The majority of academic research staff (including visiting and honorary staff) and research support staff will have access to Pure automatically without the need to sign-up. However, if you are unable to log into Pure using your University username and password you can request access here.

Academic research staff will be granted ‘personal’ user access to Pure, which provides the ability to add and edit own content.

Administrative users may require access to a number of different roles in Pure and should contact pure@manchester.ac.uk for advice before applying for roles.

If you need to amend your access at any point please email pure@manchester.ac.uk. 

If you have been advised of a delayed grant start date, you should amend the actual start and end dates to reflect this, leaving the expected start and end dates as they were. You should also add a comment to the record to note the reason for change.

If your grant has been paused, you will need to create a non-financial amendment record from the original award and add the revised start and end dates. You should also add a comment to the record to note the details of the pause.

The easiest way to alert Research Finance colleagues is to send them an in-system message, using the Comments button on the History and Comments tab. Enter your message and select the user you wish to send the message to. Click the save button to send the message. Colleagues in Research Finance have access to see Award records and associated documentation.

There are only a small number of circumstances whereby records should be deleted from Pure. Deleting records from Pure removes them completely – there is no possible retrieval of the record or the attached documents so think carefully before deleting any records.

Records should only be deleted if they were created in error, or where a duplicate has been created.

If an award is successful, but the project is not going ahead, it should not be deleted. Instead its status should be recorded as terminated or curtailed (for guidance on these statuses please refer to the AMM manual).

To delete an award record, please follow the steps below:

• Before you delete an award record, make sure you remove the relations to any linked records from the record you wish to delete. If you do not remove them, it is very likely that all related records in the cluster will be deleted as well.
• In order to unlink the records, open the duplicate award record you wish to delete and go to the ‘Related Applications’, ‘Related project’ or ‘Related Awards’ sections. Click the minus button next to the records you need to unlink. You will need to click ‘save’ to action this change (if you do not save the change the records will remain related to this award record).
• Reopen the duplicate award record you wish to delete and check that no related records are shown. Check that all attached documents are securely saved elsewhere so they are not lost when you delete the record.
• To delete a record, open it to edit it, click the red X button in the bottom right hand corner.

Please note, any investigators named on the award record will be automatically notified of its deletion.

If you cannot see the red X button to delete the record please contact the Pure Support team (pure@manchester.ac.uk). 

Where an awarded project has had one or many amendments (financial or non-financial), these are shown as individual records in Pure, attached to the original award. Therefore you may see multiple award records with the same title, but these will refer to different activity. 

The majority of information on the award record can be transferred from the application record on set up. Users must make sure that the actual and expected start and end dates are correct, only 1 PI should be selected and a funder and funder value have been added.

The Create R code tag should be used when you want to request an R code in Oracle Financials.

No Finance Code Required tag should be used when you do not want a new code created in Oracle Financials e.g. for non-financial agreements, amendments, sub-contract and other grant awards/other contract project agreements. It is important to mark records as not requiring a finance code so that reporting of finance code creation is accurate.

The Early Account Code tag should only be used in conjunction with the Create R Code tag and added when an account code is being generated before an award letter or signed contract is in place. For an early account code to be generated both the create R code and early account code tags must be added. Guidance on the use of the Early Account Code tag can be found here. 

RS are able to request access to Oracle Financials in order to check whether funders are active. A full guide on using Oracle Financials to check funder status can be found here. If a funder does not have an active account in Oracle Financials then an R code cannot be created. Please ensure you are using the correct organisation record with the correct address and HESA category if a funder has multiple records in Oracle.

If a funder (organisations we are invoicing/billing) does not exist in Oracle Financials then a CAF form needs to be completed and sent to customersetup@manchester.ac.uk

If a supplier (organisations we are paying/passing funding to) does not exist in Oracle Financials then a SAF form must be completed and sent to suppliersetup@manchester.ac.uk

If an R code has not been generated within 2 hours of the create R code tag being added you should firstly check that all details such as start and end date have been added to the record and that only 1 PI is listed on the record. Secondly make sure that the funder is active in Oracle Financials. A guide on how to do this is available here. Once you have completed these checks and an R code has still not been generated then contact pure@manchester.ac.uk

Award Mobilisation is the point at which a grant application has been awarded by a funder or a contract negotiation is nearing completion. Before a research project can begin certain tasks and activities must be completed to mobilise the award and ensure it is set-up correctly and is financially open for spend. These tasks and activities are generally completed by Research Services (RS), Research Finance (RF) and the Principal Investigator (PI). Other PS teams may be involved as well, such as P&OD, Contracts Teams, Compliance and RIsk and Technical Services.