If you’ve built your business from the ground up, it’s likely you started with accounting software—odds are, you started with QuickBooks. Most businesses do. However, there comes a point when QuickBooks no longer keeps up with your growing business, and you may hear that your next step is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. There is … Read more
So many things go into building a powerful ERP solution. Security, user experience, functionality, and more make up the many reasons that a company opts to use such a solution. However, it goes much further than that, according to a recent report from Technology Evaluation Centers. This report, Enterprise Resource Planning Solutions: How to Get … Read more
When you purchase from a supplier, they expect to be paid accurately, reliably, and in a timely manner. Driven in part by supplier demands and expectations, many organizations are looking for opportunities to automate their processes. While automation delivers a wide range of benefits, enhancing speed of payment and reducing the likelihood that exceptions and … Read more
Features and benefits. Functionality and usability. Innovation and ability to execute. It’s so easy to look at software, company financial statements, and analyst reports to answer a variety of questions. These reports are out there to help you understand whether a vendor can provide what you need, whether or not the vendor is financially solvent … Read more
Change is hard. Shocking, right? Say you’re trying to get healthy. You go out and buy workout gear, get excited about your future self, and you make it to the gym for a day. You wake up the next morning sore—barely able to make it up the stairs—but are still willing to push through. A … Read more
It’s hard enough to manage a sales staff. It’s on the sales manager to set quotas, deal with egos, track results, enforce policies, coach reps, and lay the groundwork for success. But even when things are working out well, you still have more work on your plate. Something we discussed in a recent blog, it … Read more
With the spring upon us, construction—at least in the northern half of the US—starts to pick back up a bit. We hope you took into account this winter of where you stand and start thinking of what’s next. It’s time to take a look at your current business and get to know what you can … Read more
In today’s blog post we are going to explore some of the capabilities of Azure working together with Acumatica to provide an easy to use and secure way to log into Acumatica. You can use Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as your identity provider for single sign on into Acumatica. But beyond that, we are … Read more
Construction is an interesting and diverse industry. It’s also an extremely competitive one that both drives and relies heavily on a strong economy. While construction companies still do work in bear markets, those who get the most work and turn the most profit are also the ones who are able to deliver the most value … Read more
In today’s business world, it pays to be in the know—and it pays to be in the know now. Any delay in reporting is money going down the drain, any time spent compiling these reports is time that your staff could be spending helping the rest of your business, and any time these reports have … Read more
In the words of twentieth-century journalist, satirist, and writer of aphorisms H.L. Mencken: “strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.” One could say something similar about their business … Read more
In the wake of Acumatica Summit 2020 and on the precipice of the release of Acumatica 2020 R1, our team is looking forward and planning our year accordingly. Each new release provides us with a slate of new features to learn, so that we are best equipped to help YOU. So be sure to subscribe … Read more
With the cold weather, short days, and snowy weather in the forecast, it’s officially slow season for the construction industry. Though we’re only a month or so from seeing business ramp up, you’re probably getting a bit stir crazy waiting for this to happen. We get it. However, you shouldn’t be letting this time go … Read more
It’s awards season—a time when everyone turns on the television to see if their favorite movie, television show, album, or musical took home the big prize for successes in the past year. While we can’t say whether Once Upon a Time in Hollywood or Joker will take home the prize for best picture, we can … Read more
Acumatica is such a powerful, user-friendly platform in part because it’s so customizable for every customer’s unique needs. Whether it’s out-of-the-box functionality that just need small tweaks from experienced developers or any number of external add-on products. One of those add-on products that we recommend, and that our customers use frequently, is ShipEngine. ShipEngine allows … Read more
I’m writing this with the Day 1 Keynote music still ringing in my ears. Wow – what a presentation. Acumatica 2020 R1 is going to have a lot of exciting new features (as always) but this felt special in some way. Maybe it’s because this is the first Summit since EQT Partners acquired Acumatica in … Read more
Why is the budgeting process so awful? It’s a question that seemingly pops up annually—usually right after the budgeting process wraps up. Here’s the thing. It doesn’t have to be. Here are just a couple ways to help it evolve. As we discussed in our last blog on the budgeting process, too often, the process … Read more
2020 is upon us. Not only does this mean a new year, it also means a new decade. However, while there are many articles looking forward at the big trends in the coming year, we’d like to take a moment to look back. Two years may not seem like a lot of time for a … Read more
A customer’s bank may require modifications to the ACH file that you send them from the Payables module during payment processing. Here are some steps to show how to modify or add additional fields and lines in that file. First, get the bank specifications from your customer or bank. In this scenario, Chase Bank required … Read more
It happens every year. Fire up the email and spreadsheets, it’s budgeting and planning season. The email leading up to the beginning of the process is sent out and a collective ‘ugh’ runs through your organization. Why? Because despite being a necessary way to set aside money, this annual tradition is inefficient, inflexible, and relatively … Read more
We get a lot of questions in support about how to process prepayments in accounts payable in Acumatica. Prepayments are used when you need to create an advance payment or a down payment to a vendor. There are two ways to create a prepayment. Standard way: enter the prepayment in the Bills and Adjustments screen. … Read more
Recently, Acumatica announced that 2018 R1 would be “retired” and no longer supported from the Acumatica team. I have had many discussions with the clients that I manage as to what it all means to them. We have clients who have different types of deployments which can play a major part on the decision of … Read more
2019 is coming to an end. However, leading up to the end of the year, there’s a holiday coming up, one that your employees may be heading home for. “Home” means different things to different people. For some, this may mean a few miles down the road, for others, it’s a cross-country flight away. Unfortunately … Read more
Sales keeps the business running, but who keeps the sales team running? The role of a sales manager is by no means an easy one. Whether you moved from rep to management or saw this as the ideal opportunity to move up the ladder, you know that managing a sales team is stressful. Just because … Read more