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Microsoft has announced the end of sale for all Dynamics NAV on-premises products, effective 30 April 2031. Following that date, customers will no longer be able to renew Service Plans or subscriptions, purchase additional perpetual licences, or continue using NAV through SPLA agreements. Microsoft is encouraging customers to begin planning their move to Dynamics 365 Business Central, its modern cloud-ready ERP platform.

Although the 2031 deadline may appear distant, organisations running Dynamics NAV should start evaluating their options sooner rather than later. Dynamics NAV 2018, the final NAV release, reaches the end of extended support in January 2028, and many upgrade programmes can take significant time to plan and execute, particularly where customisations, integrations, and operational change are involved.

For many businesses, the challenge has not been deciding to move to Business Central, but the cost, complexity, and disruption associated with upgrading heavily customised NAV environments. This is where Node4 can help.

At Node4, we're already helping customers assess their migration path to Business Central. Our team has developed AI-assisted tooling that helps accelerate the transformation of customised NAV code into Business Central-compatible code, reducing a major element of the upgrade effort and helping lower project costs.

However, successful modernisation is about more than code conversion alone. Customers should consider application architecture, integrations, data migration, testing, user adoption and long-term operational requirements when developing their roadmap.

How Node4 Can Help

• NAV estate and readiness assessments
• Upgrade planning, funding and roadmap development
• AI-assisted NAV code conversion
• Business Central implementation and modernisation services
• Integration and application architecture support
• Ongoing managed support and optimisation

Our recommendation is simple: start planning early. As more organisations begin their transition from NAV to Business Central, demand for specialist resources and implementation services is likely to increase. Beginning your assessment now gives you greater flexibility, reduced risk, and more time to align the move with your wider business objectives.

What if your credit control team could identify potential payment risks before they become overdue invoices? With the new Dynamic Credit Control functionality in nHanced Credit Control, you can move from reacting to late payments to proactively managing risk before it impacts cash flow and operations.

For years, nHanced Credit Control has helped businesses manage existing credit issues directly within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Features such as live Aged Accounts Receivable, payment promise tracking, next chase dates, and automatic email logging give teams everything they need to manage overdue debt effectively.

But these tools address problems that already exist: goods have already been shipped and late payments have already occurred.

Dynamic Credit Control changes that by allowing you to identify potential problems and deal with them before they happen.

At its core are two complementary features - Credit Scoring and Balance Prediction - which help you assess customer risk today and anticipate its impact tomorrow.

Credit Scoring

Not all customers present the same level of risk. Some pay early, some pay on time, and others seem to treat payment terms as a gentle suggestion.

The new Credit Scoring functionality analyses historical payment behaviour and automatically assigns customers a configurable Credit Score. This provides a quick, visual way to understand which customers regularly pay on time, and which customers consistently test your patience.

 Rather than relying on anecdotal knowledge or manual reviews, credit controllers can instantly identify higher-risk accounts and prioritise their attention where it matters most 

Dynamic Credit Control uses historical payment patterns to predict a customer's likely future balance when a sales order becomes relevant, such as when goods are due to be shipped. 

Now, despite our best efforts, the truth is we haven’t quite cracked predicting the future yet. But what we can do is use past behaviour as a powerful indicator of future risk. 

Customers who consistently pay late tend to accumulate outstanding invoices for longer periods. This naturally results in a higher predicted balance and, therefore, more frequent approval checks. Customers with strong payment histories, meanwhile, are likely to keep their balances lower and can utilise more of their available credit without unnecessary intervention. 

The Benefits 

By combining Credit Scores with Balance Prediction, Dynamic Credit Control gives you the confidence to apply more intelligent credit controls without creating friction for reliable customers. 

This means: 

• Faster order processing for customers who consistently pay on time 
• Earlier identification of potentially risky orders 
• Reduced manual reviews and approval bottlenecks 
•  Improved cash flow management 
• Less time firefighting and more time preventing issues 

Dynamic Credit Control helps ensure your credit controllers spend their time where it delivers the greatest value: maintaining healthy customer relationships, keeping orders moving, and protecting cash flow before problems arise.