What's new

What's new on Sessional

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  1. Improved

    We now use Google Analytics to count visits

    • Sessional now uses Google Analytics on its public pages and in your dashboard to count visits. It sets analytics cookies. We send Google the page you are on and nothing about you or your records.
    • It is never loaded on pages opened from an emailed link, such as invoices, bookings, feedback and password resets. It stays off if your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal.
    • Our cookie policy and privacy notice have been updated to say so.
  2. Improved

    Your discount, on your billing page

    • The billing page now shows any discount on your subscription and what it takes off, and tells you when a referral reward is saved for your first paid month.
  3. Improved

    Clearer discount and referral emails

    • A payment receipt that includes a one-off discount now says so, and tells you what your next payment will be. You no longer get a separate "promotional rate has ended" email in the same moment.
    • When someone you referred makes their first payment, you get an email telling you your reward has been applied or saved.
    • The free invoice tool now clears bank and contact details that an older visit left in your browser.
  4. Fixed

    Plan changes and email changes behave as promised

    • Scheduling a move from Pro to Plus no longer ends a free trial early or removes a promotional rate. Nothing changes until the date shown.
    • The Confirm new email button works again. It was refusing every confirmation.
    • After you confirm a new email while signed in, the sign-in page now tells you the address has changed.
    • When you change your account email, your billing receipts now follow you to the new address.
    • You can download your expenses as a spreadsheet on any plan, including while paused.
  5. Improved

    The free invoice tool keeps less in your browser

    • When you bring an invoice across from the free invoice tool, your browser now holds the invoice itself and nothing else. Bank details, your address, phone number and registration number are no longer saved there.
  6. Fixed

    Ten small fixes

    • An invoice no longer pre-ticks an expense that belongs to a different organisation. It is still offered, and says why it is not ticked.
    • A session you cancelled yourself is not offered for a cancellation fee invoice.
    • What you had typed in a new session, including notes and cancellation terms, comes back if you step away. A long organisation email wraps properly when you review an invoice.
    • A photo with a minor fault uploads again. Bank details in an invoice email can be copied cleanly.
    • Starting an account from the free invoice tool keeps your invoice whichever sign-up link you use.
  7. Fixed

    Emails that read properly in every mail app

    • Every email we send was checked at phone and desktop widths, in light and dark, and in mail apps that ignore parts of an email’s styling. The small label under the logo no longer stacks one letter per line, nothing scrolls sideways on a small phone, long names and addresses wrap inside the card, and names with an apostrophe print correctly.
    • Replies from support are readable in dark mode, and buttons in emails are easier to tap.
    • Document expiry reminders arrive 30, 14, 7 and 1 days before a document expires, not every day, and during the day, not overnight.
  8. Improved

    A smoother evening of admin, on a phone or a laptop

    • Setting up is two short steps, not five. Everything else can be filled in on your profile when you need it.
    • On a phone, bars that should stay in view now do, nothing sits on top of a button, and a second tap no longer shows an error after the first one worked. A half-filled session, invoice or reflection is kept if you step away.
    • If you are signed out while working, you are told so on the page and brought back to where you were after signing in.
    • A booking can be moved to another organisation before it is invoiced. Cancelling asks who cancelled and states any fee, and the Calendar tab shows your calendar.
    • An invoice brought across from the free invoice tool counts as one piece of work on Basic, however many lines it has. The tool’s PDF now runs properly over several pages.
    • Feedback: a round with no invitations can be removed, people can be added while a round is open, and late answers join the report in groups so no single answer can be picked out. Location details are removed from photos you upload.
    • Sandy leaves a lesson or commitment blank when your notes do not state one, and no longer states tax rules as fact. NMC entries can be opened and edited.
    • Mileage totals stay correct past 10,000 miles in a year. Help articles were checked against the product and corrected, and help search now reads the articles themselves.
    • If you subscribe to your calendar feed, your calendar app will refresh each event once after this update.
  9. Improved

    Documents you can trust with any name on them

    • Every PDF now prints names as they are written: invoices, the appraisal pack, the NMC portfolio, feedback reports, patient cards and booking confirmations. Names such as Łukasiewicz or Tŷ Glas no longer come out garbled, and NHS pension forms no longer fail on them.
    • Sort code, account number, company number, UTR and National Insurance number are checked when you save them, with a message that shows the expected form. A save that is refused keeps what you typed. Limited companies are asked for their company number during set-up.
    • An organisation that books you through your public page is now told when you decline or cancel. Booking emails state whether a rate is hourly or daily, with the date and times, and their footer links work.
    • A corrected invoice carries across the mileage, expenses, extra lines and note from the one it replaces, and its email says which invoice it replaces. Before an already overdue invoice is issued you choose whether Sessional chases it.
    • Mileage is calculated for you at the HMRC rate for a car or van, motorcycle or bicycle. Amounts and dates are checked as they will be stored, including when you confirm a receipt.
    • A session ending at midnight on 31 March no longer blocks the March and April pension forms. The invoice export shows the date the money arrived, and bank details stay together on one page of an invoice.
  10. Fixed

    Four fixes from a full test of the product

    • Payment reminders to an organisation now state when payment was due and carry your email address in the sign-off. Both were missing.
    • Moving from Pro to Plus now works. The change is scheduled for the end of the period you have paid for.
    • On Money, the Issued and Disputed headings count and total every invoice in the group, not only the five shown. The paid list is labelled as your latest five.
    • Practice hours for NMC revalidation print to one decimal place on the page, the professional record and the portfolio PDF, and are never rounded up.
  11. Fixed

    Fixes from a full test of invoices, money and your account

    • A reminder for an invoice that was never sent through Sessional now runs the same checks as a first send. If bank or company details are missing it says what to add, with a link, instead of sending an incomplete invoice.
    • Creating an API key works again and shows the key once. The link that asks for company details opens those fields, and saving one part of your invoice details no longer clears another.
    • An invoice takes up to 20 additional lines and says so, rather than dropping any beyond that. Paid and void invoices offer the sent original as its own download, and a corrected organisation email can be sent to straight away.
    • Earnings, Home and your work list agree on what you have earned for agency and PAYE work. The tax planner has private pension and no pension choices, and the pension overview separates work done in a month from payments due.
    • Wording follows your profession in more places, including the forecast, tax planner, reporting, expenses and feedback.
    • The NHS enhancement calculator prices to the minute at each rate boundary, and the free invoice tool prints accented names correctly.
  12. Improved

    A quicker session form, and your profession’s own words

    • Logging a session keeps what you typed if something needs correcting, takes one date and two times, remembers your last rate for each organisation, and offers "Log it again" from any session. On Basic it shows how many of this month’s allowance you have used before you start.
    • Pharmacists, nurses and other shift professions now see "shift" throughout invoices, Money, the professional record and reflections, with examples that fit their own work.
    • Limited-company invoices print the place of registration alongside the company number and registered office. You will be asked for it once, on the Invoice details tab, before your next first send.
    • New invoice numbers are shorter (for example SES-261008-K7QPM), so they fit a bank payment reference. On a phone, each invoice is a compact row with its main action first.
    • Money received is counted in the month the payment arrived, an invoice imported as already sent is no longer offered as unsent, and the NHS pension reminder no longer tells GPs in Scotland and Northern Ireland to use the English portal.
  13. Fixed

    Invoices that stay honest, and a shorter phone bar

    • An invoice you send from now on keeps exactly the document the organisation received: resends and reminders attach that original, and your own copy only changes once it is paid.
    • A paid invoice says "Paid in full" on the organisation’s page and its PDF instead of asking for the money again, and an invoice for limited-company work prints the company, whatever your profile default.
    • When an invoice cannot be sent, the reason is the real one (verify your email, add the organisation’s email, add your bank details or invoice address) with the fix one tap away, and an issued invoice you have not sent yet now appears in your To do list.
    • Logging a session no longer insists on a contact name, and the contact email fills in from the saved organisation. Requests moved to a tab on Sessions, so the phone bar is Home, Sessions, Money and More.
    • Imported sessions with assumed hours can have their actual times confirmed, even once invoiced, so they count towards NMC practice hours. Earnings and the Tax planner now quote one tax reserve, assuming the NHS pension unless you choose otherwise in the Tax planner.
  14. Fixed

    One rule for overdue, and the new home page tidied

    • An invoice is overdue the day after its due date, everywhere: the home page, the menu badge, the Invoices filter and tile, Money, Earnings and reporting now all agree.
    • The home page shows every task behind a "more" link, tells Basic accounts when the monthly invoice limit is reached, separates a session in progress from your next one, and lets you resolve a booking dispute from the session itself.
    • Importing a tool invoice dated today works straight away, a draft PDF is watermarked and carries no payment details, and the calendar shows both days of an overnight booking.
    • Dates and times that do not exist when the clocks go forward are refused with a clear message, and a completed password reset lifts the sign-in lockout.
  15. New

    A new home page and a shorter menu

    • Your home page now opens with the next thing to do: your next session, up to three tasks, and what you are owed with overdue invoices called out.
    • The menu is shorter: Work, Money, Professional and Profile. Billing, integrations, preferences, help and sign out live under your avatar, and notifications have a bell.
    • Calendar and availability are tabs on Sessions, receipts a tab on Expenses, and sharing a tab on Documents. Every old link still works.
    • Your professional record sits on the first screen for every plan, with your regulator’s real requirements and nothing invented.
  16. Improved

    Security improvements from a full review

    • Resuming a paused subscription now starts a fresh billing period from that day.
    • Profile photos are stored without hidden location or camera data, and you can now withdraw and restore the link in a booking confirmation, as you can for invoices.
    • Restoring a withdrawn link issues a new one; links sent before you withdrew it stay withdrawn.
    • Account recovery, sign-in links and administrator access were tightened, and the app now handles unusual uploaded files safely.
  17. Fixed

    Smaller fixes across the app

    • Deleting your account now asks for your password, and finished onboarding can no longer be walked again by accident.
    • Invoices become overdue only after their whole due day has passed, due dates follow UK time across the clock change, and Xero receives the same dates.
    • NHS pension Form B keeps March work paid in April on March’s return, as NHSBSA requires.
    • Feedback, CPD, expenses, the bulk invoice import and the NHS enhancement calculator each get clearer messages and tighter checks.
  18. New

    Unpaid breaks, booking requests and pension forms

    • Record an unpaid break on a session: hours and invoices now bill the time actually worked, to the minute.
    • Booking requests from your public profile can be accepted, declined requests stay in your history, and 7-day payment terms are kept.
    • NHS pension Forms A and B use the 2026/27 official templates, leave out work older than the 10-week window, and let you prepare last month’s return.
  19. Fixed

    Invoices, money and feedback fixes

    • Cancelled sessions show the cancellation fee you will actually bill, and a draft PDF no longer shows an issue date.
    • On Basic, voiding an invoice and re-raising the same sessions does not use up another invoice.
    • Disputed invoices count as still owed, a 0% expense rate stays 0%, and limited company tax estimates show company figures.
    • Nurses, midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals collect feedback from the organisations they work for.
  20. Fixed

    PDFs download and send again

    • Fixed an issue that could stop invoice, booking confirmation, pension, appraisal and feedback PDFs from being created.
  21. Fixed

    Bring your invoice across from the free tool, on any device

    • Tick "bring across the invoice you built" when you sign up, and your dashboard offers to import it after you confirm your email, even if the link opens on another device.
    • Confirming your email now asks for the password you chose at signup, which keeps anyone else from claiming your address.
  22. Fixed

    No more surprise sign-outs

    • Fixed an issue that could send you back to the sign-in page when you opened your dashboard straight after signing in.
  23. New

    New free tools and guides

    • An NHS pension tier calculator for locum GPs and a late payment interest calculator, both free with no signup.
    • New guides on NHS pension Forms A and B, agency versus bank nursing, and out-of-hours and NHS 111 locum work.
    • Side-by-side pages for anyone weighing up LocumDeck, airGP or Lantum, with dated sources.
  24. Fixed

    Security and reliability fixes

    • Receipt, certificate and voice-note uploads are more reliable.
    • Form B asks for the date each payment reached your bank.
    • Invoices and chasers behave more predictably.
    • Account security notices explain which sessions and connections are affected.
  25. Fixed

    Clearer earnings, invoices and sessions

    • Earnings, tax reserve and reports count a session once it has ended. Future bookings show separately as booked ahead.
    • Invoices show hours to two decimal places, the invoice date is today, and missing invoice details are flagged before you try to send.
    • Past confirmed sessions ask to be marked delivered instead of appearing as upcoming, and a session can no longer be saved longer than 24 hours.
    • The dashboard fits narrow screens, floating buttons no longer cover content, and pages have their own titles.
  26. Fixed

    Fixes from the September review

    • Emails and pages that could stall on unusual text no longer do.
    • When a member of our staff views your account to help you, more actions are now closed to them.
    • Exports, adjusted hours and pension forms handle dates and limits correctly.
    • The Billing page keeps closer step with your subscription.
  27. Improved

    A 14-day Plus trial from the invoice tool

    • The free invoice tool now offers the same 14-day card trial as the pricing page, with your invoice imported.
    • Nothing is charged until day 14 and the reminder email arrives three days before.
  28. Improved

    Basic caps change on 1 October

    • From 1 October 2026, Basic includes 3 shifts and 2 invoices a month, with unlimited shifts and invoices on Plus.
    • Nothing changes before then and nothing already entered is affected.
  29. Improved

    A failed payment now sends an email

    • The email says what was declined and the date paid features pause, with a link to update your card.
    • Nothing else about billing has changed.
  30. Fixed

    Subscription emails match the account

    • Trial reminders now say the right thing when a trial was cancelled.
    • Complimentary access has its own emails.
    • Promo and trial emails name the plan and interval the account is actually on.
  31. New

    A dated, sourced comparison of GP locum software

    • Sessional, LocumDeck, Locum Organiser, My Locum Manager and airGP across seven decision points, each cell citing the vendor's own page and the date we read it.
    • Where a vendor's pages do not say, the cell says not confirmed rather than assuming.
  32. Improved

    Verify your email from the dashboard

    • A reminder to verify your email address now appears on the dashboard, with a one-click resend.
    • The export and account-deletion controls explain the verification requirement and offer a resend instead of failing.
  33. Fixed

    Your account export now carries your whole professional record

    • The account export (Settings, then Export my data) had been dropping the detail of NMC revalidation entries and leaving out reflections, CPD evidence, feedback reports and forwarded receipts. It now includes every record you keep in Sessional, with the note of which entries were assisted and which words are your own, and it lists inside the file every document it does not contain and where to download it. If you took an export before 12 September, take it again: the new one is complete.
    • Earnings totals now cover every session in the period you choose, however long you have used Sessional. A very busy ledger could show an older tax year as empty and leave an overdue invoice out of the running total.
    • Signing in from an address we have not seen before now sends the security email it was always meant to send. Passwords are capped at 72 characters when you set one, because that is all the underlying check ever counted; a longer password you already use keeps working.
    • Replacing an expense receipt or profile photo now keeps the old file until the new one is saved, so a failed upload never leaves you without one.
  34. Fixed

    PDFs are read again

    • From 16 August to 8 September, every PDF you gave Sessional came back "Could not read this PDF": receipts forwarded by email or uploaded, course certificates added as CPD evidence, and a CV uploaded for a summary draft. Photos, iPhone HEIC files and Word documents were unaffected. A change to how the app is packaged had left the PDF reader without a file it needs, and the fault hid behind that friendly message. It was found on 8 September with a real receipt and fixed the same night.
    • Nothing was lost. A receipt that could not be read is still on your review list with its file attached: fill the figures in and confirm, or throw it away and upload it again to have it read. A certificate you typed the details for is unchanged. A failed read is now recorded where we can see it, so the same fault cannot hide again.
  35. Improved

    Upload a receipt and let Sessional read it

    • Expenses now has an Add receipts button. Upload a PDF, a photo or an iPhone HEIC and Sessional reads it within the hour, proposes the vendor, date, amount and category, and waits for you to confirm. Forwarding by email still works and lives on the same page.
    • Receipts also has its own entry in the Finance menu. The Attach link on an expense is unchanged: it files a document against an expense you have already typed, without reading it.
    • Uploading a receipt no longer waits for your phone number and invoice address. Those are still needed to forward receipts by email, where the sender has to be identified.
  36. Improved

    The appraisal engine is free, for good

    • Everything you need for appraisal or revalidation is free on every plan, permanently: your professional record, reflections with Sandy and voice, your CPD evidence, learning needs, the appraisal pack and its export, your feedback reports with their PDF and verification code, and the NMC revalidation tracker and portfolio. The report PDF and the appraisal pack export were on Plus until today.
    • Plus is the business side: auto-chasers, expenses and mileage, tax planning, the compliance passport, booking confirmations, and collecting feedback. Pro is unchanged. Nothing you have already recorded moves behind a plan, and a lapsed plan never locks your evidence.
  37. Improved

    Feedback collection is now part of Plus

    • Starting a round, sending invitations and reminders, printing patient cards and drafting a covering note are on Plus from today. Everything you have already collected stays yours on any plan: your reports, their verification codes, the themes panel and your NMC log.
    • If your plan lapses while a round is open, nothing is withdrawn. Invitations already sent keep working and responses keep arriving; you can close the round at any time and send more once you are back on Plus.
  38. New

    Bill an expense to the organisation from your expense log

    • When you log an expense, say who pays. Mark it for the organisation and it is offered, already ticked, when you create the invoice for that session. Each one goes on the invoice as its own dated line. Mileage is billed at the rate per mile you set on the invoice.
    • Typing mileage on an invoice can now save the trip to Expenses in the same step, at the HMRC rate for the session date, so the deduction is not lost. Billing an expense never removes it from your costs: HMRC treats what the organisation pays as income and the cost stays allowable. The Expenses page shows what is marked to bill and what has been billed back.
    • An expense that is on an invoice keeps its amount, miles, date and category fixed until the invoice is voided, so the invoice and your records cannot disagree. The Pro API returns each expense's billing state.
    • A voided invoice now keeps its lines, so what was billed stays on record.
  39. Fixed

    Corrected figures, plainer wording about plans, and the legal pages rewritten

    • Several numbers were wrong and are now right. The NHS pension employer contribution is the 14.38% the form asks you to write in box 3 and box h; the dashboard used to preview 23.7% while the downloaded PDF printed 14.38%, which is the same month filed two different ways. The 10-week rule now runs from the end of the period of work rather than the end of the month, so a session on the 2nd no longer shows a deadline up to 29 days later than the real one, and the contributions due on the 7th of the following month are shown as the separate deadline they are. Scotland now uses SPPA's own 2025/26 tiers instead of a table that was not theirs. Private pension contributions in the tax planner and the tax calculator are modelled as relief at source, which is how a personal pension actually works: they extend your basic-rate band rather than reducing your trading profit, and they do not reduce Class 4 National Insurance.
    • The wording about plans and the trial says what happens. Basic is free, it stays free, and it needs no card. Plus and Pro start with a 14-day free trial the first time you subscribe: a card is taken at the start, nothing is charged until the trial ends, and you can cancel before then from your billing page. NMC revalidation, the professional record, reflections, CPD evidence and your cancellation terms are on Basic, and several pages had been selling them as part of Plus. CSV exports are on every plan. The email that goes out before a trial ends now says the right thing to someone whose trial came from a code, whose account moves to Basic and is never charged.
    • The privacy notice, terms and cookie policy have been rewritten and dated, and there is a new accessibility statement. They now say where your data actually is: the United Kingdom, with emails delivered by Postmark in the United States and the automated check for names in feedback comments running on a model hosted in France. Feedback rounds were tightened at the same time. A question answered by fewer than three people is now withheld from the report rather than shown, nothing in the database joins an answer to the person who was asked, and a decline is never reported back to you as a name or a number.
  40. Fixed

    Nine emails now carry their proper subject line

    • Nine of the emails we send arrived with an internal code in the subject line, such as "trial_ended", rather than a sentence. They included the note that a Plus trial has ended, an invitation to join Sessional, the warning that someone tried to sign up with your email address, the confirmation of an address you forward receipts from, the reminder before complimentary access runs out, the week-one welcome note, and the confirmations for a call booked or cancelled. The proper wording had been written for every one of them and was simply never used when the email was sent. It is now. Nothing inside those emails has changed, and there is nothing to do at your end.
  41. Fixed

    Replying to an email from us reaches us

    • When our founder writes to you himself and signs his own name, the email now comes from will@email.sessional.co.uk, and a reply to it arrives back inside Sessional where the rest of your conversation with us already lives. It used to invite replies to a personal mailbox that sits outside the product, so an answer could sit unseen. Anything from Sessional Support or Sessional Billing is unchanged and still comes from the usual address. Nothing to do at your end, and the reply button works the way it always did.
  42. Improved

    Patient feedback in the GMC’s own words, and a clearer invitation

    • The patient questionnaire is no longer our wording. Sections 1 to 3 of the GMC Patient Questionnaire are now reproduced exactly as the GMC prints them: the questions about your visit, the seven lines about how good the doctor was at being polite, listening, assessing, explaining, involving you and arranging treatment, the two about confidentiality and honesty, the three yes or no questions and the comment box, on the GMC's own scales including "Doesn't apply". Section 4, the demographic questions about sex, age and ethnic group, is not asked: ethnicity is special category data, a demographic breakdown of a round that can be as small as five people is a way of working out who answered, and we never split results by any of it. Every page that names the questionnaire says so in the same words. Rounds you already started keep the wording their respondents actually read.
    • Your report says more about who you asked, and why. The GMC asks that colleague feedback come from a range of different roles, so the report, the PDF and the appraisal pack now print how many invitations went to colleagues, managers, administrators and others, and the page where you tick names nudges you if everyone on your list is down as the same role. That line counts invitations, never responses: who answered, by role, would identify the one manager the moment they replied. Beside it there is a box for why you chose those people, which is printed for your appraiser and never shown to anyone you invite. The report also states whose number is whose: around fifteen colleague responses and around thirty-four patient responses are the GMC's own figures, while five is our rule about anonymity and no regulator set it.
    • Invitations now come from Sessional Feedback, feedback@email.sessional.co.uk, rather than from a general Sessional address, so a colleague or patient can see what the message is before they open it. A reply goes to the Sessional support desk and never to you, because a reply in your inbox would tell you who had answered. The invitation itself no longer offers any account link: the person reading it has no Sessional account, so the way out is the decline link, which is permanent and covers every professional on Sessional.
  43. New

    Colleague and patient feedback, from the people you actually worked with

    • Start a feedback round and Sessional lists every organisation in your cycle from your own session log, with the contact it already holds at each one. Tick the people to ask, add anyone else by name, and send. Doctors get questionnaires based on the GMC colleague and patient ones; everyone else gets a short six-question organisation form, which nurses and midwives can log into their NMC practice-related feedback in one press. Patients answer from an A5 card with a QR code. Reading your reports is free on every plan; collecting moved to Plus on 8 September 2026.
    • Sessional collates the answers, so you never see one of them, and you are never shown which of the people you invited replied, declined or did nothing. Below five responses a round says only that fewer than five have arrived, because an exact figure that moved by one after you emailed one person would tell you what that person did. At five and above you get the totals and the spread for each question, with the comments undated and in an order unrelated to when they arrived, once at least three of them have been checked. Every comment is checked twice before anyone sees it, once by a rules-based check and once by a language model in France, and comments appear the morning after they are checked. Counts update each morning rather than as answers land, and one press reminds everyone outstanding without telling you who they were or how many there were. Every report says it is collated, not benchmarked, because there is no cohort to compare you with and we will not pretend otherwise.
    • Nothing can be deleted or cherry-picked: there is no route that removes a response or a round, and a revoked round still appears in your appraisal pack with its counts. A questionnaire filled in while you are signed in to your own account is set aside and counted where an appraiser can see it, while answers from a network or device you have also used are kept and simply counted, because an organisation shares one network and nobody should lose a colleague's honest answer to that. Invitations are marked as coming from your booking ledger or typed in by hand with the proportion stated. Exporting the report or closing the round records an unchangeable version of the figures with its own code, printed on the document beside its version number, and an appraiser can open sessional.co.uk/verify/feedback/ followed by that code to see exactly what Sessional recorded for that version and compare it with the paper in front of them. Our own support staff cannot read responses, including in an assisted-support session. Respondent pages set no cookies and load nothing from anyone else, contact details are encrypted, deleted 90 days after the round closes and never used for marketing. Answers are held in the United Kingdom; the only work done outside it is the automated check for names, which runs on a model hosted in France.
  44. Fixed

    Booking messaging is on every plan

    • Messaging an organisation about a booking has always worked on every plan, including free Basic. Three places on the site said it was part of Plus. That was never true of the product, so the copy has been corrected to match the app rather than the other way round. Nothing to switch on, and nothing has changed in what you can do.
    • The one limit on Basic is how many bookings you can hold in a month (five at the time, three from 1 October 2026), and messaging simply follows the bookings you already have.
    • The written booking confirmation is a different feature and stays on Plus.
  45. Fixed

    Signing out on one tab no longer breaks another

    • Sign out in one tab, or have a session ended for you, and any other tab still open now takes you to the sign in page. It used to show an error instead. The page was right to stop you, it just said so badly.
  46. New

    Learning needs, the appraisal pack, and certificates by email

    • Ask for up to five suggested learning needs for your PDP. They come from your own record, the organisations and settings in your session log and the last ten reflections you saved, and each one says which of those it came from. Nothing is stored: copy the ones you want, and the plan stays yours to write. Ten a day on every plan.
    • GMC-registered professionals get an appraisal pack: one PDF holding your scope of work, your reflections grouped by Good Medical Practice domain, your CPD with the certificates behind it, the gaps you have explained, and a coverage index counting what sits in each domain. It was part of Plus when it shipped and has been free on every plan since 8 September 2026.
    • A certificate forwarded from your verified address lands in CPD evidence rather than your expenses, with a one-press move in either direction for when that judgement goes wrong. Forwarding comes through the same door as receipts, so it is part of Plus, while uploading a certificate on the page stays free on every plan. The whole store downloads as one ZIP with an index, which was on Plus when it shipped and has been free on every plan since 8 September 2026. And where your regulator publishes a target, a monthly email as your cycle nears its end says what you have recorded and what is still short. Switch it off under notification preferences.
  47. New

    Write a reflection with Sandy, or by voice

    • Sandy is the first thing on the page now, at every screen size, as three tabs: Rough notes, Talk it through, and Write it myself for when you would rather not use it at all. Jot down rough notes, or answer up to eight questions one at a time, and Sandy composes the reflection from what you gave it, arriving line by line as it writes rather than after a wait. It writes only from your notes or your answers, never from nothing, and you read every line and confirm it is your own account before it saves.
    • Record an answer instead of typing it. Voice notes are transcribed in the EU, the audio is never stored, and the transcript is yours to check first. Three reflections and five voice notes a day on Basic, 30 and 60 on Plus.
    • Course certificates have their own free store. Upload one and the provider, title, date and hours are read off it for you to confirm, then attach it to any record. 50 certificates on Basic, unlimited on Plus.
  48. New

    Your professional record, from sessions you have already logged

    • A Professional record page that turns your session log into the work history your regulator asks for: where you worked, in what setting, how often, and any gap worth explaining. Nothing to type twice.
    • Reflections in the words your own regulator uses, with its record types, its standards and its cycle. Before anything saves, a check looks for NHS numbers, dates of birth and named people so a record never carries one.
    • Nurses and midwives keep the NMC Revalidation page they already use, and Sandy is on it too: the CPD entry and the reflective account open with the same three tabs. The export, ready to paste into your appraisal or revalidation tool, was part of Plus when this shipped and has been free on every plan since 8 September 2026.
  49. New

    Send receipts by email

    • Forward a receipt to receipts@email.sessional.co.uk from the address on your account and it arrives as a draft expense, with the amount, date and vendor already read.
    • PDFs, photos and iPhone HEIC files all work, including the automatic receipts that parking apps and taxis send.
    • Nothing is added to your expenses until you have checked the figures and confirmed. A misread amount would be a wrong figure on your tax return, so you always get the last word.
  50. Improved

    Invoice conversations, the Money page, and bulk invoice import

    • When an organisation replies to one of your invoices, the reply now lands on that invoice as a conversation instead of in your personal inbox, so the query and the bill stay together.
    • New guides for the Money page, invoice conversations and importing invoices from a spreadsheet.
    • Corrected the plan details shown across the site: some features were listed on the wrong plan in both directions.
  51. Improved

    A calmer, clearer dashboard

    • A refreshed dashboard and navigation, easier to scan on a phone between shifts.
    • A new help centre with step by step guides for every part of the app.
    • An optional dark theme for late finishes.
  52. New

    Edit sessions after the fact, and log past work

    • Change or remove a session after you have logged it, right up until it is on an invoice.
    • Record work you did in the past in one step, already marked as delivered.
    • GPs can now set an hourly rate as well as a session rate, with a separate band for each.
  53. New

    Sharper profile summaries from your CV

    • Upload a PDF or Word CV and get a clean, ready to edit summary for your public booking profile.
    • Your uploaded CV is saved to your own document vault, and you can delete it any time.
  54. New

    A compliance passport you control

    • Bundle the documents you choose into one secure link to share with an organisation, no account needed on their side.
    • Revoke the link whenever you want. Sessional never verifies documents on your behalf, you stay in control of what you share.
  55. New

    An assistant, and a look at the year ahead

    • A Plus assistant that answers questions about your own data, your sessions, invoices and earnings.
    • An earnings forecast so you can see where the year is heading.
  56. New

    Message organisations about a booking

    • Reply to a booking request and keep the whole conversation in one place, inside the app.
  57. New

    Invoices that chase themselves

    • Overdue invoices are followed up automatically at 14, 21 and 28 days past due, with the original PDF attached.
    • Every invoice email carries a secure link so an organisation can mark it paid or raise a query without an account.
    • Each overdue invoice is chased on its own, quoting its own number, because that is how an accounts payable team processes one.
  58. New

    Check your pay across every employer

    • Mark each delivered shift as paid correctly, paid short, or not paid yet, and record what actually landed.
    • See open pay issues across all of your employers in one place, something no single payslip portal shows.
  59. New

    Revalidation, tracked as you work

    • Nurses and midwives get an NMC revalidation tracker: practice hours counted from your logged shifts, plus CPD, reflection, feedback and confirmation.
    • Midwives get a dedicated competency log that rolls into the portfolio export.
    • Export your whole portfolio as a single PDF.
  60. New

    NHS pension paperwork for GPs

    • Generate the pension forms GPs need from the sessions you have already logged.
  61. New

    Tax planning that knows the UK rules

    • Multi year tax profiles with the correct HMRC bands, so you can plan the current year and audit previous ones.
    • Mileage and expenses at the current HMRC rates, ready for your return.
  62. New

    Xero sync for Pro

    • Connect Xero and push invoices and expenses across, with your own account code mapping.
  63. New

    Free tools, no account needed

    • An invoice template builder, a mileage calculator, and an NHS enhancement calculator that shows what the payslip should say.
  64. New

    Built for 17 professions across 6 regulators

    • GMC, GPhC, HCPC, NMC, GDC and GOC professionals all get the right registration fields, session labels, rates and document categories.

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