# 23 July 2026 Source: https://docs.astalty.com.au/training-and-updates/changelog/july-2026/23-july-2026 > Astalty updates released on 23 July 2026: Nurses Award Interpretation; Aged Care Award Interpretation; Health Professionals Award Interpretation; Award... ## 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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/scheduling/scheduling-faq/nurses-award-interpretations-in-astalty) 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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/scheduling/scheduling-faq/aged-care-award-interpretations-in-astalty) 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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/scheduling/scheduling-faq/health-professionals-award-interpretations-in-astalty) 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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/scheduling/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/scheduling/scheduling-faq/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/scheduling/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/scheduling/setup/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/participants/profile/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/participants/templates/ndis-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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/charge-items/managing-charge-items/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/settings/tasks-notes-settings/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/exports/feedback-export) and [Complaints Export](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/exports/complaints-export) guides. ## Paid Status in Invoice Exports 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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/exports/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/exports/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. - [Address Map](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/address-map-report) - [My Capacity](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/my-capacity-report) - [User Unavailability](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/user-unavailability-report) - [Employment Details](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/employment-details-report) - [My Billable Charges](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/my-billable-charges-report) - [Pay Groups](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/pay-groups-report) - [Flagged Notes](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/flagged-notes-report) - [Shift Approvals Variance](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/shift-approval-variance-report) - [Participant Incompatibilities](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/reports/participant-incompatibilities-report) For more information, visit the [Reports](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/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](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/notifications/participant-record-notifications) and [Participant Risk Review Notification](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/notifications/participant-risk-review-notification) guides.