Introducing Sage Intacct 2022 R2

What’s New in Sage Intacct 2022 R2

Sage Intacct 2022 Release 2 (R2) is now available and boasts new features that focus on three major themes including financial management and reporting, industry enhancements for construction and inventory, and cloud platform enhancements.

Continued AP Automation Development

The previous Sage Intacct 2022 R1 release made the new AP Bill Automation functionality available through the early adopters program. With the release of Intacct 2022 R2, the enhancements continue based on early adopter feedback.

For example, the ability to get vendor-provided bills into Sage Intacct that have been sent by email has been simplified and improved. You can add bills for automated processing in either of the following ways:

Upload your bills into Intacct using the new Upload button
You or your vendors forward bills to an email address that Intacct provides

In addition, the vendor matching process has been improved. For each uploaded or emailed bill, Intacct captures the data and creates a draft bill. The system then matches the bill to the correct vendor record and fills in the GL accounts and other dimensions, based on the vendor record and bill history. Each automatically-created draft includes the original bill as an attachment, for easy reference.

Improved Collections and Dunning Letters

Accounts Receivable collections just got a lot easier with a new and streamlined Dunning Notices process in Sage Intacct 2022 R2. You can now configure Intacct with custom dunning levels (or aging buckets) that match your specific business policies and accounting practices.

You can then send out dunning notices based on overdue time and amount thresholds as well as leverage email and document templates that can progress from gentle reminders early on, to stronger language that demands payment as accounts become more overdue. What’s more, all of it generates a full audit trail and tracking to improve the collections process and get paid on-time.

Construction Billing Using Project Contracts

Intacct 2022 R2 introduces project contracts, where you can capture a mix of billable details and include those details in construction project billing. This collection of new features includes the ability to:

Generate project invoices that reflect billing details from your project contract lines.
Integrate with change management and automatically reflect project billing when there’s a pricing update. When you generate project invoices, project contract lines now reflect associated project changes to the total revised contract price.
Automatically attribute billed transactions to the correct project contract line by mapping project tasks to the correct project contract lines, and more.
Generate schedule of values that represent agreed-upon project deliverables.
Flexible templates that support AIA billing formats

New Evergreen Contracts

Sage Intacct 2022 R2 introduces a streamlined process for recurring billing. Previously, you would have to set up a contract to renew for each billing period, resulting in many separate child contracts and cumbersome reporting.

Now, Intacct eliminates the extra maintenance with contract configuration options that include both Termed (contracts with start and end dates) and Evergreen (open-ended contracts with no specified end dates).

This new support for evergreen contracts gives you a complete subscription billing solution that’s simple and streamlined.

Inventory Fulfillment

With the release of Intacct 2022 R2, new Inventory Fulfillment capabilities are now available to customers in the Early Adopters program.

Sage Intacct Inventory Fulfillment gives warehouse managers and workers the tools to track and ship sales orders fast and efficiently. It also provides pick and pack lists as well as reserves and allocates quantities on sales orders that are moving through fulfillment so they can’t be used elsewhere. From a single page, you can manage sales orders through the processes of pick, pack, ship, invoice, or any combination of those processes.

Other new features or enhancements to Inventory Control that are in the latest release include:

The ability to track serial, lot, bin and expiration has been extended to stockable kits
Enhancements now support more inclusive cycle counts (i.e. can be included regardless of quantity on hand) and dimension values for reconciliation
Commit inventory quantities for specific orders during order entry

Other New Features Added

Company and Administration

Export individual fields in Data Delivery Service – You can now export specific fields within objects.
New and updated permissions – We added new permissions for Accounts Receivable, Cash Management, and Projects.

Accounts Payable

Vendor Summary – Find key vendor information like their last bill and payment dates in the new summary header.
AP Bill Automation – With help from our Early Adopters, we’re refining the upcoming automated bill creation feature.

Accounts Receivable

Dunning notices – Introducing Dunning for Accounts Receivable collections. Print or email dunning notices from Intacct to customers based on the number of days overdue or amount due.

Cash Management

Creation rules now generally available – Automatically create journal entries and streamline your reconciliation.
View and manage transaction templates in a list – Access transaction templates for journal entries in a snap from the new list.
Rule set performance log – Get key insight into how rules are running and make updates to improve reconciliation automation.

Contracts

Evergreen contacts – Manage contracts without end dates with the new Evergreen term type.

Inventory Control

Tracking extended to stockable kits – You can now use serial, lot, bin, and expiration tracking for stockable kits and include tracked components in your kits for improved inventory management.
Cycle count enhancements – We made changes to support more inclusive counts and dimension values for reconciliation.
Fulfillment for sales orders – We’re launching fulfillment (Pick, Pack, Ship, and Invoice) in an Early Adopter program.
Commit quantities during order entry – We’re introducing the ability to dedicate quantities for specific orders in an Early Adopter program.
Simple Tax – Distribute entity-level subtotals – Use a configuration option to distribute the subtotals for transactions created at the entity level. Learn more about participating in the Early Adopter program for this feature.

Order Entry

Fulfillment for sales orders – We’re launching fulfillment (Pick, Pack, Ship, and Invoice) in an Early Adopter program.
Commit quantities during order entry – We’re introducing the ability to dedicate quantities for specific orders in an Early Adopter program.
Simple Tax – Distribute entity-level subtotals – With distributed subtotals, your custom reports include subtotal details for transactions created at the entity level. Learn more about participating in the Early Adopter program for this feature.

Platform and Customization Services

Introducing Application Namespaces – You can now add application namespaces when you create or edit custom applications, custom objects, or custom fields. Learn more about participating in the Early Adopter program for this feature.

Purchasing

Simple Tax – Distribute entity-level subtotals – With distributed subtotals, your custom reports include subtotal details for transactions created at the entity level. Learn more about participating in the Early Adopter program for this feature.

Reporting – Financial

Show or hide inactive accounts and dimensions in selection lists – Until now, reports didn’t automatically show accounts or dimensions that were set as Inactive. Now you can choose to filter inactive accounts.

User Experience

A new look for Sage Intacct – When you sign in, you’ll notice we look a little different. We’re debuting a simpler sign-in page, new logo, and header and footer colors.

Questions?

These are just a few highlights from the many new features and improved functions throughout the software.

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Author: Luc Lothamer, MIP Systems Consultant