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How Corella compares, on the patterns.
Most Australian providers run one of two products today: a per-user rostering platform with the serious features on its top tier, or a billing-first plan-management tool that never sees the roster. We don’t name names on this page — products change weekly and deserve their own voice. We’ll happily go feature-for-feature against your exact stack, by name, on a walkthrough.
Patterns verified against public materials, July 2026
| Capability |  Corella | The usual rostering platform | The billing-first platform |
|---|---|---|---|
| What it runs | Delivery, care, compliance, billing, payroll exports and HR — plus plan-management and coordination lanes | Rostering and care delivery; HR and deeper compliance usually mean a second product | Claims and provider invoices; rostering and care records aren't its job |
| Safety-critical features | Incidents, care plans, funds, forms and risk in the base product — no tiers exist | Commonly gated to the top per-user tier | Mostly out of scope |
| Travel & mileage | Carer claims kilometres and travel minutes together at clock-off; paid automatically as a travel payroll line | A common pattern: kilometres logged before clock-on, on a paid tier, with no worker travel-time field — admins edit timesheets by hand | Not applicable |
| Client budgets | Support-category allocations with utilisation bars that move as shifts deliver | Often a single funds total per client | Strong here — budget validation is the product's core |
| Policy read-and-acknowledge | Built in — publish, require acknowledgement, see the x-of-y matrix | Rarely offered | Not offered |
| NDIA claiming | The exact 16-column bulk CSV, generated — uploaded by you; we don't claim a direct API we don't have | Bulk CSV, comparable | Often stronger — some offer direct portal-API claiming at a per-participant fee; genuine credit to them |
| Participant / family portal | Included for every provider | Typically a paid add-on | Usually included, quality varies with age |
| Getting your data out | CSV reports self-service; complete export whenever you ask | Varies; often reports only | Often on-request through support |
| Platform model | Your own isolated instance, database, subdomain and branding | Shared multi-tenant platform — per-user seats | Shared multi-tenant platform |
| Pricing shape | Per user, everything included — early access, numbers set with first providers | Tiered per-user (roughly $9–$25/user/month), seat minimums common | Per participant or bespoke |
Where the incumbents are genuinely strong
Fair is fair: the big rostering platforms have large installed bases, ship updates weekly, and some sync timesheets straight into Xero. The billing-first tools have claiming engines refined over years, and some claim directly through the portal API — which Corella doesn’t. If a big-vendor footprint or API claiming today matters more to you than owning your own instance with everything included, those are honest reasons to choose them. Our case is the provider who wants the whole operation in one system they own.
Compiled from public pricing pages, help centres and release notes across the Australian care-software market, June–July 2026. If something here reads out of date, tell us and we’ll correct it.
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