40+ years
of behind-the-scenes support helping educational teams thrive.
Finance
Budgeting, resource allocation, and reporting simplified
Take control of your school finances with one flexible package. From budgeting and reporting to suppliers and statutory returns, the Finance package keeps everything clear, compliant, and connected.
20,000+ schools
trust our tailored solutions, from single-site schools to large MATs & institutions.
9 million+ users
Supporting educators, suppliers, parents, students daily.
A-rated security
Best-in-class data protection—safeguarding millions of records daily.
Flexible, simplified, and built around you
Build a solution that fits your school perfectly—with tools to help your school run well and your team work smarter, save time, and stay in control of data, insights, and performance. And soon, you’ll be able to access all ParentPay Group products with one login. No more juggling logins or switching between systems—just one simple, connected experience.
Finance package
Budgeting, resource allocation, and reporting simplified
Suppliers and supplier payments
Income and debtors
Budgets and staffing including personnel links
Chart of accounts
Financial tasks
Data exchange with a local authority
Statutory reporting
Users and permissions
Period and year end
Equipment / asset management and loans
Transactional reporting and audits
Hosting
Anytime cloud access
Our cloud-based finance tools offer secure access anywhere, automatic updates, and retain your existing database—so no historical data is lost in the move.
Reporting made easy
FMS reporting with grouped categories, drilldowns, comparisons, and AI-powered insights—saving time and making reports like CFR easier.
Bring your data to life
Track trends and see where your budget is going quickly and easily with data visualisation tools, charts, and graphs. With access to all your historical finance data in FMS, you’ll have a complete picture.
Finance for the non-finance specialist
Finance software that’s simple, intuitive, and made to make your life easier. You don’t need an accounting or finance background to use FMS—and if your school doesn’t have a bank account that’s no problem either.
Bringing MIS and Finance together
FMS integrates with key SIMS functionality like SIMS Personnel, so you can reconcile payments to individual members of your team. Soon you’ll also have one single sign on for all your ParentPay Group products.
Support from the product experts
Finance includes an optional expert support, 24/7 guides, and knowledge base access.
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Optimise
Tools and insights to help your school thrive
Includes:
- Attendance and unexplained absence messaging
- Assessment, performance, and exams
- Census and statutory returns
- Conduct management
- Class management (Class View and Seating Plans until March 2027)
- Reporting, data, and insights
- Timetabling, options, and cover
- Pupil and staff data
- SEND management
- Interventions
- SIMS Next Generation
- Trust centralised performance management (Group Hub until March 2027)
- Hosting and support (optional)
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Pay
Make everything from clubs to dinner money seamless
Includes:
- Menu selection
- Clubs & trips
- Wraparound care
- Shops & donations pages
- Single basket checkout
- Automatic top up
- Reporting & insights
- MIS and catering integration
- Settle to multiple accounts
- SIMS Dinner Money
- Group management application
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Engage
Communicate and collaborate quickly and easily
Includes:
- SMS/email messaging
- In app notifications
- Parent & student app
- Data collection
- Attendance insights
- Conduct insights
- Assessment insights
- Clubs & activities
- Timetable
- Reports
- School calendar
- Homework *H2 2026
- Parents' evening booking *H2 2026
- Google & Apple single sign-on *H2 2026
- Class management (Class View and Seating Plans)
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Secure
Education-focused data protection and cyber security
Includes:
- Complete data protection compliance platform
- Attack surface management
- Managed awareness training and phishing
- Threat intelligence updates
- DPO support service
- ICO-registered DPO contact
- Office 365 / Google security review
- Cloud endpoint security review
- Cloud data governance review
- Cloud audit log review
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