For independent NDIS sole traders

Paperwork that takes care of itself.

Build a service agreement, log every shift, and send invoices to plan managers — all in one place. Made for sole traders who’d rather be supporting participants than chasing paperwork on a Sunday.

Service agreement, progress note, invoice template — yours to keep, no card required.
14-day trial of the daily back-office, then $24/month. Cancel anytime.
2 of 3 documents in the pack
01 · Service AgreementSA-0142

Support agreement for Jaya Patel

Self-managed · NDIS 4302 8871 · Eff. 22 May 2026

Aroha Williams (ABN 47 884 221 003) agrees to provide community participation supports to Jaya Patel under the terms below.

Rate: $67.56/hr weekdays · $94.58/hr Saturday. Cancellation notice: 7 days. Travel charged at NDIS price guide.

01 · Scope of supports3 pages
02 · Rates & cancellation1 page
03 · Goals & outcomes2 pages
Aroha · 22.05.26● Ready to sign
02 · Progress notePN-2026-039

Tuesday 18 Nov · community access

Shift 07:15 – 10:50 · 3h 35m · Logan Central

Activity. Caught the train into the city with Jaya. Practiced reading the platform timetable independently.

Goal progress.“Travel independently to TAFE by end of plan” — Jaya identified the platform without prompting for the first time. Logged as milestone.

Follow-up.Friday’s shift, try the bus leg.

Auto-saved 10:51am● 2 goals tagged
03 · InvoiceINV-0418

Week of 17–21 November

To: My Plan Manager Co · Ref: Patel/J · ABN 47 884 221 003
04_104_0125_6_1 · Community access$236.46
04_104_0125_6_1 · Community access$202.68
04_104_0125_6_1 · Community access$337.80
04_590_0125_6_1 · Travel — 38km$34.20
Total ex GST$811.14
Due 5 Dec · 14 days● Plan-manager ready
5min
Setup, once per participant
20sec
Each shift, logged
1click
A week of invoices, sent
The product, in two parts

One gets you in the door. The other is why you stay.

01
Used once or twice a year

The compliance pack

Answer four short questions about the participant, your rates, and how you invoice. Get a personalised service agreement, progress note template, and plan-manager-ready invoice template. Yours to keep either way.

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ParticipantJaya Patel
ManagerSelf-managed
Effective22 May 2026
Generated● 3 documents
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Open it every shift

The daily back-office

Once you've signed up, the pack becomes the spine of your business. Log each shift in 20 seconds. Write a progress note while it's fresh. Bundle the week into invoices for plan managers in one click.

See the dashboard
Jaya P. · Community access3h 35mBilled
Marcus T. · Daily living2h 00mBilled
Jaya P. · Community access4h 15mNote due
The honest part

You didn’t become
a support worker
to do this on a Sunday.

Most Australian sole traders run their NDIS business with Word, Excel, and a folder called NDIS_FINAL_v3.

The agency platforms charge a fee on every hour and own your relationships. The agency software won’t sell to you because you’re not five users. So you write the same service agreement from scratch each time a participant comes on.

Solodesk is what that gap looks like when someone finally builds it.

The workThe tool
Where we fit

The middle, finally built.

Every other NDIS tool sells you a workspace to log into. Solodesk hands you the pack — and keeps it current as the rules change.

The agencies

Mable, Hireup

Take a fee on every hour and own your relationships. Great if you don't want a business. We're for everyone else.

%
The middle — for sole traders

Solodesk

Pack + back-office, no per-hour cut, sole-trader pricing. Owns nothing, hands you everything.

The agency software

ShiftCare, Brevity

Made for agencies — five-user minimum, agency pricing. Won't sell to sole traders.

5+
And the most popular choice — Word, Excel, and that one PDF — is also the worst one. The template goes stale; the spreadsheet grows mould; invoices land at plan managers looking like a craigslist ad.
At 30 hours a week, the per-hour cut a platform takes adds up to several hundred dollars a month — many times what Solodesk costs.Your exact saving depends on your rate, hours, and which platform you’re leaving.
A Tuesday in November

What a normal week looks like.

The point of Solodesk is the back-office you don’t think about. Same support worker, same participants — paperwork moved out of the way.

Tue · 07:15am

Shift starts.

Tap the timer on your phone. Solodesk pulls Jaya's goals from her plan automatically.

● LIVE · Jaya Patel07:15 → now
02:17:42
Today’s goal · Independent travelCommunity access
04_104 · Auto-rate $67.56Pulled from plan
Tue · 10:50am

Twenty seconds of notes.

Voice-to-text into the template. Goals tagged. Saved against the shift.

● Recording · 0:18Voice → text → tagged
“Caught the train into the city — Jaya identified the platform without prompting…”
Goal · IndependenceMilestone
Fri · 4:42pm

Five invoices, one click.

Bundle the week. Each invoice is plan-manager-ready — ABN, line items, NDIS codes.

Week 17–21 Nov · ready5 invoices
Jaya P. · 14h$948.40
Marcus T. · 8h$540.48
Em D. · 6h$405.36
+ 2 more · 4h$234.68
Total$2,128.92
Sun · 9:00am

You’re at the beach.

The dashboard says you billed 31.5 hours this week. The paperwork already happened.

This week● Sent
31.5hours billed
3 participantsSunday admin: 0:00
What people say

Built for the
people doing the work.

A rolling wall of customer voices — from app reviews, NPS surveys, and word-of-mouth referrals. Hover any row to pause.

Plan managers used to take ten days to pay me. The new invoice format gets me paid in four. Worth it just for that.

TW
Tom Walker
Support worker · NSW

Set it up on a Sunday, sent the first invoice Monday. Paid Wednesday.

PS
Priya Shah
Occupational therapist · VIC

The reminder layer is the bit I didn’t know I needed. Three less awkward emails a week.

ML
Marcus Long
Support coordinator · QLD

Had to call my bookkeeper — nothing was overdue.

HR
Hannah Reid
Speech pathologist · SA

Half a day a week, reconciling. Now it’s twenty minutes.

DK
David Kanu
Plan manager · WA

Invoices that read like invoices. Imagine that.

AC
Aroha Cole
Physiotherapist · ACT

My accountant texted to ask what changed. Mate, you’ll see.

NM
Noor Mehta
Support coordinator · NSW

Plan managers used to take ten days to pay me. The new invoice format gets me paid in four. Worth it just for that.

TW
Tom Walker
Support worker · NSW

Set it up on a Sunday, sent the first invoice Monday. Paid Wednesday.

PS
Priya Shah
Occupational therapist · VIC

The reminder layer is the bit I didn’t know I needed. Three less awkward emails a week.

ML
Marcus Long
Support coordinator · QLD

Had to call my bookkeeper — nothing was overdue.

HR
Hannah Reid
Speech pathologist · SA

Half a day a week, reconciling. Now it’s twenty minutes.

DK
David Kanu
Plan manager · WA

Invoices that read like invoices. Imagine that.

AC
Aroha Cole
Physiotherapist · ACT

My accountant texted to ask what changed. Mate, you’ll see.

NM
Noor Mehta
Support coordinator · NSW

My accountant texted to ask what changed. Mate, you’ll see.

NM
Noor Mehta
Support coordinator · NSW

Invoices that read like invoices. Imagine that.

AC
Aroha Cole
Physiotherapist · ACT

Half a day a week, reconciling. Now it’s twenty minutes.

DK
David Kanu
Plan manager · WA

Had to call my bookkeeper — nothing was overdue.

HR
Hannah Reid
Speech pathologist · SA

The reminder layer is the bit I didn’t know I needed. Three less awkward emails a week.

ML
Marcus Long
Support coordinator · QLD

Set it up on a Sunday, sent the first invoice Monday. Paid Wednesday.

PS
Priya Shah
Occupational therapist · VIC

Plan managers used to take ten days to pay me. The new invoice format gets me paid in four. Worth it just for that.

TW
Tom Walker
Support worker · NSW

My accountant texted to ask what changed. Mate, you’ll see.

NM
Noor Mehta
Support coordinator · NSW

Invoices that read like invoices. Imagine that.

AC
Aroha Cole
Physiotherapist · ACT

Half a day a week, reconciling. Now it’s twenty minutes.

DK
David Kanu
Plan manager · WA

Had to call my bookkeeper — nothing was overdue.

HR
Hannah Reid
Speech pathologist · SA

The reminder layer is the bit I didn’t know I needed. Three less awkward emails a week.

ML
Marcus Long
Support coordinator · QLD

Set it up on a Sunday, sent the first invoice Monday. Paid Wednesday.

PS
Priya Shah
Occupational therapist · VIC

Plan managers used to take ten days to pay me. The new invoice format gets me paid in four. Worth it just for that.

TW
Tom Walker
Support worker · NSW
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Pricing

About the cost of one billable houra month.

Not the cheap option. Not the agency option. Priced so we’re still here in five years.

Solo

Available now
$24per month
$199/year — works out to $16.58/month
  • Unlimited compliance packs
  • Unlimited shifts, with progress notes
  • Plan-manager invoicing
  • Travel km auto-rated to the NDIS price guide
  • Export everything as PDF or CSV
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  • Bulk invoicing for plan managers
  • Plan-utilisation alerts
  • Priority email support
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Questions we keep getting

In plain English.

Anything missing? Email hi@solodesk.com.au — a human replies.

Our templates are built around the NDIA's published guidance — we don't claim 'NDIS-compliant' because that's a regulated phrase. You stay responsible for the records and services you provide.
Not necessarily. Plenty of sole traders use Mable for finding new participants and Solodesk for the people they already work with — keeping their hourly rate intact on direct relationships.
No. The templates are starting points written in plain English. For anything specific to your business, talk to a registered adviser or an NDIS-experienced solicitor.
That's exactly who we built it for. The compliance pack is yours to keep even if you never sign up — you can come back when you take on a second.
Always. Every shift, note, and invoice exports as PDF or CSV in one click. No lock-in.
We are previewing the AI-assisted progress notes with a small group right now. Public launch is planned for the second half of 2026.

Build your pack.
Five minutes.

No card. No signup wall. Four questions. Service agreement, progress note template, invoice template — yours to keep.