Dynamics 365 Business Central

Enterprise resource planning for SMBs, formerly Dynamics NAV

About Dynamics 365 Business Central

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, formerly Microsoft Dynamics NAV, is an enterprise resource planning solution for small and medium sized businesses. The platform enables businesses to manage finances, projects, sales, customer relationships, manufacturing, supply chains, analytics, and more.

Financial management and accounting tools help users manage their cash, assets, and banking, while supply chain, manufacturing and operations tools enable users to track and manage their production, inventory, orders, and vendors. Sales and service functionality allows users to manage their contacts, sales opportunities, and service contracts. With project management tools, users can create estimates, track projects, and manage capacity.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central also supports flexible deployment, business intelligence and reporting, plus multiple currencies and languages. The reporting feature enables financial performance to be charted in real time using built in Power BI dashboards. With customer interaction tracking, leads can be captured, prioritized, and tracked to show full interaction history.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central integrates with Outlook, Word, and Excel to help users complete common tasks directly from other platforms, with the same capabilities across iOS, Android, and Windows platforms from desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.

Pricing starting from:

US$8,00/month

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

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Key benefits of Dynamics 365 Business Central

  • Manage cash, assets and banking with financial management and accounting features.
  • Track and manage inventory, orders, and vendors with supply chain management and manufacturing tools.
  • Manage contacts, sales opportunities, and service contract with sales and service functionality.
  • Create estimates and track projects with project management capabilities.
  • Support international currencies with multi-currency and language features.
  • Typical Customers

    • Freelancers
    • Small Businesses (2-50)
    • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
    • Large enterprises (500 and more)

    Deployment

    • Cloud-based
    • On-premise

    Markets

    Australia, Canada, China, Germany, India and 3 others

    Supported Languages

    Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch and 19 others

    Pricing starting from:

    US$8,00/month

    • Free Version
    • Free Trial
    • Subscription

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    Features

    Total features of Dynamics 365 Business Central: 61

    • API
    • Accounting
    • Accounts Payable
    • Accounts Receivable
    • Activity Dashboard
    • BOM Creation
    • Bank Reconciliation
    • Billing & Invoicing
    • Bills of Material
    • Budget Management
    • Budgeting/Forecasting
    • CRM
    • Calendar Management
    • Cash Flow Management
    • Cash Management
    • Collaboration Tools
    • Consolidation/Roll-Up
    • Contact Management
    • Core Accounting
    • Dashboard
    • Document Management
    • Employee Management
    • Estimating
    • Financial Management
    • Financial Reporting
    • Fixed Asset Management
    • General Ledger
    • HR Management
    • Integrated Business Operations
    • Inventory Management
    • Inventory Tracking
    • Invoice Management
    • Item Management
    • Key Performance Indicators
    • Mobile App
    • Multi-Currency
    • Multi-Location
    • Order Management
    • Performance Metrics
    • Planning Tools
    • Production Management
    • Project Management
    • Projections
    • Purchase Order Management
    • Purchasing & Receiving
    • Real Time Data
    • Real Time Reporting
    • Receipt Management
    • Reporting & Statistics
    • Reporting/Analytics
    • Reporting/Project Tracking
    • Returns Management
    • Sales Forecasting
    • Sales Orders
    • Sales Tax Management
    • Supplier Management
    • Supply Chain Management
    • Task Management
    • Transaction Management
    • Warehouse Management
    • Workflow Management

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    Reviews

    Overall rating

    3,8 /5
    (121)
    Value for Money
    3,4/5
    Features
    3,8/5
    Ease of Use
    3,5/5
    Customer Support
    3,5/5

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    James
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    • Industry: Computer Software
    • Company size: 2–10 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Power the growth of your business with "Microsoft Dynamics 365 business central"

    Reviewed on 2022/07/22

    I have enjoyed working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business central ,it's easy to use and the APIs...

    I have enjoyed working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business central ,it's easy to use and the APIs which have made it easier to customize it with our needs .The customer support is amazing both on call and in person.

    Pros

    Microsoft Dynamics 365 business central is a very great product , it's easy to use since it has a great user interface .The deployment is easy and took a very short time .It has inpremises and cloud based functionality which has enabled work flexibility.

    Cons

    The initial purchasing cost is relatively high mostly to the small enterprises.The system keeps on freezing whereby delaying our customers.

    Hunter
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    • Industry: Machinery
    • Company size: 501–1 000 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Great Product

    Reviewed on 2019/10/23

    Microsoft has always been a great service that our company enjoys using. This service continues to...

    Microsoft has always been a great service that our company enjoys using. This service continues to strengthen the brand of Microsoft.

    Pros

    The thing i like is that the interface is easy to use. The setup requirements are better than the normal setup ideals.

    Cons

    I did not like how it is difficult to add users into our system. Not everyone has had a positive experience with this software.

    Alternatives Considered

    vSphere

    Reasons for Switching to Dynamics 365 Business Central

    We knew that Microsoft would provide the best front and back end support to our business.
    Carlene
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    • Industry: Industrial Automation
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 1+ year
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    • Value for Money
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    • Likelihood to recommend 0.0 /10

    Beware!

    Reviewed on 2022/04/22

    None

    None

    Pros

    Nothing. It is not nearly worth the 165,000.00 that we have put in to it over the last year.

    Cons

    Everything. System does not work. Too many fields to jump around to, too many pages to jump to. Unable to keep pages open to work between. Unable to see Customer / Vendor numbers. Not enough character spaces in some fields. Document date does not pull in correctly on Payment Journal. Check Stub total dollar amount prints on top of check number of lower stub. No vendor number prints anywhere on the check or stub. System creates two or three numbers for every PO, Job, Invoice. Payment Journal populates every Vendor that has a transaction then you have to choose which one to pay and then delete what you don't want. Checks do not print out in Alphabetical order. I can go on and on. Nothing good to say about this Program. It is not even written for our Industry. We were not even listed in the choices for Industry. What does that tell you.

    Akash
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    • Industry: Consumer Electronics
    • Company size: 501–1 000 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

    Dynamics 365 Business Central - One Stop Business Management solution

    Reviewed on 2022/10/27

    It saves time by processing huge amounts of data in few secs and keeps records of everything that...

    It saves time by processing huge amounts of data in few secs and keeps records of everything that we want and helps a lot in inventory management and resource planning as per Customer's requirement.Helps to calculate profit/loss on monthly basis/yearly basis.

    Pros

    Every firm/business needs a solution for managing Daily Ledger, Inventory management, Supply chain management, Process Management, Accounting management, HR management, Profit Management, etc - Dynamics 365 Business Central has everything available in a single software which can be accessed on all types of devices running on different platforms. It provides flexibility to the users to work from anywhere/ anytime by having authorized access. It has top level encryption to keep your data safe and keeps a log of it in its database to compare and analyze data according to our need. I mostly use it for Project management and Process management.

    Cons

    The user interface of the software is little complex one as use of icons is very less due to which we have to read the name of that particular option/field which we want to choose. Rest there are no cons according to my use

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    • Industry: Machinery
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

    Dynamics Review

    Reviewed on 2019/01/11

    It is really for basic use. If you are part of a manufacturing business or a large business, the...

    It is really for basic use. If you are part of a manufacturing business or a large business, the software is not for you. In my experience, it is best used for small to mid size companies. The support is also terrible.

    Pros

    Pulling information out of the system in simple reporting isn't bad if you leave it in the same format. Basic reports are easy to read, and usually you can get the numbers in that you need by updating fields.

    Cons

    Entering information is extremely time consuming. You have to be very familiar with the software to be able to know what you can and cannot tab through. Pulling any information into excel is extremely time consuming and takes a lot of manipulation for it to look presentable.

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    Dynamics 365 Business Central FAQs

    Below are some frequently asked questions for Dynamics 365 Business Central.

    Dynamics 365 Business Central offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$8,00/month
    • Pricing model: Subscription
    • Free Trial: Not Available

    Essentials: $70 per user, per month. Premium: $100 per user, per month. Team Members: from $8 per user, per month. Contact vendor for information on included features and additional pricing information.

    Dynamics 365 Business Central has the following typical customers:

    Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500

    Dynamics 365 Business Central supports the following languages:

    Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish

    Dynamics 365 Business Central supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    Dynamics 365 Business Central integrates with the following applications:

    Microsoft 365, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word, PayPal

    Dynamics 365 Business Central offers the following support options:

    Email/Help Desk, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

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