regional updates

Updates for South Africa

On this page you can scan the list of release highlights to get a quick overview of the release or you can review a list of all the changes organized by category.

Release highlights

Expand each category to drill deeper into the highlights of what 2025 Release 3 offers your business.

Feature	Available in
Maximize time
Get ready for enhanced lists as the default experience: You will soon notice that enhanced lists are the default for your company.	All regions
A new way to combine multiple documents into a single transaction—General availability: When you create a Purchasing transaction, you can streamline your workflow by converting multiple documents, including lines of documents, into a single transaction.	All regions
Line-level matching for smarter Purchasing automation—Early Adopter: AP Automation with Purchasing now supports line-level document matching for more accurate and robust automation.	All regions
Use the equity method with Advanced Ownership Consolidation—Early Adopter: You can now use the equity consolidation method to record subsidiary ownership income. Sage Intacct automatically generates equity entries, ensures ownership transparency by recording and tracking changes by period, and supports single subsidiary rollup to multiple parents with multiple rollup levels.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Delegate AP supplier invoice approvals: Maintain a seamless AP supplier invoice approval workflow when approvers are out-of-office.	All regions
Authenticate and validate your email domain today: Action is required to ensure smooth email delivery to your customers and partner; authenticate and validate your domain today.	All regions
Accelerate decision-making
Greater visibility into match tolerance exceptions: Now you can easily identify the transaction lines that fall outside of price or quantity match tolerance ranges, and choose to accept, adjust or override the exceptions.	All regions
Sage Intelligent Time enhancements Timesheet entry grid is now customizable—Sage Intelligent Time: Customize the timesheet entry grid to control how time is entered and displayed.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States

All changes

Area	Feature	Available in
APIs and Developer Updates	The REST API offers a developer-friendly solution for integrating with Sage Intacct: Learn what's new in our latest release notes.	All regions
APIs and Developer Updates	Stay up-to-date with XML API changes: While Sage Intacct continues to support the XML API, going forward all new objects and features will be released in the REST API.	All regions

Area	Feature	Available in
Sage Copilot	Search help with Copilot—Available in all English-speaking regions: Our AI-powered semantic search engine understands the context and intent behind your help queries, providing more accurate and relevant results.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
AI and Automation	Line-level matching for smarter Purchasing automation—Early Adopter: AP Automation with Purchasing now supports line-level document matching for more accurate and robust automation.	All regions
	Smarter email capabilities for AP Automation: Leverage auto-forwarding rules and process inline attachments and transaction data from the email body.	All regions
	Automated transactions without matching—General availability: You can now automate Purchasing transactions that do not have a source match defined, for example PO purchase invoices that do not match to purchase orders or requisitions.	All regions
Company and Administration	Authenticate and validate your email domain today: Action is required to ensure smooth email delivery to your customers and partner; authenticate and validate your domain today.	All regions
	New import service—updates: New imports are available for the Sage Intacct import service. Simplify data imports with AI-powered tools that handle the complexity for you.	All regions
	Permission changes: We changed permissions for Time—Sage Intelligent Time, Accounts Receivable, Contracts, and Order Entry.	All regions
Accounts Payable	Delegate AP supplier invoice approvals: Maintain a seamless AP supplier invoice approval workflow when approvers are out-of-office.	All regions
	Smarter email capabilities for AP Automation: Leverage auto-forwarding rules and process inline attachments and transaction data from the email body.	All regions
	Pay AP supplier invoices in more ways: Pay AP supplier invoices for a supplier directly from the Suppliers list.	All regions
	You can now deactivate alternative accounts: Prevent accidental postings by deactivating alternative accounts that you no longer use.	All regions
	New custom report object: Create custom reports based on payment approval history.	All regions
Accounts Receivable	Customer refunds—General availability: Record refunds that you make to customers against existing credits.	All regions
	Receive payments in more ways: Apply payments directly from the Customers list.	All regions
	More flexibility when applying credits: Apply credits in more ways and distribute them across multiple AR sales invoices with ease.	All regions
	Enhancements to customer advances: Create draft customer advances and assign unique payment IDs when they post.	All regions
	AR Ledger report: Enjoy more filtering flexibility with the ability to select multiple customers, filter by customer group, and include child customers.	All regions
	Add bill back transactions in bulk: Specify the bill back template to use for an AR sales invoice when importing it using CSV.	All regions
	New custom report object: Create custom reports based on customer refunds.	All regions
	You can now deactivate alternative accounts: Prevent accidental postings by deactivating alternative accounts that you no longer use.	All regions
Cash Management	Improve bank transaction matching with more precise rules: Use more data fields to improve matching accuracy in reconciliations and to filter or view bank transactions more effectively.	All regions
	Funds transfers at entity level now require at least one bank account from that entity: When you add a funds transfer at the entity level, Intacct now checks that at least one of the accounts is owned by the entity.	All regions
	Upload digital signatures in PNG file format for use on cheques: You can now upload a digital signature in PNG file format, as well as GIF and JPG file formats, to use when printing cheques with a signature.	All regions
Consolidation	Use the equity method with Advanced Ownership Consolidation—Early Adopter: You can now use the equity consolidation method to record subsidiary ownership income. Sage Intacct automatically generates equity entries, ensures ownership transparency by recording and tracking changes by period, and supports single subsidiary rollup to multiple parents with multiple rollup levels.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Contracts	Reassign dimensions on contract lines: Update dimensions on in-progress contract lines to ensure accurate reporting for future transactions.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
	Edit reversal dates on AR payments: Contracts now supports editing the reversal date on AR payments, improving accuracy and consistency across the AR workflow.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
	Update contract states: We added new actions to help you update contracts that need to be transitioned to Renewed or Not renewed	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Dashboards	Item mapping and bundling in SaaS Intelligence—Early Adopter: Stop product churn on old items by substituting new items for them.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Fixed Assets Management	Provide accumulated depreciation for historical assets: You can now choose to manually enter accumulated depreciation for historical assets or let Intacct calculate it for you.	All regions
	Update assets in bulk using the import service: Use the import service to update asset details and change asset states in bulk.	All regions
	Revert posted depreciation entries in bulk: Revert multiple depreciation postings at once from the Post Depreciation page, saving time and effort.	All regions
	Depreciation enhancements: We added the ability to view cumulative depreciation and updated the daily depreciation method.	All regions
	List and page enhancements: We added new features to Fixed Assets Management lists and pages, making it easier to manage journal posting rules, navigate to depreciation schedules, and more.	All regions
General Ledger	View top-level transactions at the entity level: To speed up the Journal transactions list loading, top-level entries are hidden by default.	All regions
General Ledger	You can now deactivate alternative accounts: Prevent accidental postings by deactivating alternative accounts that you no longer use.	All regions
Inventory & Supplies	Add flexibility to your order fulfillment workflow: New Fulfillment features empower your team to deliver requested items at the right time—boosting order processing efficiency and customer satisfaction.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
	Enhanced inventory reporting insights. Additional options are now available on the Inventory valuation report, providing you with greater visibility into the transactions which might affect your item costing.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
	Track inventory transfers more securely: Warehouse transfer transaction definitions are replacing Inventory transfer transaction definitions.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Order Entry	Summarize OE revenue recognition entries: Reduce GL transaction volume by summarizing revenue recognition postings daily, weekly, or monthly to improve performance, reconciliation, and audit efficiency.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Platform Services	Define application configuration values with configuration objects—Early Adopter: Define key-value pairs in a structured file to reference anywhere merge fields are supported.	All regions
Purchasing	A new way to combine multiple documents into a single transaction—General availability: When you create a Purchasing transaction, you can streamline your workflow by converting multiple documents, including lines of documents, into a single transaction.	All regions
	Line-level matching for smarter Purchasing automation—Early Adopter: AP Automation with Purchasing now supports line-level document matching for more accurate and robust automation.	All regions
	Greater visibility into match tolerance exceptions: Now you can easily identify the transaction lines that fall outside of price or quantity match tolerance ranges, and choose to accept, adjust or override the exceptions.	All regions
	Automated transactions without matching—General availability: You can now automate Purchasing transactions that do not have a source match defined, for example PO purchase invoices that do not match to purchase orders or requisitions.	All regions
	Smarter email capabilities for AP Automation with Purchasing: Leverage auto-forwarding rules, process inline attachments and transaction data from the email body with smarter email capabilities for AP Automation with Purchasing.	All regions
Revenue Management	Summarize OE revenue recognition entries: Reduce GL transaction volume by summarizing revenue recognition postings daily, weekly, or monthly, to accelerate performance and reconciliation, and improve audit efficiency.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Revenue Management	Improved revenue recognition based on budgeted project cost: You can now calculate revenue based on the date of the actual transactions for a given period.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Reporting—Advanced	New AP Payment Approval History report object—CRW: Create custom reports on AP payment approvals.	All regions
	New AR Customer Refund report object—CRW: Create custom reports on AR customer refunds.	All regions
	Enhanced ICRW Construction Report Library reports: Now available in the ICRW Report library, Construction reports that have been enhanced for improved performance.	ICRW: All regions Construction: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
	New ICRW and IVE reporting areas: New reporting areas for ICRW and IVE are available that improve managing construction project payroll, billable project tasks, and WIP forecasts.	ICRW and IVE: All regions Construction: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
	New and enhanced ICRW Report Library Reports: Now available in the ICRW Report library, a new report to track balances over time, a design template for custom date formatting, and enhancements for improved performance.	ICRW: All regions Construction: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
	New in Interactive Visual Explorer (IVE): IVE offers new and updated features and functionality that broaden the scope of your visualizations for greater data insights.	IVE: All regions Construction: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, United States
Time	Timesheet entry grid is now customizable—Sage Intelligent Time: Customize the timesheet entry grid to control how time is entered and displayed.	Australia, Canada, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States
Training & Videos	New training and videos: We added new training courses and videos to help you get the most out of Sage Intacct.	All regions
User Interface	Get ready for enhanced lists as the default experience: You will soon notice that enhanced lists are the default for your company.	All regions
	Two new help content enhancements: We added a toggle to view instructions for either the enhanced or existing user interface and a language switcher to view content in your preferred language.	All regions
	User interface changes: We updated labels in Accounts Receivable, Company, EMRConnect, Fixed Assets Management, Inventory Control, Order Entry, and Enhanced Lists.	All regions