Agency Testing

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Interface Testing

What are interfaces? Interfaces refer to data exchanges between Florida PALM and external business systems. Florida PALM will interface with agency business systems, enterprise partners (e.g., MFMP, People First) and third parties (e.g., banks). Agencies are responsible for gaining an understanding of planned Florida PALM functionality, making decisions about how the agency will provide or consume Florida PALM information, and preparing agency business systems for interfacing with Florida PALM.

To support agency understanding, based on the completion of the design phase, the Project has provided a list of interface layouts through the Interface Catalog on the Knowledge Center. As the Project, enterprise partners, agencies, and third parties complete testing (e.g., system testing, interface testing, and user acceptance testing), additional changes may be made to interface layouts. The “As of Date” column on the Interface Catalog tables reflects either the original date of publication or the most recent date on which the layout was updated. Please check the Interface Catalog regularly for updates.

What options are there besides interfaces to extract data out of Florida PALM? Interfaces are one of several ways that information can be obtained from Florida PALM. The Data Availability Graphic illustrates where and how data will be available within the Florida PALM system, the Data Warehouse, and agency business systems. This graphic also describes where agencies may choose to receive information using standard interfaces from Florida PALM to maintain agency business systems that support those ongoing operations. Alternatively, agencies may request the Project create agency-unique data extracts from the Data Warehouse to support agency-unique needs for information not contained in the Project provided interfaces. These requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. More information about the Reporting Solution and reports and reporting tools offered by Florida PALM and the Data Warehouse can be found in the Knowledge Center.

How many stages of interface testing are planned? There are three phases of testing planned for the Financials and Payroll implementation. Each is described below

How can agencies learn more about interface testing?  An Interface Testing and Conversion workshop was held on June 11, 2025. During the all-day event, the Project’s leadership, functional, and technical team members provided information and discussion opportunities to support the understanding of agency data and business system readiness activities. You can learn more by viewing the Presentation and Video.

All Agency User Acceptance Testing

The Project will host in-person sessions for all agencies from February – May 2026 covering the Subject Matter described in the table below.

A limited number (up to three) of agency participants may attend each subject matter, which may be one or more days/sessions long. Different participants may attend different subject matters, but participants will be required to attend all the days of the subject matter for which they’ve been registered. For example, the three participants that are registered for the Paying Supplier Obligations subject matter should attend all sessions; however, a different set of three participants can be registered for and attend Processing Transactions Within and Across State Agencies sessions.

Each subject matter is typically offered twice. Participants will attend the sessions denoted with their agency’s pay cycle. For example:

• If an agency runs FTE payroll biweekly, participants will attend sessions noted in the Audience of “Biweekly”.
• If an agency runs FTE payroll monthly, participants will attend sessions noted in the Audience of “Monthly”.

Agencies were purposely grouped to better align the instruction, conversations, and examples during the sessions. The table below shows which agencies have which pay cycles.

Participants may find session information and may register, when applicable, on the Knowledge Center under UAT Communications. View the calendar of Project-hosted UAT sessions below, paying attention to reference the appropriate Audience based on an agency’s pay cycle.