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Challenges or pain points in using the Retail Edition

  • January 3, 2024
  • 3 replies
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KarthikGajendran
Acumatica Moderator
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Hi Everyone, 

We are collecting feedback from our customers about any challenges and pain points they face while using Acumatica via the survey linked below.

We would appreciate your feedback. It could be related to the commerce connectors or related to any other area of the ERP (CRM, Shipping, Financials, etc) 

Examples: Processing Returns and Refunds are hard, Importing the orders through the connector is hard, Taxes issues etc.,

We’d also like to understand which external apps you’re using to supplement features within Acumatica. This could be due to Acumatica not offering the same functionality or the Acumatica functionality is not user friendly. 

Please use this survey as an opportunity to share with us what you’d like to see improved.

If you are open to it, we will schedule a call with each of you to collect more feedback, better understand your position and (hopefully) work to provide a solution. 

 

Survey Form:

https://forms.office.com/r/wJJUFqReEm

 

Thank you

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  • Jr Varsity III
  • January 8, 2024

Filled out. Thanks! 


S1AW
Freshman II
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  • Freshman II
  • June 25, 2026

Appreciate you gathering feedback. We would love to collaborate on the product and make the experience better for everyone. Sharing our list here for transparency in case others have found similar issues

 

 Revenue Blocking

  1. A tax sync error ("Taxes cannot be added in the current state of the document") is aborting hundreds of orders in production with only a manual sync log workaround available.
  2. Shopify sends state and county-level tax identifiers that Acumatica cannot match, causing orders across 25+ states to abort entirely on import.
  3. Refunds issued against unfulfilled Shopify orders incorrectly generate return orders in Acumatica instead of voiding or crediting correctly.
  4. Refunds paid via Shopify store credit or gift cards throw a null reference exception on import, leaving the refund unrecorded in Acumatica.
  5. Orders with mixed taxable and exempt line items produce a one-cent rounding error on tax calculation that surfaces in accounting reconciliation.

 Operational Friction

  1. A subset of stock items silently stop pushing availability updates to Shopify without appearing in the sync log, making scope impossible to diagnose.
  2. Shipments with more than 10 line items fail to export to Shopify, preventing fulfillment confirmation for multi-item orders.
  3. Phone numbers with a +1 country code prefix from Shopify conflict with Acumatica's phone mask format, causing silent customer sync failures.
  4. Tag-based order filtering on Shopify import is non-functional, causing orders that should be excluded to import anyway.
  5. Documents using an external tax provider in inclusive tax mode throw an out-of-balance error on release and cannot be processed.
  6. A single failure in a batch invoice email run causes all successfully sent invoices to remain in Pending Email status and be resent, generating duplicate customer emails.
  7. When a ship-to address is changed on a sales order, the tax zone does not automatically update, resulting in incorrect tax calculation without any warning.

Capability Gaps

  1. Gross freight revenue and shipping discounts cannot be mapped to separate GL accounts natively, requiring customization for standard retail margin reporting.
  2. The Shopify order number cannot be natively mapped to the Acumatica payment reference field, requiring customization for basic bank reconciliation.
  3. The connector cannot filter out archived or closed Shopify POS orders during sync, creating significant data complications at cutover.
  4. Custom user-defined fields on the sales order are not available as mapping targets in the Shopify Import Mapping screen, blocking no-code order source tracking.
  5. There is no mechanism to inject a parameterized or static connector and store value into a field during Shopify sync, preventing multi-store order origin tracking without customization.
  6. The sync engine has no parameterized date filter for created or modified date, forcing full historical syncs and creating cutover and testing risk.
  7. Deactivated group discounts silently result in zero discount on invoices with no visible error.
  8. With a Ship Complete rule active, carrier labels incorrectly generate for line items that have not yet shipped.
  9. Global search in Modern UI navigates to the wrong record in some cases, undermining daily usability.

 


KarthikGajendran
Acumatica Moderator
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@S1AW  Thank you very much for listing all the challenges. I am not sure which version you are on. Some of these are already resolved and some are in planning stage. 

I would love to connect with you and discuss about all the challenges and provide some guidance.

Will send you an meeting invite. 

Thank you very much. 

​​​​@StacieJurczak41 ​@BorisRudi56