DYCE Business Suite
The DYCE Business Suite is a compilation of apps in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central that are primarily geared towards the needs of the IT industry, but go far beyond this. It addresses the typical requirements of (IT) trading companies, system houses and software manufacturers - from quotation and order processes, document and workflow control to the import of complex price lists and the handling of payment plans. The suite extends the Business Central standard in key areas and enables, for example, the automatic linking of sales orders and purchase orders, the import of supplier configurations directly into quotations and working with margin calculations.
The suite is available for purchase as a bundle only. Please follow the links below for more information on the components. The bundle consists of the following apps:
- DYCE IT-Business Toolkit - Functionality for IT retail business, including order-related procurement, payment plans, calculation import, margin calculation
- DYCE Smart Workflow Tool - Status and workflow control for documents; filtering by process status and integration into Power Automate; interaction with DYCE Cockpit
- DYCE Price List Import - Import and maintenance of complex supplier price lists, including history and filters; reduces manual effort
- DYCE Cockpit - Configurable cues for tasks and priorities in the Role Center
- DYCE Easy Bundle Seller - Combining several products into a package deal; controlling which information appears on the customer side
- DYCE Happy Texts - Formattable long texts, greetings/postscripts, and images in documents; templates for professional documents
- DYCE Document Tracker - Keep track of document links between sales and purchasing; quick access to related processes
- DYCE Record History & Favorites - Quick access to recently opened or favorite records, directly in the role center
- DYCE Essentials - Position numbers in sales documents, print preview of sales documents not yet posted, report configuration
Further information and prices can be found on the related website.
Core benefits at a glance
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Process clarity in sales & purchasing
Automatic linking of sales order and Purchase Order, document links visible in DYCE Document Tracker, central task overview in DYCE Cockpit. -
Fast quotation creation from supplier configurations
Import calculations (CSV or interface) incl. automatic item/catalog item creation, marking of main components/texts and optional special bid specification. -
Payment Plans & Down Payments
Milestone and prepayment logic in sales documents with separate number ranges for prepayment documents. -
Margin calculation instead of fixed sales prices
Optional trade margin or calculation surcharge as basis for calculation directly in the sales line -
Work saving and clean communication
DYCE Happy Texts for formatted long texts, pre/post texts and images; DYCE Easy Bundle Seller for a simplified external offer structure. -
Keep price lists up to date
Import/update complex supplier price lists including historical comparability and flexible filters.
Most important features of the Business Suite
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Import calculations
Import from CSV file via data exchange definition; DYCE provides a template that can be customized for each supplier. Automatic recognition of main/component/text lines; use of manufacturer item numbers to reference existing catalog items and automatically create missing ones. -
Payment plans & advance payments
Easily create flexible advance payments, number series for booked advance payment receipts. Mapping milestone invoices, partial/final invoices, and booking logic for unrealized VAT. -
Margin calculation
Trade margin and calculation surcharge in percent directly in sales lines; dynamic calculation including contribution margin (MW). -
Order-related procurement & document links
Create purchase orders from sales documents incl. reservations and display the links via DYCE Document Tracker. -
Price list import
Multiple supplier prices per item, flexible filters during import, historization for comparisons. -
Productivity & Communication
DYCE Happy Texts: formattable long texts, images, templates; DYCE Cockpit: configurable cues; DYCE Smart Workflow Tool: status control + Power Automate; DYCE Record History & Favorites: quick access
Overview of all features
| Area | Feature | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Import calculations | Import calculations or manufacturer quotations | Import calculation data (e.g. CSV files, XML etc.) as quotation lines in sales documents |
| Import calculations | Transformation rules and mapping | Configure transformation rules, fixed values and field mapping for the import |
| Import calculations | Interface for import | Import also possible via API |
| Import calculations | Easy import of items that are not yet stored in BC | Items that have not yet been entered in BC can be imported and automatically processed in the background |
| Import calculations | Create quotation/order lines | Imported data creates quotation or order lines |
| Process + status | Automatic release | Automatically release sales and purchasing documents based on a status |
| Process + status | Workflows & Statuses | Assign individual statuses to multi-level document processes in sales and purchasing |
| Process + status | Workflows in subscription contracts | Processes in subscription contracts with individual statuses |
| Process + status | Document categorization | Processes/status as categorization for various sales and purchasing processes |
| Process + status | Status-controlled actions | Status change triggers actions such as workflows, reports or code units |
| Process + status | Status history | Logs user, date and status change |
| Process + status | Process cycles | Status steps can be repeated by jumping back |
| Process + status | Integration Power Automate | Status change can trigger business events/flows. Status can be set via flows outside of BC (e.g. Teams messages) |
| Process + status | Setup via templates | Processes can be configured easily and individually via templates |
| Calculate sales margin | Calculate percentage sales margin | Calculate sales price via sales margin to calculate purchase price |
| Calculate sales margin | Calculate percentage mark-up | Calculate sales price via mark-up to cost price |
| Calculate sales margin | Display margin & contribution margin | Dynamic display of margin % and contribution margin in the sales document line |
| Calculate Sales Margin | Actual Unit Cost per Sale | The actual Unit Cost from a Purchase Order is assigned to the correct sales thanks to an order-related Purchase Order |
| Calculate sales margin | Evaluation of the correct contribution margin via posted sales invoice and credit memo | Regulated Unit Costs are also updated in posted sales invoices and credit memos |
| Design sales documents | Creating product Bundles | Combining several products or Services into one package |
| Design sales documents | Predefined product bundles via item master data | Frequently used product bundles can be created as a separate item so that they can be used easily and recurrently |
| Design sales documents | Automatic price calculation and adjustment | Automatic calculation of the Bundle price from the individual prices as a proposal that can be adjusted |
| Design sales documents | Bundles in subscription invoices | Group subscription contract lines into Bundles and customize formatting |
| Design sales documents | Distribute discounts | Distribute discounts to Bundle components as desired |
| Design sales documents | Bundle prices | Define a Bundle price that is distributed proportionally to the components |
| Design sales documents | Format Bundles as desired | Control visibility/highlighting of Bundles and components |
| Design sales documents | Subtotals | Freely definable subtotals in the sales documents |
| Design sales documents | WORD and RDL layouts | Attractive Word and RDL layouts |
| Design Sales Documents | Automatic Position Numbers | Automatic Position Numbers in Sales Documents |
| Design sales documents | Configuring the footer | Setting up the footer depending on validity date and language |
| Design sales documents | Configure logo position | Set up logo position left, center or right |
| Design sales documents | Advanced description in sales documents | Unlimited and formattable texts in sales documents |
| Design sales documents | Advanced description in contracts | Unlimited and formattable article texts in Customer subscription contracts |
| Design sales documents | Personal salutations & farewells | Individual greetings and closing texts in sales documents |
| Design sales documents | Images in texts | Embedding images in texts |
| Design sales documents | Editor add-in | Editor with paragraphs, lists, font formatting |
| Design sales documents | Automatic integration in sales processes | Automatically insert texts in offers, orders, items |
| Design sales documents | Text templates | Default templates can be defined and used automatically |
| Design sales documents | CSS setup | Standard formatting customizable via CSS template |
| Manage Payment Plans | Create Payment Plans | Use your own (partial) payment plans with multiple stages in the sales order |
| Manage Payment Plans | Create Prepayment Invoice | Create a Prepayment Invoice based on a Payment Plan |
| Manage Payment Plans | Multi-level payment steps | Store payment plans with fixed totals or percentages |
| Manage Payment Plans | Distribution based on items | Distribute prepaid amount to single or multiple items |
| Manage Payment Plans | Additional fields per payment stage | Description, planned invoice date, payment terms, etc. |
| Manage Payment Plans | Invoicing step by step | Settle individual Payment Plan Steps |
| Manage Payment Plans | Create prepayment invoice as unposted invoice | Create payment and prepayment invoice as unposted invoice (do not post immediately) |
| Manage Payment Plans | Warning Open Prepayments | Warning Open Prepayment Invoices |
| Manage licensees | Store licensee obligation in the article master | In the article master you can specify that licensees are required in sales |
| Manage licensees | Display missing mandatory data | Unlink the sales process if necessary licensee data is missing |
| Manage licensees | Transfer licensee to purchase order | The licensee data from the sales order is automatically transferred to the associated purchase order from the supplier |
| Manage licensees | Transfer licensee to subscriptions | Licensee data is transferred to related subscriptions created from the order |
| Find information | Up to 24 individually definable tiles in Role Center | Display important processes, to-dos and data as tiles in the Role Center individually tailored to the individual user |
| Find information | Quick access to related documents | Displays all related documents for a process |
| Find information | Access via document card & search | App can be called up directly from the document card or search |
| Find information | Fixed predefined tiles on BC start page (Role Center) | Fixed tiles for certain processes in the Role Center ("BC Role Center") |
| Find information | Colored limit value visualization | Tiles can be highlighted in color when individually defined limits are exceeded |
| Find information | Filter templates | Templates with table, page, filter criteria, date, threshold values freely definable |
| Find information | Display of invoice recipient and supplier | Customer and Vendor are displayed directly in the contact list and contact card |
| Find information | Sales history fact box in Customers | Displays all transactions as sales recipients |
| Find information | Sales history in contacts fact box | Displays all transactions as sales recipients |
| Find information | Display last records in Role Center | Displays the last accessed data in Role Center |
| Find Information | Favorites in Role Center | Mark individual records as favorites and display and access them in the Role Center |
| Purchasing general | Create Purchase Order | Direct creation of a Purchase Order from the sales order |
| Purchasing general | Reservation on Purchase Order | Direct reservation in Purchasing to assign an ordered item to a specific sales order |
| Purchasing general | Save vendor in item | A Vendor can be saved as a vendor in the item |
| Purchasing general | Favorite suppliers | Select a favorite for each item if there are several suppliers |
| Purchasing general | Import supplier price lists | Import differently formatted price lists for catalog items |
| Purchasing general | Use import templates | Save templates with field mapping |
| Purchasing general | Automatic update of purchase prices for existing items | Update purchase prices from different suppliers on existing items and catalog items |
| Purchasing general | History price development | Overview of the price development of the respective items |
| Purchasing general | Articles from catalog data | Convert catalog items to articles in the offer |
| Purchasing in the IT industry | Special bid prices | Special agreements (so-called special bids) can be imported directly. The number can be displayed and thus used in sales and purchasing |
| Purchasing in the IT industry | Summary by Special Bid | Summarize Purchase Orders by Special Bid No. |
| Purchasing in the IT industry | Create items from catalog in batch | Convert multiple catalog items in batch to items |