Now that 2025 is behind us, it's worth taking stock of everything that landed in over the course of the year. Two major releases shipped, R1 in March and R2 in September, and together they delivered close to a thousand enhancements across the platform. The Acumatica 2025 new features covered AI capabilities, a redesigned user interface, and meaningful upgrades for manufacturing, distribution, construction, and accounting teams.
Here's a consolidated look at what changed across both releases. You can find the full details on Acumatica's official release pages for and .
A Modern UI That's Now Available to Everyone
One of the most significant Acumatica 2025 new features wasn't a single capability, it was the Modern UI reaching general availability with R2. Built across multiple release cycles and shaped by customer feedback, the redesigned interface lets every user personalize screens down to individual fields, tabs, and layouts. Dashboards are cleaner, navigation is faster, and the experience holds up consistently across web and mobile.
This isn't a surface-level refresh. Teams that live in Acumatica all day will notice meaningful differences in how quickly they can get to what they need and configure their workspace around how they actually operate.
AI Moved from Concept to Production
Both releases advanced AI capabilities considerably. R1 laid the groundwork with automation and connectivity improvements across the platform. R2 took a bigger leap with the launch of Acumatica AI Studio, a low-code/no-code framework that lets business users and partners build AI-powered workflows without writing code. Once set up, these automations trigger across business processes to handle repetitive tasks and update records automatically.
R2 also delivered AI-powered invoice recognition, cross-selling suggestions driven by machine learning and historical order data, and an AI-assisted order fulfillment engine for that automates warehouse selection across complex fulfillment scenarios. These arrived as production-ready tools, not experimental previews.
Accounting and Finance
The Acumatica 2025 new features on the finance side spanned both releases. R1 added proof of purchase receipts, credit card charge amount increases, prepayments from sales order payment links, BAI2 format bank feeds, and a set of payroll improvements including PTO bank earning types, detailed pay stub reports, and new payroll summary and tax-by-code reports.
R2 followed with smarter pre-authorized payment handling for partially shipped orders, full EFT support for settlement batch processing, direct integration to eliminate manual check printing and ACH uploads, and expanded payroll accuracy controls including enhanced decimal place handling and compliant pay statement generation.
Distribution and Commerce
R1 brought enhanced lot and serial number attribute tracking, streamlined transfer receipts and put-away, simplified shipping package weight management through DeviceHub, easier PO receipt corrections, and tighter Shopify integration including product catalog and pricing control. Amazon inventory reconciliation also arrived in this release.
R2 extended those foundations with directed putaway logic, full-text inventory search using natural language, cross-selling automation through the new Cross-Sell Assistant, drop shipping support for intercompany purchases, and AI-assisted order fulfillment orchestration. For businesses running at scale, these updates cut significant manual coordination out of the fulfillment process.
Manufacturing
R1 introduced production orders organized by build capability, finite scheduling views, and demand forecast enhancements for MRP planning, along with lot and serial attribute tracking at the unit level during finished goods receipt. have been a strong differentiator for mid-sized producers, and the 2025 updates deepened that advantage.
R2 extended manufacturing further with more detailed lot and serial traceability, streamlined BOM cost rollup workflows that run without affecting live data, improved production order linking across multiple sites and currencies, updated constraint date handling in advanced scheduling, and a new Production Transactions form consolidating inventory, journal, and cost details in a single view.
What's Coming in 2026
Looking ahead, Acumatica used Summit 2026 in January to preview what's planned for 2026 R1. The roadmap continues the AI-first direction established in 2025, with expanded AI Studio capabilities, a fully available AI Assistant, AI-powered anomaly detection in reporting, and upgraded customer and vendor collaborative portals with universal login and in-product messaging. Acumatica also outlined a broader strategic shift toward becoming a proactive system of intelligence rather than just a system of record. For the full picture of what's on the horizon, the is worth a read.
The Bottom Line
Reviewing the Acumatica 2025 new features across R1 and R2, it's clear the platform moved meaningfully in all the right directions. For businesses evaluating or considering a move from a legacy system like , 2025 made a strong case for where Acumatica is headed. For current users, it's worth a deliberate review of both releases to find where new capabilities can reduce manual work in your specific operation before 2026 R1 arrives.
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