What's new in IRIS Elements

Find out about the changes we've made.

You can also check our known issues, fixes, and coming soon pages.

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June 2026

IRIS Elements Tax

Intelligent document processing

Only available when creating personal tax returns (SA100).

To help the process of creating self-assessment tax returns, we have launched an intelligent document processing feature. Working with Microsoft, the AI-powered document processing feature reads imported documents, extracts the data, and once reviewed by you, populates the SA100 for that client.

Imported documents are not stored in IRIS Elements. The data values are extracted and the document deleted from its memory store.

IRIS Tax Anomaly Detector Plus launched

An extra option has been added to the IRIS Tax Anomaly Detector — Run enhanced anomaly detection. The enhanced option provides recommended actions to optimise the tax return and validates the data against HMRC rules. These are found under the Tax Optimisation and HMRC validation options in the View menu.

We are happy to provide this enhancement free of charge for the first few months until it is restricted under a chargeable license. For more information, go to https://www.iris.co.uk/accountancy/software/ai/ or contact your IRIS account manager.

May 2026

IRIS Elements Anti Money Laundering Checks

Identity verification summary

We've added an Identity verification summary widget to the AML tab of UK company records.

You can:

  • Monitor biometric ID check results and ID verification code status for all clients associated with the company.
  • Filter to clients with no biometric ID checks to identify and resolve gaps.
  • Download reports and run checks directly from the widget.

Product subscription required: IRIS Elements Anti Money Laundering Checks

IRIS Elements Accounts Production

Lead Schedules

  • Access lead schedules across all balance sheet categories.
  • Explore a detailed breakdown of source data, adjustments, and comparative figures.
  • Download as PDF or Excel.

Currently available for limited companies, LLPs, and farms across all accounting standards.

Product subscription required:IRIS Elements Accounts Production Professional or above

Consolidated group accounts

You can now produce consolidated group accounts for limited companies in IRIS Elements Accounts Production Enterprise.

  • Create and manage the group structure in the parent company's Group structure tab, including adding and removing undertakings.
  • Produce consolidated accounts under FRS102 or IFRS.
  • Add group level postings and adjustments, including intra-group eliminations and goodwill adjustments.
  • Review consolidated figures by account in the Group Trial Balance, with breakdowns by undertaking.

Group accounts are currently available for Limited companies only.

Product subscription required: IRIS Elements Accounts Production Enterprise

Ability to refresh Pending status to Companies House

Previously, submissions to Companies House could find themselves stuck in the Pending status far longer than Companies House was reporting.

A new Refresh option has been launched in the Submission tab, to manually trigger a status refresh between IRIS Elements Accounts Production and Companies House. This option is only available when Status is Pending, it is hidden for all others. If the status remains Pending after refreshing, this is the status reported by Companies House. You can try again later.

If a submission to Companies House was not successfully sent, you must log a support ticket (a Service Cloud account is required) instead. The Refresh option does not re-submit your accounts.

March 2026

IRIS Elements Accounts Production Enterprise

Support for multiple currencies

You can now select which currency symbol to display on accounts reports when producing a new account. Once you have submitted the account, the currency symbol remains the same for the client's future accounts.

You cannot change the currency symbol for existing accounts, instead you would need to create a new client.

If you have an IRIS Elements Tax subscription, you must turn off the synchronisation between IRIS Elements Accounts Production and IRIS Elements Tax if you change the currency symbol.

Product subscription required:IRIS Elements Accounts Production Enterprise

IRIS Elements Company Secretarial

Updated home screen widget and forms list

We've redesigned the home screen widget and forms list so you can access everything that needs your attention in one place.

Home screen widget

The widget now shows a live summary of your activity, including:

  • Number of active forms, divided by status
  • Number of overdue and rejected forms
  • Number of forms accepted and rejected in the last 30 days
  • Number of confirmation statements due

You can select each section to go to a filtered view of Forms.

The widget also alerts you when Companies House credentials are missing from the vault.

Forms

The Forms page has been redesigned to make it easier to manage and track your forms across all clients.

Key changes include:

  • Filter by user
  • Links to client record — select a client name to go straight to their client dashboard.

    For private clients, the link is only available if you have the relevant access.

  • Due date column — a calculated due date (effective date plus 14 days) for each form.
  • Last updated column — shows the most recent date and time a form was updated, and the user who made the change.
  • Sort on all columns — sort any column in ascending or descending order using the column headers.Forms are available for 30 days after being accepted by Companies House.

Product subscription required:IRIS Elements Company Secretarial

IRIS Elements Tax Enterprise

Support for multiple trades

You can now split your limited company's trading activities across separate trades, giving you greater flexibility and clarity in how you organise and report trading income on the Tax Computation.

You can set up each trade with a name, start and end date, and accounting order.

The following data can be allocated across trades:

  • Trade profit/loss postings from Accounts Production
  • Trading adjustments and addbacks, including structures and buildings allowances
  • Capital allowances
  • R&D tax credits
  • Trading losses

    Existing data will automatically be allocated to your first trade.

Product subscription required:IRIS Elements Tax Enterprise

February 2026

IRIS Elements Anti Money Laundering

Download firm-wide risk assessments

We've added the ability to download your completed firm-wider risk assessments in IRIS Elements Anti Money Laundering.

IRIS Elements Accounts Production

Import from QuickBooks™

You can now import your trial balance data directly from QuickBooks.

QuickBooks account required.

Product subscription required: IRIS Elements Accounts Production Professional or above

January 2026

IRIS Academy

We’re excited to announce the launch of IRIS Academy, the new online platform available to all customers.

Our catalogue of courses and webinars are designed to help you get started with new software, build on your existing knowledge, or learn more about new features at your own pace.

Create an account on IRIS Academy to explore the resources available.

IRIS Academy replaces the IRIS Training Centre.