FOR FURTHER EDUCATION
IMP Planner
Forecasting, budgeting and reporting for
further education colleges.
One rolling forecast across campuses and funding streams. Budget setting becomes a point-in-time output, not a three-month exercise.
★★★★★ Excellent 4.9 out of 5, from 77+ reviews on ★ TrustPilot
FOR FURTHER EDUCATION
IMP Planner
Forecasting, budgeting and reporting for
further education colleges.
One rolling forecast across campuses and funding streams. Budget setting becomes a point-in-time output, not a three-month exercise.
★★★★★ Excellent 4.9 out of 5, from 77+ reviews on ★ TrustPilot
Why FE Colleges choose IMP Planner
A planning platform that finally fits.
IMP Planner is where confident financial decisions begin for further education colleges. Built for education, not adapted from corporate finance tools, it brings every budget, forecast and report together in one place, giving college finance teams the clarity, speed and confidence to make smarter decisions.
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Most planning tools weren't built for FE staff forecasting.
Staff costs are one of the biggest numbers in any FE budget, and one of the hardest to model. Contracts, pay scales and on-costs across multiple campuses and cost centres, all in one picture. IMP Planner handles exactly this.
Version chasing and broken formulas disappear. Every staffing calculation and forecast updates in real time from one live platform.
And when you need to report, the picture is already there: budgets, forecasts and actuals in one place, across every campus and cost centre, always aligned and always accurate. Whether you operate across one site or many, the platform flexes to your college’s model.
WHAT YOU’LL GET
At a glance: Features that drive clarity.
01. one database
One platform. One truth.
One platform for college-wide settings, pay scales and funding assumptions.
02. finance integrations
Connects with your tools.
Runs natively with IMP Finance, and two-way sync with Sage Intacct, Iplicit, Civica Financials Live, Xledger and more.
03. live assumptions
Automated consistency.
Change an assumption once and every dependent budget line updates automatically across every campus and cost centre.
04. ROLE-BASED ACCESS
Total control.
Set who can view, edit and approve at every level, from curriculum managers to the finance director.
PLANNING AND FORECASTING
A plan that keeps up.
Plan in real-time
Build, reforecast and refine budgets with real-time data. IMP Planner combines finance, payroll and forecast data automatically, so future budgets shape themselves as you work. When funding allocations or curriculum models change, your platform adapts with you.
Automated precision
We obsess over the complex calculations, so you don't have to. Funding assumptions, central charges and NI/pension calculations are embedded in the logic. They flow automatically through future budgets, eliminating manual errors and freeing you to focus on college strategy.
Agile scenario modelling
Stay ahead of change. Model scenarios, such as funding shifts, pay awards or curriculum restructures, and see the impact across your entire college straightaway, from the big picture down to individual cost centres and campuses.
REPORTING AND INSIGHT
One platform. Every level of detail.
Granular visibility
Drill from college level down to curriculum area in seconds. Click through to learner numbers, staffing details and actuals behind every figure, all from within IMP Planner.
Governor-ready reporting
Create and share reports straightaway for leadership teams, governors or funding bodies. Show the full picture, keep leaders informed and governors assured, all without manual data crunching.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Planning that works for colleges.
Finance leaders on IMP, in their own words. Your college could be next.
Will Jordan
Co-founder and CEO, IMP Software
BUILT & SUPPORTED BY EXPERTS
Support from people who've lived it.
We know what it’s like to manage education finance, because we’ve lived it. When something needs answering, you get a support specialist who knows the platform inside out, backed by a team of former education finance professionals. Not a script, not a ticket queue. Specialists sit behind every conversation.
SUPPORT ANSWERED IN
Under 30
seconds
Not 24 hours.
Not next week.
Most providers leave you lagging a ticket and waiting days. We answer in under 30 seconds on average, and that bar hasn’t moved in seven years.
BUILT & SUPPORTED BY EXPERTS
Support from people who've lived it.
We know what it’s like to manage education finance, because we’ve lived it. When something needs answering, you get a support specialist who knows the platform inside out, backed by a team of former education finance professionals. Not a script, not a ticket queue. Specialists sit behind every conversation.
SUPPORT ANSWERED IN
Under 30
seconds
Not 24 hours.
Not next week.
Most providers leave you lagging a ticket and waiting days. We answer in under 30 seconds on average, and that bar hasn’t moved in seven years.
Ready to see it in action?
See how IMP Planner helps college finance teams reduce risk, save time and bring every financial decision into full view.
IMP PlannerFAQs.
We don't just send you a spreadsheet for a platform you don't know how to use and ask you to populate it. Our bespoke implementation process is led by our in-house team of former education finance professionals, delivered at a fixed price with unlimited training included. They'll take your best available data in whatever format you have it and get to work, checking in regularly to make sure things like budget calculators and staffing calculations are working the way you expect.
Unlike other platforms, which treat cost centres as silos and bolt consolidation reports on around the edges, IMP Planner is built specifically for education. Every campus and curriculum area sits within the same pot of data, using a single set of centrally controlled assumptions and budget drivers. College finance teams maintain agility and control across the whole institution, even as the financial landscape changes.
Yes. IMP Planner removes the manual effort from monthly reforecasting. Actuals are pulled in at transaction level from your finance platform, notes are embedded directly into reports, and all forecasting and reporting work takes place inside Planner. Each monthly forecast has its own dataset, so you can demonstrate exactly how your college's position is changing month to month.
Yes. We can work with FE colleges of all shapes and sizes, from single-site colleges to multi-campus providers. Planner flexes to your model, handling your reporting structures and evolving with you as your curriculum offer or funding landscape changes.
Including college-wide forecast oversight, granular staffing details, payroll reconciliation, KPIs, multi-year budget summaries and monthly forecast reports. Every report is consolidated but can be run by campus, curriculum area or cost centre.
We have automated integration with IRIS Financials (PSF), Sage Intacct, Sage 200, Iplicit and Hoge 100. We also integrate with Xero via Thorne Widgery. For all other finance systems, we provide smooth integration using Excel import/export functionality.
We’re proud to be rated ‘Excellent’ on Trustpilot by IMP Software customers, you can read the reviews in full here. We also have a host of great case studies which you can view here.
Our pricing is tailored to your college, factoring in size and structure. To get a personalised quote, visit our pricing page.