# 20 November 2025 Source: https://docs.astalty.com.au/training-and-updates/changelog/november-2025/20-november-2025 > Astalty updates released on 20 November 2025: Optional Features; NDIA Open Payments; NDIA Template - Notify Participant Death; User Created External Forms... ## Optional Features We've created a new page in Settings to help you easily enable and manage all your Optional Features within Astalty. Currently this page will display the Staff Payment feature, and from 1st December it will also include our much anticipated option for Scheduling. You must be the Account Owner to access and enable these features. Read [Optional Features](https://docs.astalty.com.au/guide/settings/optional-features) for more information. ![The Optional Features page in Settings, with Settings marked 1 and Optional Features marked 2 in the menus, and the highlighted Staff Payments feature showing a Disabled status and an Enable button.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/optional-features-2.png) ## NDIA Open Payments Great news, Astalty now manages NDIA OPEN payments differently now with the [Invoice Batches](https://app.astalty.com.au/finance/invoice-batches) that contain NDIS Managed claims. When a receipt file from PRODA contains OPEN payments, Astalty will no longer stop you from uploading and processing the file. Instead, Astalty will warn you so you can still create payments from NDIS. ![The Open Payments Warning dialog saying the file has OPEN payments that will be ignored, and that another receipt file can be uploaded once they have been processed, with Cancel and Proceed buttons.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/open-payment.png) ## NDIA Template - Notify Participant Death We've introduced a new NDIA template to support you during sensitive circumstances: Notify Participant Death. Just like our existing NDIA templates, you can now generate a pre-filled version of this form directly from Astalty, automatically populated with the Participant's details. This helps streamline the process at a difficult time, reducing manual data entry and ensuring the information provided to the NDIA is accurate and complete. To access the template, navigate to the NDIA Templates section within the Templates of a Participant's Profile and select Notify Participant Death. You will need to make the necessary selections and from there the form can be generated with all relevant information prepopulated in, ready for your review before sending. ![The NDIA Templates tab of a Participant's Templates, with an arrow from the highlighted Templates menu item to the NDIA Templates tab, and the Notify Participant Death template highlighted with its Generate button.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/notify-death.png) ![The Notify Participant Death Form Options drawer, with Part A: Participant Details prefilled, a Relationship field, and Part C: Finalising the NDIS Plan with support checkboxes, a Date of death field and Yes, No and Unknown options.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/notify-death-2.png) ## User Created External Forms from Astalty Great news! We've just released an update that makes external forms even easier to create. You can now create all published External Forms directly from the All Forms page. This update is available to all users, helping you manage your forms more efficiently in one central location. Navigate to the [All Forms page](https://app.astalty.com.au/forms/submittable) within Forms, then set the form Type to 'External'. You should now see any published External forms. To get started: 1. Go to Forms > All Forms 2. Use the Type filter and switch it to External 3. Any published external forms will now appear in the list This enhancement improves access and ensures your team can quickly use external forms without needing to navigate elsewhere. ![The All Forms page, with Forms marked 1 in the main menu, All Forms marked 2 and the External option of the Type filter marked 3, and an arrow pointing to an external form in the list.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/all-forms-external.png) ## Risk to "Others" Great news! Our development team has added a new option - '**Others**' - to the **Risk To** dropdown within Risks. This update provides greater flexibility when documenting risks, particularly for scenarios that may not neatly fit into existing categories. We hope this addition helps you capture information more accurately and supports better risk management. ![The Add a Risk drawer with the Risk To dropdown open, showing Participant, Business and Staff, and an arrow pointing to the highlighted Others option.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/risk-to-others.png) ## Bug Fixes ### My Payments Report We fixed the [Staff Payments Report](https://app.astalty.com.au/reports/finance/my-staff-payment-batches) so that changing pages or the number of entries updates the results. Much like Ferris dodging school, the report decided to skip responding altogether: "Toggling the number of entries? Page changes? I'm taking the day off." But don't worry, our development team intervened before it "borrowed" Dad's car. Whether you're toggling between pages or changing the number of entries, this report is officially back in class now responding reliably and working as expected. ![A staff payment batch's Payments Included In This Batch section, with an arrow pointing to the highlighted Items selector set to 10 and page controls showing 1-10 of 25 below the All Charges included in this batch table.](https://docs.astalty.com.au/assets/my-payments-22.png)