ERP migration
Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Open-Prod and Acumatica. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Acumatica.
Open-Prod
Source
Acumatica
Destination
Compatibility
13 of 14
objects map 1:1 between Open-Prod and Acumatica.
Complexity
BStandard
Timeline
48–72 hours
Overview
Teams migrate from Open-Prod to Acumatica to escape on-premises infrastructure overhead, gain real-time cloud access, and leverage Acumatica's industry-specific editions for manufacturing, distribution, and construction. Open-Prod stores operational data in a monolithic table structure with entity flags for status and soft-delete indicators, while Acumatica separates schema definition from data, using separate screens for setup and a normalized relational model with foreign-key lookups. We map Open-Prod customers to Acumatica Customers, vendors to Vendors with tax zone assignment, and stock items to Inventory Items scoped by warehouse Location. Transactional records — orders, invoices, shipments — carry over with their original dates and amounts preserved. Open-Prod workflows, custom scripts, and business rules require manual rebuild in Acumatica's automation tools; we export workflow definitions as reference documentation. The migration runs via Acumatica's REST API with batched writes to handle large volumes efficiently, sequenced so master data (accounts, locations, tax zones) lands before transactional records to satisfy Acumatica's referential integrity requirements.
Every standard and custom field arrives verified.
AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.
Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.
Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.
Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.
Why teams make this switch
Leaving
What's pushing teams away
Choosing
What's pulling them in
Object mapping
Each row shows how a Open-Prod object lands in Acumatica, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.
Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.
Open-Prod
Customer
Acumatica
Customer
1:1Open-Prod customer records map 1:1 to Acumatica Customers. Primary address, shipping address, and contact information migrate to the corresponding Acumatica address and contact tabs. Tax zone assignment requires a lookup against Acumatica's Tax Zones screen — customers without a tax zone are flagged for manual assignment before go-live.
Open-Prod
Vendor
Acumatica
Vendor
1:1Open-Prod vendor records map to Acumatica Vendors. Remit-to address and AP account assignment migrate. Acumatica requires each vendor to have a Tax Registration ID and a primary payment term; vendors missing these fields are flagged for manual setup before the vendor record activates in Acumatica.
Open-Prod
Product / Stock Item
Acumatica
Stock Item + InventoryID
1:1Open-Prod products map to Acumatica Inventory Items. Because Acumatica tracks inventory at the product-location combination, a single Open-Prod product may generate multiple Stock Item records — one per warehouse location where stock exists in Open-Prod. We distribute quantities proportionally across Acumatica warehouse locations based on Open-Prod's location allocation data.
Open-Prod
Warehouse / Location
Acumatica
Warehouse + Location
1:1Open-Prod warehouse records map to Acumatica Warehouses. Each warehouse has a LocationID structure within Acumatica; if Open-Prod uses bin-level tracking, we map bins to Acumatica Location records under the corresponding Warehouse. The warehouse-level settings for posting class and default values are preserved.
Open-Prod
Sales Order
Acumatica
Sales Order
1:1Open-Prod sales orders migrate to Acumatica Sales Orders with all line items, quantities, unit prices, and discount amounts preserved. Order status (Open, Completed, Cancelled) maps to Acumatica's order status field. Original order dates and promised ship dates are preserved in custom datetime fields since Acumatica sets its own CreatedDateTime at migration time.
Open-Prod
Customer Invoice
Acumatica
AR Invoice
1:1Open-Prod AR invoices map to Acumatica AR Invoices with original invoice dates, due dates, terms, and line items. The Accounts Receivable account assignment comes from Acumatica's Cash Account map. Invoices with payments applied in Open-Prod carry the payment records as AR Payments in Acumatica.
Open-Prod
Vendor Bill
Acumatica
AP Bill
1:1Open-Prod vendor bills map to Acumatica AP Bills with original invoice dates, terms, and line items. The Accounts Payable account maps from Acumatica's Cash Account configuration. Prepaid and prepayment records migrate as AP Payments; vendor prepayments applied to specific bills require reconciliation during migration validation.
Open-Prod
GL Account
Acumatica
Account
1:1Open-Prod chart of accounts entries map to Acumatica Accounts. Acumatica's segmented account code structure requires reformatting Open-Prod flat account numbers — we parse the account number and populate each segment according to the Acumatica dimension definitions your team configures before migration. Active/inactive status and account type map directly.
Open-Prod
GL Transaction / Journal Entry
Acumatica
GL Batch + GL Entry
1:1Open-Prod journal entries map to Acumatica GL Batches with individual debit and credit lines as GL Entries. Every Acumatica journal entry must balance (total debits equals total credits) — we validate balance before import and flag any unbalanced entries for review. Source module and reference fields are preserved in the Batch description and entry details.
Open-Prod
Purchase Order
Acumatica
Purchase Order
1:1Open-Prod purchase orders migrate to Acumatica Purchase Orders with vendor assignment, line items, quantities, and expected dates. Receipts and shipments linked to the PO in Open-Prod migrate as separate receipt and shipment records in Acumatica, linked to the PO via the POLineNbr reference.
Open-Prod
Project / Job
Acumatica
Project
1:1Open-Prod project or job records map to Acumatica Projects with project status, manager assignment, and dates. Project phases and tasks migrate as sub-records under the Project using the TaskID structure. Budget amounts for each cost code migrate to Project Budget lines; we preserve the original budget version and any approved revisions as separate budget revisions.
Open-Prod
Lot / Serial Number
Acumatica
LotSerialNbr
1:1Lot and serial number records in Open-Prod map to Acumatica Lot/Serial items. If Open-Prod tracks lot expiration dates, these migrate to LotSerialNbr.ExpirationDate in Acumatica. Lot assignments on existing inventory transactions are preserved via the LotSerialNbr field on the corresponding GL or inventory entry.
Open-Prod
Contact / User
Acumatica
Contact + User (for users)
1:manyOpen-Prod user accounts that represent employees with system access map to Acumatica Users, matched by email address. Open-Prod contact records that are business contacts map to Acumatica Contacts. A contact that is also a system user gets both records linked via the same email key. Contacts without an email receive a generated identifier for manual linking.
Open-Prod
Custom Entity / Custom Table
Acumatica
Custom Table (DAC) or Custom Field
1:1Open-Prod custom entities that store data as records migrate as custom tables in Acumatica using the Usr-prefixed DAC structure. Open-Prod custom fields stored as additional columns migrate as custom fields registered in the Acumatica Customization Project with the appropriate field type. Business logic and computed fields encoded in Open-Prod scripts do not migrate and must be rebuilt in Acumatica.
| Open-Prod | Acumatica | Compatibility | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Customer | Customer1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Vendor | Vendor1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Product / Stock Item | Stock Item + InventoryID1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Warehouse / Location | Warehouse + Location1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Sales Order | Sales Order1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Customer Invoice | AR Invoice1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Vendor Bill | AP Bill1:1 | Fully supported | |
| GL Account | Account1:1 | Fully supported | |
| GL Transaction / Journal Entry | GL Batch + GL Entry1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Purchase Order | Purchase Order1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Project / Job | Project1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Lot / Serial Number | LotSerialNbr1:1 | Fully supported | |
| Contact / User | Contact + User (for users)1:many | Fully supported | |
| Custom Entity / Custom Table | Custom Table (DAC) or Custom Field1:1 | Fully supported |
Gotchas + challenges
Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.
Open-Prod gotchas
200+ modules means scoping must inventory which are activated
Industry-specific data structures (BOM, MES, GMAO) need careful mapping
French-language data and localization fields
CAD and EDI integration linkages must be re-established at destination
Acumatica gotchas
API user licenses cap concurrent sessions and request throughput
Multi-tenant filtering requires CompanyID awareness
Custom fields require separate discovery before field mapping
Notes and attachments use a separate linked table structure
Implementation timelines frequently run 3–9 months end-to-end
Pair-specific challenges
Migration approach
Discover Open-Prod schema and assess migration complexity
FlitStack connects to Open-Prod via API or structured export to inventory all entities — customers, vendors, products, open orders, invoices, GL accounts, and any custom entities. We generate a schema map showing entity relationships, foreign-key references, and data volumes per entity. This discovery output forms the basis of the migration plan: it identifies which entities can migrate directly, which require transformation, and which need pre-migration configuration in Acumatica (e.g., chart of accounts segmentation, warehouse structure, tax zone definitions).
Define Acumatica destination schema and account structure
Your Acumatica team (or our implementation partner) configures the Acumatica chart of accounts with segmented account codes, creates the warehouse and location hierarchy, sets up tax zones and payment terms, and registers any custom fields needed for Open-Prod custom data. FlitStack reviews this configuration and maps each Open-Prod entity to the Acumatica schema, producing a field-level mapping document. Any entity with a transformation gap (e.g., inventory location expansion, account code segmentation) is flagged with a specific migration rule before the test run.
Migrate master data first: accounts, tax zones, warehouses, then customers, vendors, products
Acumatica enforces referential integrity — Stock Items require a valid ItemClassID, Customers require a TaxZoneID, and GL Entries require valid AccountID values. We sequence the migration so setup data (accounts, warehouses, item classes, tax zones) lands first. Customers, vendors, and inventory items follow, each validated against the setup records already in place. This sequencing prevents orphaned records and reduces failed inserts during the main migration run.
Run parallel test migration with field-level diff on 200–500 representative records
A representative slice of data — spanning the full entity set from customers to GL entries — migrates to a test Acumatica company. We generate a field-level diff comparing source values against destination field values, so you can verify account mapping, inventory quantity distribution, tax zone assignments, and owner resolution before the full run. Any mapping rule that needs adjustment is updated in the migration plan before the production run commits.
Execute full migration with delta-pickup window and one-click rollback
The full data migration runs against your Acumatica production company. A delta-pickup window (typically 24–48 hours after the main run completes) captures any Open-Prod records modified or created during the cutover period — open orders, new invoices, or updated customer data — so Acumatica reflects Open-Prod's final state at go-live. FlitStack maintains a complete audit log of every record inserted, updated, or skipped. If reconciliation fails or your team identifies critical data gaps, one-click rollback reverses the migration without touching your Open-Prod source system.
Platform deep dives
Open-Prod
Source
Strengths
Weaknesses
Acumatica
Destination
Strengths
Weaknesses
Complexity grading
Standard ERP migration. 2 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Overall complexity
Standard migration
Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Open-Prod and Acumatica.
Object compatibility
2 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.
Field mapping clarity
Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.
Timeline complexity
8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.
API constraints
Open-Prod: Not publicly documented.
Data volume sensitivity
Open-Prod doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.
Estimator
Rule-based pricing — no per-record fees, no manual quotes. Migrations over 2M records are scoped individually.
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