Business Applications
Business Central
Move finance, operations and reporting onto one platform, with specialists who plan the migration around your year-end rather than their delivery calendar. Valto implements and supports Dynamics 365 Business Central for organisations replacing Sage, QuickBooks, Dynamics NAV or spreadsheet-based processes. Our specialists manage every stage, from assessment and licence modelling through to configuration, finance data migration, parallel running, go-live and ongoing support.
Trusted by organisations like yours
Gain visibility across your business
Business decisions are only as good as the information behind them. Most finance teams don't lack data. They lack a single version of it. The ledger sits in one system, operational detail in another, and the reporting that reconciles the two is a spreadsheet one person maintains and nobody else fully understands. Month end takes a week longer than it should, and the numbers get questioned in the meeting rather than acted on. Valto helps organisations move onto a single platform without losing what they've built. Our consultants assess your current systems, chart of accounts, reporting requirements and process maturity, then plan an implementation and data migration around your financial calendar. We're explicit about what history should come across, what should be archived, and what genuinely needs fixing before it moves. The result is a platform your finance team trusts, your auditors are comfortable with, and your operational teams can actually see into.
What can Valto deliver?
Our consultants assess your existing systems, data condition and reporting requirements before recommending an approach. Every implementation is scoped around your finance calendar, your operational processes and the state of the data you're bringing with you.
Sage, QuickBooks and Xero replacement
Move off accounting software your business has outgrown. We map your chart of accounts, migrate balances and agreed history, and run parallel where the risk warrants it.
Dynamics NAV and GP upgrades
Move from on-premises NAV or GP to Business Central in the cloud, assessing existing customisations to decide what should be rebuilt as extensions and what should be retired.
Finance and reporting implementation
General ledger, budgeting, cash flow forecasting and management reporting configured around how your finance team actually reports, not a default template.
Purchasing, procurement and approvals
Supplier management, purchase requisitions and approval controls, with authorisation limits and audit trails your auditors will recognise.
Inventory, stock and operational visibility
Stock levels, movements and inventory performance across locations, connected to the finance side rather than reconciled to it monthly.
Project accounting and resource visibility
Project costs, profitability and resource utilisation tracked against budget, so project performance is visible before the project finishes.
Existing environment review
Running Business Central already but not getting the value? We assess configuration, unused functionality, licence allocation, data quality and extension sprawl, and give you a prioritised route forward.
Our Business Central services
Understand where Business Central can deliver value
Through structured discovery workshops, we review your existing systems, processes and reporting requirements to identify opportunities for improvement and create a roadmap aligned to your business objectives. We also assess data condition and licence requirements at this stage. Business Central is licensed by Essentials and Premium user types with a meaningful cost difference between them, and most organisations need fewer Premium licences than they initially assume.
Why work with our Business Central specialists?
Finance-led delivery
Our consultants speak to finance in its own terms, chart of accounts, control accounts, period close, audit trail, rather than translating everything into IT language.
Migration experience, not just implementation
Most Business Central projects are replacements. We plan for what that actually involves: data mapping, opening balances, agreed history, reconciliation and a cutover your team has rehearsed.
Go-live planned around your financial calendar
We schedule cutover relative to your period and year-end close, because when you go live matters as much as how.
Licensing modelled honestly
We model Essentials and Premium requirements against real usage before implementation, rather than defaulting everyone to the higher tier.
Fixed and transparent scope
Our clearly defined proposals give you confidence in the approach, deliverables and cost before work begins.
Built to stay upgradeable
We use standard functionality and extensions wherever they hold, so Microsoft's release cadence stays routine rather than becoming a project each time.
Is Business Central the right move for you?
Business Central suits organisations that have outgrown accounting software and need finance, operations and reporting on one platform. It is a substantial change, and it isn't always the right answer. It's usually the right move when:
- Your finance system can't see operational data without a spreadsheet in between
- Month end takes longer than it should because of reconciliation between systems
- You're on unsupported software, or on-premises NAV or GP with no upgrade path
- Stock, projects or purchasing decisions are made on figures that are days old
- Growth or acquisition has left you running the same process in more than one place
COMMON ERP CHALLENGES WE SOLVE
Expertise for the issues that make ERP projects difficult
ERP projects rarely go wrong in the configuration. They go wrong in the data, the timing and the assumption that the finance team can absorb a system change on top of a period close. Our consultants surface these during assessment rather than allowing them to become problems at cutover. We help organisations address:
- Chart of accounts structures that have grown organically over years
- Historical transactions nobody has agreed a retention position on
- VAT, Making Tax Digital and UK reporting requirements
- Spreadsheets that quietly hold logic the new system needs to replicate
Turn Business Central capability into business value
Business Central provides the platform. Valto provides the expertise to apply it where it counts. Our consultants help organisations target implementation at the outcomes the business is measured on.
How we deliver Business Central projects
Our simple five-step process is clear and transparent from start to finish. From understanding your systems, data and financial calendar, through to designing, migrating and supporting a platform your finance team can rely on.
1Discovery
Understand your systems and your data
We work with stakeholders to understand existing systems, operational challenges and growth objectives, and assess the condition of the data and chart of accounts you'll be bringing with you.
2Solution design
Define the fit and the timing
Together we define requirements, processes and reporting needs, agree the licence model, and set a go-live date that works with your period and year-end close.
3Build & migration
Configure, migrate, reconcile
Our specialists configure Business Central, migrate and reconcile your data, and establish the integrations that connect finance to the wider business. Nothing goes live until the balances agree.
4Launch & adoption
Empower your users
Technology only succeeds when people use it. We support user acceptance testing, parallel running where appropriate, training, change management and a rehearsed cutover.
5Optimisation & support
Keep ahead
As your organisation evolves, we refine processes, improve reporting, manage Microsoft's release updates and identify opportunities to realise more value from Business Central.
We're one of the UK's few Microsoft partners to hold all Microsoft Solution Partner designation badges, across all Solution Partner designation pathways. For our clients, that means working with specialists who understand how finance, operations and technology work together. Whether you're implementing Business Central for the first time or improving an existing environment, we help organisations create connected processes, improve visibility and build a stronger foundation for growth.
Why organisations choose Valto
Connected, across Microsoft
Finance data is most useful when the rest of the business can see it
An ERP that only finance uses is a ledger. The value comes when operational teams can see cost and stock positions, when approvals happen where people already work, and when reporting reaches decision-makers without being re-keyed. Valto brings together expertise across Business Central, Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps, Dataverse, Microsoft 365 and Azure. That allows our consultants to decide where a requirement is best met — in Business Central, in a report, in an automation, or in a change to the process itself. By connecting finance to the systems and people around it, we help create a platform that supports how the business runs today and is ready for what you adopt next.
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