I was on family vacation in Swiss Alps passing through the mountains when I saw my emails and social media messages hitting the feed. Now I had a choice to enjoy the view of the mountains or read the big news of Acumatica acquisition, I choose the ERP mountain acquisition news, still capturing the beauty through my camera lens. As I learnt more about IFS and EQT that strengthened my trust and quickly informed my team and started to congratulate   Acumatica folks on Skype whom I know personally for last 20+ yrs for their commitment and putting a superior product out there. Finally, the word of comfort from top executive at Acumatica was "Best is no management changes, All the same people will stay", such acquisitions bring lots of changes and retaining human talent and SME's is most important in this industry. Acumatica, the fastest growing ERP Company and I knew they had 2 choices, to either get listed on NASDAQ or get acquired, and the later happened much

Acumatica 2018 R1 version has some interesting automation features and Quick Order was one of them. In the distribution world various companies, would like to automate their business process, most like structured approach and process while few would like quick order and cut down the additional steps with one click. Quick Order Processing Page and Options: In 2018 R1 users have an option to select the documents they want to automate their process of creation within one single click process all related documents, posting to General Ledger, Inventory updates and Accounting transactions . With this new Quick order button on Sales order screen you will allow Acumatica users to process orders much quicker and less steps to worry about and get your customers out of the door. Create Shipment and print out Pick Lists Confirm Shipments and create invoices Print and email out invoices Conclusion : While all customers might not like this option but certainly retail stores, retail

SuperBowl 52 Champs We are super excited with Eagles winning the SuperBowl 52 against Patriots, this win is so near and dear to all of us for many different reasons ... a) Eagles winning this for the first time b) Stopping Patriots and Tom Brady c) But most exciting news Kevins Worldwide, an InfoSourcing customer using Acumatica Cloud ERP and PrintShop extension gets to print 13,000 Champions tees from their facility in Scranton, PA. Check out the news media article and video as we complete their orders and shipped them out.  http://wnep.com/2018/02/05/game-winning-garments-scranton-company-scores-super-bowl-shirt-contract/ Go Eagles, Go Kevin's and Go Acumatica PrintShop

Acumatica announced some of the key features making its way into the product with the release of 2017 R2 and future 2018 releases. We are excited to see new release with more features in the new version 2017 R2 1. Usability - Advanced user interface, improved search, pre-defined dashboards, list entry points, mobile UI enhancements, redesigned approval maps 2. Project Accounting -  Overhauled with new budget structure, commitment tracking, Pro Forma Invoices, flexible billing workflow and rate configuration 3. Distribution - Product class trees, Unit of measure, advanced drop ships, Amazon integration FBA, allocation engine and UPS/Fedex Ship-It integration 4. Financials - Historical transaction migration, multi-level payment approvals, on-demand statements, PCI ready, Third party A/P payments and Vendor tax periods 5. CRM - Advanced marketing list, Campaign management, Opportunity stage mgmt and real time Salesforce Sync 6. Field Services - Integrated fields service, advance

IBIS Analyst group report on Promotional Products Industry estimates 26,000 business with revenue of $23 billion and with a growth rate of 3-5% yearly. Promotional Products include Screen Printing, Embroidery, Digital Printing and other services that allow business to market and advertise. Industry analysts predict over the next five years, continued growth in corporate profit and total advertising expenditure will boost industry demand, compelling companies to spend more on promotional products. What is the Promotional Products Industry? Companies in this industry design and distribute promotional products (e.g. key chains, magnets, and pens). They also provide a variety of advertising-related services, including sign lettering and window dressing. This industry does not include advertising agency services, public relations agency services, media-buying agency services, media representative services, display-advertising services, direct-mail-advertising services or marketin

Acumatica's first virtual Developer Conference took to stage on Jun 21st and 22nd, the two-day event attracted developers from all around the globe to participate, learn tips and tricks and create a developer friendly Cloud ERP ecosystem. The virtual event was spread across 2 days for a stretch of 3 hrs and had 80+ attendees primarily developers, coders, partners and Acumatica specialists. Acumatica DevOps put together a good presentation of what the platform has to offer and how we developers can leverage building custom applications around this great platform. Acumatica's key focus of building developer network can be related to Microsoft developer network under the leadership of Jon Roskill, Ajoy and Mark Franks who are incubating the developer environment. Day One: Jun 21st Keynote from Joh Roskill Acumatica Web Services for Multi-Cloud Advanced Framework tips and tricks Day Two: Jun 22nd Usage of Bots automation, bot emulators Performance Testing and Tuning What

 An Introduction to Acumatica Cloud ERP Software A quick tour of Acumatica Cloud ERP, introduction to different product suites, user-friendly navigation, rich integrated features, what sets Acumatica apart.

eCommerce Automation Helps Distribution Companies Ship Faster Order Processing Integration with 3dCart eCommerce With the integration of rich web services, you can build third-party systems in the cloud with relative ease. Acumatica offers a flexible development platform that has enabled InfoSourcing to synchronize orders with 3dCart and quickly build an integration within the ERP system.  Within a couple rounds of testing, we were able to do live processing of orders from multiple stores. 3dCart, one of many shopping cart software solutions out in the market, helps mid-size distribution companies with integrating shopping carts on their customer’s websites. We started work with one of Acumatica’s customers, Kevins Worldwide, an award-winning in-house embroidery, screen printing, and promotional products company located in Scranton, PA. They offer businesses with fulfillment, distribution, warehousing and eCommerce web store management services. ... Read more at Acumatica Dev

Acumatica Webstore We are excited to see the launch of Acumatica's Partners Promotional eStore for 2 reasons, the new eStore gives all partners an opportunity to buy these promotional products which could be used for our marketing efforts to promote Acumatica Cloud ERP. What's more interesting and exciting for us is, Acumatica is using Kevins Worldwide as the vendor to fulfill their promotional orders through the eStore, Kevins is hosting the web store and drop shipping these products for partners/consumers. Kevins Worldwide is an InfoSourcing customer we implemented Acumatica Cloud ERP and Kevin's is using our 3dCart plugin to download orders into Acumatica, truly a case study by itself. As our partner network starts ordering these products from the eStore you are interacting with Customer-Vendor-Consumer in a really interlinked ecosystem.   3dCart Order Sync Our plugin is available to all customers/partners if you're currently running your e-commerce/

InfoSourcing President & Developer Discusses Acumatica's Development Platform Why we choose Acumatica as our ERP development platform ? Find out and how Acumatica Cloud ERP can help mid-size business to scale their business operations in the cloud. Watch this video to learn more about Acumatica development platform and it's team behind this. Harsha Sarjapur, Acumatica Certified Partner and developer was awarded MVP (Most Valuable Professional) award for the year 2015-16 and 2016-17, in this video, he discusses Acumatica's platform at Acumatica Summit 2016-17, San Diego. We are excited to deploy your next business in the cloud. Check our website for more products and services offering for Acumatica Cloud ERP.

Selling Online should be as easy as shopping itself - 3dCart . While we say managing 3dCart orders within Acumatica should be as easy as a click . Our custom integration package for 3dCart allows business owners to download orders from 3dCart shopping software into Acumatica Cloud ERP for distribution and processing of orders. We just did build an import scenario or API/Web service to download orders, instead we built the framework to accommodate your growing business, multiple websites orders can now be processed in Acumatica, that's the power of Acumatica framework. We have several options for order processing in Acumatica a) Manual type the order - nope old style b) Import scenario allows to import orders exported from your ecommerce site - Still is bit manual to export/import process c) Using Web services build an interface to connect multiple websites to import open orders - right way to scale your business. Acumatica-3dCart Integration We built 3dCart inte

eSignature is growing trend in the industry as we automate towards paperless economy and more digital, Cloud solutions like Acumatica makes it even easier to integrate digital signature. Customers who want to accept signatures on sales document or proof of delivery on shipment documents can now choose to do so. With 2 options, either use Acumatica built-in Docusign feature (Subscription to Docusign is a must) or use custom plugin/package eSignature from InfoSourcing. Acumatica DocuSign integration was recently unveiled at the Summit 2017 and we put this comparison of features and functionality of both application to Acumatica users. DocuSign is a leader in document signature on pdf documents such as proposal, real estate deals etc. DocuSign was integrated with Acumatica Ver 6.1 and its tied to file system management which allows user to pick a specific document like Sales order or Invoice and send that for signature through DocuSign. Acumatica eSignature developed by InfoSour

Address Validation Via USPS-Acumatica API USPS address validation project was developed during Acumatica Summit Hackathon 2017 and shared as Github project Cleanse your address records within Acumatica through USPS API, it's free to use USPS API, setup a new account on USPS website and utilize their user id within our plugin. The Address validation custom package for Acumatica allows to interface with Contact address or any address that you can pass and validate street, city, state and zipcode. Prerequisites You must have USPS account  https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/welcome.htm Quick Start Register with USPS and obtain an API user account Download the address validation custom package, import into Acumatica and publish the package Proivde access to custom button on leads screen On leads screen you will notice a new button called "Verify address" On click it will open a new window and validate the address on record and display corrected addr

Acumatica Summit 2017 at Lo Jolla, San Diego, CA was a spectacular event with more than 800 attendees and 20 MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals). The first 2 days comprised of product updates, new features, channel updates followed by 3 days of intense training of Cloud ERP for partners, customers and ISVs. Acumatica Summit 2017 was all about Collaboration, Innovation and Acceleration . Acumatica's strong 400+ partners and ISVs demonstrates collaboration in building a bigger and healthier ecosystem. Acumatica truly believes in innovation , new ideas and product integrations, keeping itself as a leader in the magic quadrant. Acumatica demonstrated new version 6.1 and new user interface in upcoming versions and 100s of new product updates. With ISVs, platform integrators and partners they were able to accelerate quickly to 3000+ customers and OEMs worldwide with bigger footprint in emerging Asia Pacific markets. Acceleration with innovation and collaboration is key to Acum

We truly believe in Cloud ERP solution and have committed to Acumatica's ecosystem. We are happy to accept MVP award 2017 , our second award for our sheer dedication and team effort. Ajoy from Acumatica was kind enough to share few words ... "Congratulations!  You’ve been named an Acumatica Most Valuable Professional for 2017. The MVP Award distinguishes you as a passionate individual with superior knowledge of the Acumatica product and platform, who helps to shape the future direction of Acumatica through engagement with our teams, dedicated forums, and our annual Acumatica Summit .   Please do join us in La Jolla, Jan 29 th -Feb 3 rd , and wear your Acumatica MVP Badge with pride –you’ve earned it. I personally want to thank you for your demonstrated commitment to the Acumatica community, and for your willingness to share your skills there.  It was this dedication that earned you a nomination from a peer in the partner ecosystem, a community member, or an A

We are excited to be participating in Acumatica’s first-ever Hackathon at Acumatica Summit in San Diego next week Jan 30th 2017. InfoSourcing Inc, will be part of Acumatica Beta team along with other partners/developers, cracking code and integrating cool little things and having fun. A hackathon (also known as a hack day, hackfest or codefest) is a design sprint-like event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development, including graphic designers, interface designers, project managers, and others, often including subject-matter-experts, collaborate intensively on software projects. - Source  Wikipedia Acumatica's first Hackathon will be short and sweet, just 4 hrs from 8 pm to Mid night, each team will come up with integration ideas, coding, testing and integrating with ERP system. It's a fun project to get your toes wet in field of programming using REST API/Web Services or any new technologies that's out there ... We have shortlisted 2

How fast can you Ship? Really Fast In distribution world shipping is last step of your sales cycle and everybody expects it to be fast, how fast? I guess faster than Jimmy John's fast talker, really really fast. It becomes crucial for certain companies with complex shipping scenario's, being able to use multiple carriers, rate shopping, shipping rules, capabilities of packing them in multiple boxes, contents of items packed per box all these features is a must have and be able to ship much faster. We reviewed couple of shipping solutions that were integrated with Acumatica and we really liked what Starship form V-Technologies had to offer in terms of integrated features, price and easy to work staff. Starship now supports Acumatica Cloud ERP  Ver 5.3 and 6.0, you can process all your shipments via Starship and automate the process of sending email notification with tracking numbers. Key challenges/constraints  we faced within Acumatica shipping module out of

InfoSourcing Inc, is Acumatica Certified Cloud ERP Partner , joined as Silver certified partner in 2012 we have been serving Washington DC and have done handful implementation in SaaS (Software As A Service), PCS (Private Cloud Subscription) and On Premise. Our value proposition is not just selling ERP solution but to show our customers true Return On Investment (ROI) with out offerings of ERP Consulting, Customization and Support our customers get the true benefit of working with partner who can handle it all. We extend our professional services to other partners and customers who are in need of our solution/plugins or services that can automate their business operations, our recently introduced " eSignature " for Acumatica is one such example of how we can deliver such integration with great platform. Our professional services include Cloud ERP Consulting ERP Implementation and Migration Acumatica Cloud ERP Customizations Plugin Customization Report Custom

Predictive Intelligence In world of data mining & data analytics, Predictive Intelligence or what we all know as Artificial Intelligence is being consumed all across, we are experiencing AI as of today on Amazon.com for purchasing behavior & suggestions, smart phones using "Siri" or  "Ok Google", in automobile industry self driving cars and on Social media facebook image tagging and many more companies adapting every single day. So What's driving this new technology and why now?  Predictive Intelligence allows us to understand our customers and simplify personalization and marketing automation. Data scientist are at work figuring out the best algorithm in understanding data and behavior of consumers, Gartner published an article of Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies  Artificial Intelligence and machine learning are the hottest technology as of today and in next 2-4 yrs most companies will evolve and adapt this predictive intelligence in every

How do I provide Proof of Delivery or Proof of Shipment with e-Signature? Think about running business operations capturing signature for delivery of goods, scanning those documents and attaching to your file system, manual process and time consumption resulting in lower efficiency and prone to mistakes. Proof of delivery with e-Signatures lets you o automate your shipment process, improves efficiency, no paper work and best of all you can stay in compliance for HIPAA and other governing rules. Many proof of delivery and chain of custody processes are largely paper-based, increasing the risk of mistakes, disputes, and lost or misplaced shipments. Acumatica eSign can replace costly and paper-based systems with electronic signature capture, and complements existing workflow processes within Acumatica to make them more efficient, accurate, and cost effective. We can apply this plugin to your sales process, purchasing and shipments, extend it your project accounting or any custom