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Transferring claim rules between plans
When a customer's NDIS support plan rolls over to a new period, their existing claim rules don't carry across automatically. The transfer feature copies every rule from one of their support plans to another in a single action — no need to recreate them one by one.
When to use transfer
Use transfer when a customer has a new support plan and the rules already configured for their previous plan should continue to apply.
- Plan renewal — a customer's annual plan has been re-issued for another period, and the same blocks, warnings and authorisations remain valid.
- Plan extension — a plan has been extended into a new funding period with the same approved suppliers and items.
If the new plan covers materially different items or suppliers, it's usually faster to create rules from scratch rather than transfer and then edit each one. See Creating a claim rule.
Opening the transfer form
Transfer mode lives inside the same form as creating a new rule — it's the second option on the mode toggle at the top of the form.
- Open the customer's profile Find the customer whose rules you want to transfer and open their profile.
- Open the claim rules screen From the More… menu, select View claim rules. The claim rules screen opens pre-filtered to that customer.
- Open the new claim rule form Select New Claim Rule in the top-right.
- Switch to Transfer from plan At the top of the form, select Transfer from plan on the mode toggle. The form switches to the transfer fields.
The transfer form
Select customer
Source plan (copy from)
Target plan (copy to)
The transfer form. 1 The Transfer from plan toggle replaces the create-new mode and updates the page title to Transfer Claim Rules. 2 Pick the customer whose rules you're copying. 3 Choose the Source support plan — the plan whose rules will be copied. 4 Choose the Target support plan — only customer plans other than the source appear here. Once chosen, an info alert confirms the dates the new rules will use.
Step 1 — Select the customer
Search for the customer using the Customer field. Once selected, Navigator loads all that customer's support plans into the source dropdown.
You can only transfer rules between two plans belonging to the same customer. There is no way to copy rules across customers.
Step 2 — Choose the source plan
In the Source plan (copy from) section, pick the plan whose rules you want to copy. The dropdown is labelled Source support plan and lists every plan for the customer, formatted as "{plan name} (start – end)".
The helper text under the field reads: "All claim rules attached to this plan will be duplicated to the target plan."
Step 3 — Choose the target plan
The Target plan (copy to) section appears once a source plan is selected. The Target support plan dropdown shows all other plans for the customer — the source plan is excluded.
Once a target is picked, a blue info alert confirms the dates the new rules will inherit: "The duplicated claim rules will use the target plan's dates: {start} to {end}".
Select Transfer Claim Rules at the bottom of the form to run the transfer. Navigator duplicates each source-plan rule onto the target plan and returns you to the claim rules screen, where the new rules appear at the top of the list.
What gets transferred
The transfer duplicates every claim rule attached to the source plan — Blocked, Warning, and Authorized — onto the target plan.
| On the new rules… | Behaviour |
|---|---|
| Rule type | Preserved exactly (Blocked → Blocked, etc.). |
| Customer | Same customer. |
| Supplier | Preserved exactly. |
| Support items | Preserved exactly. |
| Reason | Preserved exactly. |
| Start date / end date | Updated to the target plan's start and end dates. |
| Source plan rules | Untouched. The transfer is one-way — source rules remain on the source plan, even if it has expired. |
Edge cases
You'll see one of these warning messages instead of the form when transfer isn't possible:
| Situation | Message shown |
|---|---|
| The customer has only one support plan | "No other support plans available for this customer. The customer needs at least two support plans to transfer claim rules between them." |
| The customer has no support plans at all | "This customer has no support plans to transfer claim rules between." |
| You try to submit without picking both plans | A red alert at the top of the form: "You must select both a source and target support plan" |
In the first two cases the fix is to add or import the missing support plan on the customer's profile first, then return to transfer.