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Merge RCS into Finance as Globalization Studio

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Business value

Globalization stakeholders have a seamless experience in Dynamics 365 Finance for extending and customizing key globalization areas of tax, e-invoicing, regulatory reporting, banking, and business documents. The service was previously available as a separate service—Regulatory Configuration Service—and now is under the Globalization Studio workspace.

Feature details

This feature simplifies the experience of extending and customizing key globalization areas of tax, e-invoicing, regulatory reporting, banking, and business documents. The feature deprecates Regulatory Configuration Service (RCS). With the release of this feature, all new RCS provisioning stops. To provision RCS, register a support ticket. We work with partners and customers to migrate existing RCS instances. We plan to fully shut down RCS by August 1, 2024.

The application lifecycle management (ALM) part of RCS and Electronic Reporting (ER), currently leveraging the Global repository, is done through Dataverse solutions. A new type of repository for getting ER configurations in Dynamics 365 Finance is added: Dataverse configuration repository. With this addition, the Global repository is deprecated.

The e-invoicing service design experience uses the Globalization Studio workspace and aligns with the overall RCS merge timeline.

  • Tax calculation service: When the RCS merges into Dynamics 365 Finance, the Tax calculation service (TCS) also merges into the Globalization Studio workspace. With this change, you don't need to install the TCS add-in for new environments. Also, the constraint to use a Tier-2 environment doesn't apply anymore.

  • Migration of Tax calculation features and configurations: Migration of tax calculation features that you created in RCS and use in Dynamics 365 Finance legal entities in Tax calculation parameters is provided through a background job processing. The process runs automatically after you enable the Enable Globalization feature setup for Tax Calculation Service feature in Feature management. In the new workspace for Globalization Studio, under the Globalization services, the Tax calculation tile is available to create and maintain tax features in Dynamics 365 Finance. After the batch job completes, you can see and update your features migrated from RCS and used in legal entities. You can also restore additional feature versions migrated from RCS.

    You can find tax calculation configurations in the Globalization Studio workspace > Electronic reporting, under the Tax configurations tile.

  • User experience: The user experience (UI) for configuring tax features stays consistent and isn't affected by this release.

  • Timeline: We enable TCS in all environments. Activities for discontinuing TCS as an add-in align with the timeline for RCS.

Additional resources

Regulatory Configuration Service merge to the Globalization Studio workspace (docs)