aSa.Studio v26.1 is scheduled for release in Q1 2026


General

  • Improved support for managing wire products. 
  • A new tool lets you make bulk edits to a group of business partners or jobs. 
  • Many aSa.Studio field labels and messages are now available in French. 
  • Where appropriate, alerts are filtered by location. Example: Users in Location B will most likely not want to receive Alerts if an order is made in Location A.
  • Import - Improved alternate product group validations for sub-products. 

APIs

  • A new API automatically creates products in aSa.Studio based on third-party triggers. 
  • API documentation now includes information about which fields are required. 

General Ledger

  • You can now create year-end journal entries. 

Invoice

  • New tools allow the user to easily adjust the pricing for a project's final lump sum invoice based on the project value, amount shipped to date, and related information.

Order Entry

  • You can now add pricing to detailed line items on the order report for quotes. 

Product Pricing

  • You can now make bulk updates to matrix pricing and price sheets by importing values from an Excel spreadsheet. 

Processing

  • Target Remnant Lengths - Specify "ideal" remnant lengths by machine. When possible, Computer Shearing will cut residual material to match the desired remnant lengths. This allows shop personnel to more easily organize and retrieve remnants for shearing purposes.
  • The system now supports wire drawing manufacturing: creating a "new" wire product from stock wire rod. Cold-drawing machines are supported as part of this enhancement.
  • A new visual legend lets you see more easily which are bars are stock (non-fabricated) on the Material screen. 
  • The program can now dynamically plan and distribute work across a given shop using factors such as cut times, bend times, capacities, and user preferences.

Project Pricing

  • You can now easily apply a price update to all open sales orders and invoices. 

Scheduling

  • You can now filter the Load calendar by Job and Load. 
  • An option now lets you display Product or Control Code on Daily Progress screen information tiles. 

Tracking

  • Shipping Containers - The system now allows you to prepare material for placement in a shipping container until a later delivery time.