Build powerful extensions and then add them to App Source in Dynamics 365 Business Central

Within Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can find apps on App Source that bring you more capabilities. If you're a developer, you can build powerful extensions and then add them to App Source for easy discoverability.

Extensions technology, allows partners to extend, customize, and build solutions in an upgradable fashion, decoupled from the base application.
You can find Apps in following ways:

You can find Apps in a few ways. In the search box type "extensions", and then click Extensions Management.

You will then find the "pinned" extensions:

You can also navigate to "all apps" through the App Launcher.

The App Launcher also gives you access to App Source by clicking on "Get more apps".

Finally, you can also browse to App Source with this URL: https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/.

Essential and Premium in Dynamics 365 Business Central

Essential Licensing


Essential licensing covers business areas that most businesses require running their business. It includes the following modules:

• Financial Management
• Customer Relational Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Human Resources
• Project Management
• Other functionality:
• Multiple languages
• Reason codes
• Extended text
• Intrastat reporting
• Outlook integration

Premium Licensing

Premium licensing adds Service order management and Manufacturing, bringing the full breadth of a business solution to the cloud.

What Makes Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central a Cloud End-to-End Business Solution?

The typical features of a Cloud End-to-End Business Solution system are:

• common database
• supporting multiple business domains
• integrated functionalities
• modular functionalities
• real time availability of data
• job roles and authorization
• in the cloud

All these distinctive Cloud End-to-End Business Solution features are within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central empowers you to connect your financials, sales, projects, service and operations. You can manage your financials, automate and secure your supply chain, sell smarter and improve customer service and project performance and optimize your operations.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central fuels a company's growth by offering full suite of application functionality in the cloud that can easy be extended by using apps from AppSource.

In Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you only need to enter the customer data once to make it available in all the different application areas or departments. A salesperson can use customer data on sales documents while the bookkeeper uses the same data when processing a customer payment. In the warehouse the same customer data is used by a warehouse worker, for example, in a sales shipment.

With Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central your business data is instantly available at any place on any device once entered in the system. Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central includes advanced security systems and settings necessary to protect the mass of information from unauthorized access. Dynamics 365 Business Central brings the full power of end-to-end business solutions to the cloud and integrates with other Microsoft cloud services including Office 365.