What Is the Acumatica Marketplace? Find Out!
A good ERP must be able to tailor-fit to your changing business over time, just as good clothing must be able to tailor-fit to your changing body shape over time. Companies tend to use their ERP for 10 years – and, if we continue our clothing metaphor here, you can imagine how difficult it would be to fit into the same clothing for 10 years without some alterations!
To meet your business’s changing “shape” over time, Acumatica Cloud ERP provides the Acumatica Marketplace.
What Is the Acumatica Marketplace?
The Acumatica Marketplace is your one stop to find all the commercial off-the-shelf additions available for your Acumatica ERP solution. The Marketplace contains hundreds of add-ons providing targeted capabilities for specific industries and financial or operational processes.
Solutions in the Marketplace make it easier to perform a wide range of business activities, including EDI, supply chain management, employee training, analytical insight, quality management, rebate processing, reporting, consignment processing, and more.
Why Use the Acumatica Marketplace?
If you’ve been using ERPs for a while, you know that the standard procedure for tailoring your ERP is to hire a developer to build customizations. You also know that this process can be costly and time consuming, and it can impact your ability to update your ERP software. No one wants to deal with those hassles.
Modern companies sidestep ERP customization hassles by turning to commercial off-the-shelf solutions, like the ones in the Acumatica Marketplace.
Off-the-shelf solutions harness the full powers of expert Acumatica developers creating tailored software, but they offer competitive pricing because they’re meant to be sold to multiple buyers. In addition to cost savings, solutions in the Acumatica Marketplace also offer:
- Purchasing confidence
Leading solutions in the Acumatica Marketplace are validated by Acumatica, have proven success in live client environments, and their developers have committed to meeting Acumatica’s planned roadmap. That means you can trust your Marketplace solution to work the way you expect it to – for a long, long time.
Note: To narrow your search on the Marketplace for these types of validated solutions, read the section below on “Important Info to Know About the Acumatica Marketplace”
- Seamless integration
Solutions within the Marketplace classified as “Fulfilled by Acumatica” can interact with many different areas within your Acumatica ERP. By using a tool that seamlessly blends with your native Acumatica data, you can run Generic Inquiries that include your Marketplace add-on data, schedule Business Events (notifications) based on data within those add-ons, and complete other productivity-boosting tasks.
- Fully configurable functionality
Acumatica’s Marketplace contains solutions built on the flexible Acumatica Cloud xRP platform, which is the cutting-edge base that underpins all of Acumatica’s fast, future-proof, and fully integrated capabilities. Because leading Acumatica Marketplace add-ons are built with the same tools and on the same platform that Acumatica uses, these solutions typically provide the same flexible configuration that you enjoy with your ERP.
In other words: your off-the-shelf solution can feel like a custom solution.
Important Info to Know About the Acumatica Marketplace
Of course, tailor-fit clothing is not all created the same way, with the same guarantees and standards. Marketplace solutions are not created the same way either– but Acumatica certification standards can help you select your solutions with confidence.
You’ll see a dropdown option on the Acumatica Marketplace page to select your certifications. These are:
- Always Current – solutions that will work no matter when you choose to upgrade your Acumatica ERP. This means you can auto-schedule your ERP updates and relax knowing that your Marketplace add-ons will work after your update too.
- Fulfilled by Acumatica – solutions with native integration with Acumatica, so you can use their data across various ERP areas. These are trusted so much by Acumatica that they treat them as their own solutions.
- Customer Validated – solutions that have been actively used in a live customer environment and approved by the customer. This is a great seal of approval.
- Certified – solutions that have passed all Acumatica software tests, with developers who have expressly committed to future roadmap releases from Acumatica. This is your baseline for choosing a solution with long-term ERP compatibility; note that not all solutions have this.
Curious about the performance of a specific solution that doesn’t have a certification you’re looking for? You can get more information by connecting with real Acumatica customers in the extremely active Acumatica Community forums – an incredible resource!
Check Out the Acumatica Marketplace
With hundreds of off-the-shelf solutions tailored to a wide range of industries and solving diverse business needs, the Acumatica Marketplace is a great place to start your search if you’re ready to boost the capabilities of your Acumatica ERP.
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