The Business Central blog

What AI Agents Can Actually Do in Business Central

Twelve working scenarios with the steps involved, a sensible autonomy level for each, and what has to be configured first.

How AI Agents Work in Business Central

The agent loop step by step: how it picks a tool, what it sees in return, how it holds state and what happens on failure.

How to Connect AI to Microsoft Business Central

Four working routes, what the API actually is, the authentication decision that shapes everything, and the limits nobody warns you about.

Autonomous AI Agents for Business Central

Autonomy is a scale, not a switch: five levels, how to pick one per operation, and the safeguards each level requires.

How AI Analyses Financial Data in Business Central

Six real finance questions broken down to tables and caveats: what AI reads, how it builds the answer and where it goes wrong.

AI Inventory Analysis in Business Central

Coverage against inbound orders, the supplier who is always late, dead stock ranked by money, and where the planning engine ends.

Business Central AI: Copilot vs Custom AI Agents

What built-in Copilot covers, where it stops, and five questions that decide whether you need a custom solution.

Can ChatGPT Connect to Microsoft Business Central?

Three ways it can be done, four decisions to make first, and what actually happens to your data once it leaves the tenant.

AI Security in Business Central: Permissions and Access

The four boundaries that determine what AI can see and do, why the prompt is not one of them, and a pre-production checklist.

AI for Accounts Receivable in Business Central

How AI turns an ageing report into a call list: behaviour change, exposure per customer, and where the agent stops.

AI for Business Central: A Practical Guide

Three levels of AI over an ERP, four questions before you start, and what has to be in order for any of it to work.

AI Agents in Business Central: Complete Guide

How an agent differs from an assistant and from Power Automate, which actions to trust it with, and how permissions constrain it.

Business Central MCP Server: Complete Guide

What MCP is, how a server works, what it exposes to a model, and when it is justified rather than overhead.

How Much Does AI for Business Central Cost?

What the number is made of, running costs, what pushes the price up, and nine questions that make vendor quotes comparable.

Customising Business Central with AL: when it pays and when it does not

How AL extensions differ from modifying older systems, why every customisation costs twice, and criteria for deciding.

CRM in Business Central: when the built-in module is enough

Contacts versus customers, segmentation criteria, opportunities and sales cycles, interactions and campaigns, and where the module stops.

Period close in Business Central: the sequence that takes days, not weeks

A working month-end sequence: seven steps in order, why cost adjustment comes before the result, and locking posting dates.

Manufacturing in Business Central: BOMs, routings and real product cost

Production BOMs and routings, work centre hierarchy, order statuses, flushing methods and where product cost actually comes from.

Financial reports in Business Central: how to build P&L and balance sheet

Chart of accounts structure, account categories, row and column types, budget versus actual, and why reports stop reconciling.

Project management in Business Central: costs, time and margin per job

How the Jobs module works: resources and rates, tasks versus planning lines, where actual costs come from, and reading project margin.

Posting groups in Business Central: how the system finds the right account

How business and product posting groups work in Business Central, why the general posting setup matrix blocks documents, how VAT groups differ.

Warehouse logistics in Business Central: which process level you need

Single, two and three-step warehouse handling in Business Central compared: which suits your operation, when bins are worth it, cross-docking.

Russian-origin software in due diligence

Why 1C in a subsidiary is a governance question rather than a legal one, and what a cheap answer looks like.

Business Central for auditors: access, trail and sampling

Why auditing a 1C subsidiary is slow, what changes after a move, and how to grant read-only access.

How our Business Central cost calculator works

The licence half is arithmetic, the project half is a range. The four situations where the number is too low.

CRM or ERP: which to implement first

CRM covers what happens before the deal, ERP what happens after. One question about money settles the order.

E-commerce and ERP integration: where to start

Which system should own stock, the four flows worth synchronising, what marketplaces change, and a checklist before you start.

Budgeting in Business Central

Why the spreadsheet budget dies by summer, three kinds of budget, the role of dimensions and the annual cycle in practice.

Why stock levels never match

Six reasons records and the shelf diverge, ranked by frequency, a one-day diagnosis, and what a system actually fixes.

How much to order: reorder point and safety stock

The formula in three numbers, safety stock for demand and supplier delay calculated separately, and an ABC approach.

Accounts receivable: how to stop lending for free

What payment terms actually cost, four rules to fix in writing, and a chasing sequence that does not damage relationships.

Why ERP implementations fail

Seven causes ranked by how often they occur, the signs of drift, and four things before signing that remove most of the risk.

When spreadsheets start costing more than a system

Seven symptoms Excel is no longer coping, what the free option actually costs, and a five-minute calculation.

Business Central vs Odoo

Why the difference is architectural, what Community and Enterprise really mean, and cost over three years.

Dynamics NAV to Business Central

Why this is a migration rather than an upgrade, how to triage C/AL customisations, and a realistic plan and budget.

Business Central security, permissions and data residency

Who is responsible for what in cloud ERP, where data sits, GDPR in practice, the four permission layers and an IT checklist.

Business Central vs SAP Business One

Why the feature comparison is useless, cost over three years, where each genuinely wins, and six questions to ask both vendors.

Multi-entity and intercompany in Business Central

One environment or several, how native intercompany works, what built-in consolidation covers, and where local rules break a group template.

How to choose a Business Central implementation partner

Four types of partner, nine questions that separate them, how to compare proposals, warning signs, and what the client has to bring.

Working with a nearshore Business Central partner

What splits well between a group partner and a local one, how to assess continuity risk with evidence, and when this is the wrong idea.

Your Ukrainian subsidiary runs 1C. What now?

The governance and audit problems when a subsidiary runs Russian-origin ERP, who owns the statutory localisation, and how the move works.

Moving from Sage 50 to Business Central

Why UK companies outgrow Sage 50, what transfers and what does not, how long it takes and the four decisions that determine the outcome.

Business Central pricing in the UK: what it costs per user

UK list prices in sterling: Essentials, Premium and Team Member, what VAT changes, MTD and payroll, and a worked example for 25 users.

Business Central cost per user in 2026

Essentials $80, Premium $110, Team Member $8, Device $45 — plus how to size the user mix and which costs surface later.

BC365, D365BC, MS BC: what all these names actually mean

Business Central, BC, D365BC, Dynamics NAV, Navision — which are the same product, which are not, and what the licence names cover.

Business Central use cases: which businesses it fits

Which companies and industries Business Central fits: company size, functional areas, implementation scenarios and when it is not needed.

Dimensions in Business Central: analytics your CFO will actually read

How dimensions work in Business Central: global versus shortcut, how to make analysis mandatory, and the mistakes that cannot be undone.

Bank statements in Business Central: import and automatic reconciliation

Two reconciliation mechanisms in Business Central, how to import statements in non-standard bank formats, and how automatic matching works.

Inventory costing methods in Business Central: FIFO, Average or Standard

FIFO, Average, Specific and Standard costing compared with worked numbers, plus cost adjustment and landed cost — what decides your real margin.

Preparing 1C data for migration: a 20-point checklist

Duplicate counterparties, inconsistent item codes, open documents and balances — the checklist that decides whether your migration takes eight weeks or twenty.

Business Central implementation cost: what drives it

What makes up the budget of a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central implementation, what drives the price and how to avoid hidden costs.

Business Central vs a legacy ERP: when it's time to switch

Signs your current accounting system is holding the business back, and what moving to cloud Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central gives you.

How to migrate data to Business Central without downtime

A step-by-step approach to safely moving data into Business Central: what to clean, what to transfer and how to avoid stopping the business.

Power BI + Business Central: analytics an executive will actually read

How Power BI and Business Central turn accounting data into decision-ready dashboards, and which metrics to start with.

1C vs Business Central: what Ukrainian business should choose

Support, data ownership, integrations, updates and total cost over three years — compared point by point, including where 1C is still the more sensible choice.

How much migrating from 1C to Business Central costs

What makes up the budget of moving from 1C to Business Central, how long data migration takes and how to avoid business downtime.

The 1C ban in Ukraine: what it means for business

Sanctions on 1C and BAS without the panic: what is actually prohibited, who it applies to, the four real risks, and how long a switch takes.

BAS alternatives: what to replace BAS Accounting and BAS ERP with

What to replace BAS with after the sanctions: selection criteria, four realistic options compared, and the mistakes that make a switch expensive.

How to export data from 1C for a move to a new system

What to export from 1C and in which formats, how to check completeness before migration, and which two steps you can do yourself this week without a contractor.

How to choose an ERP system: a practical selection guide

A working ERP selection process: process mapping, critical requirements, vendor evaluation, three-year cost of ownership and a demo checklist.

Copilot in Business Central: what AI actually does in an ERP

A no-marketing breakdown of Copilot in Business Central: forecasts, bank reconciliation, data analysis — what works today and what's still promises.