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ERP / Finance / Accounting

Microsoft Business Central AI Integration

Connect Microsoft Business Central to BeforeQuery for grounded AI answers and agent actions across ERP / Finance / Accounting.

Connect Microsoft Business Central
What is it?

About Microsoft Business Central

Microsoft Business Central is one of the ERP / Finance / Accounting platforms BeforeQuery connects to. Once linked, the platform's data becomes a first-class source for grounded AI answers and a target for policy-gated agent actions — the same identity, approval, and audit-log guarantees every other integration ships with.

Setup

How to connect Microsoft Business Central

  1. Step 01

    In the BeforeQuery dashboard, go to Integrations → ERP / Finance / Accounting and select Microsoft Business Central.

  2. Step 02

    Sign in to Microsoft Business Central with an account that has permissions to grant BeforeQuery the ERP / Finance / Accounting scopes required.

  3. Step 03

    Confirm the connection. Microsoft Business Central is now available as a source and action target for every playbook in your workspace.

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How BeforeQuery uses Microsoft Business Central

What the agent does with your Microsoft Business Central connection

  • 01

    Read Microsoft Business Central records — vendors, invoices, journal entries, cost centers — into the Context Graph.

  • 02

    Answer finance questions grounded in Microsoft Business Central data ("what's our AP aging?", "how much did we spend on X vendor?").

  • 03

    Trigger playbooks on Microsoft Business Central events — new PO approval, invoice matching, month-end close checklist.

  • 04

    Reconcile Microsoft Business Central data against other systems and flag anomalies for accounting review.

Use cases

What teams actually do with the Microsoft Business Central integration

AP invoice triage

New invoice hits Microsoft Business Central → BeforeQuery matches against the PO, verifies line items, checks vendor risk, and either routes for approval or auto-approves within the auto-approve threshold. Manual invoice-handling drops 70%+.

Month-end close checklist

Close kicks off → BeforeQuery generates the checklist per your close policy, tracks each step in Microsoft Business Central, chases owners on late items, and drafts the executive summary once close is done.

Cost-center + budget Q&A

Manager asks "how much has team X spent on cloud this quarter?" → BeforeQuery pulls Microsoft Business Central data, filters by cost-center + category, and answers with the specific number + trend vs. budget.

Answer questions grounded in Microsoft Business Central

Employees and customers ask Microsoft Business Central-related questions in Slack, Teams, or the widget — BeforeQuery answers with the exact Microsoft Business Central record shown alongside the response. No context switching, no "log into ERP / Finance / Accounting to check" round-trips.

Microsoft Business Central — Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about connecting BeforeQuery to Microsoft Business Central.

Yes, with approver check-in. All journal writes require finance-owner approval; entries are reversible via reversing JEs; every write is audit-logged with the acting user + reason.
Standard OAuth 2.0 where Microsoft Business Central supports it, otherwise API-key or bearer-token auth. Credentials are stored encrypted at rest (AES-256-GCM) per workspace, never shared across customers, and rotated on request. The connection is scoped to the least-privilege set of scopes each playbook needs — you approve the scope list on install.
No. Your Microsoft Business Central data feeds only your workspace's own agents and answers. Nothing is used to train a shared model, and nothing crosses workspace boundaries. Bring-your-own-model is available on Enterprise if you want to pin inference to your own OpenAI / Anthropic / self-hosted deployment.
Yes. Every Microsoft Business Central integration is scoped at install time — you pick which resources, users, or record types are visible. You can further restrict per-playbook: a single playbook only touches the specific Microsoft Business Central objects it needs. Scope changes take effect on the next sync.
Every write is logged with the acting user, the playbook that fired it, the exact operation, the target entity IDs, and the timestamp — all in the immutable audit log. Writes are rehearsable in simulation mode against a copy of live data before they touch Microsoft Business Central for real.

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