmation, mid-roster.

On the intake visit

The care plan is drafted before you knock.

Client card on your phone: address, care needs, the daughter as contact. The care plan is already drafted.

Between visits

First week invoiced on the spot.

One tap turns the care plan into a GST invoice with a pay link. No end-of-week billing pile.

While you're checking on carers

Paid, and the visit ledger balances.

Card payment lands, the books update themselves, and $39.27 GST is set aside for BAS.

Reputation on autopilot

The review ask, once the first week is done.

Once the payment clears, the AI asks for the review at the delay you set. Nothing for the front desk to remember.

The day closes itself

Fourteen visits, and the books to match.

Fourteen visits done and a new client started. The book did the rest.

$0

collected

0

admin tasks done by AI

0

evenings lost

An illustrated day, not real customer data. AI Receptionist is a $79/mo add-on that needs AI Companion ($25/mo, included on Growth), and AI Companion is what sends the review invite as well. The rest of the day is the app itself.

Care provider pricing

Four plans. All built for care agencies.

Start free, upgrade when the client list justifies it. No contracts, no setup fees, and no per-seat tax that punishes you for rostering casuals. Cancel any time.

Free

$0/forever

Sole carer

Schedule your first client visit today, no credit card.

  • 10 invoices/month
  • Client profiles + care plans
  • Visit scheduling + carer SMS
  • Mobile progress notes & vitals
  • GST + ABN built-in
  • Mobile PWA (works in the car)
Start free

Starter

$29/mo

Small team

Replaces ShiftCare + Xero + your NDIS claiming spreadsheet.

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited visits, clients & invoices
  • NDIS, HCP, CHSP & DVA line items
  • Incident reporting + instant SMS alerts
  • Family portal (read-only note sharing)
  • Stripe payments + claim-cycle reminders
  • Accounting, P&L & BAS reports
  • 3 team members
Start 14-day trial

No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade

Our pick

Plus

$49/mo

Growing

Outgrowing the basics, unlimited contacts & bookings, advanced reporting.

  • Everything in Starter
  • Unlimited contacts & bookings
  • Advanced reporting & analytics
  • Batch invoicing
  • Budget tracking
  • 5 team logins
  • 10 GB website media storage
Start 14-day trial

Growth

$69/mo

Multi-site

For registered providers rostering casuals across regions and audits.

  • Everything in Plus
  • SCHADS-aware rostering + payroll ($29/mo add-on)
  • Audit-ready ACQS / NDIS export packs
  • Recurring HCP package reconciliation
  • Referral booking page for discharge planners
  • AI Companion: invoice chasing and daily summaries
  • SMS broadcasts to your carer pool
  • 10 team members
Start 14-day trial

Prices in AUD inc. GST. Online card payments carry Stripe processing fees (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards) plus a 2.5% OneBookPlus platform fee. Rostering & Payroll is a $29/month add-on on top of any plan, with a 14 day trial. It covers pay runs, PAYG withholding, super, penalty rates, payslips and an ABA bank file. It does not lodge Single Touch Payroll pay events to the ATO. See the full plan comparison

Already on another tool?

Switching from ShiftCare, AlayaCare or SupportAbility?

Switching is designed to fit in a single evening. Export your participant list and carer roster as CSV from your current tool, import them into OneBookPlus with the bulk importer, and you're live before the first morning run tomorrow, no break in your care schedule.

  1. 1Export clients + carers CSV from ShiftCare or AlayaCare (5 min)
  2. 2Upload via the bulk importer, NDIS numbers, funding type and next-of-kin auto-map (10 min)
  3. 3Set up your visit types, SCHADS rates and NDIS price-guide line items (15 min)
  4. 4Cancel your old subscriptions tomorrow morning, coffee in hand

Switch from

ShiftCare
AlayaCare
SupportAbility
Lumary
Spreadsheets
Incoming

OneBookPlus

AI Receptionist · incoming call

“Looking into home care for Mum, who can I speak to?”

DeclineAnswer

If you don't answer, the AI books it, Intake call · today 4:00pm, and texts a confirmation.

Australian Owned

Built in Melbourne, AU

GST Compliant

ATO-ready from day one

Encrypted & Isolated

TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest, tenant isolation at the database layer, read the security page

Free Plan Available

No credit card needed

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about care management software for aged care and NDIS providers.

Does OneBookPlus support NDIS billing?

Yes. You can assign NDIS line items, categories, and funding references to every visit. Billing totals are calculated automatically from the hourly rate and actual visit duration, ready for plan manager claims or self-managed invoicing.

Can carers log notes from their phone?

Absolutely. OneBookPlus is fully mobile-responsive. Carers can start/complete visits, log progress notes, record vitals, and flag incidents from any smartphone, no app install required.

How does incident reporting work?

When a carer flags a note as an incident, they select a severity level and incident type. Owners and admins are immediately notified via in-app notification and SMS, so critical events are never missed.

Can families see care notes?

Yes, each note has a family visibility toggle. You control exactly which notes are shared. Families see a read-only view of selected progress updates, giving them peace of mind without exposing clinical records.

Is there a free plan for small care agencies?

Yes. Our free plan includes client management, visit scheduling, care notes, and basic invoicing, enough for small agencies or sole carers getting started. Upgrade as your team and client base grow.

Does OneBookPlus run payroll and lodge STP for carers?

Payroll is the Rostering & Payroll add-on, $29/month on top of your plan with a 14 day trial. It is not part of any base plan. It handles rosters and timesheets, works out pay with SCHADS penalty rates, PAYG withholding to the ATO Schedule 1 coefficients, superannuation and leave accrual, then produces payslips and an ABA bank file for paying staff. It does not lodge Single Touch Payroll pay events to the ATO, so you still report each pay run through STP-enabled software. Super is calculated and recorded with quarterly due dates and a mark-as-paid screen; it is not remitted to funds for you.

What is the best NDIS / care management software in Australia?

Dedicated NDIS and aged-care platforms like ShiftCare, Brevity, Visicase and Lumary are built around large-provider workflows, full rostering engines, payroll integrations and bulk plan-manager claim files. They suit established providers with big teams. OneBookPlus is the lighter, more affordable alternative for sole carers and small agencies: visit scheduling, mobile care notes, incident reporting, NDIS line-item billing, family visibility and invoicing in one place, from $0/month. If you outgrow it and need enterprise rostering or automated bulk claiming, a specialist platform may fit better, but most small providers find OneBookPlus covers the day-to-day without the per-seat cost.

What is an ACAT assessment?

An ACAT (Aged Care Assessment Team) assessment is the government assessment that determines a person's eligibility for subsidised aged-care services in Australia, including Home Care Packages and residential care. Providers reference the assessment outcome when setting up a care plan; OneBookPlus stores the funding type and plan details against each client profile.

What are the Aged Care Quality Standards?

The Aged Care Quality Standards are eight national standards that aged-care providers in Australia must meet, enforced by the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission (ACQS Commission) through provider audits. OneBookPlus timestamps and attributes every care note, edit, and incident, so a six-month care history can be exported as an audit-ready PDF on demand.

About the author

Bishal Shrestha, Founder of OneBookPlus

Bishal Shrestha

Founder & CEO, OneBookPlus

Bishal spent a decade running digital projects for Australian small businesses before founding OneBookPlus. He writes and maintains these pages, and publishes what OneBookPlus does not do alongside what it does.

A decade running digital projectsPersonal site: bishal.com.auMelbourne, Australia
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How this page was researched

The compliance and licensing statements above are taken from the bodies this page links to, including the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, DVA and the Fair Work Commission, so you can read the rule rather than take our word for it. Plan prices come from the OneBookPlus price registry, so the page and the checkout cannot disagree. Everything said about OneBookPlus describes what the product does today, and the page says so where it does not do something.

How OneBookPlus Works for Aged Care & NDIS Providers

Care agencies across Australia face a unique admin challenge. You're coordinating carers across dozens of visits per day, billing against NDIS line items or Home Care Package budgets, documenting progress notes for compliance audits, and keeping families informed, all while trying to deliver quality care. Most agencies cobble together ShiftCare or AlayaCare for rostering, SupportAbility or Lumary for NDIS management, and Xero for invoicing. That's three or more subscriptions with data scattered across systems, manual re-entry at every handoff, and no single source of truth when an auditor walks in.

OneBookPlus brings your entire care operation into one platform. Onboard recipients with their funding details, NDIS reference numbers, and care preferences. Schedule recurring or one-off visits and assign carers based on availability and qualifications. They're notified instantly by SMS. Carers log progress notes, vitals, mood, and incidents from their phone during or after each visit. Every note is timestamped and attributed, creating an audit trail that satisfies the Aged Care Quality Standards and NDIS Practice Standards without extra paperwork. Billing totals calculate automatically from rate and actual visit duration, ready for plan manager claims, self-managed participant invoices, or HCP package reconciliation.

Your Daily Workflow

A typical morning for a care coordinator starts at 7:30am. You open OneBookPlus and see 16 visits scheduled across your team of eight carers. Two overnight changes are flagged: one carer called in sick, and a recipient's family requested a time change. You reassign the sick carer's visits from the roster view. The replacement carer gets an SMS with client details and the updated address. By 10am, six visits are marked complete with progress notes attached. One carer flagged an incident: a participant had a fall. You see the alert immediately, review the severity level and actions taken, and the family portal already shows a summary for the participant's daughter in Melbourne. At the end of the week, you generate NDIS invoices for all completed visits. Line items, categories, and participant references are pre-filled from the visit data.

Expenses & Accounting

Record supplier bills and out-of-pocket costs as they happen, or drag in a receipt or supplier invoice as a PDF or photo and let the scanner read the supplier, date, GST and total for you. Vehicle allowances, PPE purchases, insurance premiums and office rent are coded to the accounts you choose and stay consistent from then on. When a funding payment from the NDIA, DVA or a Home Care Package provider lands, record it against the invoice and the receivables list clears down to what is genuinely outstanding. When NDIS audit season arrives, you can export a complete financial trail alongside your care documentation. BAS summaries are generated in one click, with GST collected on private-pay invoices and GST credits on business purchases already tallied.

Getting Started

Sign up free. No credit card, no lock-in contract. Select “Aged Care / NDIS” as your business type and OneBookPlus pre-configures your account with care-specific fields: funding types, NDIS categories, visit types, and progress note templates. Import your existing participant list and carer roster via CSV from ShiftCare, AlayaCare, or a spreadsheet. Within your first week you'll have visits scheduled, carers receiving SMS notifications, and your first batch of NDIS invoices generated. Most small agencies complete the transition over a single weekend without disrupting their care schedule.

Better Care Starts With Better Tools

Join Australian care agencies managing visits, compliance, and billing with OneBookPlus. Free to start, upgrade when you're ready.

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Reviewed by Bishal Shrestha

Authoritative sources

Where the compliance facts on this page come from

Aged-care and disability-services providers in Australia are heavily regulated. We cite the primary regulators and statutes for every claim on this page so you can verify directly.