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
- 5–10 minutes of manual entry per document into Business Central, gone
- 100% validated before anything posts to Business Central
- PDF · Excel · EDI · image · email
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, suggests GL coding, validates it, and posts approved records into Business Central through the Business Central API v2.0, 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 validated, then delivered to Business Central as the record below.
| What construction and contracting firms send | Where it lands in Business Central |
|---|---|
| Subcontractor invoice with retention or retainage held back | a purchase invoice |
| Material supplier invoice tied to a specific project | a purchase invoice |
| Purchase order for materials across active job sites | a sales order |
| Progress billing or AIA-style pay application | a purchase invoice |
| Vendor bill that needs clean job-cost coding | a purchase invoice |
| 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. Each line gets a suggested GL account from your rules and coding history, then the document is 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 API v2.0. Connects to Business Central online through the standard API v2.0, signed in with an Azure AD app registration. 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.
API v2.0
Connects to Business Central online through the standard API v2.0, signed in with an Azure AD app registration.
Native records
Posts purchase invoices, sales orders, and sales quotes, creating the header and then each line.
Your numbers
Carries the vendor or customer no., the vendor invoice no., and each line's item or G/L account no. through the map.
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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), suggests a GL account for each line, and posts it into Business Central through the Business Central API v2.0. Connects to Business Central online through the standard API v2.0, signed in with an Azure AD app registration. 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, with header and line-item fields validated before anything posts. Posts purchase invoices, sales orders, and sales quotes, creating the header and then each line. A visual field-mapping engine shapes the record into exactly what Business Central expects, so nothing is retyped and nothing posts half-filled.
Does it assign job, phase, and cost code on Business Central records?
DynamoDocs suggests a GL account for each line from your keyword rules and from how the same part or description was coded before, and a person confirms it. It does not assign job, phase, and cost code. The Business Central connector posts a fixed set of fields (party, dates, currency, and each line's account or item, quantity, and amount), so those codes are added in Business Central after the record lands. Anything that fails a validation rule is flagged field-by-field for a quick fix before it posts.
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 the vendor or customer no., the vendor invoice no., and each line's item or G/L account no. 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 a mis-keyed line. DynamoDocs does it in seconds and only flags exceptions, so the labor left is the review time on those, 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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