Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central
One system, every stage of your business
Finance, sales, purchasing, warehouse and projects connected in one cloud ERP, implemented and supported by a Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner.
Financial Management
Ledger, cash flow and budgets
Warehouse and Supply Chain
Stock, purchasing, replenishment
Manufacturing and Projects
Production, BOMs, job costing
Reporting and Analytics
Power BI and Copilot built in
All modules, one licence
Essentials or Premium, no add-on juggling
Copilot and Power BI built in
AI insight and reporting from day one
Set up and supported by Diskel
Microsoft Dynamics 365 partner, UK-based
One connected system for your whole business
Business Central is a comprehensive, cloud-based business management solution designed for small to medium-sized UK businesses, unifying finance, sales, purchasing, warehouse and operations in one place, from the moment a customer places an order through to the point the payment is reconciled in your ledger.
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One dashboard, every part of the business
Financial Management
Ledger, accounts payable and receivable, bank reconciliation and multi-currency.
Sales & Service Management
Contacts, quotes, orders, pricing and service contracts in one system.
Supply Chain Management
Stock levels, replenishment, demand forecasting and supplier management.
Manufacturing
Production orders, bills of materials, routing and MRP planning (Premium).
Reporting & Analytics
Real-time dashboards, financial reports and native Power BI integration.
Operations Management
Purchasing, warehouse management and fulfilment, with automated workflows.
Project Management
Budgets, resources and profitability, with timesheets and WIP reporting.
Finance to the shop floor, working from the same numbers
When your data flows freely between departments, everything improves. Month-end close is faster because your accounts reconcile automatically. Forecasts are more accurate because they draw on live purchasing and inventory data, and decisions are more confident because your dashboards reflect what is happening right now, not what happened last week.
Built-in Power BI reporting, seamless Microsoft 365 integration and compliance with UK financial regulations mean your team spends less time chasing information and more time acting on it.
Take control of your business finances
Strengthen financial control and visibility
Manage your general ledger, cash flow and budgets in one place with complete visibility. Automate routine accounting tasks and reduce manual effort while maintaining accuracy across your financial processes.
Stay on top of cash flow and reporting
Track income, expenses and financial performance in real time. Generate reports quickly and gain clear insight into how your business is performing at any point in time.
Make confident financial decisions
Access up-to-date financial data across your organisation to support better planning and control. See more about Microsoft Dynamics 365 to understand how it supports wider business management.
From quote to invoice, without the gaps
Manage sales from quote to invoice
Create quotes, confirm orders and generate invoices within one connected system. Ensure pricing, discounts and customer details are applied consistently while reducing manual entry across your sales process.
Improve order accuracy and fulfilment
Connect sales with inventory and availability to reduce errors and delays. Give your team full visibility of stock levels and delivery timelines so orders are processed correctly and fulfilled on time.
Keep sales and financial data aligned
Ensure every order flows directly into your financial records without duplication or delay. Maintain accurate customer data and transaction history in one place using Microsoft Dynamics 365, with a consistent view across your business.
Inventory management and purchasing software for UK businesses
Real-time stock visibility, across every location
Business Central's inventory management tools track stock levels across warehouses, bins and locations as transactions happen, not after a manual count. Your team always knows what is available, what is reserved and what is incoming, without chasing spreadsheets or phoning the warehouse.
Purchase order management built around your suppliers
Raise, approve and track purchase orders with full visibility of supplier lead times and delivery performance. Goods received are matched and recorded automatically, so purchasing stays accurate without extra admin.
Demand forecasting to keep supply and demand balanced
Use historical demand and current stock levels to plan replenishment before shortages happen, and to avoid tying up cash in excess inventory. For businesses that need barcode scanning, licence plating or advanced picking on top of this, our Warehouse Management for Business Central add-on extends these same inventory tools onto the warehouse floor.
Control manufacturing from planning to output
Plan production based on real demand
Use sales orders, forecasts and stock levels to plan what needs to be produced and when. Ensure materials are available before production begins to avoid delays and disruption.
Manage materials and production processes
Define bills of materials and production routes to control how goods are made. Track consumption of components and monitor work in progress as items move through each stage of production.
Turn materials into finished goods with full visibility
Record output, update inventory automatically and maintain accurate stock levels as production completes. Keep operations aligned from raw materials through to finished products using Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Production planning, connected to stock
Manage Projects and Deliver Profitably
Keep projects financially on track
Track project costs, time and billing in one place with full visibility. Use timesheets and job costing to manage budgets and maintain control over project profitability.
Plan and allocate resources effectively
Schedule people and resources based on availability and workload. Balance capacity across projects and keep delivery aligned with timelines and expectations.
Monitor project performance in real time
Stay up to date with live insights into project progress, costs and outcomes. Make informed decisions using up-to-date data across your business with Microsoft Dynamics 365.
Power BI reporting and real-time analytics, built in
Access up-to-date business data
View financial, operational and sales data in real time from a single system. Ensure everyone works from the same accurate information across the business.
Analyse performance and trends
Monitor key metrics and identify trends across departments with native Power BI dashboards. Understand how your business is performing and where improvements can be made.
Make informed decisions with confidence
Use clear reporting and insights to support planning and control. See more about Microsoft Dynamics 365 to explore how it brings data together across your organisation.
Work smarter with built-in AI and Copilot
Reduce manual work with intelligent assistance
Use AI-powered Copilot to automate routine tasks such as data entry, reconciliations and document handling. Reduce repetitive work and allow your team to focus on higher-value activities.
Get answers and insights using natural language
Ask questions about your data in plain English and receive instant answers without complex reports or filters. Identify trends, surface key information and make decisions faster.
Support faster decisions across your business
Use AI-driven suggestions to guide actions across finance, sales and operations. Learn more about Microsoft Dynamics 365 to see how Copilot enhances productivity across your organisation.
Built-in compliance for over 30 countries, with UK regulation covered from the ground up
- Local versions for 30+ countries, covering local tax rules, statutory reporting and language packs for businesses with overseas operations
- Multi-currency handling for businesses trading internationally
- Making Tax Digital for VAT submissions, built in and HMRC recognised
- UK GAAP reporting structures out of the box
- Full audit trail on every transaction, for HMRC enquiries and year-end audit
- GDPR-aligned data handling as standard across the platform
Hosted on Microsoft's UK-region cloud infrastructure, supported by a UK-based Dynamics 365 partner.
Dynamics 365 Business Central: module capabilities at a glance
All modules sit within one Business Central licence, either Essentials or Premium. Manufacturing and Service Management require the Premium tier.
| Feature | Sales and Marketing Essentials | Supply Chain and Inventory Essentials | Project Management Essentials | Manufacturing Premium | Service Management Premium |
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Core Function
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Manage the full sales cycle from quote to invoice, with contact records, pricing and opportunity tracking | Purchasing, stock control, demand forecasting and warehouse management across multiple locations | Plan and track client projects with budgets, timesheets, resource allocation and profitability reporting | Production orders, bills of materials, routing, work centres and MRP planning for manufacturers | Service contracts, service orders, technician scheduling and warranty tracking for after-sales teams |
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Microsoft 365 Integration
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Outlook add-in lets you work with Business Central contacts and sales documents from your inbox; Teams for internal deal discussions | Excel for inventory analysis and data import; Teams for cross-team stock and supplier updates | Teams for project collaboration; Excel and Outlook for timesheet approvals and client correspondence | Excel for BOM management and production schedules; Teams for shop floor communications | Outlook and Teams for service job updates, engineer communications and customer notifications |
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Copilot and AI
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Copilot drafts marketing text for items and suggests sales lines from a prompt and your item catalogue | AI-based sales and inventory forecasting to help prevent stockouts and reduce excess stock | No module-specific Copilot feature as standard; general Business Central Copilot features still apply | No module-specific Copilot feature as standard; supply planning is driven by MRP rules | No module-specific Copilot feature as standard; general Business Central Copilot features still apply |
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Reporting and Analytics
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Sales performance by rep, customer or period; pipeline value and quote conversion tracking | Inventory turnover, purchase spend analysis, stock valuation and demand vs supply reports | Project profitability, WIP reports, resource utilisation and billing vs budget comparisons | Production output, capacity load, scrap reporting and cost variance analysis | Service order completion rates, contract renewal status and technician performance reports |
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Automation
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One-click quote-to-order conversion, invoice generation and payment reminders to customers | Planning and requisition worksheets generate replenishment suggestions from reorder points and demand | Timesheet approval workflows and project invoice creation from planning lines | Production order release, component flushing and output posting driven by routings | Service orders generated from contracts, with a dispatch board for scheduling engineers |
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Mobile Access
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Create quotes, update customer records and review sales activity from any device | Check stock levels and review goods receipts and transfers from any device | Submit timesheets, review project budgets and approve tasks on the go | View production order details from any device; shop floor posting may need an add-on | Engineers can view service orders, parts and customer details from any device |
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Linked D365 and Microsoft Apps
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Customisation
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Custom price lists, discount structures, sales document layouts and campaign segment rules | Custom item attributes, costing methods, warehouse bins and replenishment planning parameters | Custom project templates, resource cost rates, billing rules and task hierarchies | Custom BOM structures, routing operations, work centre capacities and scrap tolerances | Custom service item groups, fault and resolution codes, SLA policies and contract terms |
- D365 apps: separate Dynamics 365 products that integrate with Business Central
- Power Platform: Power BI and Power Automate
- Microsoft 365: Outlook, Excel and Teams
- Premium: Manufacturing and Service Management require the Premium licence
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Dynamics Business Central Pricing
Dynamics 365 Business Central licence pricing
Core modules are included in every full licence. Pay only for the users and edition you need.
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Business Central Essentials
£66.40
per user per month, billed annually, excluding VAT
The core Business Central licence covering financial management, sales, purchasing, inventory, supply chain planning, warehouse management and project management in one connected system.
- Sales & marketing management
- Purchasing & payables
- Inventory & warehouse management
- Supply chain planning & forecasting
- Project management & timesheets
- Microsoft 365 & Teams integration
- Built-in Power BI reporting
- Copilot included. AI agents are billed separately by usage
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Business Central Premium
£94.50
per user per month, billed annually, excluding VAT
Everything in Essentials plus advanced modules for manufacturing and service order management. Ideal for businesses with production processes or after-sales service operations.
- Everything in Essentials
- Manufacturing: production orders, BOMs & routing
- Capacity planning & MRP
- Subcontracting
- Service order management
- Service contracts & warranty tracking
- Technician scheduling & dispatch
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Business Central Team Member
Light access licence
£6.60
per user per month, billed annually, excluding VAT
A low-cost licence for staff who need to read data, approve workflows, or create and update select information, without needing full system access.
- Read access across Business Central data
- Approve purchase invoices & workflows
- Submit timesheets & expenses
- View dashboards & reports
- Create or update select information
- Can't post transactions or use full modules
Prices are per user per month, billed annually, and exclude VAT. They are subject to change. Essentials users can't sign in to a company configured for Premium, so most customers choose one edition for all full users. Team Member licences can be combined with either edition. AI agents such as the Sales Order, Payables and Expense Agents are billed separately by usage through Copilot Credits. Contact us for a tailored quote.
Get started with Business Central
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Business Central brings finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, projects and operations into one connected system. If you are reviewing your current setup or wondering whether Business Central is the right fit, we can talk through your processes and give you a practical view of what may help. No pressure, no jargon, no obligation.
Explore more of the Dynamics 365 ecosystem
Business Central is one part of a wider Microsoft ecosystem. Here's where else to look.
Microsoft Dynamics 365
The wider Dynamics 365 family, including CRM and Sales.
Warehouse Management for Business Central
Barcode scanning, licence plating and advanced picking on top of BC.
Business Central UK Payroll
UK-compliant payroll built for Business Central.
Microsoft 365
Outlook, Excel and Teams, connected to your Business Central data.
Custom Software Development
Bespoke extensions and integrations for Business Central.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM
Sales, marketing and customer service, connected to your Business Central data.
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