For further education colleges
FE finance.
The way it should be.
Your college. Planned, managed and led with confidence.
IMP is the unified finance platform for further education colleges, bringing budgeting, curriculum, purchasing and finance into one place. Built for education finance, not adapted from corporate tools, it replaces the disconnected spreadsheets and static budgets most colleges still plan on.
Now coming to FE colleges across the UK.
100%
WHAT THE SECTOR DEMANDS
What further education finance really demands.
16 to 19 funding, the adult education budget and T-levels, each on their own rules. Learner numbers that move between census points. ILR returns and ESFA financial-health expectations to satisfy.
Most colleges meet all of it with disconnected spreadsheets and a static budget that was out of date the week it was signed off.
IMP changes that. Budgeting, curriculum, purchasing and finance in one live platform, so finance has complete clarity and leadership can plan ahead with confidence.
THE DISTINCTION THAT MATTERS
Integrated isn't unified.
‘Integrated’ means separate products synced together, with data that can drift and coding that differs between tools. Unified means one platform: budgeting, curriculum, purchasing and finance share the same data, the same users and the same coding. Nothing to reconcile between systems, because there’s only one.
INTEGRATED
X Separate products synced together
X Data that can drift between systems
X Users set up twice, or more
X Coding that stops matching
UNIFIED THE IMP WAY
✓ One platform, built as one thing
✓ Data lives in one place
✓ Users are set up once
✓ One set of coding runs through every product
FOUR PRODUCTS. ONE PLATFORM.
One platform. Four specialised products.
Each product is specialised for the job it does, and every one runs on the same core: curriculum in ICFP, forecasts in Planner, spend in Purchasing, the ledger in Finance. Start with Planner; add the rest when you’re ready.
Four products. one platform.
One platform. Four
specialised products.
One platform. Four
specialised products.
Each product is specialised for the job it does, and every one runs on the same core: curriculum in ICFP, forecasts in Planner, spend in Purchasing, the ledger in Finance. Start with Planner; add the rest when you’re ready.
IMP PLANNER
A planning platform that finally fits
Most planning tools weren’t built for FE staff forecasting: contracts, pay scales and on-costs across multiple campuses and cost centres, all in one picture. Planner brings them together in one rolling forecast, so budget setting becomes a point-in-time output, not a three-month exercise.
IMP PLANNER
A planning platform that finally fits
Most planning tools weren’t built for FE staff forecasting: contracts, pay scales and on-costs across multiple campuses and cost centres, all in one picture. Planner brings them together in one rolling forecast, so budget setting becomes a point-in-time output, not a three-month exercise.
IMP ICFP
Sits inside the budget, not next to it
It answers the fundamental question: how many lessons do we want to run, by curriculum area, learner group and campus, and have we the teaching capacity to deliver them? Change a curriculum decision, and the budget moves with it.
IMP PURCHASING
Purchasing that does finance, not the other way round
Approvals follow your college’s delegated authority; budget holders pick the item they recognise and the coding inherits from the budget; remaining budget includes commitments not yet ordered, so overspends stop being a month-end surprise.
IMP FINANCE
Month-end becomes checking, not changing
Every transaction inherits its coding from the budget, not the other way round, so actuals land correctly first time across every campus and funding stream. Bank rec in minutes, VAT handled in one wizard, and month-end takes days, not weeks: checking, not changing.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Proven in education. Ready for FE.
Finance leaders on IMP, in their own words. Your college could be next.
“FE colleges face even closer scrutiny than academies, yet they have never had finance tooling built for them. Multi-academy trusts grew into multi-site operators, and the platform we built for that world fits FE naturally. We are delighted to be bringing IMP to colleges now.”
Will Jordan
Co-founder and CEO, IMP Software
CLARITY AND CONTROL
Confidence at every level.
01
Empower budget holders
They raise purchases confidently without deep finance knowledge, and central finance keeps oversight.
02
Invest, don't chase
Rolling forecasts give you the visibility to get on the front foot, so you back your priorities instead of reacting to pressure.
03
Commit with confidence
Know whether curriculum growth or redesign is sustainable before the staffing goes in.
AT A GLANCE
Features that drive clarity.
One platform, one truth
Planning, finance, purchasing and curriculum on one unified platform. No re-keying, no drift.
Automated consistency
Coding inherits from the budget line, so everything is booked the same way, every time.
Total control
Approvals follow your scheme of delegation. Budget holders see what’s really left.
Actionable data
Board-ready reporting the moment you need it, with the detail to act on underneath.
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?
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