There are a number of small business packages Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks amongst others who have built more secure and reliable methods of integration with banks. I'd imagine this is the case in many other regions as well.
In Australia there is a new payments platform and open banking initiatives that will make this even easier.
Both SAP and Oracle will move to build out these centralised bank feed services across all tiers of their offerings in the next two years. It will be important for Microsoft to either build out their own centralised service and API with the banks or partner to achieve this.
Benefits include:
-More secure integration with banking data
-More reliable and timely bank information
-Eventual integration with bank payment APIs as well
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Any MODERN erp system should have this functionality out of the box. To date we are having to build out this functionality on a case by case basis when a customer pays for this development work.
This costs time and money in which if you think about, the exponential costs would be in the millions of dollars. Microsoft should come up with a comprehensive solution to an issue that is now the norm for all Australian businesses. Not just say its on the road map.
Going to Mars is also on the roadmap.
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For the UK too please this is a very common requirement
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+1 for New Zealand also.
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This is really important feature for Business Central to be relevant with competition in Australia. Most of the other financial system providers are having bank feed, and not having it in Business Central is a disadvantage.
In my opinion and experience with clients, this is key feature that should be made available in AU as soon as possible.
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A few of my prospects client don't want to move to BC because they are using Xero and the moment I informed this auto bank feed feature is not currently available and Microsoft is looking into it.
It is indeed considered as most basic & useful feature from selling point of view.
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This is a stock standard accounting feature that small businesses expect to work out of the box in Australia. Importing manually via CSV is not an adequate substitute for this functionality. This is THE most important feature that needs to come to BC in Australia
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Same applies for New Zealand!
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I agree this is a must for Australia as all small business prospects stepping up from Xero, MYOB, Quickbooks etc expect it and will purchase other products if Business Central does not have it. They don’t want Add-ons or Apps or Partner Developed solutions. They just expect it in the standard software from Microsoft.
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