This covers the new functionalities planned to be delivered to market from October 2022 to March 2023.
Updates in 2022 release wave 2 include:
- Seamless service: No matter the industry type of a small or midsized business (SMB), business users expect a dependable service and platform that they can run their business on.
- Administration: Business Central delivers a set of features for better and improved communication about the health of each environment.
- Application: Improve integration with Shopify. The finance and supply chain capabilities in Business Central are improved with several optimizations and enhancements so that users can run their business processes more efficiently.
- Better with Microsoft 365: Improved the efficiency of collaborative business processes in Microsoft Teams. Users can pin cards inside Teams, and delegated admins can now use the Excel add-in.
- Country and regional: In 2022 release wave 2, Business Central is generally available in more countries and regions.
- Onboarding: Organizations can get to productive usage faster because it’s easier to discover and install apps.
- Development tools: Now entirely Visual Studio Code
- Power Platform: More efficient automation with Power Automate so that users can set up workflows for the specific needs of their organization.
- This release wave contains features that must be enabled or configured by administrators, makers, or business analysts to be available for their users. For the complete list, look for all features tagged “Users by admins, makers, or analysts” in the release plan.
FUNCTIONAL ENHANCEMENTS
| Feature | Enabled for | Public preview | General availability |
| Better bank reconciliation for checks and improved reporting | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| Extended text functionality for VAT clauses | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| Financial reporting replaces account schedules | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| Find posted and non-posted document lines in search | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| Flexible sorting in the Planning Worksheet page | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| Make entry of variant codes required | Users by admins, makers, or analysts | Oct 2022 | |
| Post item charges for each step of the process | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| Service – minor improvements | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| Simpler Shopify connection | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| Track items that are used in projects, including picks | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | |
| New VAT Date field on documents and entries | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Set up data exchange more easily | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Use multiple remit-to addresses for vendors | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Oct 2022 |
| Reverse payment reconciliation journal entries | Users, automatically | Oct 2022 | Nov 2022 |
