Retailers sell through stores, web shops and marketplaces, but often keep the numbers in separate systems. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central can be the back office behind all of them: one place for stock, purchasing, finance and reporting. Akkomplish is a US-based Business Central partner headquartered in Rockville, Maryland. We connect your sales channels to Business Central so the numbers add up every day, not just at month-end.

Common problems we solve for retailers

  • Store, online and warehouse stock don’t match, so you oversell or miss sales.
  • Thousands of POS transactions have to be summarized by hand for accounting.
  • Each store or channel reports differently, so margins by store or product are hard to see.
  • Reordering is based on guesswork rather than actual sales.

What Business Central does for retail

  • One inventory across stores, warehouses and online channels, with transfers between locations.
  • Purchasing based on actual sales, safety stock and vendor lead times.
  • Online sales. The built-in Shopify connector syncs products, prices, inventory and orders, including orders from Shopify POS and B2B.
  • Finance and reporting: sales, margins and stock by store, channel and product, in Power BI and Excel.

Business Central doesn’t include a store point-of-sale (POS) system of its own. Retailers either connect their existing POS to it or use a retail app built on Business Central. We help you choose and connect the right option.

High-volume POS integration: an Akkomplish project

For a digital services company with 80,000 points of sale, we built an automated tool that extracts, processes and consolidates about 4 million POS transactions a week into Microsoft Dynamics NAV (the system Business Central grew from) for financial, cost and inventory control. The client had spent more than two years trying to integrate its POS with accounting before working with us. Read the case study.

How we implement Business Central for retailers

  1. Map your channels: stores, POS, web store, marketplaces and warehouse.
  2. Design items, variants, locations, pricing and how sales post to accounting.
  3. Connect your POS and online store, and test with real daily volumes.
  4. Migrate items, stock and balances. See moving from QuickBooks.
  5. Train and go live, then support you through the first busy season.

Frequently asked questions

Can Business Central replace our POS?

Not on its own. It’s the back office. Keep a POS your staff knows and connect it, or choose a retail app built on Business Central. We’ll help you compare.

Can it handle a high number of transactions?

Yes, if the integration is designed for it. Summarizing POS sales before they post, as in our 4-million-transactions-a-week project, keeps Business Central fast and your accounting clean.

Do you work with Shopify stores?

Yes. Microsoft’s Shopify connector is included with Business Central, and we set it up and test it with your store.

Why US companies choose Akkomplish

Microsoft Partner

  • Microsoft partner focused on Dynamics 365 Business Central: implementation, migration, integration and support.
  • US headquarters in Rockville, Maryland (Akkomplish USA LLC), and a member of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce.
  • 200+ businesses guided through ERP, cloud and AI projects.
  • Real Business Central projects: see our NAV 2009 to Business Central migration and our quality assurance add-on for Business Central.

Talk to a Business Central partner for retail

Call +1 980 347 3323, contact us, or book a free Business Central demo.

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