Author: Ian Grieve

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 13th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is export reminders and finance charges as PEPPOL files.

Business Central supports sending electronic documents in the PEPPOL format, which is a widely used format that the largest document exchange service providers support. Microsoft have added more types of documents to the list of those you can export in the PEPPOL format, which can improve your ability to exchange information with your customers and business partners. You can enhance your work with e-documents in Business Central by exporting financial details from reminders and finance charges in the PEPPOL format.

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Feature Details

Previously, you couldn’t create e-documents for reminders and finance charges. Now, the PEPPOL format accepts financial values from issued finance charges and issued reminders.

To activate these types of documents, on the E-Document Service page, run the Supported Document Types action. Add the finance charge and reminder document types on the E-Document Service Supported Source Document Types page. Business Central can then generate a file that’s formatted as an invoice and contains the financial values from these documents.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 12th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is preview incoming e-invoices prior to processing.

You can enhance the accuracy of your data by previewing the details of incoming e-documents, such as invoices and credit memos, before you process them.

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Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability: Jun 2025

Feature Details

When you receive an incoming e-document from an external service or manually upload one, it’s typically in XML or similar format that can be difficult, if not impossible, to read. For example, if you aren’t technical and don’t understand the XML format, it’ll be hard to thoroughly review an invoice before you process it. To make it easier for everyone to review incoming e-documents, invoices and credit memos have an E-invoice Lines FastTab that displays details from the imported file, such as line and header information, in a way that’s easy to understand.

This feature is only available for invoice and credit memo types of incoming e-documents.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 11th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is process e-documents in two steps.

In most cases, businesses want to save time by fully automating as many processes as possible. However, there are cases where it’s important to pause a process to allow time for a review. Business Central does both. You can configure Business Central to create purchase documents in a fully automated, one-step process, or a two-step process that requires approval. Pausing for review gives enhanced control over how you process e-documents and create purchase documents.

The review provides additional control over the processing of e-documents.

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Feature Details

You can choose whether to use automatic processing for purchase documents, where Business Central creates new documents right away, or a two-step process that requires explicit confirmation before creating a purchase document. In the two-step process, Business Central creates the e-document, but then you must confirm it before you can take the next step.

To set up the process, on the E-Documents Service page, choose one of the following options in the Processing field:

• One-step: Business Central uses your e-document setup to automatically create a purchase document based on the received e-document.
• Two-steps: Business Central creates the e-document, but you must use the Create Invoice or Create Order actions to create the purchase document. This allows you to review the received document before proceeding.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 10th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is create e-documents from posted sales invoices.

Electronic documents (e-documents) are documents such as invoices and receipts in both directions, delivery, and receipt. Using e-documents requires some configuration, and sometimes things go wrong. If there was a problem when you posted sales documents and Business Central didn’t create e-documents for them, you can generate new e-documents from the posted documents. For example, generating related e-documents can help you stay compliant with local or industry requirements.

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Feature Details

If there was a problem with your setup for e-documents, and Business Central didn’t create a related e-document when you posted a sales invoice, for example, you can quickly create one yourself. To check whether Business Central created an e-document, open the Posted Sales Invoice page and select the Open E-Document action. If you don’t find a related e-document, you can run the Create New E-Document action to generate one based on the workflow rules. If a related e-document does exist, you can’t use the action.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 9th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is automate embedded attachments in PEPPOL.

Businesses can boost productivity by using embedded PDFs in the PEPPOL file format, ensuring human-readable formats with e-documents.

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General Availability: Apr 2025

Feature Details

The introduction of the ability to encode attachments in the PEPPOL file format in Business Central 2024 release wave 2 provided the benefit of additional automation. You can automate the process of embedding sales document attachments in the PEPPOL file format. When you post a document, Business Central creates a PDF file and embeds it in the PEPPOL format, including both the full XML and a human-readable format.

During the purchase process, Business Central can process PEPPOL files with embedded attachments (invoices), decompose the embedded file, add it as an attachment to the e-document record, and make it available on the E-Document page for further processing.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 8th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is generate multiple incoming e-documents for multiple attachments.

If you aren’t using an external endpoint to receive e-documents, you can save significant time by generating multiple incoming e-documents when you manually upload multiple attachments, rather than one by one.

Enabled for: Users, automatically
Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability: May 2025

Feature Details

You can generate multiple new incoming e-documents by selecting the New From File action on the E-Documents page. Choose the appropriate service for the correct Document Format, and then upload multiple documents.

Business Central processes all uploaded documents and creates a new incoming E-Document for each file if their format matches the chosen Document Format.

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 7th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is troubleshoot export issues on Shopify Skipped Records page.

When a business experiences a problem with the integration of their front end, Shopify, and their back end, Business Central, it’s important to quickly get to the bottom of the issue. Having different levels of logging reduces the time it takes to resolve a problem with your integration between Shopify and Business Central.

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When you export data to Shopify, the Shopify Connector skips records that Shopify will reject or that aren’t valid for export for other reasons. While the behavior is expected, you might be confused if some information wasn’t processed as you expected. You can now find those entries on the Shopify Skipped Records page, which shows all skipped records and provides the reasons and the date and time the records were skipped.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 6th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is use payments with the E-Document framework.

You can now boost productivity with enhanced tracking of e-documents by quickly identifying whether each document is fully paid, partially paid, or unpaid. This also helps businesses meet legal requirements in certain countries.

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Public Preview: Apr 2025
General Availability: May 2025

Feature Details

You can mark whether an e-document is fully paid, partially paid, or unpaid. This information is sent (accounts payable) or received (accounts receivable) through access points based on your e-document configuration. The payment tracking feature in e-documents includes details such as:

• Date of payment collection
• Amount collected, including VAT
• Base amount and VAT amount at the time of payment

This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 5th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is import and export more data using Shopify metafields.

Metafields are a flexible way to add and store additional information about a Shopify resource, such as a customer or company. You can synchronize and manage metafield data from Business Central either using the UI or the extensibility model to map fields or related entries in Business Central to metafields in Shopify.

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Shopify’s platform includes data models for basic commerce concepts. However, commerce is diverse and often requires more complex or specific data models. The custom data platform lets you extend Shopify’s data models and create your own by using metafields. Metafields are a flexible way to add and store additional information about a Shopify resource, such as a product, customer, or company. The additional information stored in metafields can be almost anything related to a resource. Some examples are preferences, credit limit, loyalty program, social media links, or segment information.

Microsoft have added the ability to import and export data stored in metafields into Business Central. Also, there’s an extensibility model that allows developers to map standard or custom fields, attributes, or other related entries in Business Central to metafields in Shopify.

You can edit metafields on the Shopify Metafields page, which you open from the Shopify Customers, Shopify Customer Card, Shopify Companies, or Shopify Company Card pages.

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This post is part of the New Functionality In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1 series in which I am taking a look at the new functionality introduced in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 Wave 1.

The 4th of the new functionality in the E-commerce section is send e-documents via a service and email simultaneously.

Business Central offers flexible ways to share documents and information quickly and easily. Document sending profiles let you specify your preferred way to send documents when you post them. For example, you might want to send a document by email or as an electronic document through a service you use. Microsoft are adding even more flexibility to the process with the ability to send documents by email and as an electronic document, all in one go.

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Feature Details

Previously, you could either choose to send e-documents through a connector service or download the file and send it by email. You now have more options for handling e-documents in sales.

If you choose the Post action from the Sales Order, Sales Invoice or Sales Credit Memo pages, Business Central posts the document as usual, but it can also trigger a workflow to create an e-document. That requires you to have an e-document workflow configured for the customer. But, if you choose Post and Send, Business Central does the same but also sends the e-document via email as an attachment.

Depending on whether you enable the e-documents workflow, you can choose one of the following models for sending documents in the sales process:

• Use the Post action from the document and Service Integration is enabled on the E-Document Service page. The e-document is sent to the configured access point.
• Use the Post and Send action from the document and Service Integration is enabled in the E-Document Service page. The e-document is sent to the configured access point and as an attachment in an email.
• Use the Post action from the document and Service Integration isn’t enabled in the E-Document Service page. The e-document is created and ready to download.
• Use the Post and Send action from the document and Service Integration isn’t enabled in the E-Document Service page. The e-document is sent by email.