Tuesday 13th May | Kings Place, 90 York Way, London N1 9AG

We’re bringing everyone together in London at the impressive King’s Place, King’s Cross, for Customer Connect 2025! With a wider range of sessions across three rooms, this year you’ll have the flexibility to choose the topics most relevant to you - whether that’s finance strategy, product training, or real-world customer insights, our sessions are tailored to help you get the most from IMP Software.

What to Expect:

✅ A choice of sessions across three rooms – covering everything from product deep dives to industry debates

✅ Customer stories & best practices – learn from trusts embedding ICFP, purchasing, and financial planning

✅ Expert-led workshops – hints and tips, practical guidance on system optimisation and forecasting

✅ Networking opportunities – connect with peers facing the same challenges and opportunities

With a dynamic agenda still taking shape, new discussions and insights will continue to be added - so book today as spaces are filling up fast. We can’t wait to see you in London!

Please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk if you have any questions regarding any updates made to the system. Alternatively, please visit our Help Centre which contains guides, FAQs and articles on features within the system.

We wanted to let you know that IMP Planner will be undergoing essential maintenance tonight, Friday, the 21st March. During this time, the service will be temporarily unavailable for up to 4 hours. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding as we work to improve your experience.

Thank you for your patience and support!

In the 2024 Autumn Budget, the government announced changes to employer national insurance rates and thresholds, effective from April 2025. The DfE have announced a grant to offset this increase in cost (NICs: National Insurance contributions grant).

We have created a calculator to help you work out the grant values for your schools for the full period April 2025 to August 2026.

A link the the calculator and guidance explaining how to implement both the employer national insurance changes and the subsequent new funding element across your Trust can be found here.

Join us on 26th March at 9.30am as we take you through how to model the NICs grant in IMP Planner and the options available to budget for this grant before it becomes part of GAG funding in September 2026.

Please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk if you have any questions regarding any updates made to the system. Alternatively, please visit our Help Centre which contains guides, FAQs and articles on features within the system.

On 18th March the government announced a new grant to support schools with their increased employer national insurance costs. Full guidance can be found here.

We are aware of an error with the data they have provided in their calculator tool. Specifically, where inputting a school URN returns the name and data for a different school.

We are in contact with the ESFA and are waiting on an update before releasing guidance and tools to support customers with calculating the grant value and inputting into IMP.

As soon as we know more, we will send further update.

We recently released some improvements to the following reports in ICFP:

The Trust ICFP Summary & Multi-Year ICFP Summary have both been updated to include a new row grouping parameter that allows you to select two grouping levels you wish to use for the following metrics:

The School ICFP Summary has been updated to include the same row grouping parameter for the following metrics:

Please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk if you have any questions regarding any updates made to the system. Alternatively, please visit our Help Centre which contains guides, FAQs and articles on features within the system.

As a valued customer, your experience with IMP means everything to us. So we’d love to know what’s working for you—and importantly, what we can do better.

That’s why we’re inviting you to take our Spring Term Survey 2025. It’s quick (less than ten minutes!), and every response is guaranteed to be read.

Take the survey here: Spring Term 2025 Customer Survey

As a thank you - on completion of the survey - you’ll be automatically entered to win one of these exciting prizes:

Your feedback drives our growth and ensures we keep building the MAT finance software you need. We’re truly grateful for your time and opinions—they make all the difference.

Please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk if you have any questions regarding any updates made to the system. Alternatively, please visit our Help Centre which contains guides, FAQs and articles on features within the system.

We have now added the ability to exclude particular pupil groups from the following reports:

To do this, you need to be an organisation administrator and complete the following steps:

If you would like further assistance with this, please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk and we will be happy to assist.

Please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk if you have any questions regarding any updates made to the system. Alternatively, please visit our Help Centre which contains guides, FAQs and articles on features within the system.

We've been working very hard on this solution with customers over the past 2+ years, and for the first time, we're ensuring that the budget sets the direction to take the "faff" out of the requisition-to-invoice management process.

Managing purchasing across a MAT is a headache, and we've heard from many trusts about the frustration of purchasing systems not being a big enough focus of their finance system provider. That's why we're thrilled to introduce our brand-new Purchasing module. A solution built to transform how your MAT manages your purchasing process and approval workflows.

Purchasing is built directly in the Planner database - which will include IMP Finance - so data from each area is available to the other and vice versa. No integration, no faff, just a direct connection, ensuring coding consistency and real-time tracking of spend vs budgets.

We're proud to bring you a solution built around your needs, that will ultimately make Planner even stronger!

Please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk if you have any questions regarding any updates made to the system. Alternatively, please visit our Help Centre which contains guides, FAQs and articles on features within the system.

We have now added the ability to filter by Activity, Fund & Department on the following reports within the Forecasting tab:

Please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk if you have any questions regarding any updates made to the system. Alternatively, please visit our Help Centre which contains guides, FAQs and articles on features within the system.

The Staff Allocation screen now includes a feature that allows you to toggle between hours and periods. This enhancement provides greater flexibility in allocating staff for both teaching and support roles, enabling you to choose the most suitable method for your needs. The hours are calculated using the formula: 'minutes per period / 60.'

Please contact support@impsoftware.co.uk if you have any questions regarding any updates made to the system. Alternatively, please visit our Help Centre which contains guides, FAQs and articles on features within the system.