The financial management system your auditor would choose
Have you outgrown your current finance system or feel frustrated with the support on offer? We hear this all too often. Welcome to HogeFinance, the financial management system for schools and academies, trusted by experienced CFOs and finance managers. Integrating education-specific tools with Sage Intacct, a leading cloud accounting platform. You'll wonder why you've not considered it before.
"Just post 'What is your view of Hoge 100?' on The FD Forum. I'd be highly surprised if you got anything but positive responses. And that speaks for itself as it's from people like me who are currently using the system daily."
School and Academy Finance, Powered by Sage Intacct
HogeFinance delivers a comprehensive financial management platform designed specifically for schools and educational organisations.
Built around the power and reliability of Sage Intacct, our solution goes beyond traditional finance software by providing the school-specific functionality that educational institutions need but standard ERP systems cannot deliver alone.
We have developed a fully integrated ecosystem that combines Sage Intacct's best-in-class financial management capabilities with specialist tools designed for the unique operational and reporting requirements of schools. The result is a single, connected platform that supports finance teams, school leaders, and governors with accurate data, streamlined processes, and meaningful insights.
From budgeting and forecasting to pupil-led income management, departmental reporting, compliance, and education-specific workflows, HogeFinance bridges the gap between enterprise finance software and the practical realities of running a modern school.
By integrating seamlessly with Sage Intacct, our platform enables schools to benefit from a robust cloud financial system while gaining access to the specialist functionality required to manage educational finances efficiently and effectively.
The strength of Sage Intacct. The functionality schools need. Delivered through one integrated platform.
"If any school looking to change its financial software doesn't look at Hoge, it's missing a trick."
Sage Intacct for Academy Trusts
Academy Trusts face increasing pressure to deliver financial transparency, maintain compliance, manage complex funding streams, and provide timely, accurate reporting across multiple schools. Sage Intacct provides the robust cloud financial management platform needed to meet these challenges while supporting future growth.
Designed for modern organisations, Sage Intacct delivers powerful core financial capabilities including multi-entity accounting, budgeting, forecasting, purchasing, cash management, and real-time reporting. For Academy Trusts, this means greater visibility and control across all schools within the trust, enabling finance leaders to make informed decisions based on accurate, up-to-date information
Unlike traditional on-premise finance systems, Sage Intacct provides a secure, scalable cloud platform that automates routine processes, reduces manual administration, and improves financial governance. Its flexible architecture allows trusts to consolidate financial information across multiple academies while maintaining appropriate levels of local control and accountability.
HogeFinance combines he power of Sage Intacct with our own specialist education platform, HogePortal, providing the school-specific functionality that Academy Trusts require. Together, this creates a fully integrated solution that bridges the gap between enterprise financial management and the unique operational needs of the education sector.
The result is a modern finance ecosystem that enables Academy Trusts to streamline operations, strengthen compliance, improve reporting, and focus more resources on delivering outstanding educational outcomes.
Sage Intacct provides the financial foundation. HogeFinance delivers the education-specific capabilities. Together, they create a complete finance solution for Academy Trusts.
HogePortal – Connecting Academy Trusts, Finance Teams and Schools
HogePortal is the central platform that brings together the people, processes and systems that power a modern Academy Trust.
Designed specifically for the education sector, HogePortal provides a secure, intuitive environment where staff, school leaders and trust teams can access the information and services they need through a single, connected platform. By integrating seamlessly with Sage Intacct and other key systems, HogePortal removes complexity, eliminates duplication, and creates a more efficient way of working across the trust.
Academy Trusts often rely on multiple systems to manage finance, operations, communications and stakeholder engagement. This can create disconnected processes, inconsistent data and unnecessary administration. HogePortal addresses these challenges by acting as the central hub that connects systems, users and workflows into one cohesive experience.
Built around the needs of educational organisations, the platform provides role-based access to information and services, ensuring users see only what is relevant to them. Whether they are school administrators, budget holders, finance staff, trust leaders or parents, users can access the tools and information they need through a simple and consistent interface.
HogePortal is designed to support both trust-wide governance and school-level autonomy. Standardised workflows and controls help ensure consistency across the organisation, while flexible configuration allows individual schools to operate in a way that reflects their own requirements.
The platform also delivers powerful integration capabilities, enabling data to flow automatically between systems and reducing the need for manual intervention. This improves accuracy, enhances visibility and ensures that decision-makers have access to timely and reliable information.
As Academy Trusts continue to grow and evolve, HogePortal provides a scalable foundation that adapts alongside them. New modules, services and integrations can be added as requirements change, allowing trusts to build a connected digital ecosystem that supports long-term growth and operational excellence.
At its heart, HogePortal is about simplifying complexity. By bringing together people, processes and technology into a single platform, it enables Academy Trusts to work more efficiently, improve collaboration, strengthen governance and focus on what matters most—delivering outstanding educational outcomes for every pupil.
**One platform. One experience. Built for Academy Trusts.**
HogePortal (Finance)
Designed specially for non-finance users, HogePortal empowers your Senior Leadership Team, budget holders and teachers, whilst retaining control of your core system.
- Purchase Control
- Supplier integration
- DfE automated upload of the AAR
- Supplier integration
- AI driven invoice automation
- Reporting
- Budget forecasting designed for MATs with all the power of the best budget forecasting systems but without the complexity and at an affordable price
With permission-based access, you'll automate the creation, submission and approval of purchase requests, whilst giving SLT and budget holders real-time information at their fingertips. And, for you, clarity from multi-level reporting in an instant: by cost centre, by nominal code, by academy. You choose. All quickly exported to Excel or PDF.
Integrations
Supplier integration
Allow users to browse suppliers' websites using their account with the supplier to add items to a purchase request in HogePortal.
Orders for approved requests are sent to the supplier and the items shipped.
Selected items are synced right into your purchase request, reducing energy and errors in copying/pasting item details and saving a vast amount of time.
Integration is available for the following suppliers:
- Amazon
- Browns Books
- County Supplies (Notinghashire County Council
- ESPO
- gls Education
- HBS Group
- Herts FullStop
- KCS Education
- Lyreco
- Yorkshire Purchasing
And we are adding more as other suppliers become capable.
Integration with IMP budgeting software
If you do want the complexity and can afford expensive software, we have full integration with IMP Software.
Automation of AAR and draft financial statements
The Education & Skills Funding Agency has developed automation technology to help reduce the burden of submitting your financial information.
This technology enables you to submit your trial balance data directly from Finance Portal to the DfE where it is used to pre-populate 80% of your AAR and the trial balance information needed for the trust's financial statements.
Making Tax Digital
All VAT-registered businesses with a taxable turnover above the VAT registration threshold are required to submit their VAT returns using an approved app.
MTD automates the submission of VAT returns. Submitting your VAT return directly to HMRC - a clear benefit to both you and HMRC.
HogePortal (Operations Management)
Managing wraparound care, lettings and school trips can be cumbersome. Too many 'systems' and time-wasting duplication.
We've developed an integrated system that takes care of self-generated income. With just one click, the fee moves straight through to Sage Intacct.
And integration with HogePortal means that payments are delivered swiftly, straight into your bank account.
HogePortal (Parents)
Online payments and more, much more.
All invoices can be paid online.
View and print invoices and payment history.
No manual entry, no journals and you get the cash next day.
No more re-keying and no more paper.
Parents can give consent for trips.
View wraparound and trip activities that their child has been booked into.
"I can't even think how much time we've saved. The simple fact that I can trust my data is enormous to me. What's going onto my system is in much better shape, and the potential to do more is there."
DfE Chart of Accounts
Hoge 100 worked with the, then, ESFA when its project started and along with a group of our clients built intuitive tools to provide an easier transition and faster submissions. We were the first by nearly two years to have trusts auto-submitting.
Our work with the DfE hasn't stopped there. We've already written software that utilises the DfE's API to auto-populate 80% of the AAR.
Why academies love our ongoing support
We know your new software is just the start. Ongoing support is crucial to your success, be it training or the development of new functions.
With Hoge 100, you'll have knowledgeable support right when you need it.
Just a phone call away, we don't ask you to queue in a ticket system. You can speak directly to the person who'll help you, as often as you need to.
In 2025, 93% of our support calls were answered without the need for a call back.
You won't be passed from pillar to post. At Hoge 100, you won't simply be given a ticket number and a promise that someone will call you back.
"Support is always available at the end of the phone and 99.9% of queries are resolved from the initial call. The ability to be able to just pick up the phone and speak to someone instantly, rather than logging cases and waiting for responses, was a major factor in why we choose to go with Hoge 100."
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