Clinical Training Logbook
Sonia alternatives compared with Clinical Training Logbook
Sonia handles clinical placement at $5,000–20,000/yr on NZ-hosted infrastructure. Clinical Training Logbook handles student logging, supervisor sign-off, and cohort progress tracking on your own server for $299/yr.
If placement allocation is your main need, Sonia covers that well. If real-time supervision visibility and student progress tracking is the priority, here is the comparison.
The numbers
What you actually pay.
Per-seat SaaS pricing climbs with every hire. A self-hosted licence is flat — one annual fee per site, regardless of user count.
Feature by feature.
| Sonia | Clinical Training Logbook Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Student session / treatment logging | ✓ | ✓ |
| Supervisor review & sign-off | ✓ | ✓ |
| Real-time cohort progress dashboard | Partial | ✓ |
| Placement allocation & scheduling | ✓ | Training Hub add-on |
| Breadth / variety requirement enforcement | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-hosted / data on your server | ✗ | ✓ |
| Australian data residency | NZ cloud | ✓ |
| Flat-fee pricing | Per-student tiers | ✓ |
Why teams switch
What SaaS compliance really costs you.
Paper logbooks don’t survive audit season
Manual logs and spreadsheets work until audit preparation begins. Reconstructing six months of placement evidence takes weeks.
Enterprise pricing doesn’t fit smaller programs
Clinical placement systems built for large university programs are overkill — and overpriced — for a college with 50–500 students.
Supervisors can’t see the whole picture
Without a real-time cohort view, coordinators only find out a student is behind when it’s too late to intervene.
Ready to move off Sonia?
Part of the Education Stack — bundle with Training Hub Pro for full placement and timetabling support.
See Clinical Logbook Pro pricingQuestions
Common questions, answered.
Can Clinical Logbook Pro handle placement scheduling like Sonia does?
Not natively. Placement scheduling and rostering is handled by Training Hub (Timetable Planner module). The Education Stack bundles both.
Our supervisors are external — how do they access student logs?
External supervisors access logs via a shareable link or a basic frontend account. No WordPress admin access or full site login required.
Does it generate the reports we need for accreditation bodies?
Yes. Per-student and per-cohort reports are available as CSV and PDF, covering session counts, breadth coverage, supervisor sign-off status, and any custom metrics you configure.
We are currently on Sonia — how hard is the migration?
Existing log data can be imported via CSV if exported from Sonia. Student and supervisor accounts are set up in WordPress. We can help scope the migration.