For independent schools
Independent school finance.
The way it should be.
Your school's finances, planned, forecast, managed and controlled.
IMP is the unified finance platform for independent schools, bringing budgeting, curriculum, purchasing and finance into one place. Built for education finance, not adapted from corporate tools, it replaces the spreadsheets most schools still budget on, before one broken link cascades into the final budget.
100%
Supporting independent schools across the UK.
“The reports it produces are incredibly powerful.”
Carol Lewington · Senior Finance Business Partner · Warwick Schools Foundation
WHAT THE SECTOR DEMANDS
What independent school finance really demands.
Rising costs. Pressure on fee income. VAT on fees reshaping every forecast. Bursary commitments to protect, charitable and partial-exemption obligations to meet, and a board that wants to see the plan, not just the outturn.
Most schools meet all of it with interlinked spreadsheets, where one broken link can quietly cascade into the final budget.
IMP changes that. Budgeting, curriculum, purchasing and finance in one live platform, so finance has complete clarity and leadership can plan years 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
IMP PLANNER
A planning platform that finally fits
Most independent schools still plan in spreadsheets that can’t hold it together once fee income, bursary funding, capital projects and staff-cost forecasting all have to line up. Planner brings them into one live view: build, reforecast and model a fee-rate or staffing change across the school in minutes, three to five years out.
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 independent schools still plan in spreadsheets that can’t hold it together once fee income, bursary funding, capital projects and staff-cost forecasting all have to line up. Planner brings them into one live view: build, reforecast and model a fee-rate or staffing change across the school in minutes, three to five years out.
IMP ICFP
Sits inside the budget, not next to it
It answers the fundamental question: how many lessons do we want to run, by subject and year group, and have we the teaching capacity to deliver them? For the many schools without a structured curriculum-planning process yet, IMP gives you one, so you can build the best curriculum your budget allows, whether that’s a prep, a senior with option blocks and sixth form, or an all-through.
IMP PURCHASING
Purchasing that does finance, not the other way round
Purchasing is the highest-volume process most schools run, yet most providers treat it as a bolt-on. We made it the main event. Approval routes reflect your scheme of delegation; 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
One ledger for fee income, bursaries and spend, with every transaction landing against the right budget line first time. Budget-led posting, VAT returns with partial-exemption ready, bank rec in minutes, and month-end takes days, not weeks: checking, not changing.
CUSTOMER STORIES
Early voices from the independent sector.
The funding pressure state education has known for years is now reaching independent schools. These are the early voices of finance leaders who have already made the move to IMP.
“Independent schools now face the funding pressure state education has known for years, with VAT and falling pupil numbers squeezing income just as families expect the same quality of education. Finance leaders moving across from MATs brought IMP with them, because nothing built for the job existed. Demand is now growing across the sector, and we are delighted to be supporting more independent schools to meet it.”
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
See whether a staffing change or a fee-rate move is sustainable first.
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
Governor-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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