OWNA Review Australia 2026
Printed GST-inclusive CCS — on Premium, not Lite
OWNA still publishes a GST-inclusive table, but the cheap $79/0-50 Lite CCS story is gone. Lite 0-100 is $99; CCS is Premium+ from $149 ($139 year). Azure Australia is now named. Payroll exists as an $8 add-on without a printed STP claim. Compare Xplor if you want Office CCS from $204 excl GST, or Kidsoft if you will sit through a quote.
- Best for
- Centres that want a GST-inclusive Premium CCS card, parent app and optional HR/payroll in one vendor.
- Not ideal for
- Buyers who thought Lite included CCS, who need named ISO 27001, or who need printed STP.
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Overview
OWNA is gst-inclusive ccs on premium — lite is not the ccs sku. Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Bella Vista, NSW, it serves Australian businesses with local data hosting and AU-based support.
Feature highlights
These highlights come from vendor documentation and editorial analysis of public sources. They are not firsthand test results or a claim that every listed capability was exercised in a trial.
- GST-inclusive matrix
Lite 0-100 $99 / Premium $149 monthly. Annual −$10. FDC $30. Stored $79/0-50 is stale.
- CCS is Premium+
CCSS register: Premium or Enterprise, not Freemium. Auto-submissions and enrolments on the CCS feature page.
- Attendance in the same app
PIN/remote/bulk sign-in. Sessions feed CCS.
- Parent app on paid tiers
Daily posts, messaging, invoices and payments. CWA/DDR in the parent flow.
- HR $5 / payroll $8
Add-on. STP not named.
- Azure Australia
Named on the child-safety blog. No OWNA ISO/SOC.
AU Compliance Scores
These scores apply to Australian tax, payroll and banking capabilities where they are relevant to OWNA. They are SoftwareHQ editorial judgements from public documentation, not firsthand product tests.
Not applicable means this product type is not scored on that dimension (for example BAS lodgement on a CRM). Not supported means the vendor does not offer it. Unknown means we could not verify it from public sources — that is not the same as unsupported.
Not business accounting.
HR + Payroll $8/employee is advertised. STP Phase 2 is not named on the payroll page.
Payday Super not named.
Payroll page says it understands ECEC awards. That is marketing, not a printed SCHADS engine.
Family/CCS billing, not a BAS lodge.
Direct debit/card collection, not bank feeds.
When this was checked
Status as of (page snapshot) against a 90-day review target. Checked dates are not updated when the site is rebuilt.
Editorial article date: . That is not proof that pricing, hosting, or compliance was re-checked.
- PricingVerified
Verified — checked 8 September 2026.
AUD incl GST (8 Sep 2026). Lite 0-100 $99/$89 year, Premium $149/$139 year, Enterprise quote, FDC $30. CCS Premium+. HR $5 / payroll $8.
- HostingVerified
Verified — checked 8 September 2026.
Australian Azure data centres. Children’s PI in Australia. No SOC/ISO named.
- Ccs ComplianceVerified
Verified — checked 8 September 2026.
Premium/Enterprise auto-submissions and enrolments. Freemium excluded on ccs.aspx.
- Nqf ComplianceVerified
Verified — checked 8 September 2026.
Programming, QIP, ratios, incidents advertised. Not a QIP generator claim.
Pricing (AUD)
All prices below are in Australian dollars and include GST. Verified — checked 8 September 2026. Source: owna.com.au/matrix.
- Children: 0-100 ECE (OSHC band 0-200)
- Service Type: ECE or OSHC
- Children: 0-100 ECE (OSHC band 0-200)
- Service Type: ECE or OSHC
- Centres: 25+ operators on the pricing page
- Service Type: Family Day Care
Estimate first-year cost for OWNA
Observed price changes
Recorded when a listed price changed. This is not a complete vendor timeline.
- Matrix GST-inclusive Lite 0-100 $99 ($89 year) / Premium $149 ($139 year). Stored Lite $79 for 0-50 and Enterprise $249 for 0-50 dropped. CCS gated to Premium+.
- Lite (ECE, 0-100 children) · $79 → $99 · Matrix Lite 0-100 $99 ($89 year) / Premium $149 ($139 year) incl GST. Stored Lite $79 for 0-50 dropped. CCS gated to Premium+.
Pros & Cons
Pros
- GST-inclusive public matrix with child-band dollars
- CCS auto-submissions on Premium/Enterprise
- FDC $30 printed
- Azure Australia named
- HR $5 / payroll $8 printed add-ons
- Family DD $0.75 / card 1.75% on the CCSS form
Cons
- Lite is not the CCS SKU — stored $79 CCS Lite is stale
- Pricing page still says from $69
- Enterprise is quote
- STP not named on payroll
- No OWNA ISO/SOC
- Phone number and hours still unpublished
How this review was made
Reviews separate vendor documentation, editorial analysis and firsthand records. They are not interchangeable.
- Vendor documentation — Public pages from OWNA and other sites. Recorded HTTP(S) URLs are listed under Sources. A source URL is a document we recorded, not a claim that every sentence on this page was checked against that URL.
- Editorial analysis — SoftwareHQ's written verdict and scores for Australian buyers. The header score is an editorial assessment, not a user-review average, not a lab result, and not a number derived from how many evidence records exist.
- Firsthand records — This review has no firsthand observation records, trial walkthroughs, or screenshots from a logged-in SoftwareHQ account. Missing tests stay not tested.
This page does not rank products by speed or security from documentation or from evidence count.
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Sources
Public pages recorded when this review was compiled. They are not a checklist that every claim was verified, and they are not evidence of hands-on product testing.
- Owna Matrix
- Owna pricing
- Owna Ccs Software
- Owna Ccs.aspx
- Owna Childcare Payroll Software
- Owna privacy policy
- Owna Owna Child Safety
- Owna contact
- Owna Childcare Management System
- Owna Owna Acquires Kidsoft Infocare
OWNA Alternatives
If OWNA doesn’t quite fit your needs, consider these alternatives for Australian businesses:
- Xplor Education — CCS admin plus educator docs — published from-prices excl GST. From $204/mo ex GST.
- Kidsoft — CCS, Konnect attendance and DebitPro — public dollars are gone.
- Xap — CCS automation on Scale $259 — Rise $169 has no CCSS. From $169/mo ex GST.