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Excel Importer

Excel Importer is an extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central that allows you to import data from Excel. Excel Importer lets you import Excel data the way you receive it without changing the file format. Excel Importer helps you to save time and eliminate frustrating data entry errors. Our customers frequently use Excel Importer to avoid integrations where the volumes do not justify the cost of building the integrations.

If you want to try Excel Importer, you can find it in AppSource. If you would like more information about Excel Importer, then you can email us.

Usage Scenarios

  • Import expenses, payroll entries, adjustments, and internal cost reallocations
  • Create purchase documents for vendors or sales documents for customers
  • Purchase orders from a replenishment system with no integration to Business Central.
  • Sales orders or invoices to record sales through Amazon, AliExpress or another platform when the volumes do not justify the costs of integrating the platform to Business Central. You can even use it as a temporary measure while building an integration.
  • Create take-on entries for new companies in General Ledger, Customer, Vendor, Fixed Asset and Inventory
  • Bulk-create journal lines or documents ready for posting
  • Import sales or purchase prices and automatically expire old prices
  • Import remittance advice from customers and automatically apply payments to invoices according to the remittance

Why Excel Importer?

Business Central ships with the data configuration packages that allow you to import data from Excel, Data Exchange that lets you import from text, and you can also use the Edit in Excel feature on most pages. So why would you want to get a different extension?

The most obvious reason you would do this is that Excel Importer allows you to import the data in the format you receive it in rather than making you transform the data into a specific column format. Using what you receive saves you time and reduces the risk of errors. But there are more reasons to use Excel Importer:

Excel ImporterEdit in ExcelConfiguration PackagesData Exchange
Import Excel files✔️🔵🔵
Import variable length text files (e.g. CSV files)✔️✔️
Import fixed-length text files✔️🔵
Handle more complex files with different record types (e.g. Header, Detail and Footer records)✔️🔵
Use values from different record types (e.g. map data from header records and detail records)✔️
Handle different Excel formats and map columns to Business Central fields✔️✔️
Define multiple templates to support files in different formats✔️🔵✔️
Import sales and purchase documents from a single sheet✔️
Map accounts from external systems to Business Central accounts✔️✔️🔵
Map a single text string to Business Central Account/Dimensions✔️
Specify constant values for values not present in the file✔️🔵✔️
Available from the pages where the data needs to be imported✔️✔️
Configurable rules to handle document numbers, etc.✔️
Handle item tracking on item journals, sales documents and purchase documents✔️
Transform incoming data with transformation rules, multipliers, etc.✔️✔️
Synchronize templates between companies✔️
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  • ✔️ all users have access to these features (assuming they have permissions).
  • 🔵 available but with limitations.
  • ❌ not available.

Supported Countries

This app is supported in all countries, where Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is available.

Supported Languages

The app is available in English, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Italian and Spanish.