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IRIS Accountancy Suite 

Meet your gold-standard accountancy solution

Manage tasks effortlessly and enjoy unmatched efficiency with your IRIS desktop software. 

Discover how this award-winning accountancy solution can save you time, drive value, and empower you with the right resources. 

Built by accountants, for accountants 


When excellence is your service standard, your accountancy suite should help you meet – and keep exceeding – that benchmark. IRIS Accountancy Suite is a powerful, easy-to-use, insight-driven solution that automatically accounts for any legislative change.  As a gold-standard accountancy solution, it’s designed to help firms like yours take their services to the next level.  

A go-to solution for industry professionals  

As an IRIS Accountancy Suite user, you’re in great company.  

The software is a product of over 45 years of innovation and it remains the most popular desktop accountancy solution in the industry. 

Considering our reputation across the industry, it’s not hard to see why: 

  • 24,000 accountancy firms rely on our solutions to ensure success 
  • IRIS are the largest third-party tax filer with HMRC 
  • 425 of the TOP 500 UK accountancy firms partner with us. 
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Security, compliance, efficiency and innovation 

Since day one, IRIS has focused on delivering a secure, integrated accountancy platform that centralises your data. 

With IRIS Accountancy Suite, you can: 

  • Reduce duplicate data input and tiresome retyping 
  • Significantly reduce time spent checking for errors. 
  • Save an average of 23 hours per employee per month. 
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The benefits using IRIS Accountancy Suite 

As an IRIS Accountancy Suite user, you can offer IRIS Elements Cashbook to your sole trader clients at no extra cost.  
IRIS Elements Cashbook lets you provide your sole trader clients with simple, easy-to-use bookkeeping software. By helping your clients digitalise their bookkeeping, you can add significant value to your services at no additional cost to your business. 
To start supporting your sole trader clients today, sign up to Elements Cashbook for free. 
Want to master your accountancy suite? We’ve got you covered. 
Visit our online training centre to explore a wide selection of on-demand learning materials and free training videos.  
Alongside training materials on accountancy software as a whole, you’ll find dozens of videos and on-demand sessions on topics like: 
Personal Tax 
Business Tax 
Practice Management 
Time & Fees. 
Created by the experts behind IRIS Accountancy Suite, these training resources include clear, actionable insights to help you get the most out of your software.  
Our team of experienced outsourcing professionals can support you with bookkeeping, year-end paperwork, tax returns, payroll, and more. 
Think of them as an extra pair of hands, available whenever you need them. 
And the best part? All outsourcing services are fully integrated with and delivered as part of your existing suite. 
As an integrated part of IRIS Accountancy Suite, users can access IRIS KashFlow Connect for free as part of your service subscription. 
KashFlow Connect is a software tool that ensures seamless and accurate transfer of bookkeeping data. Information flows from clients’ records directly to final accounts production, optimising your entire process. 
Book a demo for IRIS KashFlow Connect or speak to your IRIS account manager to start managing client accounting information from a single, easy-to-use dashboard. 
Connect with your clients and improve your accounting practice’s workflow with IRIS OpenSpace; your solution for secure document exchange and electronic approval management.  
IRIS customers can set up an IRIS OpenSpace account and claim 1GB of storage free of charge as part of your membership.  
Create an account to get set up and start using OpenSpace today. 
From product roadshows to Accountex after-parties, live webinars, and expert-led recorded demo sessions, you’re always on the guest list. 
We host regular events throughout the year, and we would be delighted to have you with us to celebrate and connect.  
All you ned to do is sign up for or update your subscription preferences; ensure the “Events” option for Accountancy is ticked, and we’ll send you updates and invitations to all upcoming accountancy events. 

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“IRIS Accountancy Suite is the best in class and the prospect of having our IT needs looked after in a one-stop shop is perfect for us. We’ve been an IRIS customer for over 10 years now and as our business has grown, so too has the technology that IRIS provides. We wouldn’t hesitate to recommend IRIS Software Group to another business.”

Tessa West , Practice Manager at Morris Crocker Chartered Accountants

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“IRIS is an important part of our accountancy practice; it’s as important as any staff member. We’re much more than customer and supplier – it’s a true partnership. I’m on first-name terms with many of the IRIS team and our IRIS account manager gives me lots of good ideas. We’re a small firm, but we punch above our weight with support from IRIS.”

Chris Kember , Senior Partner at Sinden Thackery Partnership

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“We really like the partnership we have with IRIS and the relationship we’ve built with our account manager. As a young independent business, it’s nice to know we have the support of a larger organisation like IRIS on side.”

Ryan Hudson , Director at Howards Chartered Certified Accountants

The right functionality for every task 

IRIS Accountancy Suite is designed to help you operate at maximum efficiency – here are the key processes that make that happen for you. 

Your ultimate accountancy toolkit – but what’s under the hood? 

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    Tackle any task from one platform  

    Whether you need to complete simple compliance tasks or tackle more complex challenges, you can deal with tasks of all sizes from a single easy-to-use platform. 

    With IRIS Accountancy Suite, there’s no need to switch between different types of software for different tasks. 

    And because everything is integrated, you only ever need to enter data into the system once and every module across your whole system can access that data. 

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    Any issues? Turn to your first-rate support team  

    With top-tier software comes a top-tier support team. Our dedicated support staff are trained to handle your inquiries – by email or phone – and resolve issues quickly.  

    With average wait times of less than three minutes to speak to an advisor, you’ll never have to spend hours on hold.  

    Plus, our comprehensive online Knowledge Base lets you access a wealth of self-serve knowledge to help you answer almost any questions that might crop up. 

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    Reduce risk with automatic legislation updates 

    Whenever the law changes, your IRIS desktop software will already be updating itself to ensure your firm remains compliant. 

    Backed by our dedicated compliance team, IRIS Accountancy Suite is always ahead of the game and ready for any regulatory changes. And automatic updates mean you don’t have to worry about manually prompting your software. 

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    Get a complete overview of what’s happening

    With IRIS accountancy software, you can slice and dice data from across your firm and create bespoke reports to help you monitor the KPIs that interest you. 

    Using your software platform, you can compare data between different teams, partners, and offices – not only will you be in the know, but you can use your insights to make smarter, data-backed decisions to help drive success for your firm. 

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    Scalable, flexible and secure remote working  

    Take the full IRIS Accountancy Suite with you, wherever you go – with no compromises. 

    IRIS hosting services allow you and your team to work from anywhere with an internet connection, all within a secure ecosystem that protects your system and your data. 

Make the most of your software with IRISCertified  

In addition to our webinars on industry best practice, we also have online events that explore how you can use your software to its fullest potential. 
Sign up for live events or watch past webinars on-demand with IRIS Certified. 

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