ERPlisity + Dynamics 365 Business Central
Your Promised Receipt Date should update itself.
Business Central sends a purchase order and then goes quiet — vendors confirm by phone or email, and someone types the new date into the PO by hand. ERPlisity adds the confirmation loop: zero-login vendor responses, written back to Business Central and verified.
What happens today when a Business Central PO goes out
Business Central is a genuinely capable ERP — that's why we built a connector for it. But it ships with no vendor portal and no PO confirmation loop. Microsoft's own guidance and community answers describe the workflow plainly: the vendor confirms by phone or email, then someone updates the Promised Receipt Date field manually. Which means:
- •The vendor's reply — "we can do 200 units but not until the 14th" — lands in a regular inbox, not on the PO in Business Central.
- •Someone on your team re-keys the new Promised Receipt Date by hand. Or forgets to, and MRP plans against a date that's already dead.
- •Unacknowledged POs sit silent until a buyer notices and sends a chase email.
- •Third-party BC vendor portal add-ons exist, but they're generic portal builders — every vendor has to create yet another login, so most never do.
The problem isn't Business Central. It's the gap between "PO sent" and "PO confirmed" — and that gap is exactly what ERPlisity closes. See how it works in detail on our PO acknowledgment automation page.
From phone-and-re-key to a verified loop
1. Connect Business Central in the cloud
A cloud connector links ERPlisity to your Business Central environment — no appliance, no VPN, no IT project. Same-week setup.
2. POs go out with magic links
Every purchase order reaches your vendor as an email with a secure magic link — not a PDF attachment that dead-ends in an inbox waiting for someone to reply.
3. Vendors respond with zero login
One click to confirm, propose a new date or price, split lines, or attach a ship notice. No portal account, no password, free forever for vendors.
4. Promised Receipt Dates update — and verify
Vendor responses are written back to your Business Central POs automatically, then read back to verify they actually landed. Nobody re-keys a date field again.
What you get on top of Business Central
Zero-login vendor responses
Confirm, change dates and prices, split lines, attach ship notices — all from an email magic link. Vendors never create an account.
Verified write-back to Business Central
Every vendor response is written to Business Central, then read back to confirm it landed. Your Promised Receipt Dates stay true to what vendors actually committed.
Honest OTIF scorecards
Vendor performance measured against the original promise date as well as the renegotiated one — so a slipped-then-reconfirmed PO doesn't score as on-time.
AI order agents
Agents chase unacknowledged POs, read vendor replies, and recommend actions — so nobody spends Friday afternoon on follow-up emails.
EDI on the same rail
Inbound 855/856/865/810 and outbound 850/860, included in the price. No per-document fees, no per-partner fees, no VAN fees.
Priced by active suppliers
Unlimited buyer seats, never per seat or per document. BC Essentials shops fit SMB Cloud at $399/mo; larger BC shops fit mid-market from $15k/yr.
Want to see honest OTIF before you buy anything? Grab the free supplier scorecard Excel template — it computes honest OTIF (original promise) and standard OTIF (current promise) side by side.
SMB Cloud — built for BC Essentials shops
$399per month
- Unlimited buyer seats — never per seat, never per document
- ~25 active suppliers, bands up from there
- Vendors free forever, no accounts
- Same-week cloud connector setup
Larger Business Central shops: mid-market from $15k/yr with the full EDI rail included. Design partner program: 50% off year one for the first 5 customers.
Business Central + ERPlisity, answered straight
Does Dynamics 365 Business Central have a vendor portal?
No — Business Central has no built-in vendor portal or PO confirmation loop. Microsoft's guidance and community answers describe vendors confirming by phone or email, after which someone on your team manually updates the Promised Receipt Date on the PO. Third-party BC vendor portal add-ons exist, but they're generic portal builders that require vendors to create logins. ERPlisity closes the loop without any of that: vendors respond from an email magic link, no account required.
How do vendors confirm a Business Central purchase order with ERPlisity?
They click a magic link in the PO email — no login, no account, free forever for vendors. From there they can confirm the PO, propose date or price changes, split lines, or attach ship notices. Every response is written back to Business Central and then read back to verify it landed.
Can ERPlisity update the Promised Receipt Date in Business Central automatically?
Yes — that's the core of the integration. When a vendor confirms or proposes a new date from the magic link, ERPlisity writes the response back to your Business Central PO via the cloud connector, then reads it back to verify the update actually landed. The Promised Receipt Date reflects what the vendor committed to, not what someone remembered to type in.
What does ERPlisity for Business Central cost?
Published pricing: BC Essentials shops fit the SMB Cloud tier at $399/mo — unlimited buyer seats, roughly 25 active suppliers with bands up from there. Larger Business Central shops fit the mid-market tier from $15k/yr, with bands to roughly $45–60k by active suppliers, including the full EDI rail and AI order agents. Vendors pay nothing, ever. Priced by active suppliers — never per seat or per document.
Isn't Microsoft shipping an AI supplier communications agent?
Per Microsoft Learn documentation, the Supplier Communications Agent is being built for Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management — not Business Central. If you run Business Central, there's no announced equivalent. ERPlisity's AI order agents chase unacknowledged POs, read vendor replies, and recommend actions today, with every outcome written back to BC and verified.
Stop re-keying Promised Receipt Dates by hand.
Connect Business Central in the cloud, send POs with magic links, and get every vendor response written back and verified — published pricing from $399/mo.