Getting Started with Business Central (2025)

Overview

A short introduction for new Business Central users. It presents Cronis, a sample company with customer, vendor and item data and transactions ready for posting, plus historical data so it resembles a real company.

It then covers creating your own company. The setup guide walks through steps specific to your business, and the data migration guide helps import customers, vendors and items from other accounting systems or Excel files. It ends with a user setting to turn off teaching tips once you no longer need them.

Key points

• Business Central provides a sample company named Cronis for trying things out.
• Cronis includes customer, vendor and item data and transactions ready for posting.
• Cronis also has historical data so it feels like a real company.
• When you create your own company, the setup guide covers the steps that are unique to your business.
• The data migration guide imports customers, vendors and items from other accounting systems.
• Company data can be imported from Excel files.
• Experienced users can turn off teaching tips in their settings.

Features

Every feature below: status not stated.

Quotes

• 0:01 “We provide a sample company named Cronis. We’ve set it up with everything you need to try things out.”
• 0:12 “You get customer, vendor, and item data transactions ready for posting. You also get historical data so it feels like a real company.”
• 0:25 “The setup guide helps you through the steps that are unique to your business.”
• 0:51 “The data migration guide makes it easy to import data such as customers, vendors, and items from other accounting systems.”
• 0:51 “You can import your company data from Excel files.”
• 1:06 “Once you’re ready to use Business Central on your own, you can turn off the teaching tips in my settings.”