r/Netsuite

Hello, I desperately need advice on what I should do with the implementation of NetSuite at my company.

I started about a month ago and the company has been working with an NS team since March to get NetSuite ready. It is a midsized company (50-60 people) and includes distributing and manufacturing. It is very old school and mostly does phone and email orders.

Since I was hired, I’ve been tasked to learn the business processes and align it with NetSuites capabilities. However, it does not seem the NetSuite team has done ANYTHING besides migrate data since March, and they are still loading more. The plan is to go-live October 1st, but I just don’t see how that’s feasible.

Nobody at the company has looked into NetSuite until I joined, and there are MANY customizations they want to make still. They do not have a dedicated team outside of NS that is helping with learning the system capabilities besides me. It seems very overwhelming to try to learn the business, learn NetSuite, and train employees in such a small time frame.

I’m worried come October 1st we will be way over our heads trying to navigate NetSuite. What is the best way to navigate this? Does anyone have similar experience?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately.

A lot of companies running NetSuite have built a second finance stack around it:

NetSuite + Coupa
NetSuite + Concur
NetSuite + Tipalti
NetSuite + Bill.com
NetSuite + separate vendor onboarding
NetSuite + separate CLM
NetSuite + separate payment platform

I understand why. These are all good products, and there are definitely situations where they make sense.

But at some point, I think it’s worth asking whether we’re solving one problem with five systems.

For example, Coupa can be a great choice if you have a large procurement organization and need sophisticated sourcing, spend management and supplier management.

Concur makes a lot of sense for companies with complex travel and expense programs.

Tipalti is strong when you have large numbers of global suppliers or payees and need sophisticated mass payments and tax workflows.

So this isn't an argument that these products are bad.

The question is whether you actually need them for what you're trying to acomplish.

We've had clients replace Bill.com by bringing the surrounding AP process into NetSuite:

• Vendor onboarding
• Secure collection of vendor information and bank details
• Vendor approvals
• Invoice OCR
• AP automation
• Bill approvals
• CLM tied to the vendor and financial records
• Payment initiation from NetSuite

As for payments, with FISPAN plugin, companis can connect NetSuite directly to supported banks and initiate payments from NetSuite instead of exporting a file, uploading it into another application and then bringing the payment status back.

It isn't universal. FISPAN doesn't support every bank or every payment rail. But it does support many of the major banks, so for companies using a supported bank, that's another piece of the process that can stay inside the ERP.

The cost of another application isn't just the subscription.

It's also:

• Integration development and maintenance
• Data synchronization problems
• Duplicate vendor data
• Duplicate approval workflows
• Additional user administration
• Security reviews
• Implementation costs
• Support costs
• Training
• Reconciliation
• Another place for something to break

And if you're in a regulated industry, the cost can get even higher.

If you're in life sciences, healthcare, etc., every additional system may mean additional assessment, validation, audit evidence, access controls, change management and data integrity considerations.

Now you have to worry about the interfaces too.

What happens when the vendor record in one system doesn't match NetSuite?

What happens when a payment status doesn't synchronize?

Which system is the system of record?

What happens when an approval exists in one system but not the other?

Who is ultimately responsible when something goes wrong?

These questions become operational and sometimes regulatory problems quickly.

I'm not suggesting everyone should eliminate Coupa, Concur, Tipalti or other best-of-breed applications.

There are plenty of situations where I'd argue the opposite.

But before adding another application, I think the question should be:

"What does this system actually do that we can't reasonably do in NetSuite?"

If the answer is compelling, use it.

If the answer is simply "that's how we've always handled AP/procurement/payments," maybe it's worth looking at the architecture again.

We've found that in some cases the biggest savings aren't from eliminating the software license.

They're from eliminating the integrations, handoffs, reconciliation and complexity around it.

Curious what others are seeing.

Are you actively consolidating more of your finance stack into NetSuite, or do you prefer keeping AP, procurement, expenses and payments in separate best-of-breed platforms?

Hello, I have a custom report that we use to track our A/P aging. Right now we have a consultant user that is trying to match up numbers in different reports to our trial balance. Whenever I look at this A/P aging report, I get the correct number that matches the trial balance. Whenever he looks at this same exact report from his login, he is getting a different number. We are both logged in as Administrators and are 100% viewing the same exact custom report.

He sent me a screenshot and I noticed that at the very bottom, where it shows the date, he has an entry of 6/30/2026. However, on my report, it is a drop down menu that looks like this, this is the way it should be for everyone who is accessing the same report, and I have no idea why it is different for him. How can I fix this so that his date option is the same as mine?

https://preview.redd.it/ncgtorl0adkh1.png?width=130&format=png&auto=webp&s=90fb929929c9c8869c9fd6f1c8613b201a09d447

We have a CSV that we import daily that updates our purchase orders from our forwarders. We have used the same import for a few years - in the past few days the employee who imports it is getting an error and it says “Please enter a value for entity’
This file does not have items.

Suddenly on the NS side of mapping the item no field appears .

I tried it and removed the item and saved the change - it imported correctly but the item field keeps reappearing.
The original employee also removed it also but got the same error.
The vendor name is not on the CSV file.

When I look in Saved CSV Imports at Field Map, item no is not there.

This has happened in past couple of days.
I find it strange that employee cant import yet I can.

Help?/

I didn't see a post where folks could list any 2026.2 issues that have been found in your testing on your RP accounts. I think it would be super helpful to have a central location of issues you may find that could help us test on our own end in case we didn't think of that scenario etc. We have found two thus far, one has been fixed:

Exporting to xlsx - Issue was reported and Oracle has assigned it issue #898777 stating they are testing the fix and will roll out once cleared

FIXED - Editing a shipping address on a Purchase Order - we were not able to freely edit a shipping address on a PO without having to create an address record and select it from the drop down due to one of their maintenance/prep roll outs for 2026.2. This has been fixed in both our production and RP accounts

Can anyone tell me if Smart Count Suite App can show you a bin that wasn't counted?

For example, Rack 1 has 20 bins on it.

If we create an inventory count for all the items we THINK are on Rack 1, because you count by item and not location, the inventory count can look something like:

15 items
25 bins (some items are in bins on other racks, some items may be in multiple bins on rack 1)

But if you sort it by bin, actually, it returns only 18 bins on rack 1 and the other 7 bins are elsewhere.

Meaning you have 2 bins on Rack 1 that aren't counted, and have the potential to be missed entirely.

It's easy to check when an item was last counted.

But how do we know the last time a BIN was counted?

If Smart Count can't do that - are the different apps that can?

We need a much, much better solution for physical inventory this January because we HAVE to ensure that both every item AND every bin is counted and right now, we can't be confident that NetSuite saying "0 on hand" is accurate. I know we have inventory hanging out in the warehouse that NetSuite doesn't know it exists, or it's physically in a different bin than NS has, and the potential to just MISS stuff is very high without better counting software.

I am also and open to consultants or firms who special in NetSuite inventory counting - if you wanna send a pitch, reach out to wendy.emerson@inerttechnology.com

Is audience information exposed?

Hi all,

Just as the title says, I'm curious to know how much should a Netsuite or SAP or any ERP admin who also takes on developer tasks should earn?

For context, I was hired by this company as a Netsuite administrator and it's also limited to admin tasks within the scope of the job description.

Pero since ang goal ko talaga is to be and to practice NS development and I have prior experience naman with it, I initiated to take over development and hard customization tasks for my employer instead of them paying our 3rd party consultants to do it.

I know they have saves thousands of dollars because of me and they are openly happy with my skills and performance.

It's been a year since then and we'll be having our performance review soon which is my opportunity to ask for salary raise and alignment.

I'm being paid within the lower range of 6 digits naman pero I just feel that it's not enough for the amount of scope and responsibilities I am handling right now.

Can anyone on this line of field, being a hybrid role, share nyo naman how much ang market salary for an Administrator/Developer? (6 years NS exp, 3 years dev exp)

EDIT: I was just able to get our account rescheduled back to our desired upgrade date next month. I'm leaving this here in case anyone else got the reschedule notice and the scheduler hasn't refreshed with available dates in September yet.

Does anyone know why NetSuite shortened the 2026.2 release window from mid-September to end on 8/23/2026?

We had our release upgrade date moved up to this weekend (8/22) and we're still working on testing. We had the expectation that we would be upgrading on 9/12. I'm trying to figure out what's going on and if I need to shift things around to get testing done and updates into our PROD environment before this weekend.

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As of this morning, Advanced InterCo JEs will no longer auto balance. I get an unexpected error.

I opened a ticket but was wondering if any other users were experiencing weird behavior? We also had our update window moved up but was able to get this resolved with support.

Hello, all. I am currently creating a Suitelet that will easily allow QA to release product from Quarantine to Released. I've run into a number of issues that I could use some help with.

1. The memo field... I am getting an error that the memo field can only be 40 characters long. Is there any way to get around this? I want to store more info than that.

2. In trying to get around the above, I wanted to create a custom transaction body field that would appear on the Inventory Status Change, but when I got to the Applies To section, there was no option for Inventory Status Change. If I don't select anything under applies to, but click save and apply to forms, there is no inventory status change form in the list.

3. To solve the above, I briefly created a custom transaction form for Inventory Status Change, but it didn't seem to display with new transaction records.

4. Any ideas on how I can link a COA file from the file cabinet to the record without using a custom field?

I'm a bit stumped by the lack of usability of this record type. All I want to do is record a longer memo and attach a file, lol.

Applied to hundreds of roles via LinkedIn/Upwork/Indeed with a tailored, ATS-friendly resume, but mostly getting ghosted or hit by automated rejections.

I specialize in high-volume AR, NetSuite custom CSV imports/mapping, reconciliation, and troubleshooting of invoice discrepancies.

Traditional job boards feel completely broken right now. For those who landed remote ERP/NetSuite roles recently:

• Are there specialized agencies or direct recruiters you recommend reaching out to?
• What alternative channels or methods actually yielded interviews for you?

Any genuine insight or lead would be deeply appreciated.

Hi all,

Want to check whether my expectation is correct or not...

I "thought" that the 2026.2 change in default export format to .xlsx would mean that we would no longer get that irritating notification regarding file format and extension not matching, when opening in Excel.

Testing in our RP account and seems that nothing has changed?

Is anyone else experiencing same? Am wondering if this is something that is a defect (and has this been logged already?); or my expectation is incorrect?

RP account: Exported Saved Search and file extension is still .xls

https://preview.redd.it/cz9to35me1kh1.png?width=139&format=png&auto=webp&s=f719e9d17838da7170c16228e06e0d531eb0cff1

Try to open the file and get the same message:

https://preview.redd.it/lp3rfz4te1kh1.png?width=319&format=png&auto=webp&s=46bb835967760e746c2cbaf1579856ce1030fcaf

I work in accounting for a small construction company. We use NetSuite (obviously) with Procore integrated on the construction/project management side.

For anyone in construction accounting, especially at a company with multiple subsidiaries, what does your overall system/tech stack look like?

Interested in how you handle:

- AP and invoice entry/approval
- Budget-to-actual reporting
- Company credit card entry/reconciliation
- Subcontractor payments
- Intercompany transactions
- General Month-end close

Mainly curious about what’s integrated/automated, and what’s still manual.

Thanks,

Hi everyone,

I am facing an issue with cancelling an active workflow instance in NetSuite using a custom role.

The workflow is a Journal Entry approval workflow. The user can access the Journal Entry and navigate to:

System Information → Active Workflows

The active workflow is displayed, and the Cancel link is visible. However, the user is unable to click/use the Cancel link.

The role currently has the following permissions:

• Workflow – Full
• Make Journal Entry – Full
• Journal Approval – Full

I also verified that the user has access to the Journal Entry itself.

Despite having these permissions, the Cancel option is still not working. My understanding is that cancelling an individual workflow instance may be restricted to the Administrator role, but I would like to confirm whether there is any permission or role setup that allows a non-Administrator user to cancel an active workflow instance.

Has anyone encountered this? Is there a way to grant this functionality to a custom role, or is using the Administrator role the only option?

Thanks in advance!

I need your help.

I’m adding quite a lot to Teknuro Power Tools at the moment, and some of you may have already seen the recent updates.

The newest feature is deletion history.

When a record disappears in NetSuite, figuring out what happened usually means knowing that Setup > Audit Trail > Deleted Records exists, and still having the internal ID of a record that no longer exists.

So instead of making you search through NetSuite’s audit trail, Power Tools shows that information directly in the panel.

Open the Power Tools panel, enter the record details and click Check. Power Tools will tell you whether the record was deleted, including who deleted it, when it was deleted, and how it was deleted, such as through the UI, CSV import, script or web services.

One limitation is that this currently works for deleted records, not individual transaction lines that were removed.

Originally, I wanted deleted transaction lines to be the next step. However, based on the feedback and discussion here, there is an important limitation: NetSuite does not retain the full details of deleted transaction lines in its native audit history.

So properly supporting this would require a different approach.

One possibility is a NetSuite-side SuiteScript that detects removed lines when a transaction is saved and stores those details in a custom record. This keeps the data inside NetSuite, but it would require an additional script installation or deployment and would only start tracking deletions from the moment it is installed.

Another option is to use historical NetSuite data already being retained in an external data platform. That could work well for companies that already have this infrastructure, but setting up and maintaining it just for this feature would add cost and complexity.

Ideally, I want Power Tools to remain as simple and free to use as possible, so I’m still looking at the best approach.

While I’m building this, I’d really like your input.

What am I missing?

If there’s something you regularly need when you’re trying to understand why a record suddenly disappeared, let me know. If it’s technically possible, I’ll look at building it into Power Tools.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/teknuro-power-tools-for-n/fbclbmdlaofmojkhfmejnlhhgfmammji

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We're using WMS for Work Order Picking.

Our flow is: create a work order → (WMS) pick the components and stage them into our Manufacturing WIP bin → then we build (UI) the assembly from there.

We recently set up preferred bins so picking and putaway work properly. Ever since, when we go to build, it ignores the WIP bin the parts were just staged into and instead tries to pull them from their normal shelf pick bins. We're unique in that our parts are for sale, and for builds. Maintaining preferred bins is important.

So it feels like the work order picking step is now pointless; we pick everything into WIP, then the build sends us straight back to the shelf.

Has anyone hit this? Is there a setting to make the build consume from the WIP/committed bin instead of the item's preferred bin, or are we building it the wrong way?

Hi all,

Im an accountant and im looking to make a custom GL or P&L drill down report that has a column with the tax rate and tax amount in it. Im in Australia so we are under GST arrangements.

I have been searching in the columns sections for a tax amount or rate label but I cannot find one. Does anyone know where to find it?

I came in first thing Monday morning (I live in the future) and it looks like the File Drag and Drop bundle updated itself to 2.13.0 in preparation for the 2026.2 update and has stopped working for most users still on 2026.1

Checking in the Release Preview it looks to me like FD&D 2.12.0 isn't working in 2026.2, but when I update it in the RP, it works again. I'm mostly just posting this for solidarity and to inform anyone else that might be affected (happy Sunday USA).

I guess my only recourse is to rescedule my major version update back from Wed 9pm to Tues 12:30am and hope for the best tomorrow?

My org is considering getting NSIP to help integrate various systems to NetSuite. I've played around with NSIP - and it does work, but man, the UI is hot garbage. I can't imagine building a serious 3rd party API data transform to NetSuite integration on there. Doesn't seem to be a way to have AI help create the integrations either. So, I've been limiting potential use cases to have NSIP be a REST endpoint for creating/updating transactions/records - and have the execution logic be off NSIP in something like Azure logic apps.

That's got me thinking: isn't this basically a RESTlet at this point? Why even use/pay for NSIP?