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  1. Changelog
  2. 23 July 2026

23 July 2026

Nurses Award Interpretation

Astalty can now interpret the Nurses Award (MA000034), so you can roster and cost nurses on the correct award rather than SCHADS. Put a worker on the award from their contract, and their classification and pay point set the base rate automatically.

  • Supports shift-window loadings, daily and period hour caps, overtime bands, casual loadings, and meal, laundry and kilometre allowances
  • Aged-care nurses are supported via the Aged care — classification prefix, which applies the higher aged-care rates
  • Sleepovers aren't available under the Nurses Award, and Overtime Sunday and Overtime Public Holiday need their own Xero pay item mappings

For more information, visit the Nurses Award Interpretations guide.

Aged Care Award Interpretation

Astalty now interprets the Aged Care Award (MA000018) for residential aged care work, available to every provider with no feature switch required.

  • Covers the three classification streams, shift loadings, overtime, sleepovers, and broken shifts
  • Note the boundary: residential aged care uses this award, registered and enrolled nurses use the Nurses Award, and aged care in a client's private home stays on SCHADS
  • Watch two traps when copying a SCHADS setup across — casual overtime compounds (rather than being additive), and public holiday ordinary hours are paid at 2.5×

For more information, visit the Aged Care Award Interpretations guide.

Health Professionals Award Interpretation

Astalty can now interpret the Health Professionals and Support Services Award (MA000027), so allied health and support services staff can be costed on their own award.

  • Covers the two classification streams, the practice-type span with a single 15% shift loading, a flat 150% weekend rate, overtime bands, casual rules and allowances
  • Includes a full supported / not-supported breakdown and Xero pay item table

For more information, visit the Health Professionals Award Interpretations guide.

Award Playground

The SCHADS Interpretation Playground is now the award-agnostic Award Playground, reflecting that Astalty interprets several awards. It models each scenario against the worker's own contract award.

  • Build scenarios, use templates, or pre-load a worker's or participant's existing schedule for a period
  • Sleepover templates are hidden for awards without sleepover provisions

For more information, visit the Award Playground guide.

Uniform Allowance

Astalty now models the uniform allowance end to end across all four awards (SCHADS, Nurses, Aged Care and Health Professionals), so it no longer needs adding by hand.

  • Paid per shift and capped weekly for workers who have the uniform entitlement on their contract
  • Add the matching Uniform Allowance pay item in your Xero setup so it flows through to payroll

For more information, visit the SCHADS Interpretations in Astalty guide.

Schedule Colours

You can now choose your own colours for the Schedule, applied across your organisation, so events are colour-coded to suit how your team works. Nothing changes until you update a colour.

  • Set base colours per event type, plus status and support type colours, from Settings → Scheduling → Schedule Colours or the Schedule's settings menu
  • Colours follow a precedence chain — status colours override support type colours, which override event type base colours
  • Broadcasted shifts now show a broadcast icon on the Schedule with a count of workers who've expressed interest

For more information, visit the Schedule Colours guide.

Longer Case Note Lock Windows

The grace period for the Lock Case Notes After Clock-Out setting can now be set anywhere from 0 up to 48 hours – up from the previous ~16.6 hour limit – giving workers more time to finish their notes.

  • Quick-select presets from 5 minutes through 48 hours fill the field, or type a custom value
  • A note still being written stays editable so it can be saved, even when the grace period is 0

For more information, visit the Scheduling Settings guide.

Participant Reference Numbers

Participants can now have any number of custom reference numbers, each a Label and Value pair, which you can optionally show on their invoices.

  • Add, edit and delete them from the Update Participant form
  • Choose per reference number whether it appears on invoices and in the invoice recipient block

For more information, visit the Reference Numbers guide.

Selectable Signer for the Conflict of Interest Declaration

When generating a Conflict of Interest Declaration, the operations manager or director signing off can now be set to any team member, instead of always being the account owner – useful when a site or department manager signs off instead.

  • The employee declaring the conflict pre-fills with the participant's primary coordinator
  • An optional participant representative can also be added as a signer

For more information, visit the NDIA Templates guide.

Archived Charge Item Utilisation

Archiving a Charge Item now keeps its past charges counted in a participant's utilisation, instead of dropping them. The item stays listed on its services (greyed out and labelled Archived) but can't be selected for new tasks or supports.

  • To actually stop utilisation counting, detach the item from its services before archiving
  • Unarchiving re-attaches the item automatically, though the Calculate Remaining Units Using selection needs re-picking

For more information, visit the Archiving & Restoring Charge Items guide.

Service Utilisation Cut-off (Beta)

The new Service Utilisation Cut-off can block a task charge when it would take a participant's service over its released funding, helping prevent overspend. It's off by default and enabled by Astalty.

  • Set it to Off or Block under Task Settings
  • Applies to task charges only – shifts, supports, direct charges, recurring charges and imports aren't covered
  • Services already over their funding are grandfathered, and a blocked charge rolls the whole action back

For more information, visit the Service Utilisation Cut-off guide.

Bulk PDF Export

Record-based exports can now be produced as PDFs, with one document per record bundled into a ZIP – handy for archiving or sharing. On the Exports page, Form Submissions, Feedback, Complaints, Referrals, Incidents and Participant Risks now offer a PDF format choice.

  • Large exports run in the background and appear in the Exports list when ready
  • Feedback and Complaints also gain their own dedicated export pages

For more information, visit the Feedback Export and Complaints Export guides.

The Invoices Export and Outstanding Invoices Export now include a Paid Status column, so you can see each invoice's payment state at a glance.

  • Values are Paid, Overpaid, Overdue, Partially Paid and Unpaid
  • The Outstanding Invoices Export only lists invoices with an amount owing, so it never shows Paid or Overpaid

For more information, visit the Invoices Export guide.

Support Date in the Support Notes Export

The Support Notes Export now always includes a Support Date column, showing when the support actually happened – which can differ from Created At, the date the note was written.

  • Unlike other date fields, the support date is shown in the support's own timezone

For more information, visit the Support Notes Export guide.

New Report Guides

Nine reports that previously had no documentation now have full guide pages, each with screenshots, filters and role-access details – so they're easier to find and use.

For more information, visit the Reports index.

Overdue Reminders for Records and Risk Reviews

Participant Record and Participant Risk Review notifications now offer Days after and Weeks after timing options, so you can chase up records and reviews once they're overdue rather than only beforehand.

  • The reminder email switches to overdue wording, explaining how long ago the record expired or the review was due

For more information, visit the Participant Record Notifications and Participant Risk Review Notification guides.