Acumatica Cloud ERP Software Version 2024 R1 Beta Overview

Acumatica released Beta for 2024 R1, the first of our biannual product updates, on Jan 30th.

Below are the details on the key features of 2024 R1:

Feature Benefits for Financials and Payroll
  • Streamline point-of-sale (POS) payment transaction processing by utilizing a variety of credit card readers to record payments directly from the Acumatica solution without third-party software.
  • Automate for vacation and sick time to reset based on specific dates and establish banding rules to increase time off bank balances.  Enable administrators to manage PTO banks during employee probation periods and plan for future bank changes.
  • Enforce optional or required approval and rejection reasons for financial transactions, such as invoices, bills, adjustments, memos, and payments.
  • Simplify returns on cash purchases by generating cash return transactions included in bank deposits.
  • Improve efficiency by consolidating multiple employee corporate credit/debit card transactions into one account.
  • Expand transaction capabilities in Canada by easily configuring and customizing export payment file formats for the Royal Bank of Canada and other Canadian financial institutions.
  • Comply with sales tax nexus laws with Exemption Certificate Management from Avalara to collect and manage customer exemption certificates for healthcare providers, government organizations, higher education institutions, non-profits, and qualifying manufacturing product sales.
  • Improve credit memos with inclusive credit term due dates and discount amounts, enabling organizations to better align with invoice due dates for improved payment accuracy, receivable reporting, and cash flow forecasting.
Feature Benefits for CRM
  • Provide a 360-degree view of project details by automatically updating projects with associated activities are automatically updated with related tasks.
  • Tailor email templates by branch for CRM, project, service management, and subcontract communication.
  • Notify support specialists when return merchandise authorizations (RMAs) related to open support cases are closed.
Feature Benefits for Platform and Developers
  • Gain flexibility using Generic Inquiry output values in formulas for other Generic Inquiries used for dashboards, reports, and analysis.
  • Streamline workflow creation with new sequential actions that are independent of conditions which will enable faster workflow processing.
  • Improve business events to create actions and notifications based on triggers and formula-based conditions.
  • Enhance the mobile experience for users with new image thumbnail support for lists on mobile screens.
  • Access multilingual reports via REST APIs.
  • Minimize security risks and streamline system customization processes by defining security access to new system objects during the object publication process.
Feature Benefits for Manufacturers
  • Improve material demand planning by forecasting optional stock and non-stock kit components.
  • Provide manufacturing workers with the flexibility to report production operations out of sequence and multiple operations simultaneously.
  • Optimize MRP generation with ‘planning horizons’ capabilities that enable organizations to define time-constrained data for inclusion in supply and demand calculations.
  • Configure MRP and DRP to include or exclude sales order returns from return merchandise authorization (RMAs) as supply for inventory planning calculations.
Feature Benefits for Contractors, Project, and Service Organizations
  • Quickly view AP cost transactions related to progress billing lines from a new pro forma invoice side panel to ensure timely and accurate vendor payments and increased billing accuracy.
  • Empower users to enter and process negative expense receipts to make a full or partial refund to the corporate credit card for faster and simpler GL account reconciliation.
  • Ensure accurate and efficient handling of pro forma invoice corrections with a streamlined workflow for previously closed and released accounts receivable documents.
  • Leverage one-click initiation to correct invoices created from service documents.
  • Improve project budget updates by project transactions, where budget rules no longer depend on the transaction source and GL account type.
Feature Benefits for Distributors
  • Improve demand planning and forecasting with time-phased purchase orders, kit assembly, and warehouse transfer recommendations with the new Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) application, which includes exception messages for distributed items, kits, and kit components.
  • Streamline small parcel and LTL shipment processing workflows and configure packing and shipping scenarios with Acumatica and 3G Pacejet. The enhanced integration of these shipping and processing capabilities, now in the core of the Acumatica solution, provides transparency for shipment data, including hazardous materials, PRO bill number, delivery instructions, accessorial definitions, non-standard containers, serialized shipping container codes (SSCC), and other packaging and shipment information with no need for separate customization.
  • Expedite return material authorization (RMA) processes with improved document searches using invoice and line details such as sales order type and number, inventory ID, lot or serial number, and order dates.
  • Improve warehouse management activities with bidirectional picking and aggregated quantities for pick lines.
  • Configure unique document approval workflows for invoices, credit memos, debit memos, cash sales, and cash returns.
Feature Benefits for Retailers and Commerce Merchants
  • Gain a unified connection between Acumatica and Amazon with synchronized data for order fulfillment, product availability, Amazon fees, payments, and taxes.
  • Increase efficiency and accuracy by directly importing exchanges to Acumatica from a Shopify POS order for the same product at the same or different price or for another product at the same or different price.
  • Use bidirectional sync to import products from Shopify and BigCommerce stores to Acumatica through the Commerce connector.

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