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I've been playing with an early Acumatica 2019 R1 build and so far here are my favorite new features:
1. The ability to use a Generic Inquiry as a Data Source for an Import Scenario. It basically simplifies the technique that I was using here:
https://www.augforums.com/augforums/acumatica-import-scenarios/automatic-task-creation-with-business-event-and-import-scenario/
2. Grouping in Inquiry fields in Business Events. Maybe I want to take the Purchase Orders inquiry and use a Business Event to detect when the total of all Purchase Orders with a Status of Open exceeds $1,000,000.
I was being a big dummy. Didn't look closely enough to spot the 2019 R1 doc. Thanks! (I'm sure it is a working document and will probably change several times over the next 4 months.)
I was actually surprised to find it there. And I agree with you that it's likely to change before Summit.
I like the addition of the Popup Message. Having that note jump up from the customer record on their related documents is something I missed from Sage 100 ERP.
Agreed. Pop-ups are great. They are introduced in 2018 R2 for Customers, Vendors, and Items. I hope they expand that out to other areas in the future.
I LOVE the username by the way @wyatt-erp
Thank you @timrodman! I'm fairly new to Acumatica, but have dealt with my fair share of ERP systems. I have to say I am really happy with Acumatica and am glad there is a great and active community surrounding it.
Hello Tim,
I'm poking around the new version and I tested the business events and in 2019 R1, business events now can attach files (eg: sales order or purchase order document) to email notification this will allow users to send email with attachments much easier other than built in events/notifications, using GI as a data source is another impt one ..
Another big feature is "visual cues", able to colorize your views/grids and I wrote blog article here https://acumaticaclouderp.blogspot.com/2019/02/acumatica-visual-cues-how-to-colorize.html
Will update more as I explore ....
- Harsha
Thanks for pointing out the file attachments Harsha! I hadn't noticed that.
Has anyone caught wind of a release date for 2019 R1? I still couldn't find anything more exact than "The end of March"
I just heard y'day it would be out in a week, so early next week Mar 19th or so ...
Nice! Thank you @harsha-sarjapur, I just checked the build site and version 19.100.0122 is available!
Attached are the final release notes for the official release of Acumatica 2019 R1.
Multiple AR Invoice documents now track the Ship To address.
Prior to this, the AR Invoice documents did not track the Ship To address. This wasn't a big issue with Sales Orders because the AR Invoice documents referenced the Shipment which had the Ship To address. But I think it was a bigger problem with Projects and with all the hype surrounding the Acumatica Construction Edition which relies on Projects, it's not surprising to see Acumatica introduce this in Acumatica 2019 R1. Now it makes it a lot easier to reliably calculate taxes on AR Invoices.
There are several screens that were modified to add Ship To information:
Added sections to the ADDRESS DETAILS tab of the Invoices and Memos (AR301000) screen:
Added sections to the ADDRESS DETAILS tab of the Invoices (SO303000) screen. FYI, I'm still not a big fan of having a separate invoice screen for Sales Orders, but that's the way it is unfortunately.
Added sections to the ADDRESS DETAILS tab of the Cash Sales (AR304000) screen:
Added sections to the ADDRESS DETAILS tab of the Pro Forma Invoices (PM307000) screen:
@timrodman - Multiple AR Invoice documents now track the Ship To address has been great for us!
Not having Ship-To on AR Invoice make direct invoice entry out of the box impossible when using Avalara. It always defaulted back to using the address on the Customer/Location, which added confusion and overhead in many situations (Performing warranty service work for a Manufacturer at an end-user's installation site). The process is much more streamlined, now working correctly for direct AR invoice entry instead of IN type SOOrders.
There is now a predefined list of Currencies in Acumatica 2019 R1.
In Acumatica 2018 R2, if you went to the Currencies (CM2020PL) screen, you had to manually enter all of the currencies that you wanted to use:
In Acumatica 2019 R1, when you go to the Currencies (CM2020PL) screen, you'll see that all of the currencies are already included, using the standard 3 digit ISO 4217 code for each currency:
I really like these two new screens that were introduced in Acumatica 2019 R1. These will make it a lot easier for Accountants to reconcile Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) to the General Ledger (GL).
The Discrepancy by Account (AP409010) screen makes it a lot easier to reconcile AP to GL:
The Discrepancy by Account (AR409010) screen makes it a lot easier to reconcile AR to GL:
What's really cool is that this isn't only for the AP and AR accounts. It can also be used for accounts like Customer Deposits and Revenue. I'm not sure how it's smart enough to find these accounts (maybe looking through Customer Class or Customer records), but nice job Acumatica!
Once Acumatica implements this feature for the ability to post to control accounts, it will get even easier to reconcile the AP/AR/GL modules:
It used to be that you could only run companies within the same Acumatica tenant if you had the 3 C's:
1. Chart of Accounts
2. Fiscal Calendar
3. Base Currency
But now in Acumatica 2019 R1, that 2nd "C" is no longer needed.
You can now have separate fiscal calendars per Company in Acumatica 2019 R1. To do this, first disable the Centralized Period Management feature in the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) screen:
Then, enable the Multiple Calendar Support feature in the Enable/Disable Features (CS100000) screen:
Use can then use the Company Financial Calendar (GL201100) screen to create a separate set of financial periods per company. There is a Master Calendar Period ID column that allows you to map a financial period to the period on the Master Financial Calendar (GL201000) screen (2nd screenshot) which is needed so Acumatica can still generate inter-company transactions between companies that have different fiscal calendars.
Note that the 3rd "C" will soon not be needed either, when Acumatica implements separate Base Currencies per Company within the same Tenant as they showed at the past Acumatica Summit:
I don't think it will be long before separate charts of account will be available as well.
Good point Shawn. That would eliminate all three of the "Cs"