Day: February 9, 2024

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 9th of the new functionality in the Application section is simpler Shopify connection.

Business Central has teamed up with Shopify to help their customers create a better online shopping experience. Shopify provides merchants with an easy-to-use e-commerce solution, and Business Central offers comprehensive business management across finance, sales, service, and operations. The seamless connection between the two applications synchronizes order, stock, and customer information to ensure that merchants can fulfill orders faster and better serve their customers. The joint effort furthers Business Central’s commitment to connecting data that can help businesses adapt faster, work smarter, and perform effectively.

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Public Preview: Mar 2024
General Availability: Apr 2024

Feature Details

Based on feedback from customers, Microsoft have made a number of improvements in the user interface.

It’s easier to get the Shopify URL

The Connector requires a URL in the following format: https://.myshopify.com/. However, after Shopify introduced Unified Admin it hasn’t been as easy to get the URL for the store. Therefore, Microsoft have reintroduced simplicity. Just copy the URL from Shopify Admin, such as https://admin.shopify.com/store/, and the Connector converts it to the required format.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 Wave 1.

The 8th of the new functionality in the Application section is set up financial consolidation runs more efficiently.

When you run consolidation for business units that use a foreign currency, you must pay special attention to the exchange rates that various parts of the process use, and even more so when you redo consolidation. To do that, you can use the Set Up Business Unit Currencies page to easily keep track of the rates. The feature helps streamline your consolidation processes and improve your productivity.

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Public Preview: Apr 2024
General Availability: Apr 2024

Feature Details

When you run a consolidation, the Set Up Business Unit Currencies page gives you the last rates that were entered for average, closing, and last closing rate. Also, you can look up the exchange rates in the currency exchange rate table, which makes it easier to validate. You can modify the rates used for the current run by either entering the values or copying values from previous runs by selecting Select from previous consolidation. This page is particularly valuable when you want to rerun a previous consolidation, where you need to use the closing rate of the consolidation run previous to the earliest of such runs. This is required to correctly revaluate your balance sheet items. You can use the Select from previous consolidation register to find the relevant last run to copy values from, or just look up the rates that were used when you’re troubleshooting. The page is filtered to runs that included the selected business unit.

The Run Consolidation batch job with the new parameters is available on the Business Units list page. You can also find the Set Up Business Unit Currencies page by selecting the Exchange Rates action.

This post is part of the In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (Inventory and Warehouse Management), how do I… series and of the wider In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, how do I… series which I am posting as I familiarise myself with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

So, this came up as a query from a prospect I was talking about implementing Business Central and I had what I thought was a brain freeze where I couldn’t think of the answer.

How do you remove a warehouse, or stop processing, if you close the warehouse down (which the customer would be doing with one of their warehouses in a few months post-implementation of Business Central)?

I assumed this was just a momentary memory lapse and said I’d check and get back to them. Unfortunately, the reason I didn’t think of the answer, is that in Business Central there isn’t one.

You have no way of closing a location, such as making inactive or disabling it. Once a location has been created, it is there and can be used.

The only workaround I could come up with is to delete the Inventory Posting Setup, which would stop transactions being posted to it.

This wasn’t the answer I hoped to find; I have worked with other ERP systems, including a Microsoft one, which did allow stock locations to be removed from use. The Microsoft one I worked with was Dynamics GP, which had this functionality added back in late-2012.

I’m not the only person to have come across this deficiency; there is an “idea” on the Ideas – Experience Dynamics 365 asking that the ability to “block” a location from use, similar to blocking movement to/from a bin, is added, but the idea requires votes for Microsoft to consider adding this functionality (it’s perhaps also worth noting that someone there has also suggested deleting the inventory posting setup as a workaround too).