ShiftCare alternatives
ShiftCare alternatives for NZ and Australian businesses
ShiftCare: $8 to $25+ per active staff member per month, across four tiers, scaling with headcount.
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The options
What people compare ShiftCare with
ShiftCare charges $8 to $25+ per active staff member per month across four pricing tiers, and a 50 to 100 staff provider can land at $12k to $30k+ a year. Owners look for an alternative when that bill tracks every casual on the roster rather than the work delivered, and when the records that prove compliance sit behind someone else's export.
Often compared
Brevity
A home care and NDIS provider system that prices above ShiftCare, according to the pricing comparisons used across this market.
Often compared
AlayaCare
Another provider system that prices above ShiftCare, named alongside Brevity in the same pricing comparisons.
Yours to own
Home Care for Claude Code
The open-source home care and NDIS provider system that is just a database and Claude Code. Built around your business, with your ShiftCare data brought across.
See how it worksHow to choose
How to choose a ShiftCare alternative
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What the bill is tied to
ShiftCare charges per active staff member per month across four tiers, so growing your roster grows your bill before it grows revenue, whether or not every casual ever opens the app. Check whether a system charges by headcount or by the business itself.
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Whether your records stay yours
Years of shifts, notes and claims can live in a vendor's cloud, and leaving means a CSV export and a rebuild, with access ending at the subscription boundary. Ask whether the records you must keep for seven years sit in a database you actually own.
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Whether it fits your own rules and fields
Forms, cancellation windows and compliance checks in a tiered system only exist where the vendor built a toggle for them. If your organisation runs on rules nobody built a setting for, those rules live in someone's head instead of in the system.
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What the switch involves
Moving off a system like ShiftCare means exporting client, staff and shift data as CSV files and rebuilding on the other side. Check what maps across cleanly, what needs manual work such as service agreements, and how long the import actually takes.
The option that fits
Own your version instead of renting seats
Enterprise DNA builds your business its own version of Home Care for Claude Code, brings your ShiftCare records across, and runs it for you, for one setup fee then a monthly retainer with no per-seat charge. It is built around how your organisation actually works, not a tier structure someone else designed. An owner who wants to run it themselves can start with the free version.
- check No per-seat pricing, ever
- check Built around how your business runs
- check Your ShiftCare data brought across for you
Make it yours
Design your own ShiftCare replacement
Everything starts from the open-source base. Then it gets your name, the parts you run, your rules and your data from ShiftCare. Try it here, and we build the real one.
2. What it runs
3. Make it fit
4. Your colour
Answered from your own database
Good morning. Here is what needs you today.
We build it from the open-source base, bring your ShiftCare data across and run it for you.
Questions
ShiftCare alternatives, answered
How is Home Care for Claude Code priced compared with ShiftCare? expand_more
ShiftCare charges per active staff member per month across four tiers, so a bigger roster means a bigger bill. Home Care for Claude Code has no per-seat plans: Enterprise DNA builds your version for one setup fee, then a monthly retainer, and a free version exists for anyone who wants to run it themselves.
Can I move my ShiftCare data across? expand_more
Yes. Client, staff and shift exports from ShiftCare come out as CSV files, and Enterprise DNA brings that data into your own version when they build it, or you can run the same import yourself with the free version. Rows match on their ShiftCare id, so re-running an import updates records rather than duplicating them.
Will I lose NDIS features that sit in ShiftCare's higher tiers? expand_more
ShiftCare gates NDIS invoicing, custom forms, incident management and client fund tracking above its entry tiers. Home Care for Claude Code enforces the same shape of record keeping, screening, notes, claims and incident closure, without a tier ladder, and Enterprise DNA can add anything specific to how you run.
What do I actually own if I switch? expand_more
A database of your own records: clients, agreements, workers, shifts, notes, incidents and claims, kept under an MIT licence with no vendor to leave. Nothing sits behind someone else's export, and there is no delete verb, so claims and history stay for as long as the rules require.
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