Business Central for construction and contracting firms
Business Central document automation for construction and contracting firms
DynamoDocs captures the subcontractor invoices, job-coded material bills, and POs across active job sites that construction and contracting firms deal with every day, reads them with AI, validates every field, and posts them into Business Central. Your team reviews the exceptions instead of retyping each one.
30-minute session · run against your own Business Central document types · no commitment
The short version
DynamoDocs automates Business Central document entry for construction and contracting firms. For construction and contracting firms, subcontractor and material invoices arrive against many active jobs and AP must code each to the right job, phase, and cost code by hand. DynamoDocs captures each document, AI reads and classifies it, codes it to job, phase, and cost code, validates it, and posts approved records into Business Central through the Business Central REST/OData API, so AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded. Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly NAV / Navision) is the go-to ERP for growing SMBs on the Microsoft stack.
The mapping
How Construction & Contractors paperwork posts into Business Central
Each document is coded to job, phase, and cost code and posted into Business Central as the right native record. Nothing gets dropped into a CSV to clean up later.
| What construction and contracting firms send | Where it lands in Business Central |
|---|---|
| Subcontractor invoice with retention or retainage held back | a purchase invoice, coded to job, phase, and cost code |
| Material supplier invoice tied to a specific project | a purchase invoice, coded to job, phase, and cost code |
| Purchase order for materials across active job sites | a sales order, coded to job, phase, and cost code |
| Progress billing or AIA-style pay application | a purchase invoice, coded to job, phase, and cost code |
| Vendor bill that needs clean job-cost coding | a purchase invoice, coded to job, phase, and cost code |
| Made-to-order RFQ or request for pricing | a sales quote in Business Central |
A worked example
Business Central for construction and contracting firms, from inbox to posted record
Imagine a general contractor running Business Central that receives a subcontractor invoice with 10% retainage split across three cost codes, it spans two active jobs. DynamoDocs picks it up from the monitored inbox (or a drag-and-drop upload), and AI reads every field and line, no template required. It is coded to job, phase, and cost code from your rules and vendor or customer history, then validated against totals, required fields, and your own checks. Anything that fails is flagged field-by-field for a quick review; everything clean posts straight into Business Central as a purchase invoice through the Business Central REST/OData API. Connects through the Business Central REST/OData v4 API, cloud or on-prem. Your construction & contractors team reviews the occasional exception instead of retyping the whole document, so AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded.
Specific to Business Central
How the Business Central connection works for construction and contracting firms
Dynamics 365 Business Central (formerly NAV / Navision) is the go-to ERP for growing SMBs on the Microsoft stack.
OData v4 API
Connects through the Business Central REST/OData v4 API, cloud or on-prem.
Native records
Posts purchase invoices, sales orders, and sales quotes.
Dimension-aware
Carries vendor no., G/L account, and dimension values through the map.
Curious what this saves at your construction & contractors volume on Business Central? Model it on the savings calculator
Questions, answered
Business Central for Construction & Contractors FAQ
How does DynamoDocs handle construction & contractors documents on Business Central?
For construction and contracting firms, subcontractor and material invoices arrive against many active jobs and AP must code each to the right job, phase, and cost code by hand. DynamoDocs captures each of those documents from a monitored mailbox or upload, reads every field with AI (no per-vendor template), codes it to the right job, phase, and cost code, and posts it into Business Central through the Business Central REST/OData API. Connects through the Business Central REST/OData v4 API, cloud or on-prem. Clean documents post automatically; only exceptions reach a person, so AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded.
How does a subcontractor invoice with retention or retainage held back post into Business Central?
It becomes a purchase invoice in Business Central, coded to the right job, phase, and cost code, with header and line-item fields validated before anything posts. Posts purchase invoices, sales orders, and sales quotes. A visual field-mapping engine shapes the record into exactly what Business Central expects, so nothing is retyped and nothing posts half-filled.
Can it keep our Business Central coding right for construction & contractors?
Yes, that is the point. Each document is coded to the right job, phase, and cost code from your rules and vendor or customer history, so records arrive in Business Central already coded instead of waiting on a clerk. Anything that fails a rule is flagged field-by-field for a quick fix, which keeps Business Central clean and AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded.
How do purchase orders and RFQs from construction and contracting firms post into Business Central?
Purchase orders become a sales order and RFQs become a sales quote in Business Central, with every line, subcontractor invoices included, read and validated first. Carries vendor no., G/L account, and dimension values through the map.
How much time and money does this save construction and contracting firms on Business Central?
Keying one document into Business Central typically takes 5–10 minutes and costs $2–$6 in labor, before the cost of fixing mis-coded job, phase, and cost code. DynamoDocs does it in seconds and only flags exceptions, which commonly cuts document-handling labor by 80–95% while AP stays audit-ready and job costs are never off because a bill was mis-coded.
See it run on your Construction & Contractors documents
Bring a real invoice, PO, or RFQ and watch it go from inbox to posted in Business Central in about 30 minutes.
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