Acumatica has gone live with its R2 release for 2025. This new release is designed to help companies accelerate productivity and optimize performance by introducing new tools and features. This is a cursory look at just some of those new enhancements.
Acumatica's Release 2 for 2025 provides a modern user experience, featuring a reimagined user interface led by Acumatica's AI Studio. Acumatica continues to drive innovation through its implementation of an AI-First Approach, in which AI solutions are used to solve real business issues, not just enhance existing capabilities.
Acumatica is noted for its feature-driven industry editions. R2 includes numerous enhancements to its Construction, Professional Services, Distribution & Commerce, and Manufacturing editions.
2025 Release 2 Platform Enhancements
Let's take a peek at some of the 2025R2 enhancements to Acumatica's Platform. Once again, Acumatica has introduced significant updates to its operating platform, preparing for the future. These innovations ensure that the product evolves in tandem with the business needs of Acumatica customers, aligning with their requirements.
A modernized User Interface streamlines the way Acumatica customers work by delivering the power they need to perform tasks more robustly and with greater ease. R2 permits even greater personalization of workspaces to fit the needs of businesses. Take a look at the Before and after of the new UI (as shown below).
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Acumatica's 2025 R2 redesigned Dashboard engine makes it simple for everyone to create modern dashboards, providing real-time data and actionable insights into their own work areas.
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Your Dashboards can be configured by role with specific permissions based on user login. You can set them with either 'fixed' (administratively controlled) widget settings or with a group of widgets that the user can select and arrange as they prefer.
Acumatica's AI Studio lets you take control over your workflows. You can connect to a large language model of your choice (like OpenAI) to put AI where you want, automate routine tasks, and free up your team for essentials that AI shouldn't handle. AI Studio gives you the ability to determine how AI works for you and gives you control over your implementation of AI functionality.
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With AI Studio, you can create prompts to automate tasks and reduce tedious data entry duties. Then add AI commands to insert prompts into Acumatica forms for instant text generation.
2025 Release 2 Accounting & CRM Enhancements
Let's examine a few key enhancements this release brings to accounting functionality and customer management.
Streamline your workflows with powerful features, including automated accounts payable and comprehensive, inclusive tax support. New enhancements streamline vendor communications, centralize issue tracking, and help you manage your accounts payable.
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Manage tax compliance with fully-integrated Avalara and Vertex tax management for tax-inclusive B2C and B2B pricing, so you can expand globally while ensuring accurate, automated tax calculations for every transaction.
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Strengthen your customer relationships with enhanced functionalities related to client management using the newly redesigned CRM activity interface. These enhancements streamline customer communication, centralize issue tracking, and enable you to manage your customers and their orders more effectively.
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A redesigned Activity form (shown above) helps you streamline task and activity management, providing faster access to status and case details to focus your team on delivering outstanding support.
2025 Release 2 Enhancements for Construction, Professional, and Field Services Editions
Here are but a few of the enhancements for these Acumatica editions.
The New Project 360 Dashboard (shown below) provides a real-time overview of all your projects, making it an ideal solution for construction businesses. View key performance measures, project progress, and quickly identify actionable insights into project-related problems.
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Upgraded mobile capabilities (like those shown below) permit you to create and manage change orders directly from your devices. Approve Pro Forma invoices with a single tap and review project documents in real time.
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Uncover project variances before they impact your project success (as in the example below). Quickly spot budget overruns, delays, and other data-driven variances against actual performance compared to project budgets.
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Acumatica 2025 R2 introduces a newly redesigned calendar board (shown below) to streamline field service scheduling. Empower your field service managers or dispatchers to schedule assignments with drag-and-drop appointments, map views, and smart filters designed to ensure that technician assignments are based on the appropriate skill set.
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2025 Release 2 Enhancements for Distribution and Commerce Editions
Here are just a few of the enhancements designed to transform your supply chain operations.
A new 'automated order orchestration' feature (shown below) will streamline the selection of fulfillment warehouses by utilizing configurable rules, thereby eliminating the need for manual searches and warehouse overrides. With this new functionality, you will gain operational efficiencies, reduce costs, and ensure customers receive the right products from the most optimal locations for all their orders.
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Amazon, Shopify, and BigCommerce integration enhancements will elevate your e-commerce capabilities. Optimizing Amazon settlement reports will reduce the burdens associated with manual data entry, reconciliation difficulties, and a lack of visibility into Amazon's fees.
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Smoother connectivity between Acumatica and Shopify that leverages faster data synchronization via GraphQL to accelerate your commerce operations. Effectively manage your multi-location inventory when using BigCommerce to ensure efficiency and accurate fulfillment for each warehouse and pickup location.
2025 Release 2 Enhancements for the Manufacturing Edition
Here are just a few of the updates you will find in the latest release of the Manufacturing edition.
Plant managers, production supervisors, scheduling personnel, and customer service personnel will all gain complete visibility into the manufacturing and production schedule with a new real-time scheduling feature (shown below).
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New AI-powered insights provide anomaly detection for manufacturing inefficiencies and cost overruns. With AI automatically analyzing your material costs, labor, production requirements, and employee efficiency, you will quickly spot problems before they impact your operations.
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The new Production Transactions form (as shown below) enhances traceability and auditability by consolidating inventory, journal, and cost transaction details into a single view.
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Concluding Remarks
In this summary, we have examined fifteen of the new enhancements to Acumatica released in 2025R2; however, the reality is that there are dozens of improvements for each of the major product areas. That's why, over the next several weeks, we will examine Acumatica 2025R2 in greater depth, reviewing key release notes to give you a sense of these significant enhancements.
In the mean time, you can learn more about Acumatica 2025 Release 2 by watching this official On-demand Release Launch Event.
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