Acumatica 2026 Release 1 (2026 R1) is now available, touting a host of new features and enhancements that leverage even more AI across the ERP product, innovations in manufacturing and production, and a complete rollout of the new modernized interface across the platform. Here is a summary of key new features included in the release notes for Acumatica ERP 2026 R1.
AI-Powered Innovation
As use of artificial intelligence (AI) continues to expand in almost every industry, Acumatica is ensuring that their ERP customers can strategically leverage this new technology into their everyday workflows to streamline processes, reduce manual effort, and improve response times across sales, customer service, and operations.
With the new AI Assistant, you can simply 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, making faster and easier use of the valuable data in your cloud ERP system.
In addition, Acumatica continues investing in AI-powered workflow automation through tools like AI Studio (a component of the Acumatica xRP platform), allowing you to create intelligent workflows that solve your unique business issues without the need for expensive and complicated custom development.
Lastly, these AI-powered innovations are also being leveraged across every industry edition of Acumatica Cloud ERP including manufacturing, distribution, retail, construction, and professional services.
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Next-Generation Financial Management
In the area of accounting and financial management, Acumatica 2026 R1 introduces a nice range of new or enhanced features. Here’s a summary of key updates:
Automate Accounts Payable Payments with BILL
Improve control and visibility over vendor payments processed through BILL – the intelligent way to create and pay bills, send invoices, manage expenses, and control budgets. With enhanced vendor connection management in Acumatica 2026 R1, you get more predictable payment processing and faster delivery options for urgent checks so you can manage AP workflows with greater efficiency.
Accept Mobile Payments Anywhere
Your field service technicians and sales teams can now 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 customer service.
Create and Send Prepayment Invoices Faster and Easier
You’ll 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.
Acumatica 2026 R1 also makes 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.
Track Complete Approval History
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.
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Modernized User Interface Available to All
Acumatica ERP’s new modern user interface (UI) is now generally available to every customer. Built through multiple release cycles and refined through customer feedback, the new interface will transform your ERP experience for the better. A key feature is the ability to personalize every screen—including fields, tabs, and layouts—ensuring each team can work in the way that best suits their workflows. Plus, with streamlined web and mobile screen layouts, powerful filters, and quick-access buttons, you’ll navigate your work with ease and find what you need faster.
Acumatica 2026 R1 Construction Updates
Here’s a summary of key new features and enhancements for customers using Acumatica ERP Construction Edition:
More Organized Project Documents
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.
Streamlined 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.
Capture Time from the Field
Teams in the field can now manage their time efficiently using their mobile devices. Employees can track time for specific project tasks, view daily labor activities, and seamlessly create time activities from daily field reports or timecards.
Smoother Change Order Workflow
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.
Plus, you can now 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.
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Acumatica Distribution & Manufacturing Enhancements
Acumatica 2026 R1 delivers enhancements that reduce costs, accelerate fulfillment, and streamline your entire supply chain.
One of the key new features in Manufacturing is the new Shop Floor Kiosk that guides workers through clock-in, production reporting, scrap recording, and lot/serial tracking with a purpose-built interface that reduces training time. This touch-friendly interface designed for manufacturing environments simplifies data entry while enabling your workers to accurately record production activities in real-time.
Other enhancements in the area of inventory management and manufacturing include:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Better Manufacturing Precision
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.
Full Details in Acumatica 2026 R1 Release Notes
This article covers key new features but only scratches the surface of the full range of enhancements across the entire Acumatica ERP system. Refer to the Acumatica 2026 R1 release notes for full detail of all changes or contact your Acumatica Partner with any questions.
