What's New in Acumatica's 2025 R2 Release

Operational teams thrive on consistency, efficiency, and staying current. Acumatica’s 2025 R2 release leans into all three with interface refinements, smarter automation, and thoughtful feature upgrades across finance, distribution, CRM, manufacturing, construction, field service, and commerce integrations.

There are hundreds of new enhancements and features introduced in this release. Below you’ll find the top update areas, why they help, and how to move to the new version.

A Leaner, Faster Day-to-Day

The most visible change is the modern UI, which you can enable screen-by-screen. Dashboards are crisper, inquiries are easier to analyze, and entry screens are simpler to tailor.

A built-in screen configuration tool lets you rename section headers, add user-defined fields, and fine-tune layouts. From any generic inquiry, you can now spin up ad-hoc views (including pivot-style summaries), share them with teammates, or keep them personal.

Small touches like color-highlighted statuses in the front-end API and a modern field service calendar board round out a smoother daily experience. Early hooks for AI Studio also appear, opening the door to bringing your own prompts in future iterations.

Finance That Speeds Up Collections

R2 focuses on clarity for payers and less follow-up for AR teams. When you send a payment link, you can include line items as an attachment so customers see exactly what they’re paying for.

Payment links also extend to debit memos and overdue charges, bringing consistency to collections and reducing manual steps. As a result, users experience cleaner remittances, fewer short pays, faster cash application.

Distribution That Guides Itself

Receiving and fulfillment pick up some meaningful conveniences. Directed putaway lets you define a default storage location on each stock item, so teams know where goods belong the moment they arrive. Non-stock items can move through automated receipt and putaway too, creating a more uniform process across the dock.

On the order entry side, full-text search helps sales find items by names, descriptions, and attributes, while new orchestration options bring more predictable sequencing to pick/pack/ship.

There’s also a machine-learning cross-sell assistant. You choose the historical window to analyze and the threshold for relevance; the system proposes related items, and you approve what becomes live. It’s a smart, low-maintenance way to keep baskets healthy without micromanaging every relationship.

CRM That Cuts Clutter

Customer and vendor communications get tidier. You can email multiple documents as a single combined attachment—great for customers who’d rather open one file than several.

Case management now supports vendor cases, too, so supplier issues can be tracked with the same rigor as customer requests. The activity entry form has been redesigned to make quick notes and structured updates faster to log, which means better records with less effort.

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Manufacturing and Construction That See the Big Picture

Production teams gain clearer scheduling views in the modern UI. You can scan by hour, day, or week, catch overlaps and idle time by work center, and adjust on the spot. Expanded use of warehouse locations in production improves material staging and movements, while lot and serial attributes capture richer traceability data.

On the project side, two updates stand out:

• First, project files can be organized with tags and categories, then secured by role. This is perfect for keeping drawings accessible while contracts remain restricted.
• Second, a project “360°” status view centralizes percent complete, margin to date, budget remaining, over/under-billing, and change orders.

For teams tracking time directly on tasks, an experimental clock-in/clock-out timer adds a simple, visible way to start, pause, and stop work without opening a separate screen.

Commerce Connectors That Match How You Sell

R2 brings helpful touches to popular storefronts:

A Repeatable Upgrade Plan

Two major releases arrive each year, R1 around April and R2 around October, and each is supported for 18 months. Many organizations pick a season and make upgrades a yearly habit. A low-stress approach looks like this:

Quick Wins to Target First

Bottom Line

Acumatica 2025 R2 brings a friendlier interface, smarter automation, and upgrades that remove friction where teams feel it most: on the dock, in the inbox, on the line, and in the field.

Pair these improvements with a sandbox-first, once-a-year upgrade rhythm, and you’ll keep your system current, your users happy, and your operations ready for what’s next.