Education software for Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs)
Intuitive. User-friendly. Impactful. Our suite of education software for Multi-Academy Trusts allows you to:
- Centralise all operational systems into one platform utilising software specifically designed for the education sector
- Reduce manual processes to speed up operations
- Improve the quality of education across your trust
Book a software review meeting, where our experts will work with you to create roadmap that optimises efficiency across your organisation.
MAT software trusted by 1,000+ institutions
We partner with over a thousand single and multi-academy trusts, ranging from the largest to the smallest in England. Our software serves as the foundation for their daily operations.
Education software for Multi-Academy Trusts
Whether you're looking for operational efficiency, curriculum content, parent engagement, or the full suite of solutions, Access Education's software for multi-academy trusts is here to support your digitisation journey.
Budgeting
Access Education Budgets is the MAT software of choice for trust-wide forecasting, scenario planning and reporting. Used by 1000+ large and small MATs for all their budgeting needs.
- Plan, report and forecast at trust level
- Set user permissions for individual academies
- Push out centralised factors to multiple academies (e.g. Payscales, inflation)
- Create customisable reports (BFR, budget monitoring, MAT overview)
Combined, this will save your trust money through increased efficiencies. You can also add unlimited users at no extra cost. For full financial optimisation, we recommend integrating Access Education Budgets with Access Education Finance.
To find out more...
- Go to budgeting software
- Download brochure
- Watch a 7-minute demo
Finance
Empowering large and small trusts to confidently manage their accounts at a school, group or trust level.
- Create reports for single schools, groups or the entire trust
- Complete and submit your academies' accounts return (AAR) to the DfE
- Conduct your annual audit seamlessly
Central financial control allows MATs to reduce costs, simplify processes and promote consistency across schools. And when integrated with Access Education budgets, you gain ultimate control over your MAT's financial landscape.
To find out more...
- Go to finance software
- Download brochure
- Watch a 7-minute demo
Online school payments
A cashless, secure, and easy to use solution that enables parents and guardians to have more control and visibility over their children's school lunches, activities and events.
- Manage menus, payments, and bookings
- Simplify cash handling and financial tasks
- Monitor stock, FSM, UIFSM, and debtor accounts
Our cashless catering system simplifies the lives of parents and MATs, offering increased security, improved control, and minimised waste.
To find out more...
- Go to school payments software
- Download brochure
HR
Market-leading, education-specific managed payroll service for MATs.
- Save time and resource by outsourcing payroll responsibilities
- Ensure compliance and accurate payroll processing
- Enhance data security for employee information
For optimal HR management, we suggest integrating our managed Payroll service with our HR MAT software. If your MAT already has a certified payroll team, we also provide an in-house payroll software option.
To find out more...
- Go to HR software
- View pricing bundles - prices start at just £4.50 per employee
Payroll
Market-leading, education-specific managed payroll service for MATs.
- Save time and resource by outsourcing payroll responsibilities
- Ensure compliance and accurate payroll processing
- Enhance data security for employee information
For optimal HR management, we suggest integrating our managed Payroll service with our HR software. If your MAT already has a certified payroll team, we also provide an in-house payroll software option.
To find out more...
- Go to payroll software
- View pricing bundles - prices start at just £4.50 per employee
- Download brochure
Curriculum content
Improve the quality of education in your secondary schools with GCSEPod. Standardise assessments, share best practice and get performance insights to raise attainment across your whole trust.
- Award-winning online teaching resources for KS3 and GCSE
- Engage learners, improve confidence and accelerate progress
- Accessible, easy to digest content that teachers and students will love
Our platform brings together the key elements of content, assessment, and data all on one platform, offering subscribers award-winning, expert-led education resources combined with essential monitoring and reporting.
To find out more...
- Go to teaching resources
- Download brochure
Parent communications
Centralise parent-teacher communication to keep everyone in the loop.
- Send and store newsletters, school updates, emails, forms and more
- Streamline your parents evening processes to make it simple for parents to schedule their appointments
- Build and submit forms such as absence, leave, contact, medical details, new joiners and more
With 50,000+ daily users, our parent engagement platform is a powerful, intuitive system that connects parents and teachers through a single streamlined dashboard.
To find out more...
Career guidance
The interactive career guidance platform for pupils in Key Stages 3-5, providing a fun, personalised experience for students to explore the professional world at their own pace.
- Tools to support career exploration
- CV and job application support
- Personalised mock interviews with AI feedback
Featuring 90+ career paths and 50+ CV checks, our specialised career guidance software assists teachers in planning lessons, streamlining workload by generating individual CVs, and meeting Gatsby benchmarks.
To find out more...
- Go to career guidance software
- Download brochure
Centralise your operational systems with our education software for Multi-Academy Trusts
Save money with software for multi-academy trusts
While there are often upfront costs associated with technology, it can save on operational costs in the long run. Utilising software to fulfil the mundane tasks frees up one of your most valuable and expensive resources, your people.
From automated communications to electronic payroll services, software for multi-academy trusts allows you realise savings by reducing or repurposing staff across your schools and within the trust.
Technology is also scalable, supporting a growing trust. If you have the right MAT software in place adding a school is easy and quick with minimal disruption to daily processes. The more a trust grows or the more software is embedded, the greater the economies of scale.
Streamline operations and enhance efficiencies with MAT software
Integrated systems all working together keep everything in one place. This makes it easy to access the information you need when you need it.
Allowing your staff to self-serve makes everything more efficient. Governors can access the details they need for meetings, staff have access to all their HR data, budgets holders can view their spend and teachers can communicate with parents.
When developed with trusts in mind, systems can provide a top-down approach, giving a view of a particular school or the trust as a whole. This can identify any problem areas and offer the data to address them quickly and efficiently.
Improve communication & collaboration
Communicating with staff, students, parents and other key stakeholders is an everyday occurrence and it needs to be easy.
Having the tools to easily communicate with your schools and for your schools to communicate with parents is essential for a growing trust. Software for multi-academy trusts helps by joining the dots between people, data and systems. This allows users to think about what they want to say and say it at the click of a button.
Why customers love our Multi-Academy Trust software solutions
MAT software resources
The ultimate guide to expanding your MAT
In this guide we will look at...
- The key challenges MATs are facing
- Implementing technology in your growing MAT
- What makes for a successful MAT?
- Overcoming Trust growing pains
On-demand webinar: Switching finance system for your MAT or academy - what to look for
This webinar covers:
- Key signs it’s time to change your MAT’s finance software
- How to select the right supplier for your MAT or academy
- See a demo of our finance software exclusively for the Education sector
- Hear about our exclusive “Only pay for one accounting software” offer
Introducing Central Budgets: Benefits of centralised planning and reporting for MATs
Watch the webinar to:
- Hear tips about how to leverage centralisation of planning and reporting across your trust and eliminate manual and time-consuming processes
- See an overview and demo of Access Education Central Budgets and its two-way flow of data between the trust and academies
Your tender document cheat code
Procuring operational education software but don’t know where to begin? In this guide, we cover everything you need to create the perfect tender document.
5 key benefits of centralisation for Multi-Academy Trusts
Our guide covers:
- Benefits of MAT centralisation: A real-life example
- 5 benefits of MAT centralisation
- How Access Central Budgets can help
On-demand webinar: Benefits of integrated Budgets & Finance for academies & MATs
The webinar covers:
- Roadmap and plans for Access Education Budgets for academies and Multi-Academy Trusts
- Learn about how to increase your academy or MAT's operational efficiency with integrated Finance & Budgets - short demo
Choosing the best finance system for your school
Covered in this guide...
- Benefits of implementing the right finance system
- Common concerns and solutions for finance systems in schools
- Choosing the right finance system for MATs or academies
- Implementing a finance system for schools
Planning and forecasting your school budget effectively
This guide takes you through...
- Key stages of the school budget preparation process
- Gives you practical advice for better planning
- Provides hints and tips for more accurate forecasting
