Christmas has come early with the final release of Sage Intacct for 2024. Packed with new features and updated functionality, this highly anticipated release does not disappoint.
Here we offer a brief summary of the release highlights, giving a quick overview of the release. You can review a list of all changes on the Sage website.
Release highlights
Sage Copilot
Sage Copilot Variance Analysis - Early Adopter
Provides insights into budgets or prior period differences and alerts budget owners and finance leaders whenever actual spending exceeds your budget
Search help with Copilot - Early Adopter
Our AI-powered semantic search engine understands the context and intent behind your help queries, providing more accurate and relevant results.
Strength in financials
Reconcile customer payments and credits to invoices and Reconcile payments and credits to bills
Review how multiple payments and credits matched to an invoice or a bill and track unpaid transactions.
Enhancements to Accounts Receivable statements
Create clearer statements for your customers with enhancements to Accounts Receivable custom statements.
Automation support for tax solutions
Expanded support of AP Automation for companies using the Taxes application.
Control and compliance
Override tax schedules in Purchasing and Order Entry
Calculate taxes on transactions that cross tax jurisdictions with tax schedule override.
Tax detail enhancements for tax submission
Mark tax details as Reporting or Not reporting. Transactions using Not reporting tax details will be excluded from tax submissions.
Tax submission extended to custom VAT - Early adopter
New workflow streamlines the tax filing process for companies using a custom tax solution.
Platform efficiency
Lists enhancements
Increase your personalisation and efficiency with our configurable new lists.
REST API - Early adopter
We continue to offer more functionality. Look out for the Early Adopter release documentation soon!
Platform services translation management
Manage translations, streamline localisation, and expand global reach with bulk translation management.
New language options for Spanish and Canadian French - Beta
Personalise your Sage Intacct experience and set your language on the Preferences page.
Industry insights
Automate Contracts service period dates for invoicing
Automatically include service period start and end dates on invoices.
Retainage for Projects and Grants
Use the retainage feature in Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable without a Construction subscription.
Sage Intelligent time: Time clocks
Easily achieve precise time tracking and compliance. Coming at the end of November!
Sage Intelligent time: Rate cards
Standardise pricing to establish transparent and consistent pricing structures.
Coming in December!
Fixed Assets Management improvements
- Override posting dates: Gain flexibility when booking asset depreciation.
- Allocations for assets: Allocate depreciation expenses across different dimensions.
Substantiated Construction billing enhancements
Print summarised and non-summarised time and materials billing details for project contract invoices, as well as non-summarised expenses.
Training
Announcing the first customer certification for Sage Intacct
Introducing the Accounting Specialist Certification. Assess your knowledge of Sage Intacct and skills outlined in the certification guide and get ready for the exam!
These brand new features and product enhancements have been launched with customer feedback in mind, to make Sage Intacct even more efficient and to work for its users.
There’s a huge number of updates here, but there are plenty more too. Take a look at the complete list of Sage Intacct 2024 R4 updates.
If you would like to discuss any of the features of Sage Intacct, of learn more about how it can help your business, contact us today.
