Using Accolent ERP Agentic AI

Accolent ERP has embedded AWS Quick (“Quick”), which is AWS’ Agentic AI offering. Quick is an AI solution that offers chat agents, workflows and dashboards and visualizations using LLMs (Large Language Models) running in AWS Bedrock and called from a customer workspace. The customer workspace can access various data sources, such as your Accolent ERP […]

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AI-Bots for Financial Statement Tie-Outs

Accolent ERP users should have a financial close process every month-end to tie-out the financial statements to the supporting files for Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Inventory Valuation. There are many possible reasons for these balances to go out of sync including things like manual adjustments, GL Adjustments, using the bulk imports while in live […]

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Accolent ERP Optional Modules

Accolent ERP is a full-featured ERP system including functionality for Order Management, Order Processing, Rebates Management, Complex Pricing Methods, Product Cost Management, Inventory Management, Inventory Tracking and Control, Bill of Materials and Kitting, Purchasing Management, Warehouse Management System, Multicarrier Shipping, Sales and Use Tax, Comprehensive GAAP-compliant General Ledger, Accounts Payable, AP Automation, Accounts Receivable, and […]

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Allocating Vouchers to Multiple Departments

Accolent ERP allows the allocation of Vendor Invoices, referred to as Vouchers, to multiple expense GL Accounts. A voucher can have multiple expense lines each of which may be allocated to its own department. Once all expense lines on the voucher are assigned to departments, the voucher can be posted. The GL posting of the […]

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Using VAT Canada

Accolent ERP supports VAT for Canada (and other non-US jurisdictions). To use first go to the Configuration screen and enable VAT Canada, then setup the Canadian tax jurisdictions. Then set the voucher allocations on vendors to include the Provincial Sales Tax (PST) and the Canadian Goods & Services Tax (GST). Once done, all sales transactions […]

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Onboarding Vendors to Tipalti

Accolent ERP supports automated AP payments through Tipalti, a leading AP Automation platform.  To use the Tipalti AP Automation, your Vendors must be set up in Tipalti. To accomplish this, all Vendors can initially be exported from Accolent ERP and Uploaded to Tipalti in a “Not Payable” status. Vendors will then be contacted and asked […]

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Using AP Automation

Accolent ERP supports automated AP payments through Tipalti, a leading AP Automation platform.  In Accolent ERP, users create Vouchers then select Vouchers to be paid and select the bank as ePayable Bank. When the user clicks Create Checks, if the bank is ePayable Bank, Accolent ERP will call the Tipalti API to upload the whole […]

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Creating a Negative AP Balance on a Voucher

Accolent ERP allows the user to create a negative Accounts Payable (“AP”) balance in a vendor’s account, if necessary. This can be done by creating a manual check to either (1) overpay an existing voucher or (2) to create and pay a zero voucher. Either of these approaches will create the desired negative AP balance. […]

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Recording Payroll Expenses

Accolent ERP works with any in-house or outsourced Payroll/HR system whether on-premises or in the Cloud. After processing the payroll for any pay period through the Payroll/HR system, enter the consolidated payroll into Accolent ERP as a Voucher. The Voucher can then be paid in Accolent ERP through a single manual check. The consolidated payroll […]

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Editing Voucher Discounts

Accolent ERP calculates discounts on Vouchers based on the Terms entered on the Vendor. Different Terms may be selected that will apply only to that Voucher and will not update the Vendor. In addition, Discount Amount and Discount Date may be directly edited on the Voucher irrespective of Terms. Once the Voucher is saved, the […]

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