Best Acumatica Integrations for Seamless Operations

Third-party Acumatica integrations improve and expand Acumatica’s ERP and help you achieve significantly greater productivity. This article explains the benefits of Acumatica integration and lists and describes top Acumatica software integrations to consider for your business.  

Acumatica: A Quick Overview

Acumatica offers cloud-based ERP (enterprise resource planning) and CRM (customer relationship management) software. Acumatica has an open architecture integration platform that enables fast integrations to add third-party software functionality. Acumatica was founded in 2008 and has more than 10,000 customers. 

The Acumatica Cloud ERP solution is a modern ERP system for managing your business processes with a unified database system, using intelligent workflows. Acumatica targets small and mid-size businesses.

As components of its ERP, Acumatica offers:

• Financial management 
• Multi-entity and intercompany accounting 
• Project accounting (project management)
• Payroll
• Order management 
• Inventory management
• Warehouse management system (WHS)
• Manufacturing management (manufacturing ERP software)
• Service management 
• Retail point of sale (POS)
• eCommerce connectors functionality
• Dashboards and business intelligence 

Perks of Integrating with Acumatica

5 benefits of integrating with Acumatica are:

1. Company-wide unified databases instead of siloed systems
2. Greater functionality
3. Cost savings and time-saving efficiencies through automation
4. Risk reduction
   • Fewer errors from using manual tasks or spreadsheets
   • Fraud risk reduction through better validation processes
5. Security, financial controls, and regulatory compliance

Company-wide Unified Databases Instead of Siloed Systems

Giving employees throughout the company role-based access to the same systems and data views enhances productivity and decision-making. Integrated and unified systems eliminate the need for duplicate data entry to get the same information into different systems, whereas integrated systems can sync data in real-time or at scheduled intervals. 

Greater Functionality

When you add third-party integrations to your Acumatica ERP system, you get added capabilities. Some data-heavy workflows like accounts payable aren’t fully automated by your ERP system. But you can add this functionality to eliminate manual processes and streamline the workflows with AI-driven automation and algorithmic rules-based exception flagging to prevent errors. 

Cost Savings and Time-Saving Efficiencies

Software integrations may help you optimize your inventory levels and supply chain. You’ll get a better handle on managing customer and potential customer interactions, leading to higher revenues from better follow-up. With accounts payable automation software, your payables department will achieve invoice processing in time to earn lucrative early payment discounts from your suppliers. 

With the time savings you’ll experience, your company will be able to reduce its hiring needs. Your team can shift from the time-eating drudgery of manual work to the efficiency offered by automation and digital transformation. Your finance team can shift some of its extra time available to more critical and strategic projects that enable business growth. Scalable software solutions handle the complexities of business growth with multi-entity capabilities and real-time visibility. 

Risk Reduction

Your company can reduce its business risks through better validation processes offered by add-on software products. For example, AP automation software provides algorithmic rules-based exception flagging to prevent errors. Tipalti’s AP automation software validates suppliers to avoid fraudulent payments and screens them against OFAC sanctions blacklists to prevent penalties and your company’s involvement in illegal business activities. 

Robust integrated software can be used to accomplish workflows without needing to prepare as many error-prone (and time-consuming) Excel or Google spreadsheets. Using spreadsheets increases the risk of preparation errors when making calculations. (When it’s still necessary to use spreadsheet information, you can import Excel files into Acumatica with the import file button on the Acumatica screen.)

Security, Financial Controls, and Regulatory Compliance

Acumatica integrations may add enterprise-grade security for stronger computer and internal controls. These integrated software products may provide an audit trail and error reduction capabilities for better financial controls, resulting in an easier, less expensive audit. Some added software simplifies and automates tax compliance and global regulatory compliance required when making payments.

Top Acumatica Integrations

6 of the top Acumatica integrations are:

1. Tipalti
2. BigCommerce
3. Netstock
4. Salesforce
5. Shopify
6. Celigo

Tipalti 

Tipalti-Acumatica integration includes pre-built connectors with easy-to-implement, no-code, drag-and-drop implementation. In your Acumatica integration with Tipalti, sync vendors, invoices, and invoice payment data between Tipalti and your Acumatica ERP.

Overview 

Tipalti offers a complete suite of finance automation products for Acumatica integration (and all other ERP and accounting software) that includes:

• AP automation
• Mass payments 
• Procurement
• Expenses (for employee expense reimbursement)
• Tipalti Card
• Advanced FX products (for foreign exchange)
  • Multi-FX
  • FX Hedging

Features 

• Self-service supplier portal for supplier management
• Tax compliance simplification with a built-in KPMG-approved tax engine
• Purchase order management for procurement 
• Invoice management
  • Automated invoice processing with AI-driven OCR capture  
  • 2 or 3-way matching
• Supplier validation and 26,000+ payment rules to reduce fraud risk and errors
• Employee expense reimbursement software (and Tipalti Card)
• Global remittance in 196 countries with 120 currencies and a choice of 50+ payment methods with automated global regulatory compliance
• Advanced FX solutions for competitive foreign exchange rates, a centralized virtual payment account for making global payments, and hedging of accounts payable
• Automatic payment reconciliation for global multi-entities using different currencies and payment methods, accelerating the financial close by 25%
• Tipalti Pi, providing AI-driven business intelligence for better decision-making
• Real-time dashboards 

Pricing 

The Tipallti-Acumatica software integration has a SaaS subscription pricing model starting at $129 per month for the basic platform fee. Request a custom quote for Tipalti finance automation software meeting your current business needs. Tipalti automation software provides needed scalability for growth. Add more functionality to handle complex business operations as your company grows. 

BigCommerce

Acumatica has native integration with BigCommerce that integrates eCommerce websites with Acumatica financials, inventory, operations, and reporting, in real-time. 

Overview 

BigCommerce provides an open platform for customizable eCommerce websites for online sellers that enhance productivity. 

Features 

Standard plan BigCommerce  features include:

• Online eCommerce storefronts with an option for multiple storefronts
• Point of sale (POS)
• Amazon/eBay/Walmart
• Facebook/Instagram
• BigCommerce mobile app
• Single-page checkout
• Apple Pay/Google Pay/Amazon Pay
• Coupons, discounts, and gift cards
• Multi-currency
• Real-time shipping quotes
• Reporting tools
• Built-in blog
• Product ratings and reviews

The BigCommerce Plus and Pro plans provide additional features. BigCommerce also offers an Enterprise plan. 

Pricing 

BigCommerce uses a SaaS pricing model with different plans and levels of functionality for multiple storefronts at an additional price per storefront. Enterprise companies request a custom quote from BigCommerce.

Netstock

Netstock has simple, pre-built Acumatica integration (and integration with some other ERP systems). 

Overview 

Netstock is intelligent supply chain and inventory planning and management software. Netstock automatically provides smart supply chain recommendations, using predictive intelligence added to your ERP data. 

Features 

The Netstock Predictive Planning Suite™ includes:

• Predictor IA (Inventory Advisor)
  • Inventory Optimization
  • Inventory Forecasting
  • Inventory Ordering
  • Supplier Performance
• Predictor IBP(Integrated Business Planning)
  • Demand Planning
  • Capacity Planning
  • S & OP (Sales and Operations Planning)

Pricing 

Netstock offers custom pricing based on your business needs. 

Salesforce

Although Acumatica offers its own CRM software solution, Salesforce provides the most comprehensive and widely accepted CRM software products. Acumatica users may prefer Salesforce (or currently use Salesforce before switching to Acumatica ERP). Therefore, Salesforce integration joins this list of top Acumatica integrations. 

Overview 

Salesforce-Acumatica integration and data synchronization is accomplished with the Commercient SYNC app available on the Salesforce AppExchange. 

Features 

Salesforce products include its entire suite of business applications branded as Customer 360. Salesforce CRM and related solutions are designed for:

• Sales
• Service
• Marketing
• Commerce
• DataCloud
• Einstein I platform for AI

Salesforce also owns Net Zero for ESG, Tableau for business intelligence visualization, Slack for team communications, and Mulesoft for data connection and productivity. 

Pricing 

Salesforce offers pricing based on the products selected, with different SaaS plans offered for companies of different sizes with varying needs. 

Shopify

Shopify has native Acumatica integration for its users’ eCommerce stores. This Shopify-Acumatica integration syncs between the back-office Acumatica ERP and the storefront:

• Products
• Customers
• Availability of inventory
• Sales order
• Fulfillment

The syncing frequency can be set as real-time, scheduled, or manual. 

Overview 

Shopify is an Acumatica partner that enables eCommerce by providing the customized software tools that online retailers need to establish and maintain their online businesses. 

Features 

Basic plan:

• Basic reports
• Up to 1,000 inventory locations
• Up to 77% shipping discount
• 2 staff accounts

Shopify plan:

• Professional reports
• Up to 1,000 inventory locations
• Up to 88% shipping discount
• 5 staff accounts

Advanced plan:

• Custom report builder
• Up to 1,000 inventory locations
• Up to 88% shipping discount
• 15 staff accounts

Pricing 

Shopify offers Basic, Shopify, and Advanced SaaS pricing plans with different number of users limits and specified percentage shipping discounts and credit card rates. 

Celigo

Celigo provides the integrator.io integration Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for prebuilt Acumatica integrations. 

Overview 

Celigo integrates eCommerce online channels and back-office operations with Acumatica. Celigo eliminates data silos by integrating and unifying ERP, CRM, and Marketing Automation systems in your business. Celigo provides integration and enterprise-grade, AI-driven automation of business processes.

Features 

Features of Celigo include:

• Timely order fulfillment
• Accurate product availability
• Real-time data for order status
• 360-degree customer data views
• Unified systems throughout the business
• Business process automation

Business process automation with Celigo includes:

• Order to cash
• Quote to cash
• Employee onboarding
• Supply chain
• Customer 360
• Data warehouse
• Payout reconciliation

Pricing

Celigo provides custom pricing. 

How to Choose the Best Acumatica Integration for Your Business 

Choose the best Acumatica integration by determining which add-on software products would enhance your ERP system. These third-party add-on software integrations should provide seamless integration, cost savings, and automation that frees your time to contribute meaningfully to enhancing business growth and profitability.

The best Acumatica integrations are easy to implement and may offer developers resources or white glove service to enable fast, frictionless integration. It’s best to have a sandbox environment for testing and a live production environment like you’ll find with Tipalti’s accounts payable automation/ERP integration. For some software products integrated with your Acumatica ERP, you may find native integrations usable right out of the box. 

The best Acumatica integrations match the type of integration with the uses. For example, in some cases, Acumatica API integration may be the right solution, whereas for data-transfer-heavy payment operations, CSV file integration may be the best approach. 

Conclusion  

To achieve the best results with Acumatica and optimize your investment, consider the benefits of using add-on third-party Acumatica integrations, including AP automation software and other business software solutions. Using Tipalti’s time-saving finance automation software lets your team eliminate manual data entry processes, freeing up time to use skills to drive growth. Read the Ebook, “The Last Mile of ERP: Payables Transformation Strategies,” for the best Acumatica integration.