What stood out at Acumatica Summit 2026 wasn’t a single new ERP feature, it was how often finance leaders asked the same practical questions:
How do we get paid faster? How do we reduce manual work? And how do we stay confident in our AR and AP data while we scale?
That’s the heartbeat of what we heard across sessions, show- floor conversations, and partner discussions in Seattle (Summit ran Jan 25–28 at the Seattle Convention Center, with 3,000+ attendees).
Acumatica’s keynotes put a big spotlight on AI that’s embedded into everyday workflows and on building more complete financial operations, especially around payments and automation.
But on the ground, the “AI story” quickly translated into day-to-day finance outcomes: faster cash, fewer touches, clearer visibility.
The three themes we heard on repeat (and why they matter)
1. Faster time-to-cash isn’t a “collections problem” it’s an operations problem
Finance teams weren’t just asking for a better way to accept payments. They were asking how to remove the friction before payment happens: invoice delivery, follow-ups, dispute resolution, customer risk, and cash forecasting.
Industry benchmarks cited in Quadient’s Acumatica AR eBook show AR automation drives faster processing (87%), higher team efficiency (79%), and improved customer experience (75%).
2. Fewer manual touches (because “busy” isn’t the same as “in control”)
Whether it was small finance teams or scaling orgs, a lot of the pain sounded the same:
- Too much keying and re-keying
- Approval chasing
- Inconsistent follow-ups
- Spreadsheets stitched together for reporting
In AP, that manual work is often the bottleneck. Quadient’s Acumatica AP integration flow highlights how invoice capture, matching/coding, approval routing, and payment processing can be managed with API-based syncing to reduce double entry and keep data aligned.
3. Better financial visibility (especially when teams are trying to scale)
The most confident finance leaders weren’t claiming perfection — they had visibility:
- What’s overdue and why
- Which customers are likely to pay late
- What’s coming in (and what isn’t)
- Where exceptions are piling up
This is also where Acumatica’s Summit messaging around practical innovation and AI-driven insights resonated teams want insight that’s usable, not novelty.
Why Quadient resonated at Acumatica Summit (not just “why we were there”)
Here’s the gap we kept hearing: many solutions in the ecosystem lead with payments, but finance teams were asking broader questions about receivables workflow, visibility, and control along with AP efficiency.
That’s where Quadient Financial Automation fit naturally in Acumatica conversations:
Lead with AR: Extend Acumatica’s order-to-cash with purpose-built receivables automation
Quadient AR is designed to connect to Acumatica and strengthen the day-to-day levers that impact cash:
- Clear, automated visibility into AR performance, overdue balances, and payment risk—without manual reporting.
- Accelerated collections using automated invoice communications, configurable workflows, and a buyer portal - reducing delays and back-and-forth.
- Built to support real-world complexity (multi-entity, multi-currency, bidirectional sync with Acumatica).
AP complements AR: One finance automation approach, not disconnected point tools
On the AP side, the message was complementary rather than separate. Finance teams weren’t looking to optimize AP or AR in isolation—they wanted fewer manual touches and cleaner data flows across both. By automating invoice capture, approvals, and payments while keeping Acumatica as the system of record, AP becomes part of a unified financial automation strategy rather than another disconnected tool.
If these themes sound familiar from your Acumatica experience
If these challenges sound familiar, you’re not alone—they’re exactly what Acumatica finance teams raised repeatedly during Summit conversations.
Book a demo to see AR and AP automation work together with Acumatica to accelerate cash flow and reduce manual effort.
Download the resources shared at the event:
👉 Quadient AR - An Acumatica Integrated Partner (one-pager)
Because the takeaway from Acumatica Summit 2026 was simple: the future of finance ops isn’t just faster — - it’s more visible, more controlled, and easier to run day-to-day.