Comparison facts checked 3 November 2026
A Senta and IRIS Elements alternative for practices that only need the deadline side.
Senta is now IRIS Elements Practice Management: a per-user CRM, workflow engine and client portal that sits inside the wider IRIS Elements suite. FilingKeeper is a smaller, separate tool. It does the four jobs around statutory filings: see the risk, clear blockers, chase clients and prove compliance.
Every IRIS and Senta fact below was read from their own pages on the date shown. Where those pages disagree or show no figure, we say so instead of filling the gap.
A suite, or a single job done well.
IRIS Elements is built to be one platform with one client list: practice management, tax, accounts production, AML, proposals and company secretarial, sold as separate products that work together. If you already run IRIS software, that link is its strongest reason to choose it.
FilingKeeper does not try to join a suite. It calculates each client's statutory dates from their own year end, registrations and history, shows the rule and GOV.UK source behind every date, and ranks every open filing as blocked, overdue, due this week or next.
Where IRIS Elements is the stronger fit.
Choose IRIS Elements Practice Management if you want a configurable workflow engine, SMS as well as email automation, a client portal with e-signatures and client Q&A, Outlook integration, or a link to IRIS Accountancy Suite. Its Professional plan also migrates jobs and work items from IRIS Accountancy Suite.
FilingKeeper has none of those, on purpose. It does not do CRM, proposals, AML, time recording or billing.
Where FilingKeeper is the stronger fit.
Choose FilingKeeper if the gap in your practice is deadline certainty, not a whole new platform. It records why a filing is blocked, sends a loginless upload link for the one missing document with chasers that stop when it arrives, and keeps the receipt or confirmation beside the filing after you submit it.
There is no 12-month contract and no per-user charge inside each plan's user limit, and nothing to migrate before you see value: add a few clients and their dates appear.
FilingKeeper vs IRIS Elements (Senta): side-by-side.
IRIS publishes a starting price per user rather than a full price list: its Essentials calculator showed no figure when we read it, and Professional is quoted on request. Older Senta pricing pages still show per-user figures that disagree with each other, so we do not quote them. FilingKeeper prices are on our pricing page.
Sources, read 3 November 2026: IRIS Elements, IRIS Elements Practice Management, Senta on IRIS Elements.
Questions about choosing a IRIS Elements (Senta) alternative.
Senta's own site says Senta by IRIS has been incorporated into IRIS Elements as IRIS Elements Practice Management. IRIS now sells it alongside its tax, accounts production, AML and proposal products.
Not if you want its CRM, workflow engine, client portal or the tie-in with other IRIS products. FilingKeeper does a narrower job: statutory deadlines, filing risk, chasing the documents that block a filing, and proof once you have filed.
IRIS lists Practice Management from £13 per user per month, without stating VAT beside the price, and Essentials comes on a 12-month contract. FilingKeeper is a flat monthly plan that includes a set number of users, with no contract. Which is cheaper depends on your team size and which IRIS plan and add-ons you need, so ask IRIS for a quote.
Yes. FilingKeeper never files and does not replace your accounts production or tax software. You keep your filing software and use FilingKeeper for the deadline view, blockers and chasing.
You can add clients by hand, or by CSV on the Business plan. FilingKeeper does not import from Senta or IRIS automatically. Start with a few clients and check the dates against your current records.
See the focused workflow with your own client book.
Start a 30-day trial with no card, add a few clients and compare the real deadline view with the process you use today.