Construction

Hello all,I have been trying out to let the system calculate & display the Actual Income section of the Projects before creating an AR Invoices. So I would like to record Unbilled AR and display that figure under Actual Income.I have a Time & Material project, so I create the project transactions , not posted to GL, using the Employee Time Cards.Now I would like an Allocation rule that would post a GL transaction as:                          DR                CRUnbilled AR       800Revenue A/c                         800And then the Actual Income gets updated to 800.And then when we generate the AR Invoice/Run Project Billing then the Unbilled AR should get nullified. How can we get this done?

How is retainage treated?  In D365 F&O, there are two options – full amount and full amount less retainage.  What options are the in Acumatica? Is there functionality to accrue tax differentials?  In D365 F&O, there is a feature for Post Positive Sales Tax Adjustment as Use Tax and when this feature is enabled, SureTax will accrue tax differences.  For example, if vendor charges sales tax of $10 and the tax platform calculates tax of $15, the $10 sales tax is included in the vendor payment and the tax platform will accrue $5 use tax.  Is there similar functionality in Acumatica?

Hi There,I tried to test Acumatica Cloud ERP 2023 R2 T5018 E-File. I kept getting an error and not able to process. Could you please review and advise what does this error mean? 

Does adding the labor time and activities on the daily field report replace having to enter weekly crew time or an employee time card? Or how will the weekly time activities feed into the daily field report without manually having to add them

We began importing our labor costs and hours into our projects through Journal Entries from our external payroll system and didn’t realize for the firs 5/6 weeks that if we do not have a UOM in the Journal Entry it doesn’t populate the hours into the Actual Quantity column in the cost budget on the Project. Journal Entry TransactionProject Cost Budget LineDoes anyone have suggestions on the best way to populate the projects with the hours without duplicating the journal entries since the journal entries do show the quantity when you look at the project transactions?  I don’t want to end up having the amounts duplicated if the Actual Quantity field would change and populate with any units that are shown on the project transactions.Project Transactions List from the Project Cost BudgetAs a note, I did try and use the Recalculate Project Balance operation under the … [More] menu and that did not resolve the issue.

What user access role do you have to have to be able to see the Project Management features once enables. I have the Project Manager checkbox selected for my PM but he cant see the PM module menu items such as RFIs submittals daily logs etc

Is there a video or webinar on crew time entry?

How do we release retainage on multiple invoices at one time and reference 1 retainage billing invoice rather than each individual contractor pay application, that would then go through the approval process once, rather than for each contractor pay app? 

I am looking to create a Chart for a dashboard that displays labor hours by project. I am trying to run the DB Project Time Detail report and I am getting this error message. Does anyone know what this means? 

We keep getting the below error while trying to Run Project Billing.  We clearly have pending invoice amounts entered.  We just updated to a recent version of Acumatica last night, so I’m wondering if that could affect this? This does not happen on all jobs though.  

I'm exploring alternative methods for calculating revenue projections for construction projects.Currently, we rely on a straightforward method using GI that looks at the end dates on all revenue tasks, the sum of the tasks ending in a specific period serves as our revenue projection. It's a simple and effective approach.Why I’m looking for something different; Project management programs that integrate with ACU are limited, and not all of them integrate with project tasks. It's worth mentioning that we currently use SmartSheet to manage project task dates. While this integrates with ACU, it's proving to be less scalable due to inadequate support. If I can find a different means of calculating our revenue projection, then I’m not restricted to the limited PM tools available. Please provide suggestions and insights regarding alternative methods or tools that might enhance our revenue projection processes. Your input would be greatly appreciated.

Looking for some guidance on how you guys create change orders inside of Acumatica? For my state contracts, I have to itemize out certain things for example:  I can’t just put:  Labor 100 hoursI have to put: Operator 50 hours Laborer 50 hours With this said, Acumatica does not “like” or “allow” you to create multiple line items for the same account group and cost code so how can I create an intemized change order if I can’t do this? Help! @CJohnson15 tagging you here so you can see the responses :) 

When I need to add/revise a line of a PO, I get an error.  It’s been happening when I try to enter an AP bill as well.  I’ve looked at the vendor profile and viewed the account, made a small change then saved.   Then changed the vendor in the PO, saved, and changed it back, but I cannot save the PO and the error continues to appear.   Anyone know how I can correct this?    

We have a request to add the Inventory Id to the Journal Transactions by Period report?  Would this be possible?  It is not a traditional GI, so I am not quite sure where to begin. 

We have a request to add the Inventory Id to the Journal Transactions by Period report?  Would this be possible?  It is not a traditional GI, so I am not quite sure where to begin. 

We have an employee that has completely changed their first name and last name, and I have been asked to update Acumatica as such.  Is that possible?  I would prefer to change the name information in the Employee record as well as in the User record instead of creating a new profile with the new name.   All suggestions welcome!! 

Hello, I want to ask if any way that I can get the unit price mark up automatically base on the last unit cost in Project Quote ?  

Hello All,I have been looking out for ways to reverse an AR Project Invoice that has been generated via Progress or Time-Material Billing rule. How can we achieve this? Thanks in advance.

Hi,I need to create a business event to notify the Project Manager on a project when a payment is received on an invoice that had been sent for his project.  I’m looking at using the Release action on the AR Payment to fire the scenario, but it does not appear to allow me to reference anything in the “Application History” of the invoice to look up the project-related information or the Project Manager.  Has anyone accomplished anything similar to this? Thanks,Mike

Hello all,I have been looking for ways to mass update the subaccounts for Project Tasks & then in the Projects too. I only know of the import scenario for now. Are there any other ways to achieve this? Thanks in advance.

Hi,Is there a way to have a generic inquiry that can list the following:List of Approved Documents per Employee (All Screen) List of Pending Approval Documents for All Screen List of Report that records Approved, Pending for Approval and, Rejected Documents.I would appreciate your help to get an idea of these requirements.Thank you!

Hello All,I have been looking to display Cost Layer Type for projects. I have the requirement to display the Project Specific Inventory Inventory Qty along with Cost Layer Type so as to transfer the unwanted items. And the Cost Layer Type displays the Cost Layer either Project/Normal in order to create transfer orders. Can anyone help me out in this?Currently in 23R1 we have INLocationStatusbyCostCenter but it is not there in 22R2. I am looking to get this requirement implemented in 22R2. How to do that?Thanks in advance.

Hi, I currently work for an engineering firm that in the last few years started a construction company. We are currently using the Acumatica Construction Edition since 2020. This week on the first day of the Acumatica Summit  Keynote there was mention that in 2024 Acumatica was going to be releasing a new edition for Professional Services. Would there be any way I can receive further information or sign up to test and provide feedback this new edition to provide feedback?We have made certain modification to our Acumatica software that would greatly help the Professional Services edition such as parent and child project. using generic inquiry and dashboard we can better drill down on project information but two items that are missing schduling (which I hear it maybe being worked on) and subtask / better level of granularity on task.

I recently attended the Acumatica Summit and did not receive all the recap content. Is there a place I can retrieve the content to the breakout sessions that I attended? 

Hi, We have a client that has multiple branches set up. They will be using AP Incoming Documents. Right now users cannot select the branch in the Incoming Documents screen and if they update under Bills & Adjustments the item does not save. How can we add the Branch ID column under Incoming Documents so that way users don’t have to worry about selecting the Branch at the top of the screen? Also, are there any other workarounds we can try? Client is on 2023 R1 Thanks,Frances