Innovate and modernise your small to medium business with Business Central

Software that grows with you. As a small to medium business, you need to know that your investment is flexible enough to grow with you (or scale down should you need to). Business Central is exactly that, with apps that work together seamlessly no matter what you need. 

Implement with your eyes closed (almost!) We know business doesn’t wait for anyone! So, we’ve made sure that implementing Business Central is quick and simple to configure to your specific business needs. The user-focused design is intuitive and backed by AI, making onboarding a dream too! 

Stay on the pulse of customer service. Your customers are at the heart of everything you do, so Business Central streamlines all your processes from sales to service and everything in between. The result? Stellar customer service that keeps customers coming back time and time again. 

Take control of your data. Move over endless spreadsheets! With Business Central you can connect your data from accounting, sales, stocks, and more, in just a few clicks. Take control of your data and be able to make those important decisions in a flash. 

Harness the power of AI. Maximise operations with sales predictions using AI-generated reports and data visualisation. Think faster reporting and stronger pipelines, leaving you with more time to focus your energy where it matters most. 

Apps that talk to each other. Stop wasting time syncing individual programmes that just don’t fit. With one intuitive software system, all the apps you could possibly need can be added and set up – fast.

Take the fuss out of your finances. With easy and automated financial programmes, you’ll easily be able to manage your cashflow, budgets, and projections. Whether you’re a one-man band or a small team, finances will be a breeze with Business Central. 

Take it to the cloud with confidence. Modern workplaces need data on hand anytime, anywhere. Business Central is cloud-based so you can do business from wherever you are, all while being confident your data is safe and secure. Plus, it makes automated maintenance a breeze!

Advanced Allocations

Advanced Allocations enables the definition and generation of more complex general ledger allocations. Key features include:

• Providing consistent, auditable allocations anywhere in the GL structure
• Delivering user defined rules, in multiple steps, if required
• Providing a ‘Rules’ facility that can be applied consistently across budget and actuals, using G/L balances or factors in a table as their basis
• Showing results that can be previewed in Analysis Views prior to anything being posted – even in multi-step allocations. A report shows the full workings and results of each rule
• Providing flexible, filter-based allocation rule definition using dimensions
• Allowing a periodic process to calculate a set of rules
• Providing a view of interim results using Analysis By Dimensions
• Providing ‘Acceptance’ of results facility that will generate a journal or update a budget

Advanced Bank Reconciliation

Advanced Bank Reconciliation provides the facility to import bank statements, automatically match statement and cashbook entries then manage full reconciliation using a single screen. Key features include:

• Importing ‘statement’ transactions from any bank account
• Automatically matching bank statement lines to cash book entries, using pre-defined matching criteria
• Providing automatic generation of general ledger transactions, customer receipts and bank transfers
• Providing user defined matching criteria
• Providing an un-matching facility
• Deliver reconciliation report statistics

Advanced Fixed Assets

Advanced Fixed Assets provides the ability to create a fixed asset from within a purchase order or purchase invoice. Key features include:

• Creating a fixed asset automatically from within a purchase order or purchase invoice
• Posting the FA acquisition transaction and set default depreciation method/rate on the new fixed asset
• Allows review of the new fixed asset (with an option to disallow posting until review is complete).

Code Combination Validation

Code Combination Validation enables you to restrict combinations of account, dimensions, job/task & resource code being posted to the general ledger. Key features include:

• Restricting combinations of account and dimension code being posted to the general ledger
• Applying validations to actual and/or budget entry
• Allowing override restrictions by using a reason code

Electronic Funds Transfer (Direct Credits)

Electronic Funds Transfer or Direct Credits provides a mechanism for organisations that pay their vendors electronically. It caters for all NZ banks and has the facility to include foreign banks. Key features include:

• Allowing multiple company bank accounts using different bank file formatting
• Total control between payment journals and direct credit transfer files
• Providing a remittance advice facility
• Allowing default values for the reference, analysis code and particulars fields

Direct Debits

Direct Debits provides a method for those organisations that have permission to extract funds from a client’s bank account electronically. Key features include:

• Provide export file format for all NZ banks
• Total control of direct debit transfer files and related cash receipt journals
• The ability to print or email DD notices
• The option to default values for the reference, analysis code and particulars fields for automatic matching against your bank statement

Purchase Line Approvals

Purchase Line Approvals prevents, at a line level, posting of purchase documents until they are approved. Specific functions of Purchase Line Approvals include:

• Allows each line of a document to be approved separately
• Allows lines to be reviewed prior to approval process
• Prevents posting purchase orders/invoices until all lines are fully approved
• Allows posting of a single approved purchase order line
• Sends email to approvers (optional)
• Provides setup of company wide and dimension code specific approval levels
• Provides ability to disable purchase order printing until approval granted
• Provides a tolerance level for changes after approval that do not require re-approval

Property Management

Property Management allows the tracking of assets or property items and scheduling maintenance activities. Key features include:

• The hierarchical setup of property management items with drill down to component parts
• Allowing part components to be treated independent of complete property item
• Keeping history at a component level
• Automated calendar based maintenance (e.g. annual surveys)
• Usage based maintenance (e.g. every 10,000 kms)
• Provides the facility where maintenance due within a specified time period to be grouped together to provide efficiency or reduction of outage time
• Fully integrated with NAV modules
• Facility to forecast events allowing centralised control of job planning
• Facility for statistics to be interfaced from external sources for the production of electronic output of usage information
• Authorisation levels that allow users to update only certain information on a property item

Contract Management

Contract Management provides the facility to maintain all your contract management details including income/expenditure in one place. Key features include:

• Maintains contract register, all in one place.
• Provides for both revenue and expenditure contracts
• Provides contract budgets
• Reminder emails providing for the likes of contract renewal notification
• Loads contract details including the scanned documents such as plans etc
• Ability to trace all transactions associated with a contract
• Reporting facility to understand crucial contract performance information to negotiate better contracts.

Job/Project Reporting Codes

Job Reporting Codes provides the ability to categorise and group Jobs or Projects together for reporting purposes. Ideal for grouping Projects under Programmes and or by Cost Centre. Reporting Codes key features include:

• Dynamic allocation of reporting codes
• Hierarchical relationships available
• Flexible reporting using filters

Landed Cost

Landed Cost is the total price of a product or shipment once it has arrived at a buyer’s doorstep. The landed cost includes the original price of the product, transportation fees (both inland and ocean), customs, duties, taxes, tariffs, insurance, currency conversion, handling and payment fees. Key features include the ability to:

• Collect all costs of a shipment and allocate across product lines
• Track shipments by date (departure and arrival) and vessel
• Default entries by charge type available
• Generate Landed Cost items from Purchase Orders
• Automate or manually apportion costs
• Apply multiple apportionment of costs rules (eg based on Quantity, Cubage, Weight, Amount etc)
• Generate Purchase Invoice from Landed Cost lines

Recurring Invoices

Recurring Invoices provides the facility to generate recurring invoices based on pre-defined frequencies. Key features include:

• Flexible billing periods
• Variable invoice templates
• One-off or ad-hoc invoicing available
• Easy tracing of recurring invoice billing via drill down

Fusion5 has a proven track record of delivering Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions that offer the ability to personalise your approach to enterprise resource planning with business apps that are built on Azure and tightly integrated with Office 365 and the Microsoft Power Platform.

As a member of the Microsoft Dynamics Inner Circle, we are recognised as being an expert and trusted pair of hands for your implementation. In addition, Fusion5 offers advance access to product updates, licensing changes, and the ability to take our customers’ feedback to the source of Microsoft innovation, to help bring solutions that really make a difference to our clients.

With the wide range of Microsoft Awards Fusion5 holds recognising our unrelenting commitment to delivering great outcomes for our customers, you can feel confident that your business' Microsoft project is in safe hands.