Author Archives: Alex Chow

AP Commerce is now APC Dynamics!

Exciting News! We are excited to share some news with you! As part of our ongoing efforts to better represent our mission and the solutions we provide, we have decided to change our company name from AP Commerce to APC Dynamics. While our name is changing, our goal to providing exceptional service and support remainsRead more

Back Dating the Inventory Aging report in Dynamics 365 Business Central

Overview The standard Business Central has two aging reports dealing with inventory. They are: Item Age Composition – Qty. Item Age Composition – Value Why the Value and the Quantity report needed to be separate reports is beyond me. When we run these reports, we see that you can define an Ending Date. When youRead more

Processing Fixed Assets and Running Depreciation for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Overview Fixed assets in Dynamics 365 Business Central is a pretty simple area to setup and use. In most cases, here are the 3 main things that needs to be done: Setup a fixed asset Post initial book value (or acquisition cost) Run depreciations Assumptions It’s assumed that your Dynamics 365 Business Central, in particular,Read more

Changing Costing Method in Dynamics 365 Business Central (Dynamics NAV) – The Unofficial Way

Overview Every once in a while, a company will want to change their costing method from whatever they have into something else for whatever reasons. The official way of changing the costing method for any items in Dynamics 365 Business Central (Dynamics NAV) is to basically zero out the item and create a new setRead more

Independence with Dynamics 365 Business Central online

Overview I’m sure you’ve already read a lot of good reasons on why moving to Dynamics 365 Business Central Online is the greatest idea ever. I will 110% agree with that statement. But this article, I’m going to list out some of the reasons that comes to my mind when working with clients on DynamicsRead more

Extension Development for Non-developers for Dynamics 365 Business Central

Overview A lot of people using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central want to learn how to develop and publish an extension on their Business Central tenant. What drives this is that in the old Dynamics NAV, the users are able to easily add fields onto a page even if they’re not developers. Now that they’veRead more

Export to Excel in Dynamics 365 Business Central v19

Overview Relax folks, Microsoft didn’t remove the Export to Excel function in Dynamics 365 Business Central starting from v19. It’s just been moved. The Difference Old Version (or versions prior to Business Central v19): Starting from Business Central v19: Why The Change? The direction from Microsoft is to integrate more and more Microsoft 365 applicationRead more

Permission Setting – Preventing Malice vs Accidents

Overview Permission setting in Dynamics 365 Business Central is a serious, but not serious topic. When a company coming from a legacy system or no system, they will always want to restrict everything. The older systems are easier to restrict because there’s not a lot of functions you need to worry about. A considerable amountRead more