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MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365 BUSINESS CENTRAL IN FLORIDA

Run Every Florida Location on One Business Central System

We implement Business Central for Florida businesses and connect it to Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps from day one, so your financial data does not stay stuck the way your last system's did. Our Miami office serves South Florida and our US-based team serves the rest of the state remotely, with a fixed-price roadmap after a free assessment.

Microsoft Solution Partner Miami office, serving all of Florida
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Definition

What Is Business Central Consulting in Florida?

In Florida, Business Central consulting means picking the right license, mapping your current books and inventory into Microsoft's cloud ERP (the accounting, inventory, purchasing, and sales software that replaces QuickBooks, Sage, or a spreadsheet stack), then connecting it to the tools your teams already use. Florida companies often run several locations, crews, or warehouses along a long peninsula, so the work includes location setup, field and branch workflows, and training teams in more than one language. It is complete when every branch closes its books in the same system.

Who It's For

Your ERP Shouldn't Mean a Weekly Excel Export

Business Central is Microsoft's ERP for companies that have outgrown QuickBooks, Sage, or a spreadsheet-based finance stack but don't need the complexity, or cost, of Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations. Microsoft puts the installed base at over 50,000 organizations worldwide, most in the 20 to 1,000 employee range.

Month-end takes days across locations

Finance reconciles branch spreadsheets by hand instead of closing the books.

Branches and crews run on separate tools

Sales, inventory, and accounting share no data between sites.

Leadership waits on a spreadsheet

A weekly Excel export is still the only way to see real numbers.

50,000+organizations run Business Central worldwide (Microsoft)

That's rarely a software problem. It's a scoping and implementation-partner problem, which is exactly what the sections below address.

Our Services

Business Central Consulting, Implementation & Integration

We work across the full Business Central lifecycle: getting you live on the platform, connecting it to everything else you run on, and keeping it optimized after go-live. Most partners specialize in one of these. We built the firm around doing all three without a handoff between teams.

Business Central Implementation

Live, Built to Connect From Day One

The end-to-end process of configuring Business Central to your business, migrating your data, and getting your team live: chart-of-accounts and G/L setup, module configuration, data migration, integration design, testing, and training.

Most implementation partners treat Power BI, Power Automate, and Power Apps as a phase two nobody schedules. We scope them in from the start, so the rollout doesn't just relocate the busywork instead of removing it.

  • Discovery and data audit against your current systems
  • Chart of accounts, G/L, and core module configuration
  • Data migration and validation from your legacy system
  • User roles, approval workflows, and security setup
  • Integration and automation design built in, not bolted on
  • Testing, go-live support, and user training
  • Multi-location and multi-language setup for Florida branches, warehouses, and crews
8-14 wksstandard rollout 4-7 mofull-scope rollout
Business Central Integration

Connecting to Everything Else You Run On

Connecting your ERP to the other systems your business already runs on, so data moves automatically instead of getting re-typed. Business Central ships with native connectors for the most common cases and an open API layer for everything else.

  • Power BI for real-time financial dashboards
  • Power Automate for approval routing and PO workflows
  • Power Apps for workflows standard screens don't cover
  • Shopify & ecommerce for two-way order and inventory sync
  • CRM systems (Dynamics 365 Sales, Salesforce)
  • WMS, payroll & legacy systems via custom API
  • Florida operating tools: warehouse system billing, technician mobile forms, Shopify, and marketplace payouts

This is the layer most partners treat as an afterthought and the one we specialize in. If your go-live is done but reporting still means a manual export, this is where we start.

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Business Central Consulting & Optimization

Before You Commit, and After You Go Live

The advisory work around implementation: license selection, fit-gap analysis, performance optimization for a system you're already running, and recovery for a rollout that stalled or underdelivered.

  • Evaluating Business Central against QuickBooks, NetSuite, or Sage
  • Auditing an existing instance that's underused or misconfigured
  • Rescuing a stalled or over-budget implementation from another partner
  • Planning a phased rollout across multiple entities or locations
  • Ongoing managed support after another partner's implementation ended at go-live
Migration to Business Central

Retiring Dynamics NAV or GP the Right Way

Moving off Dynamics NAV means converting old customizations into modern extensions, and Dynamics GP needs a full re-implementation. We cover both in detail on our main Business Central page.

Read the NAV and GP migration details →
Proof

What This Looks Like in Practice

Neither engagement is Florida specific. We show them because the integration layer is the same one we build around Business Central for Florida businesses.

Core X Partners

Cold Storage & Logistics: 16 Sites, 4 Systems, Zero Manual Exports

Core X Partners runs 16 cold storage facilities nationwide, each with its own operator and its own reporting workflow. Their ERP, WMS (Datex), CRM (Salesforce), and payroll system (UKG) all held pieces of the picture, but nobody had the whole thing without a manual pull. We built the integration layer connecting all four systems into a single Power BI model with automated refresh.

16
Sites Unified
4
Systems Automated
0
Manual Exports
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Core X Partners cold storage Power BI dashboard case study
United Utility

Proof the Integration Layer Works, Regardless of Your ERP

United Utility runs Sage 300, not Business Central, but the problem was the same one Business Central customers hit after go-live: seven operating divisions, each with different rules and rates, all reporting through manual timesheets and spreadsheets. We connected their ERP to Power Apps, Power BI, and Power Automate. It's the same integration layer we build around Business Central, applied to whatever core system you're actually running.

40+
Hours Saved Weekly
7
Divisions Unified
3
Platform Tools
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United Utility Power Apps and Power BI case study
Florida Use Cases

How Florida Businesses Use Business Central

These are the workflows Florida companies bring to a Business Central rollout, by region and industry.

Orlando

Orlando exhibit builders and event services firms

Exhibit builders, AV rental companies, and event decorators serving the Orange County Convention Center bill by show: a deposit, progress invoices, and a final invoice after teardown. Business Central jobs track labor, freight, and subcontractor cost against each show budget, and rental gear sits in its own location with out and return dates. A Power BI view shows margin per show before the trucks are unloaded. A standard first phase fits inside the usual 8 to 14 week rollout when customization stays light.

Southwest Florida

Southwest Florida homebuilders and developers

Builders and land developers in Naples, Fort Myers, and Sarasota track cost by community, phase, and lot using dimensions (tags that let one ledger report many ways), so a lot's land, site work, and vertical cost stay together. Purchase orders commit spend before invoices arrive, and a Power Automate approval flow routes lender draw backup to the right signer. Leadership sees committed against budgeted cost per lot without waiting for a month-end spreadsheet.

Space Coast

Space Coast contract manufacturers

Short-run manufacturers and electronics assemblers from Melbourne to Titusville use Business Central Premium production orders, bills of materials, and routings to cost each job. Serial or lot tracking answers a customer's traceability question from one screen, and an engineering change updates the bill of materials once instead of in three spreadsheets. We scope the first phase around purchasing, production, and costing, then add reporting.

Tallahassee

Tallahassee associations and nonprofits

Statewide trade associations and nonprofits headquartered in Tallahassee report by fund, program, and grant. Dimensions keep restricted and unrestricted money apart, dues billing runs from the member list through a Power Automate flow, and a Power BI view tracks grant spending against the award before a funder asks. Board packets draw on the same numbers finance closes with.

South Florida

Miami and Fort Lauderdale consumer brands

Swimwear, apparel, and food brands sell on Shopify, to wholesale boutiques, and through marketplaces. Business Central's Shopify connector keeps online orders and stock in sync, wholesale orders use their own price lists and net terms, and a Power Automate flow posts marketplace payout files to the ledger. The result is one inventory number across every channel.

Licensing

Business Central Licensing at a Glance

Microsoft US list pricing, current as of the September 2026 update. If you make physical products, you need Premium. If you sell services or trade goods, Essentials usually covers it.

Essentials
$80/user/mo
Finance, sales, purchasing, inventory, project management
  • Finance, sales, purchasing, inventory
  • Basic CRM & project management

Lighter users can be covered by a Team Member license at $8/user/month for read-only or light-entry access.

How It Works

How Implementation Works

1

Discovery & Solution Design

We audit your current systems, data quality, and integration needs, then map them into a fixed-price roadmap before any build starts. Workshops run in Miami for South Florida teams and by video for the rest of the state.

2

Configuration & Data Migration

Core modules configured to your business; legacy data migrated and validated.

3

Integration & Automation Build

Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, and any third-party connectors built in parallel with configuration, not after.

4

Testing, Go-Live & Training

Full functional and integration testing, then go-live with hands-on user training. Training runs by role, in English and Spanish sessions where your teams need both.

5

Optimize & Scale

We stay on to tune performance, extend automation, and add the Copilot/AI layer as adoption grows.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Our Florida HVAC, pool service, or pest control company bills monthly maintenance contracts. Can Business Central handle the contracts and the technician work?
Mostly yes. Business Central Premium includes service management: each customer site and piece of equipment becomes a service item, each contract carries a billing schedule, and each visit becomes a service order that captures technician time, parts, and travel. Recurring contract invoices run on the schedule you set. Route planning and dispatch are not built in, so most Florida service companies add a Power Apps mobile form for technicians, or step up to Dynamics 365 Field Service once crews and routes grow large. We decide which fits during discovery, using your technician count and monthly visit volume.
Our Central Florida nursery or produce operation sells by the flat, pot, and pallet and loses stock to shrink. How does Business Central track that?
Business Central tracks each plant variety as an item with variants for size or grade, plus units of measure that convert between each, flat, and pallet, so an order written in flats can draw from stock counted in pots. Shrink, culls, and weather losses post as negative adjustments with a reason code, which keeps inventory value and cost of goods sold honest. Lot tracking can follow a growing batch from planting to sale when a customer or inspector asks where plants came from. We add a Power BI view of sellable stock against shrink by location, so growers see losses weekly instead of at the annual count.
Our Florida building materials or pool supply distributor sells on contractor job accounts and must track Notice to Owner deadlines. Can Business Central help?
Business Central can hold each contractor job as a ship-to address or dimension, so deliveries, invoices, and payments roll up by job. It does not enforce Florida Construction Lien Law deadlines on its own. We add a Power Automate flow that starts a countdown at the first delivery date, reminds your credit desk before each notice is due, and files the signed notice and lien waivers in SharePoint beside the job record. Your attorney decides what each notice must say and when it is due. We automate the reminders and the paperwork trail, not the legal judgment.
Our Florida boat dealership or marine service yard in Fort Lauderdale carries serial numbered boats, engines, and customer deposits. How would Business Central handle that?
Business Central tracks each hull, engine, and trailer as a serialized item, so cost, trade-in value, and the buyer stay tied to one serial number. Customer deposits post to a liability account until delivery, then apply against the final invoice. Yard work runs as service orders with parts and labor, and consignment or brokerage boats sit in a separate location so they stay out of owned inventory. Floor plan lender balances post to a payable account that we reconcile to the lender statement during setup, so month-end does not depend on a spreadsheet.
Many of our Florida warehouse and office staff in Hialeah and Doral work in Spanish. Can Business Central run in Spanish while our books stay in English?
Yes. Each Business Central user chooses a display language in personal settings, so one person can work in Spanish while the controller works in English in the same company. Customer and vendor records also carry a language code, so quotes, invoices, and statements print in the language each account expects, using translations you maintain for item descriptions and terms. Posting and the chart of accounts stay in one set of books whatever language is on screen. We run end user training in English and Spanish sessions by role and test the Spanish screens before go-live.
We run a third-party logistics or cold storage warehouse in Florida, near Jacksonville or Orlando. Can Business Central bill storage, handling, and pallet charges from our warehouse system?
Yes, through an integration rather than built-in billing. Your warehouse management system (WMS, the software that tracks pallets and bin locations) records receipts, moves, and shipments. We send that daily activity to Business Central, where rate cards for storage days, handling, labeling, and repacking turn it into customer invoices. Each charge keeps the pallet or order that caused it, so a billing dispute takes minutes to answer instead of a day of digging. Rate changes live in one table that finance controls, not in a developer ticket.
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