New users of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central may be confused by the way the Tax Setup windows look, but it couldn’t be simpler! The following is a summary of the Tax Setup windows: Tax Setup Window – the company tax settings. This is completed during the Assisted Setup and sets up the sales tax … Read more
Recently, Crestwood was asked three questions that pertain to Power BI in the cloud (the Microsoft SaaS offering) and how it compares to the on-premise (or cloud-hosted) Power BI Report Server solution. Both solutions enable Power BI reports and visualization construction by leveraging the power of Microsoft’s Power BI services, but there are notable differences … Read more
Tuesday, July 28, 2020 – 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM (CDT) Register here! Become your office’s Steven Spielberg! The next in our series of Office 365 tips is a fun topic: using Teams and Stream for video creation. Here at Crestwood, our consultants use Teams to record demos for clients, send them to Stream to … Read more
If you require your customers to submit payment or if a vendor requires you to submit payment before shipment, you can use a prepayment. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central makes it easy to invoice with prepayment percentages. We learned that with just a bit of initial setup, you can design a very smooth processing experience. … Read more
Quite often, we find clients that want to export or share dashboard information from Microsoft Dynamics 365 for meetings and updates. Maybe you want to export a dashboard view into a PowerPoint slide or create a PDF to share. One way to do this is to take a screen shot, but often the quality is … Read more
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central allows users to add a field to any document called “Item Extended Text.” Item Extended Text is a great way to display any additional information about an item on various document forms. The user can choose which documents to display the additional text on along with a date range if … Read more
There is a feature in other accounting systems such as Microsoft Dynamics GP to assign a default expense/purchasing account to a vendor. This account then defaults as the debit when invoices are entered for that vendor. Good news! The same solution exists in Business Central using Recurring Purchase Lines to speed up data entry. The … Read more
In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, when creating a new Purchase invoice, you can easily copy a previous posted or unposted invoice from any vendor. This is especially helpful if the same G/L accounts or amounts will be re-used. To create a New Purchase Invoice, enter the Vendor Name then go to the Actions>Functions and … Read more
In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, in order to define a default G/L expense account for different vendors, the vendor will need to have a specific General Business Posting Group assigned to it. [This is the next blog in a series of tips for using Dynamics 365 Business Central. For the previous Business Central tip … Read more
If you’ve built your business from the ground up, it’s likely you started with accounting software—odds are, you started with QuickBooks. Most businesses do. However, there comes a point when QuickBooks no longer keeps up with your growing business, and you may hear that your next step is enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. There is … Read more
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Change is hard. Shocking, right? Say you’re trying to get healthy. You go out and buy workout gear, get excited about your future self, and you make it to the gym for a day. You wake up the next morning sore—barely able to make it up the stairs—but are still willing to push through. A … Read more
A new feature was added to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to allow users to display vendor names, customer names, and item descriptions in ledger entries. This can be enabled in the following windows: Copy Vendor Name to Entries via a checkbox on the Purchases & Payables Setup page for Vendors Copy Customer Name to … Read more
Microsoft has long been a leader in business solutions. Their Dynamics solutions; such as, Dynamics GP, Dynamics SL, and Dynamics CRM, have gone through many changes over the years to continue to bring you improved technology. Many customers have been wondering if their current Dynamics solution will be supported in the future as Microsoft has … Read more
When printing checks in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, there are a couple settings to be aware of. The following steps will guide you through selecting the correct check stock and printing the checks during payment journal processing. Step One: Double-Check the Check Stock First, select the proper format to match your pre-printed check stock. … Read more
I have noticed a ton of new videos, tutorials, documentation, and overall training materials coming out lately for Dynamics 365. Seems that the New Year is going to be booming for Dynamics 365! Here are a couple of recommended and free training places. Crestwood First, don’t forget, Crestwood has a YouTube channel with a playlist … Read more
Microsoft Dynamics Business Central comes with built-in light customer relationship management (CRM) capabilities as part of the Essentials license. Click here for a full overview of Dynamics 365 Business Central’s functionality. Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials or Premium users have access to Campaign Management, Campaign Pricing, Contact Classification, Contact Management, Opportunity Management, Relationship Management, and … Read more
In the latest release of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, a new feature was added to be able to select multiple items at once to add to a sales or purchase document. This eliminates the need to add items one-by-one and speeds up the process. Here’s How First, I like to check the default item … Read more
You are a savvy business owner; your business processes and ERP are backed up in the cloud. You’ve seen the statistics, heard the horror stories, and you’ve made the necessary steps to feel secure. But what does “in the cloud” really mean? How secure is your data really? Gray Market Cloud Spells Doom for One … Read more
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is still the new kid on the block, but is rapidly making waves. As more and more of our clients make the leap to this versatile and robust system, we have decided to publish a series of blogs on how to use Dynamics 365 Business Central. This post will detail … Read more
Both payees and accounting professionals love electronic funds transfer (EFT), and for good reason. It drastically reduces the time required to process payments, eliminates paper, and helps avoid fraud. There are three windows that must first be set up properly to be able to use the EFT/ACH feature in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: Company … Read more
You probably already know that you can email invoices directly from Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central with its seamless integration with Outlook. But the integrations don’t stop there. Did you know that you can take it a step further by accepting electronic payments using Microsoft Pay or PayPal? Do you know how easy it is … Read more
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central allows you to easily reconcile your bank accounts by importing transactions from your bank. In order to match the transactions, you need to have the proper format for Dynamics 365. Here’s how: The file format just needs to be defined and assigned to the bank account. In this example, I … Read more
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central offers automatic methods to reconcile your bank statement; such as importing a file with your bank statement information. However, I often find clients need to reconcile things manually in their system. In this blog, I am going to review the manual method for bank account reconciliation. The Payment Reconciliation journal … Read more