Acumatica Pricing Factors
Functionality
When it comes to functionality, Acumatica casts a wide net in order to serve as many businesses as possible. However, it is unlikely that any single business would need all of the functionality Acumatica offers. So they have broken down their product offering into “Editions” for specific industries and “Modules” for specific business functions.
Editions come with a set of modules that Acumatica tailored for a specific industry. Within those Editions, additional modules are available for a business to include in its plan should it choose.
A great breakdown of the Editions and their included modules is available right Here.
Acumatica currently offers the following Editions:
- General – Catch-all edition; mainly offers accounting and financial reporting tools
- Construction Edition – Financial tools plus job costing and project management functionality
- Manufacturing – Financial tools plus BOM and MRP tools
- Retail-Commerce – Financial tools plus order and inventory management and pre-built eCommerce integration functionality
- Distribution – Financial tools plus order and inventory management
For a more in-depth understanding of their Editions and the value they provide, you can check out our other blog article, “What is Acumatica?”
Common Add-On Modules
- CRM
- Payroll
- Fixed Asset Management
- Project Accounting
- Recurring Revenue
- Deferred Revenue
- + More
By breaking up the offering and allowing businesses to pick and choose the features that best fit their business, Acumatica is able to serve a wide range of business but still offer the Acumatica Cloud ERP to each business at an affordable price point.
Transaction Volume
When it comes to gauging the size of your business and the “usage” you’ll require from resources on their end, Acumatica has a different approach than most ERP systems in the enterprise-software industry. As opposed to the amount of users and employees your business has Acumatica uses “Commercial Transaction Volume” to gauge how big of a business you are.
Commercial Transaction Volume or “CTV” is equal to the single highest volume of transactions within each of these transaction types: sales orders, shipments, AR invoices, customer payments, purchase orders, purchase receipts, AP invoices, and AP payments.
Here is an example of how CTV is measured. Imagine a company has the following transactions over a one month period: 900 AR invoices, 600 customer payments, 500 AP invoices, 100 vendor payments, and 500 sales orders. The single highest volume for the month was the 900 AR invoices, so for this example company, the CTV for the given month would be 900.
You can use this chart below to see the tiers of transaction volume Acumatica has set. Every time you move up or down the tier list you can expect a lower or high fee from Acumatica.
Acumatica also uses your “ETV” to gauge usage, which is essentially anytime you click “Save” on an Acumatica form or record, however it is unlikely the ETV would ever exceed the monthly limit without the CTV exceeding first, so CTV is a much better way to anticipate which tier you’ll fall under.
For your company to remain in compliance with CTV and ETV licensing requirements, your monthly CTV and ETV transaction volumes must not exceed your licensed monthly transaction volume for any three months during a trailing twelve month period.
There are some rare occasions where the CTV model does not work for a business. For example, a retailer who sells high volume low cost widgets. In these rare cases, Acumatica could offer them licensing based on active users. However, for most businesses, this CTV model is extremely efficient at scaling with their customers as they grow.
How to Purchase Acumatica?
This is an important question as its answer may not be what you as a consumer are used to. Acumatica is 100% licensed by Value-Added-Reseller partners or “VARs.” Acumatica VAR partners are businesses that are separate from Acumatica but have a close relationship and act as Acumatica Consultants.
The relationship is similar to a restaurant franchise; where the franchiser, in this case Acumatica, has a set of standards for the franchisee when it comes to the selling and implementation of the solution but offers the franchisee a certain level of freedom when it comes to pricing and building services on top of Acumatica’s solution.
This relationship is beneficial because it allows the Acumatica team to specialize in the development of awesome features for their platform without having to worry about how they’re going to sell or implement it.
All this is to say, that if you want to purchase the Acumatica solution, you’ll have to look for an Acumatica VAR partner. The good news is, you won’t have to look to far because bēacn just so happens to be one. If you’re interested in taking the next step with the Acumatica platform, go ahead and click HERE to learn more about how bēacn can guide you through it.
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