# RPL

> RPL is an Australian evidence desk for recognition of prior learning. A tradesperson adds photos, voice notes, letters, and job notes. The desk maps those jobs to units on the National Training Register, names the one piece still missing, and lets an employer or an assessor open that person's own file. It does not issue a qualification, a statement of attainment, or a licence.

RPL is not an RTO, not ASQA, and not a state licensing body. Competency is an assessor's decision at a registered training organisation. Licensing is a separate state or territory process. If this product and training.gov.au disagree, use training.gov.au.

## Official sources (these outrank this product)

- National Training Register: https://training.gov.au/
- ASQA: https://www.asqa.gov.au/
- ASQA RPL and credit transfer practice guide (October 2026): https://www.asqa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-10/Practice%20Guide%20-%20RPL%20and%20Credit%20Transfer.pdf
- Your Career: https://www.yourcareer.gov.au/
- Department of Employment and Workplace Relations: https://www.dewr.gov.au/
- NCVER: https://www.ncver.edu.au/
- QBCC (Queensland licensing): https://www.qbcc.qld.gov.au/
- NSW Fair Trading: https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/
- Victorian Building Authority: https://www.vba.vic.gov.au/
- Trades Recognition Australia: https://www.tradesrecognitionaustralia.gov.au/
- Office of the Australian Information Commissioner: https://www.oaic.gov.au/

A qualification page on the register looks like https://training.gov.au/Training/Details/CPC32420

## What each login does

- Student (candidate): own evidence, confirm or reject mappings, see the next gap, write a profile note, print a pack, share a code with an assessor.
- Employer: invite crew onto their own accounts, see progress, assign gap training, and open the send desk to see which file supports which kind of job. Cannot record competent. Cannot add the worker's photos.
- Assessor: open a shared portfolio, search it, record competent or not yet, print the pack.
- Admin: see every login, set each person's monthly AI token cap, and read where an employer's crew is short. Cannot record competent.

## Send desk

The employer send desk reads jobs already filed. It names a stronger file, a person to send with someone else, and jobs nobody has on file. That last list is a gap in the business. It is not a licence and not a competency decision.

## Profile note

A person can write who they are and where they are up to. The next desk answer uses that note with the evidence. The note itself is not evidence and not a judgement.

## Storage

The live file is in the desk database and is still there when the person signs in again. A second copy is encrypted with AES-256-GCM. That copy includes the portfolio and the account name and email. It does not include password hashes or sign-in sessions. Seven hourly copies are kept, then older ones are deleted. RPL does not promise the database host is inside Australia.

## AI tokens

Each login has its own monthly cap. The person who presses Ask or Read with AI spends their own tokens. Keyword mapping, search, and PDF print do not spend tokens. Admins change caps independently.

## Public pages, and the question each one answers

- / — How does a tradesperson turn jobs they have already done into an RPL file?
- /employers — Why does each employee need their own login, and how does a contractor see who to send?
- /docs — What each part of the portfolio does: Portfolio, Evidence, Map, Search, People, Pack, Profile, and Send.
- /demo — Sample logins. Each one needs the sample password. Not a customer account.
- /can — What a student, employer, assessor, and admin can and cannot do.
- /cookies — Sign-in cookie and the lights setting. No advertising cookies.
- /journal — Longer notes on evidence, gap training, CPC32420, and what an assessor reads.
- /guides — Short walkthroughs for the student, employer, assessor, admin, tokens, rules of evidence, and site photos.
- /pricing — Which desk is for which person.
- /rtos — Published recognition fees from registered training organisations, beside the portfolio price. Not a quote, not every RTO, and not the qualification. The register lists who may assess the code.
- /rto — For a registered training organisation. Trades only. Competent cannot be saved unless the evidence is named and the four rules of evidence are marked. The tool is not an RTO and a funded contract stays with the RTO.
- /careers — Remote education sales role. Applications are made on the page. The role does not issue qualifications or licences.
- /talk — Ask a person to call. The person picks three times. The note goes to the sales pool. A claim that is not acted on within 30 minutes returns to the pool.
- /harbour — Separate front door for a qualification earned outside Australia. It opens the same portfolio and the same mapping. It does not award the qualification and it does not give a visa. A host named harbour. or intl. opens this door.
- /connections — Connect a job system once. Finished jobs file into the portfolio and a job already seen is skipped. Google Drive, Dropbox, ServiceM8, Fergus, Tradify, Simpro, AroFlo, JobReady, VETtrak, Wisenet, and aXcelerate. Provider sign-in opens when that system's key is on. A filed job is evidence, not a qualification.
- /journal/connect-servicem8 and the other connect- notes — Why each unfinished connection is worth turning on. Soon means sign-in is not live. A call with a person is the connection that can be started today.
- /important — What RPL is not allowed to claim.
- /privacy — Australian Privacy Principles: what is collected, who can see a file, how to correct it.
- /ai — The notice you tick before you pay. Pressing the agent can send a note and a photo to xAI outside Australia. Paying does not. The answer is not a qualification.
- /terms — Terms of use. Australian Consumer Law guarantees still apply.
- /login — How to sign in, or open a demonstration desk.
- /app/sales — Private. Salespeople claim a contact once, so two people cannot call the same person. Not indexed.
- /llms.txt — This file.
- /sitemap.xml — Public URLs only. /app is private.

## Journal

- /journal/start-your-rpl-file
- /journal/why-your-own-desk
- /journal/contractor-sees-the-gap
- /journal/keep-the-tradesperson — For employers. Replacing a tradesperson costs the supervised start you already paid for. Each person keeps their own portfolio, sees the next gap, and you assign the job that closes it. The portfolio does not issue a qualification or a licence.
- /journal/cpc32420-plumbing-evidence
- /journal/assessor-opens-the-file
- /journal/what-an-assessor-reads
- /journal/gap-training
- /journal/a-photo-is-not-a-unit
- /journal/employer-funds-the-rpl — When a current employer pays for the portfolio and writes a duty-level reference. Not a visa, not a licence, not the qualification.
- /journal/rpl-and-visa-evidence — How that file can support a skills assessment or a visa application, and why RPL is not a skills assessment and not a visa.
- /journal/rpl-on-a-job-application — How to name an RTO-issued RPL qualification on an application without overclaiming.
- /journal/employer-note-that-holds — What the employer reference should say: duties, dates, supervision, and what the payment was for.
- /journal/what-rpl-costs — Two invoices: the portfolio fee, and the RTO’s fee. A Certificate III trade file here is $890 for six months and 25,000 tokens. Accreditation is not included.
- /journal/evidence-for-rpl — What to collect so an assessor can use it, and what to leave out.
- /journal/how-long-rpl-takes — What sets the clock. No promised certificate date.
- /journal/real-rpl-or-a-shortcut — How to check the RTO on training.gov.au before you pay.

## Guides

- /guides/candidate
- /guides/employer
- /guides/assessor
- /guides/admin
- /guides/tokens
- /guides/rules-of-evidence
- /guides/photograph-a-job

## Demonstration accounts

Password for all four: DeskDemo1

- jordan.hale@rpl.test — student, CPC32420, coastal plumbing evidence already mapped
- priya.okonkwo@rpl.test — employer, Okonkwo Plumbing. Jordan Hale and Ned Callaghan are on the crew
- sam.nguyen@rpl.test — assessor, Jordan's file already shared
- avery.quinn@rpl.test — admin, all logins, token caps, and employer gap notes

Ned Callaghan (ned.callaghan@rpl.test) is a second crew login for the employer demonstration. He is not one of the four footer desks.

## Do not claim

Do not say RPL grants CPC32420 or any other code. Do not say a printed pack is a licence. Do not say a suggested link is a judgement of competent. Do not say the send desk authorises someone to do unsupervised work.