Incidents, Reports & Forms for NDIS Providers | BondiByte
Incidents, Reports & Forms

Build the forms your organisation actually uses, without waiting on anyone.

Every provider has its own paperwork. A progress note shaped the way your clinical lead wants it, a handover the day team will actually read, a checklist one funder asks for and nobody else does. Most of it lives as a document emailed around, filled in inconsistently, and re-typed later by someone else.

BondiByte includes a report and form builder. You build the form in the browser, preview it, publish it, and it appears where your team already records work: on a participant, a worker, a site or a shift.

For observations recorded repeatedly over time for one participant, Client Charts add participant assignment, effective-dated configuration, an entry register and period PDFs.

Prefer written steps? Read the Reports guide.

  1. Create a template
  2. Add sections and fields
  3. Set show and hide rules
  4. Preview the form
  5. Publish it
  6. Staff fill it in
Video series

Watch the Reports and Forms series.

Short demonstrations in the real product, using made-up data. Choose a part to watch it here.

Watch the full series on YouTube (opens YouTube in a new tab)

The BondiByte Reports register listing site notes, client progress notes and shift reports, each typed and attached to the participant, staff member or site it concerns (demo data)

The Reports register: every report typed, dated and attached to the record it concerns (demo data).

A builder, not a request to your software supplier.

Sections and fields

Build the form the way your team reads it.

  • Group questions into sections, up to twelve of them
  • Up to eighty fields across the whole form
  • Drag a field into a different position or a different section
  • Give every question a label, help text, and a placeholder where the field takes one
  • Mark the questions that must be answered

Fourteen field types

Grouped so the right one is easy to find.

  • Basic: short text, long text, number, date, time, date and time, yes or no
  • Choice: single choice, multiple choice, checkbox
  • People and records: a person picker
  • Structured records: a repeating Table field
  • Layout: section heading, info text
  • Up to thirty options on a choice question

Show and hide rules

A question that only appears when it is relevant.

  • Show a field based on the answer to an earlier one
  • Is equal to, or is not equal to, a chosen value
  • Is yes or ticked, or is no or unticked
  • Hidden questions stay out of the way instead of being skipped over

People fields

Pick a real person, not a typed name.

  • Choose from your own staff records, or your own participant records
  • One person per question
  • The person is stored as a link to their record
  • The name is also kept as it read when the report was submitted

The field types you can put on a form.

The palette is deliberately short. Fourteen field types cover the paperwork providers actually run, including a repeating Table field for structured rows.

Group
What you can add
Basic
Short text, long text, number, date, time, date and time, yes or no.
Choice
Single choice, multiple choice, checkbox.
People and records
A person picker that selects a staff member or a participant from your organisation's own records.
Structured records
A repeating Table field for several structured rows inside one report or Chart entry.
Layout
Section heading and info text. These carry guidance for whoever fills the form in, and are never answered.
Drafts and versions

Change the form without rewriting history.

A new template starts as a draft. Nobody sees it, nothing can be written on it, and you can rebuild it as many times as you like. Preview shows exactly what your team will see. Publishing is the moment it becomes available to fill in.

A published version is fixed. When you improve the form, you edit a new draft and publish it as the next version, and every report already written keeps rendering on the version it was written on. A question you removed last month does not vanish from last month's reports.

Unpublishing takes a template out of circulation without touching anything written on it, and archiving retires it for good, with a restore if you change your mind.

Improve the form. Keep the record.
  1. Draft
  2. Preview
  3. Published
  4. Reports completed on version 1
  5. New draft
  6. Published as version 2

A report belongs to a record, not to a folder.

Every report is written against the participant, worker, site or shift it concerns, so it is found by opening that record rather than by remembering where the file went.

Against a participant

The record most reports belong to.

  • Progress reports and client shift reports
  • Plan reassessment and functional capacity
  • Behaviour support, medication and risk observation
  • Goal progress, family and contact communication
  • Appointments and meetings, and follow-ups

Against a worker

The staff record, for the things that belong on it.

  • Supervision, performance and training notes
  • Availability notes
  • Pay level notes
  • Capability and qualification notes
  • Site assignment notes

Against a site

Operational records that belong to the location.

  • Site operational notes
  • Site compliance notes
  • General operational reports and follow-ups
  • Visible on the site's own Reports tab

Against a shift

What happened on the day, tied to rostered work.

  • Shift notes and shift reports
  • Incident reports raised from a shift
  • Kept on the shift's own record
  • Reviewed by a manager against the work it belongs to

Ready to use on day one

A sample of what ships with every organisation.

  • Client progress report
  • Client shift report
  • Incident report
  • Plan reassessment report
  • Functional capacity assessment
  • Behaviour support report
  • Medication report
  • Risk observation
  • Goal progress update
  • Supervision, performance and training notes
  • Site operational and compliance notes
  • Shift note and shift report
Built-in templates

Start from a template BondiByte already wrote.

You do not have to build from a blank page. BondiByte ships a library of report templates covering the records providers keep most often, and they are available to every organisation from the first day.

Preview any of them to see the real form. When one is close but not quite yours, duplicate it and customise it: the copy arrives in the builder with all of its sections and fields already in place, ready to edit, rename and publish as your own.

Use it as it is. Or make it yours.
Form type routing

An incident form belongs in Incidents.

Every template carries a category: progress note, incident, assessment, review, handover, or other. The category is not a label. It decides where the form lives.

Set a template's category to incident and it moves out of the ordinary report picker and into the Incidents area, along with every record already written on it. Staff reach it where they would look for it, and incident records stay together rather than scattered through general reports.

Because a change of category moves existing records, BondiByte asks you to confirm before it reclassifies a template, so it is never a surprise.

  1. A template's category is set to Incident
  2. It leaves the report picker
  3. It appears in the Incidents area
  4. Records written on it open there too
Connected records

Forms that feed the rest of the platform.

Building and publishing templates is restricted to the people you give permission to manage them. Everyone else simply sees the published forms in their picker: on a participant, a worker or a site record, on a shift, in the Reports register, and in Incidents.

What comes back is structured rather than a wall of free text, attached to the right record, and available when you are pulling together evidence in the Audit Centre.

Completed reports can also be downloaded as a clean PDF that keeps the report's own structure and sections, from the relevant Reports surfaces according to your permissions. Chart PDFs remain a separate download for a chosen date range of Chart entries; see Client Charts.

Your form. Your wording. On the right record.
  1. Template built
  2. Published
  3. Report completed
  4. Manager review
  5. Attached to the record
  6. Audit evidence
Incidents & complaints

Recorded properly, followed up by someone by name.

Incidents written up in an email drift: nobody is certain which are still open, who agreed to follow one up, or whether it happened. One register, with an owner and a due date on every follow-up, removes the reconstruction entirely.

A numbered incident record

Each incident carries its own reference, type and severity, when it occurred, the participant, the site or another location, the shift it relates to, the staff involved, what happened and the immediate action taken.

Your own severity and status words

Severity levels and statuses come from your organisation's catalogues rather than a fixed vocabulary, so the register reads the way your team already speaks.

A named follow-up owner and due date

Follow-up is assigned to a person, not to a team, with the date it is due held on the record where reminders can act on it.

Escalation you can rely on

With incident escalation switched on, follow-ups raise reminders before they fall due, incidents left open escalate by email, and high or critical incidents notify the people you nominate straight away.

A complaints register alongside

Record a complaint with who it came from and when it was received, acknowledge it, then resolve it with a written resolution. Prompt acknowledgement and resolution show up in your readiness checks.

Straight into audit evidence

Preparing an audit generates an incident register from these records: number, date, status, severity, summary, site, participant, follow-up detail and closure. No assembling it by hand.

Frequently asked questions.

Does BondiByte decide what is reportable?

No. The register captures what happened, its severity, its status and its follow-up, and produces the evidence. Whether an incident is reportable to the NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission is a decision your organisation makes under its own policy.

How do we stop follow-ups being forgotten?

Every follow-up has a named owner and a due date on the incident itself. With incident escalation switched on, reminders go out before the date, and incidents left open and unresolved escalate by email to the person who can act.

What happens to reports already written when we change a form?

Nothing. Each completed report is held against the version of the form it was written on, so publishing a new version only affects reports written from then on.

How is an incident form different from other forms?

A template typed as an incident is routed into Incidents: it opens where incidents are raised and its completed records live in the incident register. Every other type lives in Reports. Changing a template between the two moves it and its records, so it asks you to confirm.

Do we have to start from a blank page?

No. There is a built-in library covering progress notes, shift reports, incident reports, assessments, behaviour support, medication, family communication, risk observations, goal progress and staff notes. Duplicate the closest one and adjust it.

Can an incident be linked to a shift?

Yes. Choose the shift it happened on, or record the date and time yourself where the incident falls outside a rostered shift. The participant, site or other location and the staff involved are recorded the same way.

Can I download a completed report as a PDF?

Yes. A completed report downloads as a clean PDF that keeps the report's own sections and structure, from the relevant Reports surfaces according to your permissions. Plain notes are not report PDFs; a Report or Incident record built from a published form is what downloads this way.

Stop bending your paperwork to fit the software.

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