One fee. No agency games.

Cover charges a single platform fee on the shifts you actually fill. No subscription, no sign-up cost, no minimum spend, and no markup buried in an hourly rate.

For clinics

A single platform fee charged on each pay run you approve. Nothing else.

What's included

  • Post shifts and set your rates
  • Verified professionals
  • Real-time alerts to available staff
  • Award rates applied automatically
  • Weekly pay runs, PAYG and super
  • Payslips and STP Phase 2 lodgement

Pay only on completed shifts

15%+ GST

of each pay run

GST applies to the fee only, and it's claimable as an input tax credit.

For professionals

Free to join and pick up shifts, and you keep 100% of your pay.

What's included

  • Keep 100% of your pay, no agency cut
  • Super and PAYG, paid weekly
  • Set your own weekly availability
  • Choose how far you'll travel

Free

for professionals, always

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The platform fee is paid by the clinic, never by you.

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What you save against an agency

Pick the role and how often you need it. Everything else is a shift we've already priced.

Your shift
Shift length8h · 7.5 paid
Hourly rate (Cover recommended)$42.00
Award minimum (SS4)$35.15

Estimated saving per week

$0

Roughly $0 a year on one dental assistant shift pattern, before you've filled anything else.

Through an agency$1,062.00
Through Cover$811.44

Both excluding GST, which is claimable either way. Agency figure assumes a $90 callout per shift and a 25% margin on pay and super, the part you don't see on the invoice. Your agency's rates, and so your saving, may be higher or lower.

Priced at Cover's recommended rate for each role, effective 1 July 2025. That rate sits above the Health Professionals and Support Services Award 2020 [MA000027] floor as a buffer against the next wage rise.

A 30-minute unpaid meal break is assumed on the 8-hour shift. Weekend and public-holiday penalties aren't modelled here. Post the actual shift and the app prices it exactly, on top of these figures.

Security and compliance

Your data, and your obligations, covered.

Running shifts through Cover means handing over tax file numbers, bank details and payroll records, and trusting the award is applied correctly. Here is how each of those is held and met.

Award rates, applied for you

Penalty rates, public holidays and overtime come straight from the Health Professionals and Support Services Award (MA000027). Cover won't let a shift be posted below the minimum for that role and day.

Work out what a shift costs

Hosted in Australia

The database, file storage and payroll all run in Australia, and Single Touch Payroll is lodged here. Nothing about your pay run leaves the country.

Encrypted where it matters

TLS in transit and encryption at rest, with field-level AES-256-GCM on tax file numbers, bank account numbers and clinic sign-in codes. Each clinic's data is separated in both the application and the database.

How we protect information

Payroll engine

Paysense

We use Paysense, a registered STP gateway, to deliver PAYG withholding, super, payslips and ATO lodgements.

paysense.com.au

Common pricing questions

The platform fee is 15% of everything that goes into the pay run: the professional's base rate, any overtime or penalty rates, and superannuation. If an amount is included in the pay run, it's included in the fee calculation. Tips, reimbursements (e.g. travel) and anything settled off-platform are excluded.

Ready to get started?

Fill a shift, or find one.

Clinics post in under a minute and approve one pay run a week. Professionals set their availability and keep every dollar of the rate.