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Business Central 2025 Wave 1 Updates

Business Central is continually updating its software with new features to make your workflow more efficient and to add new capabilities for your jobs. Below we have listed what’s new in 2025.

Below are all the Wave 1 updates from the Microsoft website. If you want more details on any of the updates listed below, follow this link to view Microsoft’s in-depth list of updates.

 

Dynamics Business Central – 5 Main attributes

Application

  • Integrate Field Service with service management.
  • View item availability in Field Service work orders.
  • Edit price lists in Excel.
  • Use SecretText with control add-ins and in JSON objects.
  • Use improved troubleshooting options for cost adjustments.

E-commerce

  • Import and export more data for Shopify B2B companies and company locations.
  • Activate sales channels in Shopify Connector.
  • Import and export more data using Shopify metafields.
  • Troubleshoot export issues on Shopify Skipped Records page.
  • Use the latest update for the Shopify Connector.

Financial Management

  • Analyze subscription billing data with Power BI reports.
  • New Contoso Coffee Demo Dataset for Intrastat.
  • Require Intrastat classifications on documents.
  • Check total purchase amounts on documents.

 

Governance and Administration

  • Add support for MultiSubnetFailover.
  • Manage environment updates more flexibly.
  • Enhanced index troubleshooting.
  • Support IPv6 for enhanced security and scalability.
  • Update sandbox environments to preview versions.
  • Link to Power Platform to use Copilot Studio messages.

User Experience

  • Preview PDF attachments directly in web client.
  • Optimize screen estate usage on the web.
  • Adjust the FactBox pane width.
  • Use user interface enhancements for better experience.

Service and Platform

  • Calculate values only for visible FlowFields.

Electronic Documents

  • Delete incorrect e-documents and avoid duplicates.
  • Generate multiple incoming e-documents for multiple attachments.
  • Use B2B Router as a service provider for e-documents.
  • Automate embedded attachments in PEPPOL.
  • Use the ForNAV Peppol connector for e-documents.
  • Use Logiq as a service provider for e-documents.
  • Use ExFlow by SignUp connector for e-documents.
  • Create e-documents from posted sales invoices.
  • Process e-documents in two steps.
  • Preview incoming e-invoices prior to processing.
  • Use Continia as a service provider for e-documents.
  • Use e-documents to fix unposted purchase documents.
  • Extend E-Documents features using a new interface.

Copilot and Agents

  • Capture more sales with enhanced Sales Order Agent.
  • Chat with Copilot to learn how to use installed add-on apps.
  • Summarize with Copilot.
  • Find pages and reports with advanced Tell Me search.
  • Enhance purchase order line matching with Copilot.
  • Automate tests for Copilot extensions with Business Central Test Toolkit.
  • Use AI resources for your Copilot extensions.
  • Use autofill with Copilot to suggest field values.
  • Automate payables processes with the Payables Agent.

Reporting and Data Analysis

  • Use enhanced analytics for inventory, sales, purchasing, and projects.
  • Use enhanced Excel reports for sustainability.
  • Enhance reports with PDF post-processing capabilities.
  • Validate report layouts for errors as an admin.
  • Add fields from related tables in analysis mode.
  • Use enhanced analytics for manufacturing (updated Power BI app).
  • Access report and request metadata in Word layouts.
  • Use enhanced Financial Reporting capabilities.
  • Use enhanced analytics for finance.

Country and Regional

  • Post cash documents to projects in Czech localization.
  • Add more text in cash documents in Czech localization.
  • Calculate and post VAT settlement by Activity Code – Italy.
  • Get UI improvements for Unreliable Payer for Czechia.
  • Use Peppol PINT A-NZ format for e-documents in AU and NZ.
  • Define allowed languages per environment.
  • Check total amounts on purchase advances for Czechia.
  • Reconciliation feature in cash documents for Czechia.
  • Showcase Business Central with Czech localization demos.
  • Use ZUGFeRD format for E-Documents in Germany.
  • New Contoso Coffee Demo Dataset for Intrastat in Czechia.
  • New pages for purchase and sales advance lines for Czechia.
  • Use VAT Return to report VAT in local and functional currencies in Czech Republic.
  • Use modern search to access data in Czech localization.
  • Hide lines with zero quantity in Czech document reports.

Development

  • Overloaded JsonObject data type GetValue method.
  • Move tables and fields with data across extensions as part of refactoring.
  • Extend CardPageId on list and listpart pages.
  • Experience user-friendly client activity descriptions in performance profiles.
  • Use the new continue keyword for AL loops.
  • Manage external files more easily through unified API in External File Storage module.
  • Read and write YAML in AL using JsonObject.
  • Select extensions to open in Visual Studio Code from the web client.
  • Troubleshoot clients, apps, and add-ins with telemetry.
  • Mock outbound HttpClient web service calls during testing.
  • Search, navigate and use app symbols as context for GitHub Copilot.
  • View build metadata in Extension Management page.
  • Validate certificates on external web service endpoints called from AL HttpClient.
  • Work with multiline strings in AL.
  • Use new AL project templates for creating Copilot features in Visual Studio Code.
  • Use new properties on a report layout.
  • Self-service App Key Vault onboarding for AppSource apps.
  • Use new IncStr parameter to change integers by more than 1 in string variables.
  • Embed Power BI content in web client with new page type.
  • Convert simple type values to text using new ToText method.
  • Create lists and dictionaries of interfaces in AL.
  • Generate launch json file from the web client.
  • Running objects in actions defaults to UI descriptors on target object.

Sustainability Management

  • Generate a CSRD preparation report.
  • Specify default sustainability values for various entities.
  • Enable taxonomy elements for ESRS and other standards.
  • Use enhanced analytics for Sustainability.
  • Capture sustainability data with general journals.
  • Use water and waste management with sustainability.
  • Use sustainability Scope 3 value chain for assembly and transfers.
  • Provide carbon equivalent data for sales based on Scope 3 automation.
  • Use ESG Reporting integrated with Business Central.
  • Start value chain in purchase process for Scope 3 in sustainability.
  • Use refreshed demo data for Sustainability.
  • Use sustainability Scope 3 value chain in manufacturing.
  • Use the new Out of Scope emission category.

Supply Chain Managment

  • Reschedule production orders within a safety lead time.
  • Use enhanced customer document layout for service management.
  • Cancel production orders that have consumption.
  • Add more columns to various pages to gain more insight.
  • Allow multiple people to post inventory at the same time.
  • Experience improved usability in manufacturing.
  • Enable overpicking for production orders.
  • Achieve greater accuracy in manufacturing costing.
  • Omit warehouse pick for manual flushing methods.
  • Create demo data for Subscription Billing with demo data tool.
  • Create subscription contract lines manually.
  • Add unit cost in subscription lines.
  • Track and rebill quantity changes in subscriptions.
  • Align Subscription Billing with standard user experience and terminology.
  • Receive project items with receipts or put-aways.
  • Block items or variants from production output.
  • Avoid document number errors when you post project journals.
  • Handle production output with warehouse put-aways.
  • Reopen finished production orders.
  • Use streamlined product design tools in manufacturing.
  • Print barcodes from production orders.
  • Manage document attachments in manufacturing.
  • Use Edit in Excel on output, consumption, and item journals.
  • Combine service shipments on a single service invoice.