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Inly Core vs Business Central

Business Central is a capable ERP — and a heavy one. It asks every user to learn the system, and charges per user for the privilege. We take the opposite approach: keep Business Central for the few who truly need it, and give everyone else simple, tailor-made Core tools where the data flows to and from the ERP automatically.

Verdict
Complement
Typical setup
Finance in Business Central, everyone else in Core tools
Connected via
Orders, invoices, and master data sync automatically
Business CentralBusiness CentralInly Core
  • One standard solution for every business
    Yes
    No
  • Everyone who works in it needs a paid seat
    Yes
    No
  • Simple interfaces tailored to each role
    No
    Yes
  • Productive from the first day
    No
    Yes
  • Orders and invoices flow in automatically
    No
    Yes
  • Data entered once, synced everywhere
    No
    Yes
  • Whole team included, fixed monthly fee
    No
    Yes

Not either-or: most of our customers keep Business Central and connect it to Core.

Built to be learned, or built to fit.

Business Central's model puts the weight on your organization: every user learns the ERP's screens and concepts, works the way it prescribes, and carries a paid seat. Even the cheap team seat can't turn a quote into an order — that takes a full license, at roughly ten times the price. For a finance team that lives in the ERP daily, the investment can be worth it. For everyone else, it's expensive friction.

Core inverts that. Salespeople, field teams, and coordinators get simple tools shaped around their exact task — create an order, check a status, book a job — with everything else automated: data entered once, orders submitted to Business Central, invoices and master data synced back. No training courses, no extra licenses, no re-entry. And you're not designing it from scratch — our delivery team has re-modelled operations like this many times, and the building blocks carry best practice with them.

How Core and Business Central run together.

  • Orders in, no re-entry

    Sales quotes and books in a Core tool built for the job; confirmed orders are submitted to Business Central automatically.

  • Invoices and finance data, synced

    Invoices, payments, and accounting data flow between Core and Business Central, so finance keeps one source of truth.

  • Master data, aligned

    Customers, products, and prices stay consistent across Business Central and every Core tool that uses them.

  • Fewer licenses, faster team

    Business Central seats for the people who need the ERP. Core tools for everyone else — at a fixed platform fee.

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