System Components

Components Operating environments in which responsibility is separated and applied.

ICCE System Components are the distinct operating environments in which the system’s principal responsibilities are separated and controlled. Each Component receives defined information, applies the controls relevant to its role, and produces structured outputs relied upon elsewhere in ICCE.

Together, the Components turn an engagement from a request for temporary work into a controlled employment, payroll, payment and evidence record. As the engagement progresses, information is added, checked and transformed without losing its source or attribution, creating an increasingly complete account of the activity and its outcome.

Component Lifecycle

An ICCE engagement is not handled as one large process owned by one part of the platform. Responsibility is separated so that participation, financial readiness, engagement activity, payroll and payment are each controlled within the part of the system designed for that task.

This separation is important because each stage adds a different kind of evidence. Identity and authority are established before activity is attributed to participants; engagement information records what work is being undertaken and what happens during it; payroll establishes the resulting PAYE and statutory position; payment processing records the execution outcome; and Reporting & Intelligence Module brings the connected records together into usable, permissioned evidence.

Onboarding & Access Controls

Establishes who is participating, what evidence supports that participation and what each authorised party may do.

Funding Control Module

Checks that required financial conditions are present before relevant engagement activity proceeds.

Engagement Control Module

Forms and manages the engagement record, controlled employment activity, time information, interactions and corrections.

Integrated Payroll Module

Converts verified engagement and time information into deterministic PAYE payroll and statutory records.

Payment Trust Centre

Connects verified payroll outcomes to controlled, tracked and reconciled payment execution.

Reporting & Intelligence Module

Reconciles the controlled records produced across the engagement and presents transaction-level or aggregated evidence to authorised stakeholders.

Simplified public view. The diagram explains how responsibility and evidence accumulate across an engagement; it is not a representation of protected internal architecture sequencing.

Component Details

Each Component has a distinct responsibility. The separation means that a later part of ICCE does not need to reinterpret or recreate the work of an earlier one: it receives structured information, performs its own defined function, and adds its own attributable outputs to the growing engagement record.

Information received

Participant identity, organisational information, role information and the evidence required to support access to the relevant part of ICCE.

Control applied

Validation, verification where required, participation checks and role-based permissions determine what each authorised party is permitted to submit, view or perform.

Outputs produced

A validated participant record, defined access permissions and attributable activity connected back to the person or organisation responsible for it.

Information received

Relevant engagement context together with the financial and support information required for ICCE to assess whether the activity sits within permitted financial conditions.

Control applied

Funding-readiness checks test the required conditions before relevant activity proceeds and support restriction of later activity where those conditions are no longer satisfied.

Outputs produced

A controlled readiness outcome and attributable evidence showing that the relevant financial conditions were assessed before dependent engagement activity relied on them.

Information received

Engagement requirements, participant and organisational attribution, work information, worker and engager interactions, working-time information and relevant confirmations or challenges.

Control applied

Defined engagement rules govern setup, controlled PAYE employment activity, progression, working-time confirmation, challenge, correction and conclusion. Material actions remain attributable to the party or system event that produced them.

Outputs produced

A controlled engagement record containing the verified operational information, employment context, confirmed work information, corrections and evidence history required by later parts of ICCE.

Information received

Verified engagement and working-time records together with the worker payroll information and statutory settings required to perform PAYE payroll correctly.

Control applied

Deterministic gross-to-net calculation applies PAYE, National Insurance, pensions and other relevant statutory rules from the authoritative inputs. HMRC-aligned reporting and payroll artefacts are produced from the resulting payroll record.

Outputs produced

Gross pay, net pay, tax, employee and employer National Insurance, applicable pension and other deductions or liabilities, HMRC-aligned records and worker-facing payroll artefacts.

Information received

Verified payroll outcomes and the authorised information required for payment processing and later reconciliation.

Control applied

Payment activity is processed through a controlled, tracked environment. The execution process follows the verified payroll outcome and does not independently redefine entitlement or payroll value.

Outputs produced

Tracked payment activity, payment-status information and transaction evidence reconciled back to the payroll outcome that created the obligation.

Information received

Controlled participation, engagement, payroll, statutory and payment records together with the attribution and evidence history attached to them.

Control applied

Records are reconciled, transformed, grouped and presented according to the needs and permissions of the recipient while preserving the source meaning and attribution of the underlying information.

Outputs produced

Transaction-level views, project and Framework reporting, worker and agency records, payroll and payment evidence, exception visibility, audit-ready records and aggregated stakeholder intelligence.

Control Is Built Into the Route

The Components are powerful because they do not sit beside the engagement as optional administration. They form the environment through which ICCE-controlled activity is handled. Required information, permissions, checks and processing rules are therefore applied as part of the route itself.

This creates a stronger basis for compliant operation and fair worker treatment. Participants are guided through defined requirements, important actions remain attributable, worker-facing payroll and payment information is connected to the underlying engagement, and missing, inconsistent or exceptional conditions are surfaced rather than disappearing inside separate supplier processes.

Route adherence

System controls constrain activity to the permitted ICCE route, reducing reliance on participants remembering or recreating the required process independently.

Worker transparency

Employment, time, payroll, deductions and payment evidence remain connected to the engagement, supporting clearer worker information and routes for challenge or correction.

Multi-party accountability

Information and actions remain attributable to the participant or system event that created them, helping authorised stakeholders understand who contributed to each outcome.

Compliance support

Required system controls, deterministic payroll, statutory processing and audit-ready evidence give participants a stronger operating basis for meeting their responsibilities and demonstrating how activity was handled.

ICCE system controls support compliant operation and evidence; they do not replace the legal, regulatory or professional responsibilities held by individual participants or external authorities.