RELEASE NEWS

Introducing Acumatica Cloud ERP: 2026 R1

Available March 2026
2026 R1 Release Highlights Video

Serve up success with Acumatica 2026 R1

Acumatica 2026 R1 delivers the essential ingredients for companies ready to innovate and grow. With AI Everywhere delivering instant insights and automating decisions, this release empowers your team to achieve greater efficiency through industry-tailored solutions, real-time control, and an adaptable, unified platform.

AI Everywhere — Intelligence That Works for You
AI Everywhere — Intelligence That Works for You

AI Studio delivers governance and flexibility, while new AI Assistants surface insights across dashboards, financials, and manufacturing. Every user gains faster, smarter ways to decide and act.

Real-Time Visibility and Control
Real-Time Visibility and Control

From shop-floor kiosks and mobile time capture to in-transit inventory tracking and system-level performance monitoring, 2026R1 gives organizations real-time awareness of their operations—turning data into immediate advantage.

Unified Experience, Seamless Adaptability
Unified Experience, Seamless Adaptability

A modernized user experience, file tagging, and embedded payments connect people, data, and processes in one adaptable system. Everyone benefits from workflows and design that make work easier and implementation faster.

Industry Depth that Delivers Value Day One
Industry Depth that Delivers Value Day One

Each industry edition introduces targeted innovations that solve the most urgent challenges for SMBs in construction, manufacturing, distribution, retail, and professional services—driving faster time-to-value and tangible productivity gains.

PLATFORM AI & PLATFORM

Elevate Your Business with Innovative AI and Cloud Platform Features

Experience the next level of business management with Acumatica’s AI and cloud platform capabilities designed to empower your teams and streamline operations. From intelligent automation to scalable device management, these features work together to enhance security, efficiency, and insight across your organization.
  • Discover insights rapidly with AI-powered data analysis and intuitive assistant capabilities.
  • Protect sensitive information and maintain compliance using advanced data masking and security controls.
  • Uncover business trends and anomalies with robust analytics, including powerful reporting and customizable dashboards.
  • Manage and optimize your operations with enhanced device, document, and signature workflow tools.
  • Ensure system reliability by tracking AI usage and keeping integrations seamless and up to date.
  • Explore even more productivity enhancements from visual meters, pivot tables, mobile action layouts, call integration, web service clarity, and support for PostgreSQL — all designed to keep your teams agile and in control.
Interact with ERP Data Like Talking to a Colleague with AI Assistant

Discover Insights Instantly with the AI Assistant

Ask questions in plain language and get immediate answers from your data without searching through multiple screens. The AI Assistant delivers insights as text, charts, or tables, allowing you to drill down into records and even create new dashboards directly from your conversation, turning data into action faster.

Protect Sensitive Information with Data Masking

Secure your confidential data, like account numbers and pricing, when using AI tools. Data masking ensures that real information never leaves your ERP solution, allowing you to leverage powerful AI capabilities for analysis and content generation without compromising security or privacy.

Mask Sensitive Data for Secured AI
Spot Data Issues with AI-Powered Anomaly Detection

Uncover Hidden Trends with Advanced Anomaly Detection

Identify unusual patterns and outliers in more complex data sets by running anomaly detection on nested generic inquiries. This enhancement allows you to analyze information from multiple data sources, providing deeper insights and helping you proactively address potential issues before they impact your business.

Track AI Usage to Optimize Performance and Costs

Gain real-time visibility into your large language model (LLM) usage with detailed statistics on tokens, prompts, and connections. This insight helps you monitor spending, refine prompts for efficiency, and make informed decisions about your AI tools, ensuring you stay on budget while maximizing performance.

Control Costs for AI Usage
Customize AI Connection Parameters

Customize AI Connections for Uninterrupted Service

Keep your AI tools perfectly in sync with your provider's latest requirements by manually adding or removing connection parameters. This flexibility ensures you can adapt to changes instantly, preventing errors and maintaining seamless integration without waiting for system-wide updates.

Strengthen AI Security with Reusable System Instructions

Ensure consistent and secure AI behavior by creating a central library of reusable instructions for your prompts. This allows security experts to define standard safety and compliance guidelines that engineers can easily incorporate into their work, speeding development and promoting governance.

Reusable AI System Instructions
Organize ERP Documents Using Tags

Organize Documents Instantly with Tag-Based File Management

Apply custom tags and permission settings to any file across the entire platform. Search, filter, and share files by tag, ensuring the right teams can quickly find what they need.

Send Documents for E-Signature with Built-In eSign Integration

Accelerate your workflows by sending contracts and agreements for electronic signature directly from Acumatica using integrated Adobe Acrobat Sign and Docusign tools. Manage, track, and sync signed documents seamlessly, ensuring timely approvals and a secure, streamlined signing experience without custom integrations.

Send ERP Documents for Electronic Signatures
Excel-Based Financial Reporting

Transform Your Financial Reporting With Dynamic Analytical Report Manager to Excel Integration

Deliver live, dynamic financial reporting by exporting Acumatica's Analytical Report Manager (ARM) data straight into Excel. Instantly edit parameters, refresh data, and maintain audit trails — all while working in the familiar Excel environment your team already trusts.

ACCOUNTING & CRM ACCOUNTING & CRM

Transform Your Business With Next-Generation Financial and CRM Enhancements

Gain a sharper edge with powerful new features that strengthen your finance operations and foster stronger customer relationships. These updates are designed to drive efficiency, boost accuracy, and give you actionable insights to keep your business moving forward.
  • Accept secure mobile payments and accelerate cash flow.
  • Enter foreign amounts directly to speed international payments, avoid manual rate calculations, and reduce rounding errors.
  • Import Stripe settlement batches to speed reconciliation.
  • Apply refunds directly to bills and invoices.
  • Enhance compliance with advanced reporting and seamless bank feeds.
  • Generate AI-powered CRM insights to empower your teams with customer sentiment and recommendations.
  • Strengthen relationships with a unified activity streams.

Automate Accounts Payable Payments with BILL

Improve control and visibility over vendor payments processed through BILL. With enhanced vendor connection management, more predictable payment processing, and faster delivery options for urgent checks, you can streamline your AP workflows with greater confidence and efficiency.

Transform Your AP with Seamless Bill.com Integration
Automate the AP Remittance Process

Accept Mobile Payments Securely from Anywhere

Empower your field service technicians and sales teams to collect customer payments on the go. By using a compact Bluetooth card reader with the Acumatica mobile app, you can process secure EMV transactions instantly, accelerating cash flow and improving the customer experience.

Enhance Your Foreign Currency Payment Experience

Process international payments faster and more precisely. You can now enter amounts directly in the document currency when paying bills or receiving payments, eliminating manual cross-rate calculations and reducing the risk of rounding discrepancies.

Multicurrency Payments from Your ERP
Settle Stripe Payments in Your ERP System

Settle Stripe Payments with Enhanced Visibility

Streamline reconciliation for businesses using Stripe outside the United States and Canada by importing settlement batches directly into your ERP solution. This enhancement provides greater visibility into transaction fees and adjustments. It ensures your financial records are always accurate.

Support AMEX GL1025 Files in Bank Feed

Automate the import of American Express corporate card transactions by using the GL1025 file format with bank feeds. This integration streamlines expense processing by reducing manual data entry and helping you efficiently manage a high volume of employee expenses.

Support AMEX GL1025 Files in ERP System Bank Feeds
Prepayment Invoices

Create Prepayment Invoices Directly from Purchase Orders

Streamline your procurement process by generating prepayment invoices from purchase orders with a single click. This direct link ensures accuracy, reduces manual data entry, and automatically applies paid prepayments to the final AP bill, simplifying reconciliation.

Send Payment Links for Prepayment Invoices

Make it easier for customers to pay by sending convenient payment links for AR prepayment invoices. You can share a URL or a QR code on the printed document, allowing customers to complete payments quickly and securely online while keeping the document status automatically updated.

Customer Prepayment QR Code Links
Drop-Down Lists and Date Pickers for Customer and Vendor Payments

Improve Payment Method Data Entry

Ensure consistent and accurate payment information for customers and vendors. By using controls like drop-down lists and date pickers for payment method details, you can reduce data entry errors, improve data quality, and create a more intuitive user experience.

Empower Customers with a Reimagined Self-Service Portal

Thrill customers with self-service access to account information, balances, and connected Acumatica Payments for secure invoice payments.

AI-generated support case summaries

Generate AI-Powered Summaries for Immediate Insights

Refresh your understanding of opportunities and cases instantly without reading through entire records. AI-generated summaries analyze recent interactions to provide a quick overview of customer sentiment, key details, and recommended next steps, helping you save time and focus on actionable solutions.

Recognize VAT on AP Prepayment Invoices

Create prepayment invoices in Accounts Payable to comply with tax regulations that require VAT to be recognized at the time of payment. When prepayment is paid, taxes are automatically included in the correct reporting period, and the system reverses the VAT when the final bill is applied to prevent duplicate recognition.

VAT Tax Compliant AP Prepayment Invoices
ERP Approval Workflow History

Track Complete Approval Histories with Ease

Gain full visibility into your approval workflows. You can now view a comprehensive history of who approved or rejected a record, when the decisions were made, and which decisions remain active, ensuring total transparency and accountability across your operations.

Unify Customer Interactions with the Activity Stream

Grasp the full context of any customer relationship at a glance. The Activity Stream provides a clear, readable layout of all related communications and tasks, making it easy to search, filter, and drill down into the specific details you need to drive shared success.

Case Management for Vendor Partners

Access Key Details Instantly with Interactive Side Panels

Review essential information about your customers, vendors, salespeople, and employees without leaving your current screen. Interactive side panels give you immediate access to open documents, balances, and compensation details, breaking down data silos and accelerating your daily tasks.

Streamline Communication with Multiple-Document Emails

Save time and simplify your correspondence by attaching multiple shipments or purchase orders to a single email. You can even combine multiple documents into one convenient file, ensuring your customers and vendors receive all necessary information efficiently.

De-Dupe ERP Records

Prevent Duplicate Records to Maintain Clean Data

Keep your customer and vendor information accurate and organized. Prevent duplicates by validating customer and vendor records at the point of entry or with a single click. The system alert is removed once the duplicates are resolved.

Gain Instant Margin Insights to Maximize Profitability

Make smarter, faster decisions during negotiations. By viewing the estimated margin amount and percentage directly within your opportunities and sales quotes, you can accurately assess deal profitability early in the sales process and protect your organization's financial health.

CONSTRUCTION & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONSTRUCTION & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Streamline Your Projects, Payroll, and Time Management

Empower your construction, professional services, project management, and payroll teams with a unified ERP solution to optimize operations, ensure compliance, and drive sustainable growth. By streamlining workflows and providing real-time visibility into costs, resources, and materials, these enhancements help you stay agile and protect your bottom line.
  • Accelerate change order processing to maintain schedules and track owner approvals seamlessly.
  • Align project and branch data entry to ensure costs are properly applied by automating branch assignment.
  • Optimize material management by purchasing and issuing materials directly to projects with new material management capabilities.
  • Synchronize flexible employee time card periods perfectly with your specific payroll cycles.
  • Capture mobile time tracking and daily labor logs directly from the field.
  • Manage field operations and global teams with advanced mobility

General Project Accounting, Payroll, and Time Management Features

Construction Project Change Orders and Change Request Workflows

Accelerate Change Order Workflows

Release the costs of a change order before you receive formal approval for the revenue portion, keeping your projects on schedule. You can easily track the project owner's approval process with new statuses and reuse change requests from reversed change orders to eliminate manual rework.

Align Project and Branch Data in Financial Documents

Ensure that your costs, commitments, and approvals always link to the correct legal entity. Accounts payable clerks and purchasing agents can now select only valid project and branch combinations when entering purchase orders, subcontracts, and bills, significantly reducing coding errors.

Manage Project Financials by Branch
Sync Time Cards with Payroll Cycles

Synchronize Time Cards With Your Payroll Cycles

Gain greater control over how your team reports time across the organization. You can define flexible time card periods that match your exact payroll calendar, allowing you to assign weekly, biweekly, semi-monthly, or monthly frequencies to different employees.

Manage Employment Insurance Rates Flexibly

Manage and apply different Employment Insurance rates across your entire organization with ease. You can assign specific rates by company, branch, or regulatory account within a single payroll tenant to ensure complete compliance.

Manage and apply different employment insurance rates across your organization
Project Activity Audit

Validate Project Activity with Comprehensive Audit Reports

Gain a consolidated, audit-ready view of all project activity. The new project audit report lists all related documents and unbilled transactions, helping you quickly identify outstanding items and validate your project documentation.

Construction Features

Modernize Project Document Management

Keep your project files organized and accessible. You can configure tag structures by project, assign tags to multiple files with a single click, access line-level attachments, and prevent duplicate uploads.

Project Document Management with Tags
Professional Services and Construction Project Material Lists

Optimize Project Material Procurement

Plan, purchase, and issue materials directly to projects without needing a sales order. You can easily build material requirements from quotes and budgets, select provisioning sources, allocate warehouse inventory, and track the receipt and movement of materials to the project site from a single centralized location.

Simplify Change Order Workflows and Reporting

Standardize change requests into change orders with a unified process, reducing customization and manual rework. This ensures every change is fully visible for margin, billing, and compliance.

Monitor Performance with WIP Insights
Forecast Project Costs by Quantity and Unit Rate

Forecast Costs by Quantity and Unit Rate

Improve your project cost forecasting with more accurate, date-sensitive projections. You can now forecast your upcoming project costs based on specific quantities and unit rates to maintain strict control over your budget.

Professional Service Features

Maximize Employee Utilization

View exactly how employee time is allocated across project and non-project activities. By providing structured insight into billable versus non-billable hours, this report helps leadership identify underutilized or overloaded team members and make informed staffing decisions.

Professional Service and Construction Employee Utilization
Analyze Professional Service or Construction Project Revenue On Demand

Analyze Project Revenue On Demand

Emulate the billing process for time-and-expense projects whenever you need it, without creating actual invoices. This analysis calculates the exact revenue you would generate if you ran billing today, giving you real-time visibility into your earnings.

Track Unbilled Project Revenue Aging

Gain a clear, real-time view of your unbilled work in progress. This report breaks down your unbilled revenue into aging buckets, empowering managers to understand potential earnings and improve overall billing practices.

Unbilled Project Revenue Aging
Mobile Time Reporting for Construction and Field Service

Capture and Track Time from the Field

Give your field teams simple, effective tools to track time on any mobile device. Workers log hours quickly by selecting from a list of active jobs for easy clock-in options with persistent timers, and fast job switching. Smart cost code defaults help prevent entry errors and keep labor costs accurate. Foremen can review and approve time directly from the Daily Field Report, so projects stay on schedule and operations run smoothly.

DISTRIBUTION & COMMERCE DISTRIBUTION & COMMERCE

Accelerate Growth and Efficiency with Innovative Features for Distributors, Retail Merchants, and Inventory-Centric Businesses

Unlock greater control, visibility, and speed with features designed to drive growth, improve profits, and control costs. Streamline inventory, improve order management, and empower your team for continuous improvement.
  • Increase order fulfillment efficiency with on-the-fly picking location selection
  • Automate approvals and paperwork for streamlined processes
  • Create requisitions in varied base currencies
  • Optimize receiving with recommended put-away locations
  • Improve sales workflows with new ecommerce and retail features
Change Picking Locations On-the-Fly

Change Picking Locations on the Fly

Increase picking flexibility by allowing warehouse staff to change item locations directly during the picking process to accommodate real-time inventory movements.

Enable Approvals for Inventory Adjustments

Strengthen control over inventory transactions with a configurable approval workflow for inventory adjustments, ensuring accuracy and preventing unauthorized changes.

Inventory Adjustment Approvals
Purchase Requisitions in Varied Base Currencies

Create Requisitions in Multiple Base Currencies

Simplify global procurement by creating requisitions for items from different subsidiaries with different base currencies, all within a single request.

Expedite Receiving with Recommended Put-Away Locations

Speed up the receiving process and optimize warehouse space with system-recommended put-away locations based on predefined rules.

Recommended Put-Away Locations
Auto-Generate Lot and Serial Numbers

Generate Lot and Serial Numbers Automatically

Improve traceability and reduce manual data entry by automatically generating lot and serial numbers using flexible, user-defined templates.

Create Batch Pick Lists Despite Shortages

Create pick lists for batches of orders, even with inventory shortages, giving you the flexibility to fulfill partial orders and manage backorders efficiently.

Create Pick Lists with Shortages
Inventory Kit Component Planning

Improve Planning for Traceable Inventory Kit Components

Enhance lot tracked or serialized kit component forecasting by including them in inventory planning calculations to ensure you have the right parts on hand to meet demand.

Assign Default Sources for Non‑Stock Items

Streamline purchasing for non-stock items by setting a default purchase order source (normal or drop-ship). When this is set, the system automatically fills in the PO Source field on the sales order. This is used for related purchase orders and requisitions.

Default Sources for Non-Stock Items
Streamlined Pacejet Shipping Workflows

Streamline Shipping with Enhanced Pacejet Integration

Streamline shipping operations with a redesigned Pacejet integration that improves performance, usability, and reliability, resulting in a smoother logistics process.

Gain Control with Enhanced eCommerce Connector Mapping

Improve data synchronization between Acumatica and your ecommerce platform with more flexible and powerful mapping capabilities for a seamless connection.

Enhanced eCommerce Connector Mapping
Import BigCommerce B2B Companies to Acumatica

Import BigCommerce Companies for B2B Commerce

Strengthen your B2B commerce operations by connecting BigCommerce B2B Edition with Acumatica. This enhancement supports the B2B features within BigCommerce, ensuring that business account data is consistent and up to date across both systems. You can effortlessly import and synchronize company accounts, additional B2B customer details, and orders. This seamless connection keeps your vital business account data aligned, empowering you to manage relationships and drive growth with confidence.

Leverage Acumatica Payments for Shopify and BigCommerce

Offer a seamless and secure checkout experience by connecting Acumatica Payments directly with your Shopify or BigCommerce storefronts.

Process Shopify and BigCommerce Orders with Acumatica Payments
Tax Enhancements for Acumatica's Shopify Connector

Simplify Marketplace Tax Reconciliation with Smarter Shopify Integration

Enhance Shopify marketplace integrations with Shop, TikTok, Instagram, and Walmart by intelligently handling marketplace-remitted taxes, enabling precise tax account mapping, streamlined payment and refund processing, and more accurate financial reporting within Acumatica ERP.

Streamline Device Management for Greater Scalability

Upgrade your hardware operations with an enhanced Device Hub that features a simplified configuration and robust security. Handle multiple simultaneous tasks from printers, scales, and handhelds without slowdowns. This modernization reduces implementation time, boosts system reliability, and empowers your team to manage critical warehouse operations and scale your business with confidence.

Improve Performance of Scales, Printers, and Other Connected Devices with Your ERP Platform
Light B2B Sales Portal

Sell to Business Customers with the Improved Customer Portal

Empower business customers to place B2B orders safely and securely from the reimagined customer self-service portal with access to inventory levels.

New Amazon Dashboards Deliver Actionable Commerce Insights

Unlock greater visibility into your Amazon operations with new purpose-built dashboards in the Amazon Connector. Monitor sales profitability, Amazon fees, refunds, item-level performance, FBA inventory reconciliation, and settlement reports—all in one centralized view within Acumatica ERP. These interactive dashboards empower teams with real-time insights to improve margins, streamline reconciliation, and make more informed business decisions.

New Amazon Connector Dashboard for Acumatica Cloud ERP
MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURING

Take Manufacturing Success Further with Unmatched Control and Visibility

Streamline your production processes with advanced tools designed to improve visibility, accuracy, and efficiency. These features help you strengthen controls, enhance data reliability, and make faster decisions with confidence.
  • Gain better control and visibility with the modern Shop Floor Kiosk
  • Improve production scheduling precision for better planning and execution
  • Track in-transit quantities as planned supply for accurate material planning
  • Enhance financial data with improved costing for overissued inventory

Simplify Shop Floor Data Collection

The Shop Floor Kiosk streamlines data entry with a simplified, touch-friendly interface designed for the manufacturing environment. It empowers workers to accurately record production activities in real time, reducing errors and increasing visibility. This purpose-built experience improves the flow of information from the shop floor, leading to better decision-making.

  • Guided, work center-based flow tailored for shop floor tasks
  • Supports clock-in, production reporting, scrap recording, and lot/serial tracking
  • Reduces training time with an intuitive and focused user interface

Manufacturing Precision in Every Second

Capture, store, and analyze operation and labor times down to the second, enabling manufacturers to improve costing accuracy and gain deep insights in fast-paced production environments.

Manufacturing Precision in Every Second
Improved Manufacturing Transactions Deliver Greater Transparency

Visibility Into In-Transit Inventory

Track in-transit quantities as part of planned supply to enable more accurate forecasting and inventory planning, prevent redundant transfers or purchases, and allow teams to respond faster to changing demand.

Reliable Costing for Overissued Inventory

Ensure financial accuracy with enhanced costing logic that posts cost variances from negative inventory directly to a dedicated WIP Variance Account, simplifying reconciliation and providing more reliable production cost reporting.

Streamline Manufacturing Costing for Overissued Inventory

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