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Business Central doesn’t fall short for running finance, sales and purchasing, but it isn’t built to show you, on a single screen, the cash across all your companies and all your banks over the coming weeks. That’s where Orama comes in: it reads your Business Central invoices and due dates, matches them against your banks and builds your cash flow forecast, without changing the way you work in your ERP.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If your company runs Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central but you still track cash in a spreadsheet, this article covers what Business Central does well, which part of cash management it leaves out, what data Orama syncs, what you need to connect it and how it all works for an example group.<\/p>\n

What Business Central does well and what it doesn’t cover on cash<\/h2>\n

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is Microsoft’s ERP for small and mid-sized businesses. It brings together finance, sales, purchasing, warehousing and projects, runs in the cloud and integrates with Microsoft 365. It’s your single source of truth for invoices, customers and suppliers. Cash management is a different job: looking ahead, with every bank and every company in view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Area<\/th>\nWhat Business Central does well<\/th>\nWhat cash management also needs<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Invoices<\/td>\nRecords sales and purchase invoices, with their due dates.<\/td>\nTurning each outstanding invoice into an expected receipt or payment on the right date.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Banks<\/td>\nCaptures transactions from the banks you’ve set up or imported.<\/td>\nSeeing all your banks together, with balances updated up to 4 times a day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Time horizon<\/td>\nShows what’s outstanding to collect and to pay.<\/td>\nForecasting cash 13 weeks and 12, 18 or 24 months ahead, with scenarios.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Financing<\/td>\nPosts loans and credit facilities to the accounts.<\/td>\nBuilding credit facilities, loans, reverse factoring and factoring into the forecast.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Group<\/td>\nKeeps each company in its own Business Central company.<\/td>\nSeeing consolidated group cash and drilling down into each company.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

What Orama syncs from Business Central, and how often<\/h2>\n