BusinessBoxed Limited
Dynamics 365 Business Central

Business Central implementation, consultancy, development and integration.

Business Boxed Limited implements and supports Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central end to end: functional consultancy, cost-effective implementations, AL development, integration with your e-commerce, courier, EDI, payment and reporting tools, migrations from Sage, Xero, GP and NAV, Copilot and AI agents, and fractional CIO and CTO services. As a small boutique consultancy we put senior people on every project, with no account management layer and lower costs than the large partners.

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Cloud and on-premises Sage, Xero, GP and NAV migrations UK based, working globally
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Dynamics 365 Business Central role centre showing cue tiles, headline KPIs and Power BI insight charts
The Business Central role centre: cues, KPIs and insights tailored to each user's job.
25 yearsDynamics NAV and Business Central
15+ projectsImplementations, migrations and apps
2 hoursResponse to every enquiry during UK working hours
BoutiqueSenior consultants, lower costs than the big partners
Companies we have worked with Dynamics NAV and Business Central engagements since 2008
  • The Coach Travel Group
  • CDS Wilman
  • YASA
  • Ace Aquatec
  • Milroy's
  • Tapi Carpets
  • Creative Foods
  • Meadowvale Foods
  • VolkerWessels UK
  • Nomadic Dairy
  • Dee Set
  • GIS International
  • Enva
  • Vectura
  • British Medical Association
  • TopHat
  • Minova
  • Sodexo
  • REPL Group
  • Wood Group
  • Clugston Construction
  • Le Creuset
  • CAB Automotive
  • Angela Mortimer
  • Arrows Group
  • Wigster
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UK based · Working globally

Based in the UK. Working with Business Central customers worldwide.

Our home is the UK, but our work is not limited by it. Because Business Central runs in the cloud, we deliver projects remotely for customers and partners across Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific, and come on site in the UK when it matters. Multi-company, multi-currency and multi-country localisations are everyday work for us.

UK expertiseMTD VAT, BACS and GB localisation
Global deliveryRemote projects in any time zone
Multi-countryLocalisations, currencies and companies
Sectors

Experience across the sectors that run on Business Central

We have delivered Business Central for companies in the pharmaceutical, oil and gas, manufacturing, warehousing, retail, construction, transportation and mining sectors. Each has its own compliance, stock and costing demands that standard finance software cannot meet.

Pharmaceutical
Oil and gas
Manufacturing
Warehousing
Retail
Construction
Transportation
Mining
Services

Everything your Business Central needs, under one roof

Whether you are moving to Business Central for the first time, replacing an ageing NAV system, or trying to get more out of what you already have, we cover the full lifecycle.

Implementation

New Business Central deployments scoped around how your business actually works: chart of accounts, dimensions, posting groups, master data and go-live planning.

Migrations and upgrades

Move to Business Central from Sage, Xero, QuickBooks or Dynamics GP, or upgrade from Dynamics NAV and older on-premises releases, with legacy customisations re-engineered as proper extensions.

AL extension development

Bespoke functionality written in AL to Microsoft standards: per-tenant extensions, AppSource-ready apps, event subscribers, custom pages, reports and APIs.

Integrations

Connect Business Central to the rest of your stack: e-commerce platforms, couriers, EDI, payment providers, warehouse scanners and Power Platform, using standard APIs, custom APIs or web services.

Reporting and Power BI

Custom RDLC and Word layouts, analysis views and Power BI dashboards fed directly from Business Central, so the numbers people need are where they expect to find them.

Support and optimisation

Ongoing help for live systems: user support, release upgrades, performance tuning and a steady programme of small improvements that add up. We also offer a one-off Business Central health check for the price of one day's consultancy.

Training

Role based training for finance, sales, purchasing and warehouse teams, delivered on your own data, on site or remotely. Includes train the trainer sessions, quick reference guides and refresher training after each release wave.

Fractional CIO and CTO

Senior technology leadership on a part time or retained basis: IT strategy, systems roadmap, vendor and partner management, security and governance, and board level reporting, without a full time hire. Contact us for more details.

Fractional CIO and CTO services

Technology leadership for businesses that are not ready for a full time CIO or CTO

A few days a month of experienced, hands on leadership: setting the systems strategy around Business Central and Microsoft 365, owning the roadmap and budget, managing partners and suppliers, and giving the board a straight view of risk and progress. Contact us for more details.

Contact us for CIO and CTO services
Reviews and assessments

Two quick ways to find out where your Business Central stands

Business Central health check

A review of your configuration, extensions, performance, security and upgrade readiness, with a written report of findings and recommended fixes in priority order. Available for a one-off fee equivalent to one day of consultancy.

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AL code check

An independent review of your extensions against Microsoft best practice and upgrade compatibility: coding standards, AppSource and per-tenant rules, deprecated objects and events, performance patterns and readiness for the next release wave. You receive a report with each issue, its risk and how to fix it.

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UPGRADE READINESS QUIZ

How ready are you to upgrade?

Five quick questions about your current Dynamics NAV or Business Central system. You get a score, a plain English verdict and the right next step. Takes about a minute, no email needed.

12 to 15: ready to upgrade 7 to 11: nearly there 0 to 6: some groundwork first
Question 1 of 5

Which version are you running today?

How customised is your system?

What about integrations with other systems?

How is your data and documentation?

Who looks after Business Central internally?

0
Your score out of 15

The health check is a one off fee of one day of consultancy. Your answers are only used to prefill the enquiry form; nothing is stored.

Development

Built as extensions. Upgrade-safe by design.

We never modify the base application. Every customisation is a versioned AL extension with its own source control and test codeunits, so Microsoft's twice-yearly releases stop being a risk.

  • AL development in Visual Studio Code with the AL Language extension
  • Git-based source control for every app
  • Per-tenant extensions and AppSource apps
  • Event-driven code that respects Microsoft's extensibility model
ShipmentEvents.Codeunit.al 
codeunit 50101 "BBXD Shipment Events"
{
    var
        CourierMgt: Codeunit "BBXD Courier Management";

    // Book a courier collection as soon as the sales order posts.
    [EventSubscriber(ObjectType::Codeunit, Codeunit::"Sales-Post",
        'OnAfterPostSalesDoc', '', false, false)]
    local procedure BookCourierOnPost(var SalesHeader: Record "Sales Header")
    begin
        if SalesHeader."BBXD Courier Service" = '' then
            exit;

        CourierMgt.CreateBooking(SalesHeader);
    end;
}
Inside Business Central

One system for finance, sales, purchasing, stock, manufacturing, projects and service

Business Central replaces disconnected spreadsheets and bolt-ons with a single Microsoft-hosted ERP that your team already knows how to use, because it looks and feels like Microsoft 365.

Business Central chart of accounts list page
Finance you can trustChart of accounts, dimensions, multi-currency and consolidations, configured to your reporting needs rather than the other way round.
Business Central analysis mode pivoting customer ledger entries by month
Answers without exportingAnalysis mode pivots any list in place, such as aged debt by month, sales by item or stock by location, with no round trip through Excel.
Power BI financial overview report for Business Central
Power BI built inFinance, sales, purchasing and inventory reports ship ready to use, and we extend them with your own KPIs.

All the major modules, implemented by people who know them

We configure, extend and support every core area of Business Central, from finance through to manufacturing, projects and service, so you are not passed between specialists as your requirements grow.

Finance General ledger, budgets, dimensions, deferrals, consolidations and multi-currency
Cash management Bank accounts, bank reconciliation, payment journals, direct debits and cash flow forecasting
Sales Quotes to invoices, pricing and discounts, customer management and order promising
Purchasing Requisitions, purchase orders, approvals, vendor management and landed cost
Inventory Items, variants, lot and serial tracking, costing methods and item availability
Warehouse management Locations, bins, picks, put-aways, directed warehousing and barcode scanning
Planning Supply planning, MRP and MPS, reorder policies, planning worksheets and demand forecasts
Manufacturing Bills of material, routings, production orders, capacity planning and shop floor reporting
Assembly management Assemble to order and assemble to stock with BOM and resource costing
Project management Project planning, resources, time sheets, WIP, budgets and project invoicing
Service management Service items, contracts, service orders, dispatching and field service
Fixed assets Acquisition, depreciation, insurance, maintenance and disposal
Relationship management Contacts, campaigns, segments, opportunities and Dynamics 365 Sales integration
Human resources Employee records, absence registration, qualifications and expense reimbursement
Subscription billing Recurring contracts, usage based billing, deferrals and revenue recognition
Intercompany Intercompany transactions, document exchange and consolidation across companies
E-documents Electronic invoicing, Peppol and country specific e-invoicing, inbound document capture
Online store with Shopify Native Shopify connector for products, prices, orders, customers and fulfilment
Master data management Synchronising customers, vendors, items and setup across companies from one source
Sustainability Emissions tracking, scope reporting and ESG disclosures
Videos

Business Central, explained in short videos

EZBC is our YouTube channel: short, easy to follow videos on the functional and technical features of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and how it works with the rest of Microsoft 365. New videos are added regularly.

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AI, Copilot and agents

Put Copilot and AI agents to work inside Business Central

Business Central now ships with Copilot built in and a growing set of autonomous agents that handle routine work end to end. We help you switch them on safely, measure what they save, and build your own agents and Copilot extensions in AL where the standard ones stop.

Copilot, switched on properly

Copilot chat, analysis assist, bank reconciliation assist, e-document matching and marketing text, enabled, governed and rolled out to the people who will use them, with Responsible AI settings reviewed.

Agents that do the work

Microsoft's Sales Order Agent turns inbound customer emails into quotes and orders; the Payables Agent captures and registers supplier invoices. We configure them, define the approval points and track the hours they give back.

Your own AI, built in AL

Custom Copilot capabilities and agents built with the Business Central AI toolkit and Azure OpenAI, such as pricing suggestions, demand forecasts and document classification, plus Power Automate and Copilot Studio flows around them.

Migrations

Moving from Sage, Xero or Dynamics GP?

Most of our new customers arrive from an accounting package they have outgrown, or from a Microsoft product that is reaching the end of its road. We have a tested migration path for each, so you keep your history, your opening balances reconcile on day one and your team is working in Business Central within weeks, not months.

Every migration goes through the Sure Step phases described below, with a full rehearsal before the live cut-over.

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Sage 50, Sage 200 and Sage Intacct

Chart of accounts, customers, suppliers, items, open ledger entries and historical transactions mapped into Business Central, with Sage-style reports rebuilt as financial reports and Power BI.

Xero and QuickBooks

For businesses that need real stock control, multi-company or project accounting. We use Microsoft's QuickBooks migration tooling and our own Xero extraction, reconnect your bank feeds and carry MTD VAT over.

Dynamics GP (Great Plains)

Microsoft has set an end date for Dynamics GP support, and Business Central is its designated successor. We use Microsoft's cloud migration tool for GP, re-implement customisations as extensions, and bring Dexterity-era processes into the modern web client.

Dynamics NAV and on-premises Business Central

C/AL to AL conversion, legacy customisations re-engineered as extensions, and a move to Business Central online or the latest on-premises release.

Licensing

Business Central licensing, explained without the jargon

Business Central is licensed per named user, per month, on an annual subscription. There are four licence types and the right mix depends on what each person actually does. We are not a licence reseller ourselves. We partner with established Microsoft Cloud Solution Providers who supply the licences, which means our advice on what to buy is independent of what we sell. We help you choose the right mix, set the licences up in your tenant, and review them at each renewal so you are not paying for seats nobody uses.

Essentials

The full user licence for most businesses. Finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, warehouse, projects, fixed assets, relationship management and human resources.

Best for: finance, sales, purchasing and operations staff

Premium

Everything in Essentials plus manufacturing and service management. All full users in a company must be on the same tier, so Premium is a whole-company decision.

Best for: manufacturers and field service businesses

Team Members

A low cost licence for people who need to read data, approve documents, enter time sheets or raise simple requests, but not run full processes.

Best for: managers, approvers and occasional users

Device

Licensed per shared device rather than per person, for warehouse scanners, shop floor terminals and point of sale where several people use one screen.

Best for: warehouses, production lines and retail counters
How we work

Delivered with Microsoft Dynamics Sure Step

We run every project through the six Sure Step phases, Microsoft's implementation methodology for Dynamics. Each phase ends with a defined deliverable you sign off, so you always know where the project is and what comes next.

PHASE 1

Diagnostic

High level discovery of your goals, current systems, fit with Business Central and a budget range.

Output: Proposal and high level estimate
PHASE 2

Analysis

Detailed requirements workshops with process owners and a fit gap analysis against standard Business Central.

Output: Functional requirements and fit gap document
PHASE 3

Design

Solution design for configuration, AL extensions, integrations and data migration.

Output: Solution design document
PHASE 4

Development

Build and unit test extensions and integrations in a sandbox, and configure the production company.

Output: Working solution in test
PHASE 5

Deployment

User acceptance testing, training, data migration rehearsal and cut-over to live.

Output: Go live sign off
PHASE 6

Operation

Hypercare, then ongoing support, release upgrades and a roadmap of improvements.

Output: Support agreement and roadmap

Sure Step is a Microsoft methodology. Business Boxed Limited applies it independently and scales it to the size of each project; a small extension may go through all six phases in a fortnight.

About Business Boxed

Specialists, not generalists

Business Boxed Limited (bbxd.net) is an independent UK consultancy that works with customers worldwide and focuses entirely on Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central and its NAV heritage. We combine hands-on functional consultancy with in-house AL development, so the people who design your solution are the same people who build and support it. Being small is deliberate. There are no layers of account management and no junior bench time on your invoice, which keeps our implementation and ongoing costs well below those of the larger partners.

We have worked with companies in the pharmaceutical, oil and gas, manufacturing, warehousing, retail, construction, transportation and mining sectors, typically businesses that have outgrown spreadsheets and entry-level accounting software. We also work with other partners who need extra Business Central development capacity.

Business Central onlineSaaS deployments and tenant administration
On-premisesServer installs and upgrades
Power PlatformPower Automate, Power Apps and Power BI alongside Business Central
White-label developmentAL capacity for other Dynamics partners
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