Small Business Role Center Window

This topic applies to Microsoft Dynamics C5 2016 and solutions that use the Simplified UX objects.

The Small Business Role Center is your starting place where you perform tasks involved in managing your business.

In the Getting Started group, choose a tile to learn more about Microsoft Dynamics C5 2016 and solutions using Simplified UX objects.

Note

If the tiles are not visible, on the Actions tab, choose Show/Hide Getting Started.

Choose a tile, such as Unpaid Sales Invoices, to open the list of posted sales invoices that are not yet paid.

In the Key Performance Indicators part, choose Select Chart to select from a list of charts that you want to display. Choose Previous Chart and Next Chart to see a different chart. Choose Chart Information on a chart to learn what information the chart shows.

Tasks

There are certain tasks that you perform frequently, such as offers to customers or creating invoices to sell and purchase products. Other tasks are less frequent, such as registering customers and products. The following table describes the different tasks, with links to the topics that describe them.

To	See
Create a sales quote where you offer products on negotiable terms before converting the quote to a sales invoice.	How to: Make Offers
Create a sales invoice to record your agreement with a customer to sell products on certain delivery and payment terms.	How to: Invoice Sales
Create a purchase invoice to record your agreement with a vendor to purchase products on certain delivery and payment terms.	How to: Record Purchases
Create a purchase invoice for all or selected lines on a sales invoice.	How to: Purchase Products for a Sale
Perform an action on an unpaid posted sales invoice to automatically create a credit memo and either cancel the sales invoice or recreate it so you can make corrections.	How to: Correct or Cancel Unpaid Sales Invoices
Create a sales credit memo to revert a specific posted sales invoice to reflect which products the customer returns and which payment amount you will refund.	How to: Process Sales Returns or Cancellations
Perform an action on an unpaid posted purchase invoice to automatically create a credit memo and either cancel the purchase invoice or recreate it so you can make corrections.	How to: Correct or Cancel Unpaid Purchase Invoices
Create a purchase credit memo to revert a specific posted purchase invoice to reflect which products you are returning to the vendor and which payment amount you will collect.	How to: Process Purchase Returns or Cancellations
Create a customer card for each customer that you sell to.	How to: Register New Customers
Create a vendor card for each vendor that you purchase from.	How to: Register New Vendors
Create an item card for each inventory item or service that you trade in.	How to: Register New Products
Increase or decrease an item’s inventory quantity, for example, after a physical count or as a simple way to record purchase receipts.	How to: Adjust Inventory
Approve or reject requests for your approval of documents, cards, or journal lines.	How to: Approve or Reject Requests for Approval

Microsoft Dynamics NAV provides a set of simplified pages and related objects under the name Simplified UX. Simplified UX provides simplifications to the standard user interface, with a focus on basic sales and purchase business processes for smaller businesses. For more information, see Simplified UX.

Tip

For more information on how to navigate in the user interface, see Work with Microsoft Dynamics NAV. For assistance in finding specific pages, see Search.

See Also

Other Resources

Design Products
Purchasing
Sales
Finance
Working with Microsoft Dynamics NAV
How to: Prepare Small-Business Setup Data (Simplified)