The slowest part of plan management is not claiming, it is typing. A provider emails a PDF, someone opens it, finds the participant, finds the plan, works out which support item each line is, types the dates and quantities, and checks the rate. Rostery does the reading and leaves you the judgement.
Invoice capture ai reading — how it works
Invoices reach the register three ways: forwarded to a connected mailbox, uploaded, or entered by hand. Rostery extracts the provider, invoice number, dates, line items, quantities and amounts, then matches the provider by ABN and the participant by NDIS number, and proposes the support item and price for each line from the catalogue.
The result is a draft you review rather than a record you have to trust. Anything the extraction is unsure about is flagged instead of guessed, and the original document stays attached to the invoice for the life of the record, so an auditor can see the source next to what was claimed from it.
Why it matters for NDIS providers
A plan manager’s fee is fixed per participant per month, so every minute spent re-typing an invoice is margin. Manual entry is also where the expensive mistakes start: a transposed quantity, the wrong support item, a date typed as this month instead of last.
- Reading, not guessing: extracted fields are proposed for review, and low-confidence ones are flagged rather than filled in silently.
- Matched automatically: provider by ABN and participant by NDIS number, so the invoice attaches to the right plan.
- The document stays: the original PDF is kept against the invoice as evidence for the claim.
What's included
- Email ingestion. A connected mailbox turns forwarded provider invoices into draft entries automatically.
- Document extraction. Provider, invoice number, dates, quantities and amounts read from the PDF.
- Support item proposal. Each line matched to a catalogue item and priced as at the service date.
- Duplicate detection. Invoices matching a provider and number already on file are flagged before they are paid twice.
- Evidence retained. The source document stays attached to the invoice permanently.
Who it's for
Plan managers processing more than a handful of invoices a week, and any team where invoice entry is done by one person while approval and claiming are done by another. The register is designed to be worked from top to bottom by whoever is on invoices that day, rather than requiring the person who entered an invoice to see it through.
Getting started
Invoice Capture & AI Reading is included in your Rostery plan and works the moment your data is in — there is no separate module to buy or set up. Book a demo and we will show it on your own workflows, and use Rostery's “Smart Switch” data migration to bring your existing clients, staff, shifts and notes across from your current software in minutes.
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Source
The rules this feature works to are set by NDIS — Pricing Arrangements and Price Limits, which is the authority on them and is updated more often than any page here.
