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Business leaders shaking hands after agreeing terms with a Business Central implementation partner

on Aug 5, 2026, 11:31:51 AM

Every Business Central partner pitch sounds broadly the same at the proposal stage. They all promise a smooth implementation, a single source of truth, and a team that understands retail. The ...

Point of sale counter and payment terminal at a major sporting event, an example of in-store POS systems built to keep trading under pressure

on Jul 31, 2026, 11:26:42 AM

Every retail point of sale (POS) platform claims it can run offline. Fewer can tell you, with any precision, what happens to a card payment taken thirty seconds before the connection dropped, or ...

Retail staff member using a point of sale system in a specialist store

on Jul 31, 2026, 10:34:36 AM

Most retailers underestimate how much staff turnover costs them at the till, not on the shop floor. A new starter who needs three shifts before they can process a return without asking for help is ...

Retail store employee checking stock on a tablet against shelf inventory

on Jul 27, 2026, 2:20:23 PM

Picture the last day of the month at your club. Someone, probably in finance, is pulling a stock report from one system, a sales report from the till system, and a set of numbers from the accounting ...

Football stadium floodlit for a matchday fixture

on Jul 27, 2026, 2:19:33 PM

Most conversations about point of sale systems for football clubs start with a features list: card payment types, stock management, ecommerce integration, loyalty. All fair questions. But none of ...

Mobile checkout payment being completed on a card terminal

on Jul 27, 2026, 2:18:03 PM

Most clubs judge their ecommerce platform on a normal Tuesday. Traffic is steady, checkout works, and nobody thinks twice about it. The problem is that a normal Tuesday tells you almost nothing about ...

Warehouse worker checking stock using a digital tablet

on Jul 22, 2026, 2:07:10 PM

Every Business Central update this year has come with the same headline: AI agents are here. Microsoft has introduced a Payables agent, a Sales Order agent, an Expense agent, and a designer that lets ...

Busy sports event retail floor with point of sale operations

on Jul 6, 2026, 9:26:50 AM

Microsoft Dynamics NAV extended support ends on 11 January 2028. That date is fixed, and most businesses running NAV know it is coming. What is less well understood is what the deadline means in ...

BC4 consultants reviewing NAV customisation assessment ahead of Business Central upgrade

on Jul 2, 2026, 9:37:38 AM

Every event organiser eventually faces the same question. How do you build a retail operation that can serve hundreds of thousands of fans across dozens of sites, much of it temporary, without a ...

BC4 consultants reviewing NAV customisation assessment ahead of Business Central upgrade

on Jul 1, 2026, 8:36:32 AM

When businesses start planning a NAV to Business Central upgrade, the question that generates the most anxiety is almost always the same: what happens to our bespoke development? Years of C/AL ...