AP Automation for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

Tipalti connects to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central via an AppSource-certified Prebuilt API integration that gives you centralized control with local flexibility. Corporate headquarters sees everything. Each subsidiary operates independently. No separate instances, no duplicate logins, no fragmented reporting. 

With multi-entity management powered by Binary Stream, you have entity-specific workflows for supplier onboarding, payments, tax, and approvals while maintaining consolidated visibility.

AP automation for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central helps finance teams streamline the entire accounts payable lifecycle, from supplier onboarding and invoice processing to approvals, payments, and reconciliation. 

Tipalti’s AppSource Certified integration connects with Business Central through an API-based, two-way sync, helping teams automate AP while keeping Business Central as their financial system of record across multiple entities.

Microsoft Business Central is a system of record, not an operational engine. It provides vendor ledgers and payment journals and tracks AP transactions, but doesn’t automate them. 

If you’re running BC and manually processing invoices, you’re not missing a feature—you’re missing an entire automation layer. 

You won’t have automated invoice capture, approval routing, or global payment execution.

Tipalti connects to Microsoft Business Central via an AppSource-certified, direct API-to-API integration—no middleware, no manual exports, no duplicate data entry. Tipalti leverages Binary Stream for true Multi-Entity AP Automation.

Microsoft Business Central doesn’t include native invoice automation. To automate, businesses connect a third-party AP automation platform via Microsoft AppSource or API integration. The platform handles capture, validation, routing, and execution, while BC remains as your financial system of record. 

Tipalti connects to Microsoft Business Central via an AppSource-certified, direct API-to-API integration.

Microsoft Business Central’s Payables Agent is a Copilot-powered assistant that suggests actions, such as invoice-to-PO matches, payment proposals, and draft vendor emails. It augments manual workflows, but it doesn’t replace them.

A third-party AP automation platform extends Business Central by automating broader AP processes, including supplier onboarding, invoice capture, approval workflows, payments, compliance, and reconciliation. 

Tipalti is one example, providing end-to-end AP automation from supplier onboarding through global payment execution while synchronizing AP and payment data back to Business Central sub-ledgers.

Microsoft Business Central can store and process invoice data, but many organizations use OCR and AI-powered invoice capture software to automatically extract data from invoices and eliminate manual entry.

Tipalti’s Invoice Capture Agent reads invoices in any language and format and syncs the extracted data directly into BC sub-ledgers without manual entry.

Invoice approval workflows can be automated by routing invoices to the right approvers, enforcing approval policies, sending reminders, and synchronizing approval activity with Business Central.

Tipalti’s Bill Approvers Agent connects to Business Central and automates the full approval workflow, from intelligent routing through real-time sync back to BC sub-ledgers. What happens automatically:

• AI routes the invoice to the right approver
• Approvers act from email
• Approval tiers enforce controls, so set thresholds once, and the system enforces them 
• Reminders and escalation are built-in, including auto reminders
• Unlimited approvers at no extra cost
• Every action is synced back to the BC sub-ledgers in real time

Invoices move faster, controls are tight, and approvals are no longer bottlenecks.

Microsoft Business Central tracks payments, but it doesn’t execute them globally. If you’re paying suppliers across borders, BC’s native capabilities end at payment journals and manual bank transfers. 

Tipalti adds the global payment engine that BC was never built to include. It’s the only way to execute global payments directly from Microsoft Business Central without managing multiple banking portals.

Automating three-way matching helps finance teams reduce manual reconciliation, identify discrepancies faster, prevent overpayments, and strengthen purchasing controls by matching invoices against purchase orders and receipts.

Tipalti adds automated 2-way and 3-way PO matching to Microsoft Business Central, matching invoices against purchase orders and receipts at both the header and line levels with configurable tolerance thresholds. 

Microsoft Business Central tracks POs and receipts, but doesn’t automatically match them to invoices.

AP automation reduces manual invoice entry by leveraging OCR and AI to extract invoice data, including supplier information, amounts, line items, GL codes, tax details, and PO references.

Tipalti’s Invoice Capture Agent eliminates that work by automatically reading invoices and syncing the extracted data directly into BC sub-ledgers.

Microsoft Business Central can be extended with a variety of AP automation solutions, ranging from invoice capture and approval workflow tools to full-service accounts payable platforms that automate supplier onboarding, invoice processing, payments, compliance, and reconciliation.

Tipalti is an AppSource-certified, end-to-end AP automation platform with direct AP integration for Microsoft Business Central.

It covers supplier onboarding, AI invoice capture (145+ languages), PO matching, approval routing, global payments (200+ countries, 120 currencies, 50+ methods), compliance (KPMG-approved tax engine, KYC/AML, OFAC screening), and real-time reconciliation back to BC sub-ledgers. 

Tipalti supports multi-entity AP management through Binary Stream and extends beyond AP to Procurement, Expenses, and Cards at no extra cost.

Microsoft Business Central is a great ERP for growing companies, but growth adds entities, currencies, suppliers, and invoice volume: BC doesn’t automatically scale AP workflows. 

Tipalti’s AppSource Certified integration grows with you without requiring new tools, new instances, or new headcount at every milestone. 

Tipalti’s fully integrated API-based integration for Microsoft Business Central is designed to scale without architectural changes or platform swaps.