4 August 2026

In this session, we walk through some of the new features released in Astalty throughout July 2026, covering updates to scheduling and rostering, award interpretations and pay, charge items and invoicing, SMS and notifications, and forms and user administration.

What's Covered

• Pending Leave & Unavailability on the Schedule — see pending leave and unavailability requests directly on the Schedule, and approve or decline them without leaving the view.
• Clearing and Restoring Shift Clashes — clear known, safe shift clashes from the Shift Clashes Report so genuine scheduling issues stand out.
• Clock In and Out in One Step from Shift Alerts — record a worker's clock in and clock out in a single action from Shift Alerts.
• Schedule Week Start Day — choose which day the Schedule's Week and Fortnight views start on, independent of your pay period.
• Scheduled Hours Breakdown — hover a worker's hours counter on the Schedule to see scheduled hours broken down by shift, paid travel and sleepover.
• Shift Assignment Worker Filters — narrow suggested Support Workers by availability, state or team when assigning an unassigned shift.
• Weekday Worker Assignment Shortcuts — quickly select every occurrence, or every occurrence on a chosen weekday, when assigning a worker to a repeating support.
• Multiple Support Workers on Internal Shifts — roster more than one Support Worker on the same internal event, such as a team meeting or training session.
• Sleepover Window (beta) — roster one overnight support that covers the evening, sleepover and morning as a single shift, with charges split automatically.
• Schedule Colours — choose your own colours for event types, statuses and support types across the Schedule.
• Longer Case Note Lock Windows — set the grace period for locking case notes after clock-out anywhere from 0 up to 48 hours.
• Broadcasting a Shift from the Schedule — broadcast an unassigned shift to Support Workers directly from the Schedule, without going via the Shift Board.
• Rejecting Expressions of Interest — reject a Support Worker's expression of interest on the Shift Board with a reason, so unactioned interest doesn't sit unresolved.
• Nurses Award Interpretation — roster and cost nurses correctly under the Nurses Award (MA000034) instead of SCHADS.
• Aged Care Award Interpretation — interpret the Aged Care Award (MA000018) for residential aged care work.
• Health Professionals Award Interpretation — cost allied health and support services staff under the Health Professionals and Support Services Award (MA000027).
• Award Playground — pre-load a worker's or Participant's existing schedule into the Award Playground to model costs against their contracted award.
• Scheduling Costs (beta) — estimate the cost of your roster against your award interpretation before payroll runs, and compare it against revenue.
• Manage Xero Timesheets from Timesheet Batches — bulk review and delete draft Xero timesheets directly from the Timesheet Batches page.
• Search the NDIS Price Guide in Charge Item Sets — search the current NDIS Price Guide as you type in a Charge Item's Number field, and auto-fill the row.
• Bulk Price Updates for Charge Item Sets — update every price in a Charge Item Set from one screen, or pull the latest amounts from the NDIS Price Guide.
• Opening an Invoice from a Charge — jump straight from an invoiced charge to the invoice it was billed on.
• Aged Receivables Invoice Breakdown — expand a payee or Participant row on the Aged Receivables Report to see the individual outstanding invoices behind the total.
• SMS Improvements — see an opt-out indicator for Participants who've replied STOP, and find SMS reminders in a support's Audit Trail.
• Per-Support SMS Reminders — turn an SMS reminder off for a single support without changing a Participant's overall opt-in.
• Calendar Appointment Reminders — send SMS reminders ahead of calendar appointments, not just scheduled supports.
• Disabling SMS — switch SMS off yourself as Account Owner, confirmed by an emailed link.
• Funding Period Date Notifications — get alerted before, on, or after a Participant's funding period start date.
• Participant Schedule Email History — confirm whether and when a Participant's schedule was emailed, and to whom.
• Clearer Form Submission Reports — see an at-a-glance summary of every form submission, with each question broken down into its own card.
• Reactivating Users Straight Away — reactivate a deactivated user immediately, without the previous 30-day wait.