airGP alternative: when Sessional fits better, and when it does not

Both: sessions, invoicing, pension logging, expenses and tax exports, plus a shift board where you search the available shifts and apply, and the practice manager accepts the application. Whether a booking fee applies to the GP is not stated on the pages we read.^[4][5]

Administration first: sessions, invoices, expenses, tax, pension forms, professional record. For work, a public profile in the locum directory and a booking request form organisations use without an account. There is no job board and no marketplace; organisations that already know you book you through it.^[2]

No free plan appears in the pricing section. A three-month free trial with no card, with unlimited sessions, invoices and expenses during the trial; a referral gives both parties three months free.^[4]

Basic is free with no card and no end date: up to 3 shifts and 2 invoices a month, a CPD evidence store of 50 items, CSV and PDF exports, and the whole appraisal record. Plus and Pro have a 14-day trial the first time you subscribe; a card is taken and nothing is charged until the trial ends.^[1]

£9.99 a month, cancellable; £7.99 a month for the first year with a code shown on the home page. Making Tax Digital submissions are an optional £4.99 a month with a 12-month minimum. A year at the monthly rate is £119.88, or £179.76 with the add-on; with the first-year code, £95.88 or £155.76. Any fee for a session booked through the shift board is not stated on the pages we read.^[4][5]

Plus £14.99 a month or £149.99 a year paid annually. Pro £24.99 a month, which adds Xero sync and the API. No per-session, per-booking or percentage fees. At the monthly rate a year of Plus is £179.88 and a year of Pro is £299.88.^[1]

Invoices can be marked as paid and payment status tracked "without manual spreadsheets". Automatic reminders to the practice are not mentioned.^[4]

On Plus and Pro an overdue invoice is chased by email at day 14, 21 and 28, each chaser attaching the original PDF, with a 72-hour cooldown per invoice so a chaser cannot fire twice in quick succession. Basic shows paid and unpaid without chasing. Replies to an invoice land on that invoice as a conversation on every plan.^[2]

Pension contributions are logged for PCSE workflows in England. In airGP's own words: "The platform does not generate PDF pension forms." and "Pension support on airGP is currently for practices in England using PCSE Online for submissions." Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are not mentioned.^[5][6]

For GPs on Plus and Pro, Form A and Form B are generated from your logged sessions and follow the pension year (1 April to 31 March). England and Wales are filled onto the official NHSBSA forms, ready for PCSE; Scotland onto the NSS Contractor Finance Form A and Form B; for Northern Ireland, where HSC publishes Word and Excel templates, you get a transcription sheet with the computed figures to copy across. Form SOLO is not produced.^[2][3]

Appraisal, CPD and revalidation are not mentioned on the pages we read.^[4][6]

On every plan including free Basic, permanently: a professional record built from your logged sessions in the GMC scope-of-work shape, reflections, learning needs, a CPD evidence store (50 items on Basic, unlimited on Plus), colleague and patient feedback reports with a verification code (reading what you have collected is free; starting a round and sending invitations needs Plus or Pro), and the appraisal pack with its export.^[1][2]

Out: sessions, invoices and reports as CSV, and a cooling-off period to export your data before account deletion. In: the FAQ says "No big migration needed", start logging your next session; importing existing records is not described.^[4][5]

In: past sessions and invoices import from CSV with a template and per-row errors, and an invoice built with the free invoice tool imports at sign-up. Out: sessions and invoices as CSV, invoices and the appraisal pack as PDF, and the whole account as JSON with a manifest of your document files (the files themselves download from their own pages, except message attachments, which support supplies on request), on every plan; expense and earnings CSV exports on Plus and Pro; Xero sync and a REST API on Pro. Deleting the account offers the export first and erases after a 30-day cooling-off period.^[2][1]