Update IRIS Financials Purchasing - Release 6.0.327 (April 2024)

This release includes our new E-Procurement feature for IRIS Financials Purchasing.

Version 6.0.327 is only available for IRIS Financials Education customers using the standard databases. The development of the E-Procurement feature is an ongoing project, with updates being made to make it suitable for commercial and charity customers in the future.

Update the software

PS Cloud customers, this IRIS Financials Purchasing release will be made automatically by the PS Cloud team.

On-premise customers — log a support ticket (a Service Cloud account is required) with our support team requesting the install of IRIS Financials Purchasing version 6.0.327.

New Features

E-Procurement

The new E-Procurement feature allows you to automatically create purchase orders when placing orders through supplier websites. A new E-Procurement tile has been added to the home page. Before you can use E-Procurement, it must be set up by an administrator.

As of April 2024, E-Procurement can only be used with Punchout for Amazon Business. In future, the feature will be available for other suppliers.

There are specific rules when using Amazon Business Punchout Integration with IRIS Financials Purchasing E-Procurement. Before using E-Procurement within Amazon Business, review the Rules for using Amazon Business Punchout.

Fixes and Updates

PS Purchasing and PSOnline Name Change

PS Purchasing and PSOnline have had the name and branding changed to IRIS Financials Purchasing.

Login Page

The login page for IRIS Financials Purchasing has been updated to include the new branding, and URL format of https://<servername>/Purchasing/authentication/login.

A redirect has been set up from the previous URL, so you can continue to access IRIS Financials Purchasing from links you have bookmarked or saved as favourite in your browser.

Known Issues

The following issues are known for the release of Version 6.0.327, and are being investigated and worked on where possible. Updates will follow in future release notes.

  • The new Partners and Basket tabs for the E-Procurement feature timeout after 30 minutes if not being used, and require you to log in again.

    Working within the Basket or Amazon pages does not keep the Partners or Basket tab active.

  • Detail Analysis Fields and default user cost centre locations are not supported when completing the Basket.
  • Domain prefixes in your login details (domain/username), which are not necessary to login to IRIS Financials Purchasing but can be used, are not supported by the E-Procurement.
  • The login page does not remember and prepopulate the details used to for the last login.
  • The User Permissions for E-Procurement suppliers does not display the user security group details.