aSa.Studio v26.2 is scheduled for release in Q2 2026

Development plans are subject to change: Anticipated features may be altered or moved to different versions.

General

  • The system can now display rounded currency totals and automatically adjust cash overages to a designated GL account. (This supports the deprecation of the penny.)
  • Added the ability to handle mill certification requirements. (Phase I)
  • Enhanced multiple modules to handle multiple work shifts. (Phase I)

Alerts

  • You can now send aSa.Studio alerts to "external" contacts, such as your customers, engineers, and other stakeholders. 

Document Management

  • Numerous improvements to Document Management, including the ability to search uploaded documents. 

Inventory

  • Improved the way the system validates and manages estimate products (products used for estimating purposes only, such as product that covers a range of high chair sizes).

Invoice

  • Invoices and customer statements can now be printed in the user's language or the language designated for the job or customer. 

Order Entry

  • You can now perform a return on a sales order.
  • You can now launch a bar chart from Main and Line Entry screens that shows the progress of an order, including percent and weight processed, fabricated, loaded, shipped, and invoiced. You can also see the same progress for a master order. 
  • You now have the ability to import a PDF and create an order from the information on the document. 

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.
  • When calculating bend times, the system now considers single vs. double bend heads in order to be more precise. 

Product

  • You can now enter long and short product descriptions in multiple languages. The customer's preferred language will be used in Order Entry and all downstream customer-oriented documents.

Scheduling

  • Added a new Machine Assignment view. 

Tracking

  • The system now helps automate producing test bars when they are required for a project. 
  • You can now specify that mill certifications are required for a job; the system validates that stock bundles have mill certs before allowing fabrication steps. 
  • You can now track and manage group tag functionality when you use a mobile tracker at fabricating station.