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Front to Dynamics 365 Business Central integration — real-time, two-way sync

Keep Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.

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Why teams connect Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central

Bridge the tools people work in and the system the business runs on: real-time, two-way sync between Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Teams running order operations over email connect Front to Dynamics 365 Business Central so Conversations about orders sit next to the Customers, Sales Orders, and Sales Invoices they concern. Support and back office stop swivel-chairing between the inbox and the ERP.

Stacksync syncs Inboxes, Tags, Teammates, Channels in Front with Items, Sales Orders, Sales Invoices, Purchase Orders in Dynamics 365 Business Central bi-directionally and in real time, with field-level mapping and rules for which system wins on conflict. Changes made where the work happens reach the system of record within seconds, and the reverse.

Common use cases

  • 01 Agents answer where-is-my-order Messages using live Sales Order status.
  • 02 Billing questions are resolved from the Front Inbox with the Sales Invoice attached.
  • 03 Vendor correspondence in Front stays linked to the Business Central Vendor and open Purchase Orders.
  • 04 Mirror conversations tagged for escalation into engineering trackers through the synced database.

Common sync patterns

Order status in the inbox

Business Central Sales Orders and Sales Invoices are visible on the related Front Conversation and Account.

Customer matching

Business Central Customers and Vendors stay matched to Front Accounts and Contacts.

Email-driven order updates

Comments on a Front Conversation about a Purchase Order route to the team managing it in Business Central.

What you can sync between Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central

Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.

Front objects Dynamics 365 Business Central objects How this pairing syncs
Inboxes Shared queues that conversations live in; used to segment reporting by team or channel. Items Product and inventory records aligned with e-commerce and warehouse systems. Inboxes is specific to Front and Items to Dynamics 365 Business Central — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Tags Labels applied to conversations; drive routing and category-level analytics. Sales Orders Order headers and lines created from external channels and read back for fulfillment status. Tags is specific to Front and Sales Orders to Dynamics 365 Business Central — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Teammates Agents; used for ownership mapping and workload reporting. Sales Invoices Billing documents synced to CRMs and payment platforms. Teammates is specific to Front and Sales Invoices to Dynamics 365 Business Central — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Channels Connected addresses (email, SMS, chat); define where messages originate and send from. Purchase Orders Procurement documents exchanged with supplier-facing systems. Channels is specific to Front and Purchase Orders to Dynamics 365 Business Central — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Conversations The central threaded unit that messages, comments, and tags attach to; synced for support analytics. General Ledger Entries Posted financial transactions read for reporting; posted entries are immutable. Conversations is specific to Front and General Ledger Entries to Dynamics 365 Business Central — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.
Messages Inbound and outbound emails, chats, and SMS within a conversation; read out for response-time reporting. Journals Staging records for financial postings created by integrations before posting. Messages is specific to Front and Journals to Dynamics 365 Business Central — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side.

How changes propagate between Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central

Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.

Front Dynamics 365 Business Central Sub-second propagation

DetectionFront notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Application webhooks and rule-triggered webhooks, with the events endpoint available for polling.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Dynamics 365 Business Central through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Dynamics 365 Business Central Front Sub-second propagation

DetectionDynamics 365 Business Central notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. API webhooks (change notifications on subscribed entities) plus polling on lastModifiedDateTime.

DeliveryEach detected change is written to Front through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.

Rate-limit considerations

  • Front: Request limits vary by plan.
What ships with Front ⇄ Dynamics 365 Business Central

Connect Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central for flexible, real-time data sync.

Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Front–Dynamics 365 Business Central connection.

Real-time

Two-way sync

Changes in Front or Dynamics 365 Business Central instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.

No-code + pro-code

Workflow automation

Trigger automated workflows whenever Front or Dynamics 365 Business Central data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.

At scale

Event queues

Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Front or Dynamics 365 Business Central record.

Observability

Monitoring

Track your Front ⇄ Dynamics 365 Business Central sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.

Trading partners

EDI

Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central.

How the Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central connectors work

Front

Integration surface
REST API (Core API)
Authentication
OAuth authorization via the Stacksync UI ("Connections" > "create new connection" > "Front" > "Authorize") — no coding required
Change detection
Application webhooks and rule-triggered webhooks, with the events endpoint available for polling
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
Rate limits
Request limits vary by plan.
Front setup guide

Dynamics 365 Business Central

Integration surface
REST API built on OData v4 (standard API v2.0), extensible with custom API pages in AL
Authentication
OAuth 2.0 via Microsoft Entra ID
Change detection
API webhooks (change notifications on subscribed entities) plus polling on lastModifiedDateTime
Capabilities
read · write · webhooks
How it works

How to connect Front to Dynamics 365 Business Central — three steps, no code

Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.

  1. 01

    Connect your apps

    Authenticate Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.

    • OAuth 2.0
    • SSH tunnel
    • VPC peering
    Front connected
    Dynamics 365 Business Central connected
    OAuth 2.0
    SSH tunnel
    SSL certificate
    VPC peering
  2. 02

    Choose tables

    Pick the Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.

    • Standard objects
    • Custom objects
    • Auto-schema
    objects · Front ⇄ Dynamics 365 Business Central
    Customers 12,480
    Sales Orders 8,213
    Invoices 5,902
    Items 1,344
  3. 03

    Map fields

    Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.

    • Auto-map
    • Type casting
    • Transforms
    Front Dynamics 365 Business Central
    Company company_name text
    Email email text
    Amount amount numeric
    Created created_at timestamp
FAQ

Front and Dynamics 365 Business Central integration FAQ

SECURITY

Security teams trust Stacksync

As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.

SOC 2 Type II
ISO 27001
HIPAA BAA
GDPR
CCPA
DPF US-EU-UK-CH
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SSO & SCIM

Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.

Alerts

Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.

Secure connection options

Securely connects to your systems with:

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