Shift tracking
Log shifts manually or accept requests from workplaces. Track each one from confirmed through to paid. Search, filter, and export.
Everything Sessional does
Every feature, grouped by the job it does.
32live features
Log shifts, get paid, stay compliant, plan for tax, find work, and connect your accounting. Each entry says what the feature does and which tier includes it. Nothing here is roadmap: if it is on this page, it is live today.
- Features
- 32
- Groups
- 6
- Tiers
- 3
Group 01 | Log shifts
Log every shift, however you get paid
One place for self-invoiced, agency, and PAYG work, including the roles you pick up outside your primary scope. The tax reserve and earnings view know which shifts to exclude because tax was already withheld on them.
Free
Agency and PAYG shift tracking
Log every shift, not just the ones you invoice directly. Agency shifts record gross rate plus net pay after commission; PAYG shifts record withheld tax. The tax reserve partitions automatically.
Cross-role work
Record the role worked per shift when it is outside your primary registered scope. A nurse picking up an AIN shift, a paramedic on a patient-transport role, or a dual-registered clinician all get the right chip and rate split.
Shift pay-check (bank and agency nurses)
Mark each shift paid correctly, paid short (record the actual amount), or not paid yet. Cross-employer list of what you are still owed.
Workplace management
Save the workplaces you work with: contact details, type, and notes. Auto-filled when creating shifts.
Workplace lookup
Type the workplace name or address. Sessional pre-fills the address and stamps the workplace details on every invoice. No more retyping clinic details.
Availability calendar
Mark full days or half days as available, tentative, or unavailable. Block book date ranges. Confirmed shifts sync automatically. Visible on your public profile.
Group 02 | Get paid
Get paid faster
PDF invoices sent by email with delivery tracking. Chasers fire automatically on day 14, 21, and 28 past due. Every invoice and booking email carries a 30-day link the workplace clicks to mark paid or raise a dispute, no account needed.
5 free shifts and 5 invoices a month
The Free tier includes up to 5 shifts and 5 self-invoiced PDF invoices per calendar month. Generate invoices from delivered shifts, send by email, and see delivery and open events.
Unlimited shifts and invoicing with auto-chasers
Plus removes both the 5-shift and 5-invoice monthly caps. Adds automatic chasers at day 14, 21, and 28 past due, each with the original PDF attached. One-click cancel. Cooldown-protected against double-fire.
Workplace access on invoice and booking emails
Every invoice and booking email carries a 30-day signed URL. Workplaces click through, see the detail, and mark paid or raise a dispute without creating an account. The response lands on your dashboard with one-click Confirm or Reject.
Messaging with the workplace on a booking
Keep the conversation on-platform instead of scattered across personal email. The workplace messages you from the booking link, with no account; you reply from your dashboard. Every exchange is tied to the booking so nothing gets lost.
In-app Notifications for operational events
Paid-claims, disputes, booking-state changes, and shift updates land on your Notifications page. Separate from email preferences, so silencing emails does not silence operational signals.
Cancellation protection
Set cancellation terms per shift (standard, 14-day, 48-hour, or custom). If a workplace cancels inside the notice period, generate a cancellation-fee invoice or waive it.
Earnings dashboard
Total income across every mode, with a three-way breakdown of self-invoiced, agency, and PAYG income when your period is mode-mixed. Filter by period, date range, or workplace. Export as CSV.
Group 03 | Stay compliant
Stay compliant without the Sunday evening
AHPRA registration, indemnity, and state credentials all have expiry dates, evidence requirements, and deadlines. The document store, expiry alerts, and profession-aware categories work the same for all 10 AHPRA professions. Structured forms and portfolios below layer on where a specific board asks for more.
Document store with expiry alerts
Upload your national police check, Working with Children Check, indemnity, AHPRA registration certificate, immunisation record, and training. 30-day expiry alerts on every category. Categories are profession-aware: midwives get clinical-skills categories alongside the basics; other professions see their board-relevant types.
Shareable compliance passport
Bundle the documents you choose into one link a new workplace opens with no account, to get cleared and booked faster instead of emailing PDFs around. Time-limited, revocable, and view-tracked. You decide what to include; verifying the documents stays with you and the workplace.
Your AHPRA registration number, everywhere it counts
Your AHPRA registration number stored encrypted. Appears on your invoices and your public profile so workplaces can verify at a glance. The dashboard warns before your registration renewal hits the reminder window.
Recency-of-practice hours from your shifts
Practice hours counted automatically from your confirmed shifts so you can evidence recency of practice for your AHPRA renewal and your own CPD record. Free on every tier because registration is a regulatory obligation, not a paid feature.
Midwifery competency tracker (midwives)
Dedicated log for obstetric emergencies, CTG reviews, waterbirths, breech and instrumental births, and bereavement care. Entries roll into your own clinical record.
Group 04 | Tax & expenses
Keep the taxman calm
Per-invoice tax reserve against YTD gross and the tax-free threshold. Separate math for sole-trader and company slices when you run both. Car travel at the ATO cents-per-km rate, expenses in profession-aware categories. No end-of-year scramble.
Tax reserve, partitioned by source
Income tax, the Medicare levy, and company tax updated in real time. Reserve calculated per business structure. Agency-managed income reserves on net. PAYG income is shown separately because tax was already withheld. Multi-year rules (2025-26 and 2026-27 financial years).
Mixed supported business structures
Run some shifts as a sole trader and others through a company. Sessional runs the tax reserve calculation once per supported structure so each slice is priced against the applicable model and the combined reserve equals the sum of the parts. Trust tax outcomes are not modelled.
Expenses and car travel
Log expenses across profession-aware categories at the ATO cents-per-km rate. The picker surfaces what your AHPRA board and indemnity provider expect. Attach receipt photos or PDFs. Search, filter, and export to CSV.
Forward earnings forecast and rate benchmark
See your projected full-year gross and the tax to set aside, annualised from the shifts you have logged. Plus an anonymised benchmark of what other locums in your profession charge, so you know if your rate is where it should be.
AI assistant
Ask plain-English questions about your own numbers: how much to set aside for tax, how many shifts to hit an income target at your average rate, or how a Sessional feature works. It answers from your own data, never anyone else’s, and points you to a professional for anything that needs regulated advice.
Group 05 | Find work
Find your next booking
Public profile, directory listing, booking requests straight to your dashboard. No commission, no middleman, no agency cut.
Public profile and directory
Optional public profile with your specialties, availability, and location. Workplaces search by postcode and send requests directly. No middleman, no commission.
Booking requests
Workplaces send requests from your profile. Review the details, agree the rate, and accept or decline. No account needed on their side.
Referral programme
Share your referral link. When a colleague starts a paid Plus or Pro plan, a discount is applied to their first payment and to your next invoice.
Cents-per-km calculator
Free public tool. Enter your business kilometres and Sessional applies the ATO cents-per-km rate, capped at 5,000 km per car. Know your car-travel deduction before tax time.
Group 06 | Accounting
Accounting and exports
Push invoices and expenses to Xero on Pro. Pull everything through the REST API on Pro when you want to build your own dashboards, or export as CSV on every tier.
Xero two-way sync
Push invoices as AUTHORISED and expenses as Bills with your own account codes. Payment detection via HMAC webhooks. Clean bank reconciliation, no duplicates.
REST API
Access your shift, invoice, and expense data programmatically with Bearer-auth API keys. Build automations, connect to other tools, or export on your terms.
Advanced reporting
Build deeper reports across shifts, invoices, workplaces, rates, expenses, and payment performance with Pro-level reporting tools.
CSV exports everywhere
Every list (shifts, invoices, expenses, earnings, car travel) exports to CSV from the dashboard. Full JSON export of all your data is available on every tier.
Free for everyone
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10 professions | AHPRA | No card to start
Every shift, every invoice, every dollar. One record you own.
Free on the base tier. Plus adds invoicing, chasers, super tracking, AHPRA registration, and the full tax suite. Pro adds Xero sync and the REST API.
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