General
United Kingdom general localization in Business Central: statutory company information, Ideal Postcodes address lookup, fraud prevention data for HMRC Making Tax Digital, and posting date warnings. It answers setup questions for the British version.
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Overview
This section collects the general setup tasks specific to the British version of Business Central. It has no subtopics, so all five pages sit at one level. They cover legal company details, address lookup, tax authority communication and a posting safeguard.
For company setup, start with the statutory information page, which describes the registration and registered address fields on the Company Information page. For address entry, the Ideal Postcodes extension page explains what the extension does, and the setup page explains how to connect to the Ideal Postcodes API. For UK VAT, the fraud prevention page explains the headers sent to HMRC through Making Tax Digital APIs and the consent an administrator must give. The posting date warning page covers a toggle that warns when a document’s posting date differs from the work date.
Key points
- Statutory information is entered on the Company Information page: Registration No., Registered Name, and the registered address fields including city and county.
- The Ideal Postcodes extension fills address fields from a postcode lookup for customers, vendors, bank accounts, and employees.
- Ideal Postcodes setup uses the Ideal Postcodes API with an API key and a service connection. Subscription plans are based on usage.
- The extension description mentions multi-country support.
- UK VAT communication with HMRC through Making Tax Digital APIs requires fraud prevention headers.
- Admins must consent to sending device and user identification data. The page mentions a user IP address service and multi-factor authentication headers, and cites version 20.1.
- The Posting Date Check on Posting toggle shows a warning when a sales or purchase document’s posting date differs from the work date, and it also applies to batch posting.
Learn pages
- Enter Statutory Information [UK]: Statutory details are on the Statutory FastTab of the Company Information page.
- Ideal Postcodes extension [UK]: Retrieve addresses for entities like customers, vendors, employees, and banks in the United Kingdom from the Ideal Postcodes service.
- Send Fraud Prevention Data (UK): Business Central supports the British requirement to submit fraud prevention data to HMRC as part of Making Tax Digital. This article explains how to set up the headers.
- Set up a posting date warning [GB]: Learn to set up the warning message displayed when posting sales and purchase documents with a posting date different from the work date.
- Set up the Ideal Postcodes Extension [UK]: Learn how to configure the Ideal Postcodes extension in the British version of Business Central.
Business Central pages and reports
The pages, reports and queries this hub’s Learn pages name (ms.search.form, API reference), joined to the code by exact object id (data/index/docs-objects.json); a page shows the table it runs on.
- Page 1 “Company Information” · on Table 79 “Company Information”
- Page 459 “Sales & Receivables Setup” · on Table 311 “Sales & Receivables Setup”
- Page 460 “Purchases & Payables Setup” · on Table 312 “Purchases & Payables Setup”
- Page 743 “VAT Report Setup” · on Table 743 “VAT Report Setup”
Learn also names 2 objects with no object page: page/9142, page/10539.
Source: Microsoft Learn (CC BY 4.0). Descriptions are Learn’s own.