What Dynamics handles itself, where the manual work starts, and which software processes invoices across administrations without anyone switching between environments.
Two Dynamics products, and the difference is large
This gets conflated often, and it determines what you need.
Business Central works with companies. Each business is its own company with its own chart of accounts, its own dimensions and its own users. There is intercompany functionality for postings between companies, but on the payables side you configure per company in principle. Four businesses is four configurations and four sets of maintenance.
Finance & Operations has legal entities inside one environment, with shared master data and a stronger intercompany layer. There the problem is less sharp, but it does not disappear: the chart of accounts and the dimension structure often still differ per entity, certainly after an acquisition.
Where the manual work starts
Four things, and they almost always occur together.
The mailbox is shared, the administrations are not. Invoices for four businesses arrive at one address. Someone looks at the invoice, works out which entity it belongs to, and forwards it to the right environment. That is not accounting but sorting, and it is in nobody's job description.
One invoice, several entities. The supplier bills the whole group at once. The lines have to be split, and the recharge between entities has to be right. In Business Central that means cutting by hand and posting twice.
Coding on several dimensions at once. General ledger, cost centre and cost carrier, and the dimension values differ per company. At an aviation maintenance company we spoke to that happens across four locations: the software does the first dimension, the other two stay human work.
Different charts of accounts after an acquisition. Two businesses with two charts that nobody dares harmonise because the history runs through them. Every line has to be translated separately.
From the analysis Claridy made of 21,642 Dutch finance job postings, 803 postings name Microsoft Dynamics. That is a substantial group, and it is precisely the group the Dutch capture market was not built for: that market is built on Exact.
What does exist for it
Continia (inside Business Central). The established add-on, sold through Microsoft partners, with document capture, approval flows and order matching inside BC itself. Where it stops: it is tied to Business Central, configuration runs per company and through your partner, and it does not learn from your corrections. Choose it if you want everything inside one Microsoft environment.
ScanSys. Integrates with Microsoft Dynamics 365, NAV and AX, alongside 43 other systems. Strong matching against both order and receipt, and fraud control. Where it stops: the difference is flagged and put into a workflow, not investigated.
Claridy (AI-first action layer, third generation). Runs alongside Dynamics 365, reading from it and writing back to it, across all entities at once from one place. The difference sits in the four points above: the mailbox is sorted on the basis of what is in the invoice, one invoice is split across entities, coding happens on every dimension you use with the dimension values of the entity in question, and a correction your team makes becomes a rule itself. Price: € 499 per month flat plus € 250 per extra entity, cancellable monthly.1 Where it stops: below roughly a hundred invoices a month per entity there is too little repetition to learn from.
What to ask a vendor
Not whether they support multi-entity, because everyone says that and it usually means "you can configure per administration".
The question is: do I have to configure and maintain per entity, or do I set it once and does it apply everywhere? And the second: what happens to the invoice that has to be split across two entities?
Frequently asked questions
Partly. Finance & Operations has multiple legal entities inside one environment with an intercompany layer. Business Central works with separate companies, where you configure payables per company. In both cases the layer in front, the sorting, splitting and coding per entity, stays largely manual.
In Business Central each business is its own company with its own chart of accounts and dimensions, so four businesses is four configurations. Finance & Operations shares master data across entities and has a stronger intercompany layer, but the dimension structure often still differs per entity.
Inside Business Central, Continia is the established add-on, sold through Microsoft partners. ScanSys integrates with Dynamics 365, NAV and AX. The Dutch capture market beyond that is almost entirely built on Exact: Blue10, Basecone, Zenvoices and TriFact365 do not run on it. Claridy runs on Dynamics 365, reading and writing back, alongside Exact Online and NetSuite.
Manually it means cutting and posting per entity, with a recharge in between. Automated it means the system reads the invoice lines, determines per line which entity they belong to based on what you defined, and creates the postings in both administrations.
No. Dynamics stays where your books are. A layer goes beside it that reads from it and writes back to it, and that you can switch off again without anything changing in your administration.
On the architecture behind this: what is a system of action for finance. On matching against order and receipt: automating three-way matching. All vendors side by side, with the ERP each runs on: the comparison guide.
Source: Claridy analysis of 21,642 Dutch finance job postings, 2026. Last checked: 2026-08.
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Published at claridy.ai/prijzen, checked 2026-08-13. ↩