1. Add or Claim Your Business
Get access to your dashboard where you can easily update your business listing, reply to reviews, offer coupons/deals, promote events, and more.
Discover your Australia’s Best Service Providers
Join i-Strive for free and begin your search for your new service providers. We aim to leverage the power of our own communities reviews of providers to enable participants to find support to reach their goals.
Enjoy the power to make your own choices around your support requirements. Here is just some of the services you can find through i-strive:
- Occupational Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- Physical Therapy
- In-home Support
- Disability Equipment
How to Leave a Review
If you want to leave a review for a business on i-Strive, you must register first. The registration form is quite simple, and you are asked to type your name, e-mail address, and select a password.
Find your Local LAC Role of your Local LAC
LACs can help you to:
- Understand and access the NDIS – This can include workshops or individual conversations about the NDIS.
- Create a plan – If you are eligible for an NDIS support plan, your LAC will have a conversation with you to learn about your current situation, supports, and goals to help develop your plan. It is important to know that LACs cannot approve an NDIS plan, this is done by someone from the NDIA.
- Implement your plan – Your LAC will help you to find and start receiving the services in your NDIS plan. Your LAC can also provide assistance throughout your plan if you have any questions.
- Review your plan – Your LAC will work with you to make changes to your plan through a plan review. This generally occurs 12 months after your plan is implemented.
Top Reasons to Join
Thank you for considering listing on i-Strive!
This is the tour area of the site. Here you can see how i-Strive works and how your listing will appear on the site.
These are the top ten reasons to join i-Strive. Click any of the tabs on the left to read more about any of these points.
- We’re cheap!
- We’re local!
- We’re dedicated to being the best!
- Users can see your offices on google maps
- You can add a YouTube video to your profile
- We have pretty category pages
- We’re user friendly
- Select a collection of images to show potential clients.
- Join a community
For participants by participants!
i-Stive was created out of the frustration of trying to find suitable supports
We are the first of its kind to focus on making it easier for participants to find support in all areas, i-Strive is really designed with the intention of being the go to resource for connecting people with NDIS Supports across Australia. There are some real benefits to this:
We have the ability to tailor our searches and reviews specifically for the NDIS community, potentially to provide a clean search experience compared to Google. Think of it like this: Google today is like a giant international phone book, and we are like a much smaller dedicated and focused one. If you were a search engine wanting to deliver the most useful information to your users, would you give them the giant international book, or the dedicated one?
Brand recognition: When you stop and think about it, the only reason NDIS participants struggle to find the right support today is because they either find it via random searches on the internet. It is our goal to become the thing everyone points to when they don’t know where to refer to someone. Eventually i-Strive will be known across Australia and people will think of it when looking for referrals.
Dedication
We’re dedicated to working on our site, blogging, and doing everything we can to get i-Strive to be the best it can be!
In our first year we’re planning on spending at least 60% of earned income on building and advertising the site. We don’t know what other people spend on their sites, but we’re expecting that this expense will slowly taper off as we rank in search engines, but we will never spend less than 10% on advertising.
We’re going to spend a lot of time writing and publicizing quality blog posts. This is a key part of any good SEO strategy and we will be doing lots of other things to boost our rankings in search engines so that clients will find our site and see your listing.
If you’re interested in seeing some of the plans we have for i-Strive as well as the things we are working on and have completed you can check out our updates and changes page.
Maps
Users can browse locations by city and by neighbourhoods and cities across Australia.
Your office locations will appear on maps located both on search pages and on your listing.
YouTube Video
On i-Strive, you can add a YouTube video to your listing to give potential clients a better idea of who you are and your approach to therapy.
Beautifully Designed Category Pages
Users can browse by issues, insurance, language, location, and therapeutic approach.
User Friendly
i-Strive is easy to use.
Users can search for issues, approaches, languages, locations, and insurances using the search bar on every page, or by browsing through our category pages.
Users can also refine their search results to find therapists who specialize in specific issues, work in certain areas, practice from a specific therapeutic approach, etc. All while viewing locations on a map.
Tour Images
i-Strive allows you to choose images to show potential clients in a scrolling carousel at the top of your listing.
Join Our Community
When you join i-Strive you’re joining a community. We are really aiming for this to become a resource for the greater NDIS community. This site is dedicated towards NDIS Participants, carers, and providers unlike many other directories that are spread out across the country/world. We plan on blogging about local news, talking about local events, and advertising locally.
Whether it be by contributing to or reading our i-Strive blog, connecting in person or online through social media, or just being more visible to each other and potential clients, we hope i-Strive will serve as a way for providers all over Australia to connect and work together to help our community.
Frequently Asked Questions
For Participants
For Professionals
Step #1 SEARCH Search for local or highly rated providers in your area. You can search by a wide range of categories to ensure you find what your are looking for first time, every time.
Step #2 REVIEW See qualified providers immediately. Filter for distance or features like mobile friendly, credit challenged or home delivery.
Step #3 MESSAGE Use i-Strive to text, call, email or message a support provider for an ultra-personalized experience (some features require users to set up an account).
If you would like to flag a review for content, click ‘Report’ next to the review.
We’ll determine if the review meets our Content Guidelines. Reviews that do not meet these guidelines will be removed. We will not remove it simply because it is negative. If we need additional information to make a determination, we will email you within 48 hours. If you have any questions or would like to add input, please chat with us or use our contact form.
If you have forgotten your password you can request a new one through the log-in screen.
To cancel your user account, use the delete button on the bottom right of your account page or email us at [email protected] If you email, you must include your name and your user ID with a request to cancel. Please allow 48 hours for response and confirmation. Once your account is deactivated, any stored information will no longer be available and cannot be reactivated.
We’re working on it! Until then, the website is fully mobile responsive for all devices.
If questions or support that you don’t see here, chat with us or use the contact form.
Step #1 Click Sign In button in the top-left menu
Step #2 Click Sign Up button
Step #3 Select Create Login Details and register
Step #4 Complete your Profile
Step #5 Go to your Dashboard > Listings
- Service you sell
- Bio & Experience
- Contact Information
- Hours
- Select Features (like Tele Health, Home Visits)
- + more!
To see a full list of features visit our How it Works page.
Step #1 Click Dashboard button in the top-left menu
Step #2 Select Listings in the dashboard menu
Step #3 Click Pay in the status column 
Step #4 Select your Payment method
*Cant see the Pay button? You must have signed up with a free account, simply click the Dots to change plan for additional features
i-Strive is like Yelp, but for NDIS providers and participants. With i-Strive providers can build an online reputation and generate their own digital leads outside of the traditional referral model.
Customers can find your profile by searching your name in the header box.
At i-Strive, we are working every day in the digital space to get more shoppers to the site.
You can support growing the NDIS community by sharing your profile on your social sites and by asking your customers to rate their experiences with you.
The more verified businesses and reviews, the faster the community grows!
Step #1 Click Dashboard button in the top-left menu
Step #2 Select CRM tool in the right-hand menu
We’ve got a video library of top questions currently being produced.
You can update your profile information in your dashboard under Listings.
Step #1 Click Dashboard button in the top-left menu
Step #2 Select Listings tool in the right-hand menu
Step #3 Select the three dots tool in the right-hand side of the listing
Profile Image – Headshot
This will be the primary image on your profile and what prospective customers see first. We recommend using a good camera (most cell phones these days are good) and use Portrait Mode if available.
This picture should show you in your environment with a car or two in the background.
Click here for How to take a Professional Headshot in 6 Steps
Featured Images/Videos – Depending on your subscription level you may add additional images to your gallery to present your business or service.
These will be the images in the header of your profile page. We recommend using your a picture of your space (ask your marketing department for a professional version or try your website.
If you are using images with your clients please ensure you have consent prior to loading the images.
To enable online appointments in your profile, you must go to your dashboard, then appointments, and set your desired appointment increments during working hours. You’ll find the appointment icon on the left-hand side of your dashboard. Check out the video below or click here.
To change your password, log into your account and click Update Profile from the main menu. You can enter a new password at the bottom of the screen.
If you have forgotten your password you can request a new one through the log-in screen.
Your Professional profile is the public profile that is seen online.
It is edited in your dashboard under Listings.
Your user account is the account you created when you joined i-Thrive.
It is edited in the dropdown in under your user icon ‘Update Account’
Your contact information will not pull through to your salesperson listing profile. It is for internal i-Thrive account purposes only.
If needed, i-Strive will use this information to contact you.
You can upgrade or cancel your business / professional profile through your user dashboard. If you cancel, any stored information will no longer be available and cannot be reactivated.
To cancel your user account, use the delete button on the bottom right of your account page or email us at [email protected] You must include your name and your user ID with a request to cancel. Please allow 48 hours for response and confirmation. Once your account is deactivated, any stored information will no longer be available and cannot be reactivated.
Need more help? Chat with us or send us a contact form.
We’re working on it! Until then, the website is fully mobile responsive for all devices.
If questions or support that you don’t see here, chat with us or use the contact form.
Explore What To Do
Enabling social and community engagement, Bringing amazing people together to achieve amazing things!
April
May 2022
Events For May
- Map View
- List View
Daily News & Tips
Read More
#1 NDIS Directory in Australia
Helping NDIS Providers help Participants
2. Promote & Grow Your Business
Boost your sales by driving additional traffic to your listings by running Ad campaign to get maximum eyeballs and clicks on your business listing.
3. Convert Leads into Customers
Turn your visitors into paying customers by responding to their messages right from the dashboard