Blogs & Updates

SBS Online Update - In-Year Balances plus more
  July 14 2017
The latest SBS Online update contains a new in-year row balance for several reports, maximum scales for teacher contracts, and improvements to Excel exports and other commitments in the Budget Monito...
New Profile Report & Other Improvements
  June 09 2017
The latest update to SBS Online contains a new Profile Report with a Multi-School version, a Budget Upload and a range of improvements and bug fixes. Profile Report The new Profile Report can be fou...
SBS Online's Funding Predictor
  April 25 2017
New Funding Predictor ensures you are receiving the correct funding from your local authority. SBS Online’s Funding Predictor allows you to forecast your income for five years by referencing studen...
SBS Online 2017/18 National Insurance Calculations
  January 30 2017
The new 2017/18 National Insurance table is now available to apply to your budgets. From April 2017, the employer's contribution rate of 13.8% will remain the same, but the thresholds have increased...
New Update and Happy New Year!
  January 13 2017
Happy New Year to all of our customers and best wishes for 2017! The latest SBS Online update contains improvements to Staff Contracts, National Insurance calculations, multi-school KPIs, the default...
SBS Online – November Update
  November 03 2016
The latest update to SBS Online contains some improvements to parent planners of Multi-school trusts, new rounding options and a new set of tooltips on parent planners. Trust Schools In the 'Multi-sc...
How to Budget for the Apprenticeship Levy
  September 27 2016
The apprenticeship levy has been talked about for what seems like an eternity. It is now almost upon us and we have to budget for it accordingly. The levy comes into effect in April 2017 and will se...
SBS Online - September Update
  September 07 2016
The latest update to SBS Online contains some improvements to service term management, cost centre usage and new functionality for Multi-Academy Trusts. Multiple Budget Codes to Service Terms It is...
Teacher pay scales 2016/17
  August 10 2016
We have implemented the new teaching staff pay scales for 2016/17. The general rule is a 1% increase in value of each 2015/16 salary scale. Last year we introduced three scale tables - A, B and C. Th...
Summer update - Outturn reporting
  July 28 2016
Our latest release provides further improvements to SBS Online: Outturn reporting We have added a new feature to show the previous year’s outturn. Simply go to ‘Settings > Budgets’, click ...