The 2024 release wave 2 of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (October 2024 to March 2025) introduced several exciting enhancements and new features. We listed below some of the top features that we are quite excited about. Check them out below.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central 2024 release wave 2 features
New subscription billing and revenue and expense recognition.
Businesses are increasingly creating recurring revenue streams by offering goods and services on a subscription basis. With this release, you can efficiently manage subscriptions in Business Central, including contracts, billing schedules, automated billing deferral integration and more. This new subscription module lets you focus more on selling and less on organizing and invoicing contracts.
Out-of-the-box Power BI reports.
Unlock your business data's potential and gain insight into your operations effortlessly. With Power BI's out-of-the-box (OOTB) reports for finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, manufacturing, and projects, you can analyze your data like never before.
The 2024 wave 2 release of Business Central includes these new Power BI OOTB reports:
Finance: 14 reports
Sales: 12 reports
Purchasing: 13 reports
Inventory: 7 reports
Manufacturing: 11 reports
Projects: 6 reports
Bank reconciliation with Copilot.
Copilot reduces the manual workload by matching more transactions and intelligently suggesting appropriate G/L accounts for those that remain, helping bookkeepers save valuable time and improve accuracy.
Automate sales order-taking with Copilot.
Copilot in Business Central is already enhancing users' creativity and productivity by using AI in key application scenarios and providing guidance along the way. With this release, Microsoft expanded the use of AI to enable customers to orchestrate and automate business processes using AI agents such as a Sales Order Agent.
The Sales Order Agent can be configured to manage the full process:
Receive item requests from customer emails in a shared company mailbox.
Identify the customer from those registered in Business Central.
Draft the sales quote with the requested items.
Verify item availability.
Forward the sales quote to the customer for approval.
Receive confirmation, convert the quote into a sales order, and share the order with the customer via email.
Use Excel reports for consolidation and fixed assets.
Business Central's latest release now includes four Excel report layouts that cover the consolidation and fixed assets areas:
Consolidated Trial Balance (Preview)
Fixed Asset Details (Preview)
Fixed Asset Analysis (Preview)
Fixed Asset Projected Value (Preview)
Do ad hoc analysis on fixed assets, projects, and services.
The latest Business Central release now allows you to perform reporting and ad hoc data analysis on transactions from fixed assets, projects, and service management. You can also group, summarize, and pivot data to get the insights you need without having to run a report.
Update to the Shopify connector.
Microsoft has introduced further enhancements to the Business Central and Shopify integration. The latest update brings several changes introduced by Shopify, including:
Support for up to 2,000 product variants.
Dual-level risk assessments with support for external providers.
Improved weight management with default weight unit import from Shopify.
Gift card property available on sales lines for recognizing custom discounts.
Discontinuation of Location Code field in Shopify Order header.
Alignment of units of measure for imported sales documents and inventory synchronization.
Benefiting from these new features
There are dozens more new features available in Business Central's latest release. We understand that keeping up with these changes can be difficult for most customers. But don't worry. Our Business Central experts are always on standby to help you benefit from these new features. Contact us today to get started.
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