IRIS provides mission-critical software for businesses and organisations of all sizes across many industries to ensure you get it right first time, every time. Wherever you fit, we have a solution for you.
Why IRIS?We exist to simplify the lives of Britain’s businesses by helping create greater operational accuracy and efficiencies in everyday tasks and look forward with confidence.
IRIS Education software is the cornerstone of efficient operations in over 11,000 schools and two-thirds of UK MATs. Including leading providers ParentMail, IRIS Financials, IRIS PlusPay and more, our portfolio of SaaS powers parent engagement, enhances financial management, and supports school leaders to deliver outstanding outcomes for their communities
We’re passionate about maximising outcomes for the education sector
Our education software is designed with the needs of all schools and MATs in mind, driving efficiencies, protecting budgets, ensuring compliance, and enabling school leaders to get on with what they do best – supporting students.
Every year, we process four million online payments for more than 2,000 schools and help over 4,000,000 parents to connect with their child’s school.
Empower back-office productivity
Achieve more and do less every day with software that improves daily operations in education. Automate time-consuming administration and get more from your data with powerful financial, reporting and analytics platforms designed with the needs of schools of all sizes in mind.
Whether your school is maintained, an academy or a further education establishment, IRIS Education Software can support you in meeting (and staying ahead of) regulatory and financial requirements.
Our education management software is developed to meet the needs of multi-site and multi-entity organisations, reducing administration and delivering on complex reporting requirements
Understand the true cost per pupil or student and view a transparent breakdown of the financial position across one or more establishments
Parent engagement and student safeguarding
Reach every family, every day, with parental communications software designed to promote true social inclusivity. For primary schools to large secondary schools and MATs, our education engagement solutions deliver a user-friendly experience for parents, so schools receive a great response when it matters most.
End-to-end parent engagement solutions deliver on every aspect of your communications needs, from absence management to data collection and reporting
Simplify parents’ evening with online event management
Build bespoke surveys and forms to collate parent permissions, data and feedback
Software for all schools and educational establishments
Software for international schools
IRIS Education is the leading technology partner for schools across the UK, Europe, Middle East and East Asia, providing end-to-end operational management for academic achievement, student wellbeing, admissions, and financial administration.
Software for independent schools
Our education software provides parents with platforms to engage with their child’s education. Our portfolio of cloud software and solutions enable flexible working, enabling school staff to securely manage operations anytime, anywhere.
Software for local authorities
We enable better partnerships between local authorities and education institutions, supporting compliance with statutory requirements and ensuring better outcomes for local communities.
Software for virtual schools
We bridge the gap between local authorities and virtual schools. Our secure platform, Looked After Call, enables staff to engage with each other, identify trends, and action early interventions when it matters most.
IRIS Education in practice: first-hand experiences from our customers
From morning registration to locking up at night, IRIS Education software empowers our teams to keep the trust running smoothly.
Durrington MAT, IRIS Education users
One supplier in IRIS Education streamlines school operations at Durrington MAT
Serving a community of nearly 2000 students, the leadership team at Durrington MAT understand the importance of efficient operations and utilise a suite of IRIS Education solutions to streamline every aspect of back-office management. Director of IT Alex Robbins shares his experiences of employing multiple IRIS Education solutions throughout the school day.
School administration moved to the cloud at Beckfoot Trust
Lisa Grimshaw, Trust Finance Officer
Beckfoot Trust is a ten-school trust based in Bradford, West Yorkshire. Their old financial management system wasn’t able to keep up as they moved from a single school to a multi-academy trust, so it was time for change. They recently moved their financial management to the cloud to combat the coronavirus pandemic – with great results.
The COVID-19 crisis has brought with it intimidating new challenges for all schools – not least for administrative managers. 45% have seen an unexpected impact on school finances67%…
Last-minute announcements from the Department for Education left secondary school staff hurriedly making plans to allow for COVID-19 testing and closures in the new term. In response to recent high rates of the virus…
While there has been much speculation that many parents would keep students at home, official figures for the autumn term show nearly 90% of pupils returned; almost nine…
Solutions to empower back-office operations for all educational establishments
Cashless catering
IRIS FasTrak
IRIS FasTrak cashless catering, meal planning, attendance and reporting solutions streamline lunchtime management whilst improving efficiency and reducing waste. Schools utilise their choice of authentication method, including biometric fingerprint, card, PIN, and innovative smart board solutions.
Our financial management software is used by over two thirds of UK MATs. IRIS Financials eliminates the need to reconcile separate ledgers with a unified ledger system and powerful automation tools, enabling simplified, accurate reporting. Choose from a suite of complementary modules to tackle your trust’s and school’s unique challenges.
Make informed decisions with business intelligence software. IRIS Analytics takes the pain out of combining and analysing information from multiple sources. Interactive business intelligence dashboards help users to maximise the value of their resources.
A secure, dynamic and user-friendly budget planning solution that enables users to plan their organisation’s long-term financial position up to five years in advance.
As invoices come in, they’re automatically read and matched against the appropriate records, eliminating the need to manually process them, improving accuracy and saving time.
Manage assets for one school or a hundred from a central location. Ensure statutory compliance, plan regular maintenance and track asset depreciation with ease. Adding assets is easy – simply tag the asset, scan it and add relevant information in the app.
Identity management technology to secure buildings, lockers and computers with innovative smart cards, pin and biometric fingerprint solutions. Define access permissions and monitor usage in real time, streamlining admin and IT processes whilst improving security on site and online.
Versatile platform proven to save schools thousands of pounds a year. ParentMail by IRIS empowers better parent engagement with solutions for messaging, online form collection, parents’ evening and event management. An online portal and free mobile app makes staying on top of school life easy for parents, so schools receive a great response.
Flexible parent engagement software with all-in-one functionality to support large secondary schools and MATs. Instantly translate messages into 40+ languages, send and receive parental forms, manage unauthorised absences and control all channels of communication from a single app, including school social media accounts.
Evolve the recruitment and management of your most important resource – your people. Engage with staff through a single centralised platform and simplify regular activities with easy-to-use workflows and advanced automation.
IRIS PlusPay is trusted by two thousand UK schools to manage four million online payments every year, offering unrivalled flexibility and functionality to make payment admin simple. From topping up dinner money to purchasing school items, IRIS PlusPay facilitates instant payments via a free mobile app and desktop platform.
IRIS Looked After Call helps local authorities to safeguard and monitor looked after children. Our flexible and cost-effective approach to data collection and reporting allows virtual schools to identify trends and action early interventions.
Access your files and IRIS applications from anywhere and at any time and collaborate from any office. Our secure data facility is manned 24 hours a day, guaranteeing that you have access to your mission-critical data as and when you need it.
