Express Plus Centrelink 4+

I managed to get my whole claim processed through this app. Awesome! Everyone who’s been through the centrelink machine knows how tedious and frustrating it is, this app definitely helped with the hour long waits and inconsistent help that you get in office.
My biggest gripe however is the lack of information and notification I receive. Every week I’m supposed to make a financial report, which is understandable, however the app doesn’t notify me when I’m supposed to make it. It would be understandable if it was the same day every week but instead my payments areconstantly pushed forward and my report date is also. This makes it near impossible to keep track of my payments which in turn leaves me broke for fuel for interviews, food, phone and rent payments.

I have all notifications on for this app PLEASE add a report and task notifier so I don’t miss payments and so I can not be constantly stressed over late fees.

This app is obviously designed to confuse and scam anyone who is actually trying to find and keep a job. There is nothing intuitive about it. Every time I try to use this app I have a panic attack. Whoever designed the latest update is either a psychopath who did it on purpose to destroy any chance of someone getting back on their feet or a total idiot who was given free reign for their total lack of understanding of the life of a person trying to find and keep a job. Every time I use it I feel like giving up on life. I’m always worried that I’ll miscalculate and end up getting one of those robodebt death sentences you people have been handing out. Why would you not have some sort of calculator? I get paid weekly on a Tuesday and somehow I’m meant to predict how long I will work every second Wednesday on top of a weird, staggered, week and a half, trying to work out from my payslip what hours went where! It’s like you are intentionally trying to mess with my head because I’m trying to do the right thing! Why sabotage someone who is actually trying to get work? I’m recovering from chronic anxiety and doing my best to get back in the work force and this is really not helpful!! PLEASE THINK ABOUT HOW PEOPLE ACTUALLY USE THIS APP AND DESIGN IT APPROPRIATELY. I’m doing my best to do my job properly, how about you guys trying to help me rather than trying to undermine me??

Entirely unfriendly for users and difficult to manage considering half the time, the app suffers extreme bugs, glitches and generally runs like internet explorer on a computer with no wifi. This app will close at random intervals for no apparent reason, won’t log in properly and it seems that half the buttons are for decoration considering when clicked, nothing will occur. Otherwise, the app is under maintenance every few days where you would assume these consistent and plentiful bugs are being fixed... but you would be wrong. How there can be report dates set weekly and then the app goes under maintenance every few days so nobody is able to access it is beyond me, the app might as well be a phone book for the Centrelink numbers so the public can directly call when the app is down to do their business. You would think for a government program which deals with people’s livelihoods and financials (particularly during the COVID-19 crisis), actual developers would be hired to design and run a functional app with little to no issues for the general public.
I would rather pay a fee, or pay for an app that is somewhat usable than deal with this embarrassing excuse of an app thrown together obviously by low-skill developers that have never had the excruciating pain of navigating ’Centrelink Express Plus’.