Release highlights
Embedded AI across the suite
NetSuite Narrative Reporting can create AI-generated narratives and explanations from financial and transactional data, greatly reducing the manual work required to prepare reports. SuiteAnswers is now leveraging AI-powered NetSuite Expert to search the help and support content, then create a concise answer to your NetSuite-related question, no more sifting through multiple documents. NetSuite Prompt Studio refines the quality of AI-generated content by letting admins tailor Text Enhance prompts for specific records and fields. Quickly develop new AI-powered NetSuite extensions and customizations using SuiteScript Generative AI API.
Financial and operational excellence
NetSuite SuiteProcurement, now available in Canada as well as the US, provides an efficient and transparent way to purchase indirect goods and services. It lets buyers punchout from NetSuite to a supplier’s online store to purchase from, then automatically creates a purchase request, routes approvals, generates a purchase order and sends it to the vendor. AI-powered NetSuite Bill Capture enhancements improve the accuracy and control of scanned bills and is now available in the UK. Enhancements to NetSuite Field Service Management now let technicians upload multiple documents and pictures with a single click from the mobile app.
Customer and employee engagements
New NetSuite Connectors automatically sync data between NetSuite and Salesforce, Shopify B2B sites, and Microsoft Outlook, letting NetSuite truly serve as a single source of data and eliminating manual data entry. NetSuite Customer 360 is full of new features, charts, and metrics to help you quickly get up to speed on a customer’s status, relationship history, and recent transactions and activities and includes a new AI-powered Item Recommendations portlet. Building on the popular WMS specialized roles, there are new roles for CRM and View-and-Approve for employees who only need access to specific records, reports, and tasks in NetSuite.
Release process
New features and functionality are released automatically to all NetSuite accounts twice a year — and most of them are free. Check out how the update process works.
Resources
Release Notes
Your ultimate guide to understanding what features are in the release and how they work.
NetSuite 2025.1 Release Notes(opens in a new tab)(NetSuite login required)
Release Preview Guide
Guide to help you get the most out of your Release Preview test account, including sample test plan templates.
Release Preview Guide(opens in a new tab)(NetSuite login required)
New Features Overview Webinar
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Feature overview
Embedded AI Across the Suite
- The NetSuite Narrative Reporting module, part of NetSuite Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), can now draft detailed narratives and concise explanations from financial and transactional data, including insights into trends, variances, and time-based comparisons using GenAI.
- The SuiteAnswers knowledge center is now leveraging AI-powered NetSuite Expert, which uses retrieval augmented generation (RAG) capabilities from Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), to search the help and support content, then create a concise answer to your NetSuite-related question so you don’t have to sift through multiple documents.
- A new AI assistant for NetSuite Analytics Warehouse, powered by the Oracle Analytics AI Assistant, can generate charts and other data visualizations based on natural language requests. New features powered by GenAI include, Auto-Insights that auto-generates with a single click a collection of visualizations that slice the data for varied high-level insights and the Explain feature builds on those results by digging deeper, for example, into the root cause of trending customer late payments, by providing test descriptions and visualizations depicting business drivers, contextual insights and notable data anomalies.
- SuiteScript Generative AI API lets developers add GenAI capabilities to NetSuite extensions and customizations.
- NetSuite Prompt Studio lets admins adjust default Text Enhance actions to better meet their needs.
Smart Financials
- NetSuite 2025.1 introduces NetSuite SuiteProcurement, an indirect procurement solution that helps companies track and control purchases of operating supplies, helping them increase accuracy and efficiency by automating approval processes and managing documents electronically.
- Enhancements to NetSuite Bill Capture allow for improved control and visibility in the invoice-scanning solution.
- NetSuite’s partnership with a new financial aggregator allows for connections to over 14,000 financial institutions in the US and Canada through the Bank Feeds SuiteApp. It also provides Open Authorization (OAuth) connections to over 700 banks, allowing for a stable, secure connection with less frequent re-authentication.
- NetSuite Cash 360(opens in a new tab) now incorporates the amounts and due dates from installments to more accurately forecast the cash inflow and outflow from customer invoices and vendor bills.
- Several new pieces of functionality in NetSuite SuiteBilling help to better tailor subscription management processes to the needs of the business.
- NetSuite SuitePeople Workforce Management provides new, region-based override options to help you manage pay for noncompliant meal or rest breaks.
- Payroll administrators will no longer have to manually access and send an employee’s W2 when requested. Instead, the latest version of NetSuite SuitePeople Payroll empowers employees to access their digital W2 forms themselves through the employee center as needed.
Operational Excellence
- Three new NetSuite Connectors that map data between NetSuite and third-party applications are available, eliminating a lot of manual data entry and batch uploads and the associated errors and delays. New connectors include NetSuite Connector for Salesforce, Shopify B2B, and Microsoft Outlook.
- New features in NetSuite Field Service Management aimed at building visibility and efficiency for field technicians and managers include the automatic creation of time bills based on the captured start and end times of each job and the ability for technicians to upload files in bulk to the mobile app as opposed to one at a time.
- Specialized user roles make it easier and lower cost to administer user types that only require limited access to specific product functions. Adding to the WMS specialized roles, there are new roles for CRM and view-and-approve for employees who only need access to specific records, reports, and tasks in NetSuite.
- The new NetSuite Auto Serial Numbering SuiteApp automates serial number generation for manufacturers to improve traceability, simplify inventory management, and reduce manual errors.
- The new NetSuite Manufacturing Scheduler SuiteApp helps planners allocate production across multiple work centers while factoring in constraints such as the operation’s duration, dependency sequences, and the unique working calendar of the work center.
- New features in NetSuite Ship Central include the ability to apply flat, discounted, and markup rates to the real-time shipping cost; shop for shipping rates while creating an order; and capture pallet weight while using the weighing scale.
Platform Development Made Easy
- SuiteCloud developers can access large language models (LLMs) powered by Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Generative AI services, using an API in SuiteScript version 2.1. The module, called SuiteScriptn/llm, lets developers integrate generative AI models into NetSuite customizations and SuiteApps.
- Prompt Studio extends NetSuite Text Enhance to make it easier to create and format text-based content throughout the Suite. Developers can use Prompt Studio to define custom AI-powered actions to generate and craft a wide range content types.
- New code samples in this release cover the Generative AI API (n/llm) module, Singe Page Applications (SPAs), and several source code examples.
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