Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central documentation

Learn how to use Business Central to manage, adapt, and streamline operations like finance, manufacturing, sales, and more, across your small or medium-sized business.

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What's new

What's new

Training

Training

Concept

Troubleshoot

Implement

Guidance

• Security, compliance, and privacy
• Understand Business Central online infrastructure
• Migrate from on-premises to online
• Performance

Try/Buy

• Try Business Central online for free
• Buy Business Central online
• Add extensions for more functionality

Set up

• Companies
• Business functionality
• Job queues
• Workflows

Integrate with other products

• Teams
• Dataverse
• Power Automate
• Power BI
• OneDrive

Administer and develop

Manage user access

• Create users
• Assign permissions to users and groups
• Manage profiles
• Access with Microsoft 365 licenses

Manage environments

• Overview
• Create environments
• Manage updates

Manage data storage

• Compress data or delete documents
• Archive data
• Reduce stored data in databases
• Manage capacity

Monitor operations and changes

• Audit changes
• Telemetry overview
• Enable telemetry

Customise and extend (admin)

• Overview
• Customize pages for profiles
• Enable features ahead of time

Develop in AL

• Overview
• Develop for AppSource
• AL language reference

Develop for integration

• Web services (OData, SOAP)
• Connect apps
• Business Central API

Be productive

Workspace settings

• Language, region, work date, time zone, and more
• Switch environment or company
• Personalize UI
• Manage notifications

Collaboration and sharing

• Overview
• Share data in Teams chats and channels
• Share files in OneDrive
• Collaborate in Excel

Business intelligence, reporting, and data analysis

• Overview
• Run, schedule, and print reports
• Work with Power BI reports in Business Central
• Analyze list data with analysis mode
• Analyze report data with Excel

General business functionality

• General journals
• Post documents and journals
• Job queues
• Incoming documents

Do business

Finance

• Overview
• Manage receivables
• Manage payables
• Invoicing prepayments
• Reconcile bank accounts

Sales

• Overview
• Sales reports
• Register new customers
• Make Sales Quotes
• Invoice sales

Purchasing

• Overview
• Purchase reports
• Record purchases
• Request quotes
• Purchase items for a sale

Inventory

• Overview
• Inventory and Warehouse Reports
• Register items
• Work with BOMs
• Categorize items

Project management

• Overview
• Project reports
• Create jobs
• Use resources for projects
• Use time sheets

Fixed assets

• Overview
• Fixed asset reports
• Acquire fixed assets
• Maintain fixed assets
• Insure fixed assets

Relationship management

• Overview
• Contacts
• Segments
• Interactions
• Opportunities

Human resources

• Overview
• Register employees
• Manage employee absence

Planning

• Overview
• Plan with or without locations
• Create a forecast
• Create production orders from sales order
• Plan for new demand order by order

Assembly management

• Overview
• Assembly reports
• Quote an assemble-to-order sale
• Assemble items
• Sell items assembled to order

Manufacturing

• Overview
• Production reports
• Create production orders
• Subcontract manufacturing
• Post consumption and output

Warehouse management

• Overview
• Warehouse reports
• Put items
• Move items
• Pick items

Service management

• Overview
• Planning
• Fulfill service contracts
• Deliver service
• Create service quotes

Online store with Shopify

• Get started
• Synchronize Customers with Shopify
• Synchronize and fulfill sales orders with Shopify
• Synchronize Transactions and payouts
• Set up taxes for the Shopify connection

Local functionality

• Overview
• International availability of Dynamics 365
• Development for localization