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Start with the business process, not the connector
The first question is never which tool to buy. It is which process crosses from one system to the next: an order placed online, a deal marked won in the CRM, a payroll run, a bank deposit. Write down who starts it and which system should hold each piece of data. Then decide what a person should do when the two sides disagree.
Once that is on paper, the method usually picks itself. A common process with a maintained app on AppSource rarely needs custom code. A process that touches three or four systems often suits an integration platform. Custom API builds earn their cost on a rule that only your business has.
Four ways to connect Business Central, compared
What should you answer before any integration build starts?
- ✓Which system is the master for each field, not just each record
- ✓Does data move in real time, on a schedule, or once a day
- ✓What happens to a record that fails, and who sees the error
- ✓How many records the link must handle at peak, such as holiday orders
- ✓How tax, discounts, shipping and fees post to the general ledger
- ✓Whether a manual export would honestly be good enough for now
Business Central integration guides
Business Central + Shopify →
Integration design for Shopify and Business Central beyond the standard app: multiple stores, B2B, marketplaces, custom data and payout reconciliation.
Business Central + Amazon →
Connecting Amazon Seller Central to Business Central: FBA and FBM inventory, order import, settlement reports and fee reconciliation.
Business Central + BigCommerce →
Connecting BigCommerce to Business Central: catalog, price lists, B2B Edition accounts, orders, inventory and customers.
Business Central + WooCommerce →
Orders, stock, prices and payments between a WooCommerce store and Business Central, designed around plugins, hosting and payment gateways.
Business Central + Adobe Commerce →
Catalog, inventory sources, B2B pricing and orders between Adobe Commerce (Magento) and Business Central, built for multi-store sites.
Business Central + Salesforce →
Accounts, opportunities, orders and invoice status between Salesforce and Business Central, with clear ownership at each step of quote to cash.
Business Central + HubSpot →
Companies, deals, products and invoice data between HubSpot and Business Central, with ownership agreed before any sync runs.
Business Central + Avalara →
AvaTax calculation, exemption handling and liability reconciliation for Business Central, set up with Avalara's own connector.
Business Central + Stripe →
Stripe payouts broken into charges, fees, refunds and disputes, applied to customers and reconciled to the bank inside Business Central.
Business Central + ADP →
ADP payroll runs posted to the Business Central general ledger as balanced journals with the dimensions your labor reports need.
Business Central + EDI →
X12 purchase orders, acknowledgments, ship notices and invoices exchanged with trading partners and posted as Business Central documents.
Business Central + ShipStation →
Orders from Business Central to ShipStation for rating and labels, with tracking numbers and freight cost posted back to the shipment.
Business Central + Microsoft Teams →
Share Business Central records as cards in Teams chats, search contacts, and run approvals and alerts where your team already works.
Business Central + Outlook →
Set up Microsoft's Outlook add-in, email logging and outbound document email for Business Central, with flows added only where a gap remains.
Business Central + SharePoint →
Decide which files stay attached in Business Central and which move to SharePoint libraries, then link records and documents with flows or an extension.
Business Central bank feeds →
Automated bank feeds or statement file import for Business Central, with matching rules tuned so daily reconciliation leaves few exceptions.
Business Central + Expensify →
Post Expensify reports and card spend into Business Central with the right accounts, dimensions and payees, using export, a connector or the API.
Business Central + BILL →
Connect BILL payables and payments to Business Central with one vendor master, one home for approvals and a clearing account that keeps the bank reconciling.
Business Central + DocuSign →
Send Business Central quotes and contracts through DocuSign, see envelope status on the record, and keep signed PDFs where finance can find them.
Business Central + Power BI →
Use Microsoft's Business Central connector and prebuilt Power BI apps first, then extend or build a model that ties to the trial balance.
What do companies ask about connecting Business Central?
Does Business Central have an API?
Yes, Business Central Online has REST APIs based on OData. They cover customers, vendors, items, sales and purchase documents, journals and more. Developers can also publish custom API pages through an AL extension when no standard endpoint covers a table. Most connectors, integration platforms and custom builds use these APIs under the hood.
Should we buy a connector or have one built?
Buy first when a maintained connector covers your process. Then someone else does the upkeep when either system changes. Build when your rules are truly unusual or no connector exists. We usually test a connector on your real edge cases before we suggest either path.
Who fixes an integration when it breaks?
Someone named in writing before go-live. That is part of the design, not an afterthought. Every integration we set up has an error log a person checks and an alert for failures. It also has a written way to resend a failed record. Ongoing monitoring can sit with your team or with our support service.
Can one integration project connect several systems at once?
Yes, but we normally phase it so each link works before the next one starts. Orders and inventory usually come first because they touch revenue every day. Reports and document links tend to follow once the day-to-day data is reliable.
Talk to us about your project.
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