Top 10 Acumatica integrations

Explore how integrated CRM, finance, HR and more can drive efficiency improvements in your organisation.

Every company is different, facing its own set of challenges and requirements. Part of an Acumatica implementation is recognising the opportunity for additional customisation and integration to meet your unique needs. Each customisation and integration better aligns the system to your requirements and scales the efficiency improvement exponentially.

While the Acumatica Cloud ERP system is a powerful end-to-end business management system, these integrated systems have specific functionality above and beyond the capability of an ERP. Integrations are especially useful for teams that do not need to use Acumatica directly or require dedicated industry functionality from a more niche software system.

Integration eliminates the tedious process of manual data duplication across systems. An Application Programming Interface (API) connection is the common and secure method to automate the push and pull of information between databases.

Benefits of Third-Party Integrations for Acumatica

The core benefit of third-party Acumatica integrations is the seamless flow of information across departments. This eliminates silos and perpetuates the role of your ERP as the single source of organisational truth. Data entered in one department is instantly available to all relevant stakeholders, reducing errors and time wasted on manual data duplication. The integration frees up the time of your administration staff to focus on other important tasks. Having access to the right data in real-time empowers your team to swiftly make informed decisions and respond to market changes with confidence.

Financial management also benefits from this integration, as accurate, up-to-date financial data can be accessed and analysed with ease, leading to better budgeting, forecasting, and resource allocation. Furthermore, customer service is significantly enhanced when customer relationship management (CRM) systems are integrated, enabling a comprehensive view of customer interactions and history, which in turn allows for personalised and effective service.

E-commerce Integrations

Offer improved convenience and accessibility for your customers and partners in the digital marketplace with a dedicated Acumatica e-commerce integration.

Shopify

Shopify is a cloud-based e-commerce platform that gives you complete control over your online retail presence. The strength of an Acumatica integration with Shopify is the ability to synchronise your customer, product, inventory, order, and fulfillment data in real-time between your webstore and core ERP. Shopify and Acumatica are natively integrated, resulting in a reliable, secure connection designed to work harmoniously within the Acumatica framework.

Shopify is best suited to small to medium-sized organisations as it is simple and straightforward to configure. It relies on its range of plugins for customisation and additional functionality. Shopify is widely used as an e-commerce solution.

Financial Management Integrations

Apply strategic planning, organisation, direction, and control of financial activities within your company from a single source of truth.

ProSpend

ProSpend is a complete spend management platform that can be integrated into Acumatica. It has a range of modules to help you manage invoices and AP automation, spend management, expense claims, and credit card payments with virtual cards.

The ProSpend integration makes it easy to automate your entire expense management and claim process. Its AP automation suite is equipped with OCR and advanced fraud protection with AI trained to spot malicious and risky transactions. The virtual cards module gives your accounts team complete control of organisational spend. Issue virtual cards with fixed amounts and pre-set expiry dates. Virtual cards can be automatically reconciled and allocated to project accounts within Acumatica, and more.

Project Management Integrations

Achieve the best outcomes for your projects with integrated methods, budget, planning, and more in Acumatica.

Procore

Procore is construction management software that minimises risk and protects profits in construction projects. Most commonly used by organisations with Acumatica Construction, Procore has advanced functionality to support Head Contractors, Property Developers and Subcontractors.

Integrating?Procore?with Acumatica builds a comprehensive construction project management software ecosystem. It empowers your team with real-time access to data, whether you are onsite or in the office, without the need for additional ERP licences.

Inventory Management Integrations

Powerful and accurate control of your inventory, including demand planning and supply chain management.

Netstock

Netstock is a comprehensive supply chain and demand planning suite that integrates into Acumatica. Inventory management relies on avoiding stock-outs while balancing the cost invested in filling your warehouse. Ideally you have a safe level of stock that is replenished when it dips below a certain level. You are never left without items to sell, but not tying up large amounts of capital in inventory. Putting a focus on demand planning ensures you have the right stock in the right place at the right time.

Netstock’s statistical forecasting engine predicts the inventory requirements and safety levels required to avoid stock outs or overstocking. The Acumatica integration means that it is working with real-time sales data (even flowing from your e-commerce solution) so you can constantly monitor and review its predictions and automate purchase order generation for refill orders.

Data Analytics Integrations

Use the insights in your Acumatica database to extract meaningful information to support informed decision-making.

Power BI

Power BI is a Microsoft-based business intelligence tool that turns your complex data into coherent, visually immersive, interactive insights. It lets you use live data from Acumatica to discover what is important and share this information quickly and securely with your team.

By linking Acumatica data?with Power BI, this integration facilitates the creation of dynamic dashboards and reports, enabling real-time business insights, data-driven decision-making, enhanced visibility into key performance indicators, and improved overall business intelligence. Power BI is a flexible, sophisticated tool to help you get the best possible view of your organisational health.

CRM and Marketing Automation

Customer Resource Management (CRM) integrations help build stronger relationships with your current and future clients. Market-leading CRMs including powerful automation based on customer and prospect information in your core Acumatica ERP. This eliminates repetitive marketing tasks to improve campaign efficiency.

HubSpot

HubSpot is a CRM and marketing automation tool that streamlines processes and eliminates manual administration for your marketing, sales, and service teams. HubSpot’s Marketing Hub module can be integrated with Acumatica, streamlining the way your team connects and maintains relationships with your customers. It saves time and resources by using automations for campaign management, targets your message to customer segments at scale with AI, and leverages advanced marketing analytics to measure and optimise your results.

The Acumatica integration with HubSpot ensures that your teams are all up-to-date with the latest information. Access specific customer records and use that information to create personalised communication journeys for your customers. Use sales and other analytics to measure the performance of campaigns, so you direct your marketing budget to the most effective campaigns and areas.

Shipping & Fulfillment Integrations

Pick, pack, ship, and receive your inventory and goods with streamlined, automated, and integrated Acumatica workflows.

TIG Freight/OpenFreight

TIG Freight ?is a cost-effective shipping solution that prioritises customer experience and satisfaction. It is a full-service freight solution that helps you efficiently manage shipping and distribution across a range of?freight management models . You can use the TIG Freight service to streamline a?smarter logistics ?process, leaving your team free to focus on your core operations. TIG Freight have developed OpenFreight, the cloud-based product that finds the best price to ship your order and streamlines label printing and updates with your distribution partner. The Acumatica integration eliminates manual data re-entry that comes with logging each order with your shipping partner. Using TIG Freight and Open Freight takes care of all the hassle of managing distribution networks and supply chains.

Electronic Data Interchange

Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) is the electronic exchange of business documents between trading partners in a standardised format, facilitating seamless and efficient transactions without the need for human intervention. The choice of software is largely dependent on your trading partners’ requirements. EDI is the basis for clever integrations and efficiency improvements that come from e-invoicing.

Human Resource Management Integrations

Take a strategic, integrated approach to managing your team, no matter where they are working from.

CashD

CashD ?is integrated payroll support for real-time remuneration. It enables your teams to choose how and when they get paid. CashD?integrates ?with?Acumatica Payroll?directly, removing any administration requirements and making the process seamless.

There is no need for loans or credit applications. Your team are accessing funds they have already earned, before the end of the designated payroll period. They receive a portion of their pay, tracked through Acumatica and updated between the two systems – so there is no error when it comes to processing the final pay run. CashD helps build better relationships between the workforce and management, demonstrating a commitment to financial well-being, loyalty, and job satisfaction.

Capacity Planning Integrations

Use your Acumatica data to build a dynamic plan for your changing demands and production schedules.

MORE MX

MORE MX is a capacity planning integration that assists you in planning and executing your manufacturing plan. MORE MX supports demand-based work order generation and scheduling. Use sales data and predictions through the Acumatica integration to manufacture the most important orders first. Or leverage inventory data for available parts to manufacture what you can and streamline the ordering process. MORE MX’s simple drag-and-drop scheduler allows you to build the most efficient manufacturing workflow. Integration leads to real-time updates between the floor and the office so everyone is on the same page with the manufacturing plan.

Tips for Choosing the Right Integrations

Just like comprehensive business management software, each integrated solution has their own strengths and weaknesses – even within the same category. It is important to trust the advice of software experts when choosing the right integration for your organisation.

1. Assess your organisation’s requirements and explore the available options for integrations including their reputation and market position,
2. Check integration compatibility – Acumatica has an open, REST-based API. This allows integration with many modern, cloud-based or web-based applications even if they do not have a native integration.
3. Prepare an integration budget alongside your trusted software partner and the product vendor that will be integrated,
4. Ensure implementation is scalable to continue meeting your needs in the future, and flexible to be maintained along the future course of Acumatica updates,
5. Ensure that your team is trained in how to use the integration and manage the live flow of data between Acumatica and your chosen add-on product.

Implement Acumatica the right way

Integration requires dedicated software experts to guide you through the journey. In Australia and New Zealand, Acumatica is known as MYOB Acumatica (formerly MYOB Advanced ). Kilimanjaro Consulting are the leading MYOB Acumatica experts, with experience across a range of integrated products.

Kilimanjaro Consulting follows a?structured and tested methodology ?for our Acumatica integrations. It aims to eliminate risk and ensure all your requirements in the integration are met. The methodology informs everything that we do across a project, from discovery and design to testing and post-go-live support. Following a structured process means that everyone in our team knows which steps to take for a successful implementation. Lessons from past experiences are embedded in the methodology. Providing a clear goal makes the process efficient and transparent, creating a positive experience for both our clients and?our team .

What happened to MYOB Advanced?

In July 2024, MYOB changed the name of the?MYOB Advanced platform to MYOB Acumatica . This was to bring greater transparency to the alignment between the two companies that have been?partners since 2014 .

The?Acumatica Cloud Business Management Platform ?is the world’s fastest-growing cloud ERP system. It is developed by the Acumatica company in Seattle, USA. MYOB Acumatica is based on the?Acumatica platform ?and has the same features and functionality.?MYOB Acumatica is localised ?to the Australian and New Zealand markets, with local tax and compliance requirements.

Understanding the MYOB Acumatica API licence

Kilimanjaro Consulting maintains a range of Connected Services partners who design and develop?MYOB add-on products?that can enhance MYOB Acumatica’s functionality. Managing and leveraging these independent products requires that they be integrated into your system. A free, limited API licence is included with each MYOB Acumatica site. This is the simplest way to integrate add-on solutions into your system. If you find that you need more complex integrations to support your company’s needs, this can simply be upgraded to the paid, unlimited API licence. That way, you can leverage the complete two-way flow of data while gaining access to the functionality of best-of-breed solutions.

To start a conversation about how MYOB Acumatica customisations can improve efficiency in your organisation:

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