LAB5 Electronics Inc. — Acumatica demo tenant seed

Git-versioned Acumatica configuration for LAB5 Electronics Inc., an electronics manufacturer demo company used for the lab5.ca Demo Tenant Factory sales pitch.

Rebuild from empty to company, masters, and linked transaction history (seed capital, buy components, assemble products, sell, invoice, collect). Not a production ERP.

Requires the acu CLI (PyPI: acumatica-cli).

Layout

Path	Role
config/bootstrap/	Company, features, credit terms, Bootstrap endpoint contract (project.xml)
config/baseline/	GL foundation (COA, ledger, subaccounts, UOMs)
config/setup/	Financial year, master calendar, open periods
config/master/	Inventory, warehouse, items, vendors, customers, module prefs
config/views/	Observation defs for acu state (trial balance); not seed
scenario/10-seed-capital.yaml	Once-class owner capital JE (CLI skip-if-present when present)
scenario/20-buy.yaml	Additive component PO to receipt to bill to AP pay (four vendors)
scenario/30-build.yaml	Additive kit assembly (parts to GW-EDGE / CELL / RAIL)
scenario/40-sell.yaml	Additive SO to ship to invoice to AR pay (three customers)
state/	Committed derived observations (acu state from config/views/)
demo/	Everything for the sales video: shooting script, screen↔seed map, scripted GUI walk
SPEC.md	Spec-driven design (goal, invariants, tasks)
target.yaml	Verified ERP build + Default API pin (erp, default_api)
.env	Credentials (local only — never commit)

Quick rebuild

Start from a brand-new empty tenant. Do not apply onto a half-configured company.

# 1. Credentials (local .env)
# ACU_BASE_URL, ACU_TENANT, ACU_USER, ACU_PASSWORD
# ACU_SSH optional (defaults to Administrator@<host> when unset;
# set blank ACU_SSH= for hosted / no-SSH)
# Default API pin = target.yaml default_api (not an env key)

acu config check

# 2. Empty tenant + bootstrap (SSH control plane)
# create also publishes AcuBootstrap — ready for apply
acu tenant create --id N --login TENANT
# Hosted / tenant already exists: acu bootstrap
# Offline UI fallback: acu bootstrap --export AcuBootstrap.zip

# 3. Seed configuration (config/ umbrella; order = bootstrap → baseline → setup → master)
acu apply config/
# bare `acu apply` also prefers config/ when those trees exist

# 4. Linked history for the pitch (once capital, then buy/build/sell)
acu run scenario/
# bare `acu run` defaults to scenario/

# 5. Prove no drift on seeded config
acu diff config/
# bare `acu diff` also prefers config/

# 6. Capture derived state (trial balance → state/)
acu state

Once vs additive scenarios

File	Class	Warm re-run
10-seed-capital.yaml	once	CLI skips when capital JE already present; Owner Capital stays 50k (not stacked)
20-buy.yaml	additive	New component PO/receipt/bill/pay each run; part and cash deltas hold
30-build.yaml	additive	New kit assemblies each run; parts to kits deltas hold
40-sell.yaml	additive	New SO/ship/invoice/pay pack each run; deltas hold

Primary compose: acu apply config/ then acu run scenario/.

Warm capital-only gate (state must not move):

acu run scenario/10-seed-capital.yaml && acu state --assert-unchanged

Other useful commands

Command	Role
acu tenant list	List tenants on the instance (SSH)
acu tenant delete --id N --yes	Delete tenant + recycle app pool
acu tenant recycle --yes	Restart site app pool (free API slots / reload tenant map)
acu extract	Inverse of apply: live tenant → config/** seed YAML
acu schema	Dump endpoint OpenAPI into schemas/
acu inventory ARTIFACT	Offline: SM203520 Settings XML ZIP / ac.exe export xml → inventory/
acu reconcile	Offline: inventory/ vs optional config/ → findings/
make check	E2E: create ephemeral tenant, apply, run, diff, delete

Pitch path

See demo/walk.yaml — the promo video's script, shot plan and narration, and the beat-by-beat source for this path. Short version:

1. Company LAB5 Electronics Inc.
2. Bank funded (Owner Capital to Checking 10100)
3. Components at WH01 after the buy; four vendor bills paid by WIRE
4. Kit assembly (parts to finished gateways)
5. Sales order, shipment, invoice, WIRE payment (all three customers paid)

The walk itself is scripted — see demo/. One command captures the full product: make demo ensures CLI replay logs, drives every beat, and writes stills plus demo/out/video/walk.webm. Cold reshoot: make demo-clean && make demo.

Non-goals

• Production cutover / opening balances from a legacy system
• Multi-industry catalog (this seed is IoT gateway manufacturing / kit assembly)
• Secrets or host credentials in Git (V8)

Target matrix

See target.yaml (erp build + default_api). acu resolves the contract API version from --api-version, else default_api, else the CLI code default — not from .env.