



A plumber in Sydney
OneBookPlus Plumbing
The home page: the name centred over the menu, a dark hero photo, a navy quote button and a grid of services.
Open the OneBookPlus Plumbing site(opens in a new tab)Fill the 3am aged-care vacancy before the facility calls a rival agency.
Broadcast the open RN shift by SMS, check the AHPRA registration hasn't lapsed, clock the nurse in with GPS, and invoice the facility at its contracted rate, all before the next roster goes out. All-in from $58/mo on Starter with the Rostering & Payroll app, replacing ShiftCare + Xero + Deputy. The plans themselves run $0 to $69/mo.
Free plan. No card required. · AHPRA expiry alerts built-in · SCHADS & Nurses Award rates · Sign up in 60 seconds





Cut $34+/mo from your software stack by replacing ShiftCare + Xero + Deputy + a compliance spreadsheet with OneBookPlus, and dodge the per-nurse seat fees that punish you for growing the pool.
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Which of MA000034, MA000100, MA000018 and MA000027 covers each worker on an agency roster, and the four decisions that set an hourly rate.
Founder Guide8-step founder guide, AHPRA, structure, ABN/GST, PII, premises, billing rails, software stack, first patients.
Operator Guide15 regulated professions, registration types, CPD, PII, recency of practice, renewal calendar.
ReferenceSeven claim rails (Medicare, HICAPS, Easyclaim, DVA, WorkCover, CTP) plus MBS items and Section 19(2).
ReferenceSupport categories, therapeutic item codes, travel claiming, cancellation rules, plan management.
ComplianceAHPRA minimums by profession ($2M–$20M+), MDO vs commercial cover, claims-made traps, retiree run-off.
InteractiveInteractive, set your fee, see Medicare rebate, gap to patient, per-service vs bulk-billed economics.
Key takeaways
5Everything You Need
From shift management to AHPRA compliance, OneBookPlus replaces the spreadsheets, WhatsApp groups, and disconnected tools slowing your agency down.
Schedule nurses across hospitals, aged care homes, and clinics from one dashboard. See availability, assign shifts, and manage last-minute replacements without juggling spreadsheets.
Track AHPRA registration, police checks, WWCC, immunisation records, and mandatory training for every nurse. Get alerts before anything expires so your agency stays audit-ready.
Nurses clock in and out per shift with GPS verification. Timesheets are generated automatically, grouped by facility, and ready for approval, no manual data entry.
Generate GST-compliant invoices per facility from approved timesheets. Bill different rates for different facilities, shift types, and award levels, all calculated automatically.
Built-in support for SCHADS Award and Nurses Award pay rates, including penalty rates, overtime, and shift allowances. Pay runs calculate correctly the first time in the Rostering & Payroll add-on ($29/month, charged on top of your plan).
Maintain a pool of available nurses with their qualifications, preferred facilities, and availability windows. Fill open shifts fast by matching requirements to your pool.
Store contract terms, agreed rates, and billing rules per facility. When timesheets are approved, invoices use the correct rate card automatically, no manual lookups.
Broadcast open shifts to qualified nurses via SMS. Nurses confirm availability with a reply. First to confirm gets the shift, no phone tag, no WhatsApp groups.
Free plan available · No credit card · Onboard your first nurse pool in minutes
Website included
Every paid plan includes a full website, hosted by us, with nothing extra to buy and no separate builder: your site, its booking page and the tools behind them sit on one plan. The Free plan keeps the booking page and does not have the website.
The AI drafts every page from your own answers about your nursing work, not from your business name, and it does not invent claims. Every page is laid out for a phone as well as a desk. In the Website Studio you edit any section in place, add text, lists and buttons inside it, choose how many cards sit across, and change the look, which keeps your words, your photos and the spacing you set. The booking page is built in and the site's Book buttons go to it. Your first AI build is included with the plan. A later rebuild runs on AI Companion credits, and one that starts fresh replaces your pages, saving a restore point in History first.
A facility logs an urgent overnight RN vacancy at 9pm through your branded page. The request lands in your dashboard tagged urgent, ready to broadcast to your nurse pool before the morning roster.
RN agency rate from $68/hr (Nurses Award + agency loading). Sleepover allowance $59.55/shift. A customer sees the price before they book.
The AI writes your services and the area you cover from your answers, so when someone searches 'nursing agency in [suburb]' there is a page that says what you do and where.
No card needed to start.

The Website Studio's Build with AI at its Plan step, on our plumbing demo: the pages, sections and menu the AI proposed from the answers already on the account, before anything is built. Click it to see it full size, or watch the recording of the build on the homepage.
Free
$0
A branded booking page on your OneBookPlus address. No website on this plan.
Starter
$29/mo
A website on your OneBookPlus address, hosted with SSL: 10 pages and a blog. The first AI draft is included.
Plus
$49/mo
Your own domain with SSL, 50 pages and a members area.
Growth
$69/mo
Unlimited pages, and a landing page per suburb from one template.
Your own domain connects on an active paid Plus or Growth subscription, not during the 14 day trial; a trial site lives on your OneBookPlus address. Every published site carries a small “Made with OneBookPlus” credit.
All three sites were drafted by the AI from the owner's answers, our own site included. It picks one of eight heading and body type pairings and how the cards sit (a fine line, a bold outline, a soft lift or no card), so a plumber's site, a driving school's and ours do not come out alike. Switch the view to see each one on a desktop, a tablet and a phone, click any screenshot to see it full size, or open the live site in a new tab. The plumber and the driving school are our demo businesses, not customers.




A plumber in Sydney
The home page: the name centred over the menu, a dark hero photo, a navy quote button and a grid of services.
Open the OneBookPlus Plumbing site(opens in a new tab)



A driving school in Donnybrook
The home page: a teal logo and name on the left, an L plates hero and lessons and packages as cards.
Open the OneBookPlus Driving School site(opens in a new tab)



Our own site, built the same way
The home page: a serif heading beside a framed photo on pale grey, and no full width hero at all.
Open the OneBookPlus site(opens in a new tab)See it in action
These are real product screens: the visit schedule by carer, the recipient profile with a care plan, and the client list with funding at a glance. Tap any screen to zoom in.
Who's seeing whom, when, for how long, where. Tap a visit to see client notes, care plan and medication schedule.

Client's goals, risks, medications, next-of-kin, funding info: all in one place, compliant-ready.

Every care recipient with their funding type and key details: filterable, with each record opening to visit history and notes.

Simple Workflow
From registering your first nurse to invoicing facilities, four steps to a better-run agency.
Add your nursing pool with AHPRA numbers, qualifications, and availability. Set up client facilities with contract terms, rate cards, and shift requirements.
Create shifts at each facility. The system matches qualified, available nurses. Broadcast unfilled shifts via SMS. Nurses confirm with one tap.
Nurses clock in/out with GPS verification. Timesheets are generated per facility. Compliance documents are tracked automatically: expired credentials trigger alerts.
Approved timesheets become GST-compliant invoices, calculated at each facility's contracted rates. Send invoices, track payments, and export for your accountant.
Broadcast your first SMS shift the day you sign up
Who it's for
Whether you place 5 nurses or 500, OneBookPlus scales with your operation.
Supplying RNs and ENs to public and private hospitals on short-term and ongoing contracts. Needs multi-facility scheduling, credential tracking, and fast shift filling.
Placing nurses in residential aged care facilities to cover shifts, vacancies, and surge demand. Needs AHPRA tracking, facility rate cards, and per-facility invoicing.
A handful of specialist nurses placed at select facilities. Needs simple scheduling, compliance tracking, and professional invoicing without enterprise complexity.
Operating across states with hundreds of nurses and dozens of facilities. Needs centralised visibility, bulk shift management, and award-compliant payroll across jurisdictions.
Named tools, at each vendor’s own cheapest published plan, and ours underneath. Vendor pricing changes, so check each one before you decide.
Or use OneBookPlus
$58/mo
Everything in the list above, on one bill.
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Example walkthrough
An illustrative walkthrough of a typical agency rostering day
You open the dashboard first thing and see today's shifts laid out across the facilities you staff, including the handful left unfilled by overnight cancellations. You broadcast the open shifts by SMS to the qualified nurses in your pool.
Most come back covered within the hour. The one that does not is an endorsed EN shift, so you filter the pool by qualification and availability, find the matches, and send a direct SMS to those nurses instead of the whole list.
With the roster covered you check the compliance dashboard. It shows which registrations are approaching renewal and which police checks or immunisation records are close to expiring, and you send the reminders straight from the platform.
At lunch you review last week's approved timesheets against the verified clock-in and clock-out records, then generate the facility invoices, each billed at that facility's contracted rates rather than a single flat rate you have to remember.
By the end of the day the shifts are completed, the timesheets have generated themselves, and the new nurses you onboarded have their credentials recorded and verified against the roster rules, so tomorrow's allocations only offer them shifts they are actually cleared for.
How we compare
See how we compare to the tools nursing agencies typically use.
| Feature | OneBookPlus | ShiftCare | Deputy | Skedulo |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-facility shift scheduling | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AHPRA compliance tracking | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| GPS-verified timesheets | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Per-facility invoicing | Yes | No | No | No |
| SCHADS & Nurses Award rates | Yes | Yes | No | No |
| SMS shift broadcasting | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Nurse pool & matching | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Facility rate cards | Yes | No | No | No |
| CRM & contact management | Yes | No | No | No |
| Free plan available | Yes | No | No | No |
| Price | From $0/mo | $9+/mo per user | $6.75+/mo per user | Subscription |
100%
AHPRA & compliance tracking built-in
$0
Free plan to get started
1 app
Rostering, timesheets and invoicing in one place
Digital
Timesheets captured per shift, no paper
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.
6:35am
While you're on the roster
Two nurses call in sick at Banksia Aged Care. The DON rings you first, while you're elbow-deep in today's roster.
AI Receptionist
The AI answers in two rings, logs both shifts and broadcasts them by SMS to fourteen qualified nurses, before you've opened email.
Shifts covered
Two nurses confirm from their phones. Credentials verified, rate card applied, the card is ready for your sign-off.
From your desk
Approved timesheets roll into Banksia's weekly invoice at their contracted rates. One tap sends it with a pay link.
While you fill tomorrow
The payment lands, the books update themselves, and $200.00 GST is set aside for BAS.
Reputation on autopilot
After a crisis turned routine morning, the AI asks for a review. No chasing, no awkward ask.
The day closes itself
Forty-two shifts ran and two emergencies vanished. 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.
Nursing agency pricing
Flat monthly price, no per-nurse seat tax, so your bill doesn't balloon when the pool grows from 20 to 200. No contracts, no setup fees. Cancel any time.
Free
$0/forever
Place your first nurses today, no credit card.
Starter
$29/mo
Replaces ShiftCare + Xero + Deputy for a busy single-region agency.
No card · Drops to Free if you don't upgrade
Plus
$49/mo
Outgrowing the basics, advanced reporting.
Our pick: unlimited contacts and booking pages for $49
Growth
$69/mo
For agencies running hundreds of nurses across states and dozens of facilities.
Prices in AUD. Most nursing services are GST-free under Subdivision 38-B of the GST Act; Online card payments carry Stripe processing fees (1.7% + 30¢ AU cards) plus a 2.5% OneBookPlus platform fee. See the full plan comparison
Already on another tool?
Switching is designed to fit in a single evening. Export your nurses, facilities and rate cards as CSV from your current tool, import them into OneBookPlus with the bulk importer, and you're rostering tomorrow's shifts before the first SMS broadcast goes out.
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Your carers are with clients, enquiry calls wait, exactly when families need an answer now.
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AI Receptionist · incoming call
“Looking into home care for Mum, who can I speak to?”
If you don't answer, the AI books it, Intake call · today 4:00pm, and texts a confirmation.
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Common questions about staffing software for nursing agencies in Australia.
Yes. Every nurse profile includes their AHPRA registration number, expiry date, registration type (RN, EN, NP), and endorsements. The system alerts you 90, 60, and 30 days before any registration expires so you never place a nurse with lapsed credentials.
Absolutely. Each facility is a separate entity with its own rate card, shift requirements, and billing terms. You schedule and manage shifts across all facilities from one dashboard, with filtering and views per facility or across your entire operation.
When timesheets are approved, OneBookPlus generates invoices grouped by facility. Each invoice uses that facility's contracted rates, including base rates, penalty rates, and allowances. Invoices are GST-compliant and include shift details, nurse names, hours, and totals.
Yes. We support both the SCHADS Award and the Nurses Award with built-in rate tables for base pay, penalty rates (weekends, public holidays, night shifts), overtime, and shift allowances. Invoicing uses these rates, and so do pay runs in the Rostering & Payroll add-on ($29/month with a 14-day trial), which is charged on top of your plan rather than included in it.
No. The Rostering & Payroll add-on ($29/month with a 14-day trial) runs your rosters and timesheets, works out pay with SCHADS and Nurses Award penalty rates, PAYG withholding, superannuation and leave accrual, and produces payslips and an ABA file for paying your nurses. It does not lodge STP pay-event reports to the ATO, so you still need to report each pay run through STP-enabled software. Superannuation is calculated and recorded with quarterly due dates and a mark-as-paid screen; we do not remit it through SuperStream.
Yes. Nurses get a mobile-friendly view of their assigned shifts, facility details, and can clock in/out with GPS verification. They can also view their timesheets, update availability, and upload compliance documents from their phone.
Yes. Our free plan includes nurse and facility management, shift scheduling, timesheet tracking, and basic invoicing, enough for a small agency placing a handful of nurses. Upgrade as your operation grows.
About the author
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.
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The compliance and licensing statements above are taken from the bodies this page links to, including the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission, AHPRA 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.
Running a nursing or home care agency means coordinating dozens of moving parts every single day, new client enquiries, care plan updates, rostering changes, medication records, and billing deadlines. OneBookPlus brings the entire workflow into one platform so nothing slips through the cracks, whether you manage five carers or five hundred.
Every new client starts with a structured intake process. Record their personal details, emergency contacts, GP information, and any existing care arrangements. Capture their NDIS plan number, funding category, and approved support hours directly in their profile. For aged care clients, log their Home Care Package level and assigned case manager. The intake form is fully customisable, add fields for mobility requirements, dietary needs, cultural preferences, or language spoken at home. Once the intake is complete, the client is ready for care planning without needing to re-enter information across separate systems.
Build individualised care plans tied to each client's funding and clinical needs. Define specific goals, such as increasing mobility, managing chronic conditions, or supporting daily living activities, and assign measurable outcomes to each. Care plans can be reviewed and updated at scheduled intervals, with version history maintained for audit purposes. Link each goal to the relevant NDIS support category or Home Care Package line item so that when your team delivers care, the billing connection is already established. Carers see the active care plan on their mobile device before every visit, ensuring continuity even when a different carer is rostered.
Schedule visits across your entire client base from one calendar view. Assign carers based on qualifications, availability, location, and client preferences. OneBookPlus flags conflicts automatically, if a carer is double-booked, driving an unrealistic distance between visits, or missing a required credential for a particular client, you see it before the roster is published. Recurring visits can be templated weekly, and one-off changes are handled with drag-and-drop adjustments. When a carer calls in sick, the system identifies qualified replacements from your available pool and lets you reassign with two clicks.
After every visit, carers complete progress notes directly on their phone. Notes are structured with prompts for activities completed, client mood and wellbeing observations, any changes in condition, and follow-up actions required. For clinical services, nurses can record vital signs, wound assessments, and clinical observations in a format that satisfies AHPRA documentation standards. Incident reports are flagged separately with severity classification, immediate actions taken, and notification workflows that alert the coordinator and relevant family members.
Maintain a complete medication register for each client, including dosage, frequency, prescribing doctor, and pharmacy details. Carers confirm medication administration during each visit using a digital sign-off that records the exact time, medication, and administering carer. Missed or refused medications are flagged immediately, creating an alert for the care coordinator to follow up. The medication history provides a full audit trail for compliance reviews, GP consultations, and family reporting.
When visits are completed and progress notes are submitted, OneBookPlus generates claim-ready records aligned with NDIS price guides. Each visit is mapped to the correct support item number, rate, and funding category based on the client's plan. For NDIS-managed clients, generate bulk payment requests formatted for the NDIS portal. For plan-managed clients, send invoices directly to their plan manager with all required line-item detail. For Home Care Package clients, generate monthly statements showing services delivered against their package budget. GST handling, travel claims, and cancellation charges are all calculated according to the applicable funding rules, removing the manual reconciliation that consumes hours every billing cycle.
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Authoritative sources
Nursing in Australia spans national health regulators, modern awards, and sector-specific bodies. We cite the primary sources for every claim on this page so you can verify directly.
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