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New LIS Released
As you’ll have noticed, a new version of LIS 19.01 was released on October 20th by The Data Service. We’ve had a play with it: on the whole, it’s an improvement on the previous version. When you install it, do remember to uninstall the old version first, and to update the provider data. There are … read more
Posted in 2011-2012 Changes, Contracts & Funding, Industry News, Newsletters
Tagged LIS, PFR, The Data Service, YPLA
PICS for 2011/12
As usual, we will issue the 2011/12 version of PICS (which will be labelled version 14.50) in the middle of August. Please remember that you should use the first half of the month to capture all possible starters up to the end of July during this period, and enter August starts only into PICS 14.50. … read more
Posted in Newsletters
SUMMER USER GROUP
By almost every measure, this was our most successful PICS User Group yet: more people, more information from our masters at the Information Authority and the SFA, and more general user satisfaction. There was lots of new information there and it is detailed in the slides from the day.
Posted in Newsletters
Training Videos Announced
Those of you who attended the recent User Group will have heard Will Arnold mention the new features we are introducing to our website. One of the new features being put in place to help our customers is training videos. The plan is to have a gradually evolving library of training videos that will help jog … read more
Posted in Hints & Tips, Newsletters, Pellcomp Product Updates, PICS Procedures
Tagged flash, susspensions, training, video, Welcome Page
January Newsletter
For those of you who were unable to attend the recent User Group we have included a summary of the important announcements in our latest newsletter. For this and other news please click here.
Posted in Industry News, Newsletters
Tagged Welcome Page
Pellcomp Staff News
We’d like to introduce our newest member of the team, Mark Goves. In the long-term Mark will be working on our marketing activity, but as with all new staff he’s currently learning the ropes in our Support team in order to get a good understanding of the industry. As such you may be speaking to … read more
Posted in Newsletters
Tagged News 85, Staff news
E2E In The LIS
We have a fairly good correspondence between PICS and the LIS for E2E and FL funding. We notice, however, that no E2E basic and enhanced qualification bonuses are appearing in the LIS (PICS codes E2QuB and E2QuE): we think that this may be an error, and is likely to be corrected in a further version … read more
Posted in Contracts & Funding, Newsletters, PICS Procedures
Tagged E2E, LIS, News 85
Changing Funding Organisations
Some features within PICS, such as the Monthly Returns, are specific to the Funding Organisation that is being displayed in the top-right of the PICS main screen. With the move to new SFA/YPLA Funding Organisation codes, you may now have a requirement to switch between these codes on a regular basis. The easiest way to … read more
Posted in Newsletters, Pellcomp Product Updates
Tagged News 85
Lad Approval Dates and PICS
The Support team are getting a lot of calls at the moment with regard to adding aims in PICS. There have been an unusually high number of updates to the LAD recently with various changes to approval and validity dates, which is causing understandable confusion. We’ve made a number of changes in PICS to make … read more
Posted in Newsletters
Tagged LAD, News 85
Charge For Foundation Learning
We’ve had a few enquiries recently from providers as to why they were not charged for Foundation Learning in their annual Support & Maintenance, so we’d just like to clarify this point. Previously E2E was licensed as part of our standard ER programmes, despite it requiring separate LR exports, validation, and LIS reconciliation. The move … read more
Posted in Contracts & Funding, Newsletters
Tagged Foundation Learning, News 85