Update IRIS Financials Purchasing - Release 6.0.371 (June 2025)

This release includes general fixes and updates, and improvements to our E-Procurement feature for IRIS Financials Purchasing.

Update the software

PS Cloud customers, this IRIS Financials Purchasing release is being 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 6.0.371.

New Features

ESPO Available as an E-Procurement Supplier

Only for educational organisations.

Our E-Procurement feature can now be used to order from ESPO.

To get started using E-Procurement with ESPO, complete the set up process with ESPO:

Full details about the changes to E-Procurement for ESPO are included in New Features section and the Fixes and Updates section of this release note. For more information about setting up and using E-Procurement with ESPO, go to IRIS Financials Purchasing - E-Procurement with ESPO.

Fixes and Updates

  • Improved updates for security.
  • VAT Codes can be entered on a purchase order document rather than selected from a drop-down list.
  • Invoices can no longer be posted with Currency as NOT SET when created from a draft document that has been removed.
  • Passwords must now meet the complexity set in Financials Administrator.
  • To view the Licensing page, users must log into IRIS Financials Purchasing.

E-Procurement

  • Design updates to improve accessibility and usability.
  • An error message is now displayed if a basket has already been posted or sent for approval.
  • Multiple baskets are no longer created when using Microsoft Edge.
  • The outstanding order message now only displays on the Supplier Locations page, if an existing order has been made for one of the locations.
  • A message is now displayed if an ID for an E-Procurement Supplier has not been set.
  • E-Procurement is no longer available from the Purchasing menu if the user does not have permission to access it.
  • Users approving orders for E-Procurement are no longer logged out when the order is sent to the supplier.
  • KCS education Orders Only - A set shipping fee is not added to the order request when the order does not meet the minimum order value set by KCS education.
  • Changes the Supplier Settings page:
    • Supplier Search Term no longer mandatory and a default term can be set by administrators.
    • Required field warnings on the Supplier Settings have been updated.
    • When saving supplier details, the Location/Entity Title is not unique, a warning is now displayed.

Removed Features

  • Settings have been removed from the E-Procurement Select Supplier page and now only accessed on the supplier tile for each location.