Grant Management for Business Central

Hauptfunktionen

Dedicated Grant Award table capturing funder, award reference, period of performance, total commitment and restriction profile, all linked to BC financials

Grant Budget Line table with category-level budgets that drive available-balance checks and burn-rate reporting

Automatic expense allocation to grants via a custom grant dimension or grant code applied across G/L, Purchase and Project documents

Configurable indirect cost / overhead rate engine (MTDC or custom base) with job-queue-scheduled recovery postings

Milestone and deliverable tracking table with due dates, completion status and links to the funding tranches they release

Posting-time restriction enforcement through AL event subscribers that block or warn on out-of-budget, out-of-period or restricted-category costs

Multi-funder, multi-currency aware design that reuses Business Central's native dimensions, currencies and posting engine

Role-centre page and cues showing grant balances, percentage spent, indirect recovered and upcoming milestone deadlines

Grant balance, expenditure and funder-report data exposed through the BC REST/OData API for Power BI and external portals

Optional Dataverse / Power Platform integration for grant approvals, alerts and document workflows via Power Automate

Dedicated permission sets so grant managers, finance and auditors get correctly scoped access

Delivered as a per-tenant AL extension with source, documentation and upgrade-safe table/page extensions (no base-app code modified)

Auf Bestellung gebaut, komplett für Sie erledigt

Keine Selbsteinrichtung — eine funktionierende App, die von ECOSIRE erstellt, installiert und betreut wird.

Sie bestellen

Starten Sie mit einem einmaligen Entwicklungspreis. Den Umfang legen wir beim Kickoff gemeinsam fest.

Wir bauen & installieren

ECOSIRE erstellt, konfiguriert und installiert sie auf Ihrem Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Go-live + Support

Sie gehen in etwa 2–4 Wochen live, mit einem Support-Zeitraum nach dem Launch.

Über dieses Produkt

Grant Management for Business Central is a build-to-order AL extension that turns Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central into a fit-for-purpose grant accounting system for NGOs, research organisations and foundations — without forcing you onto a separate, disconnected grants platform.

ECOSIRE designs, builds, installs and supports the extension on your Business Central environment. It is delivered as a per-tenant extension (not a one-click AppSource download): we develop it in AL against your tenant, publish and install it through the BC Extension Management page or via the Admin Center for on-premises/hybrid setups, and configure it to your chart of accounts, dimensions and funders.

Technically, the app introduces dedicated tables for Grant Award, Grant Budget Line, Indirect Cost Rate and Milestone, plus table and page extensions on the G/L Entry, Purchase, and Job/Project documents so every transaction can be tagged to a grant via a custom dimension or grant code. Event subscribers enforce funder restrictions at posting time — blocking or warning when a cost falls outside an approved budget category, period or restriction. Indirect cost (overhead) is calculated automatically against configurable rate bases. Grant balances, burn rates and milestone status surface on a role-centre page and are exposed through the BC REST/OData API for Power BI dashboards and funder portals. Optional Dataverse / Power Platform integration lets you drive approvals and notifications through Power Automate and a job queue handles scheduled rate runs and reporting refreshes.

Pricing is a one-time USD 499 build fee. You receive the source AL, dedicated permission sets and documentation, and ongoing support from the team that built it. This is honest, scoped custom work — we agree the spec, give you a delivery date, and stand behind it.

Was Sie bekommen

A working per-tenant Business Central AL extension published and installed on your BC environment (cloud SaaS or on-prem/hybrid via Admin Center)

Configuration of grant dimensions, indirect cost rates, funders and budget categories against your existing chart of accounts

Full AL source code, the compiled .app package, and version-controlled project for future upgrades

Dedicated permission sets and a security configuration mapped to your grant, finance and audit roles

Power BI / OData report starter showing grant balances, burn rate and indirect cost recovery

Administrator and end-user documentation plus a handover/training session, and a post-go-live support window

Für wen das ist

Grants & Finance Manager (NGO / Foundation)

Owns funder compliance and reporting. Needs every expense tagged to the right grant, budget category and period, with restrictions enforced before money is posted — not discovered at audit time.

Research Finance / Sponsored Programs Officer

Manages multi-year awards with indirect cost recovery and milestone-driven tranches. Needs accurate overhead calculation and deliverable tracking tied directly to the institution's Business Central ledger.

Finance Director / Controller

Wants grant accounting inside the existing BC system rather than a siloed tool, with clean dimensions, auditable postings and Power BI visibility across all funders and balances.

Wie Grant Management for Business Central im Vergleich abschneidet

Kriterium	ECOSIRE	Benutzerdefinierter Build	Konkurrent
Grant lifecycle (award → budget → milestone → close) modelled natively in BC	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Teilweise Unterstützung	Im Lieferumfang enthalten
Posting-time enforcement of funder restrictions via AL event subscribers	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Teilweise Unterstützung	Teilweise Unterstützung
Indirect cost / overhead rate engine integrated with BC posting	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Teilweise Unterstützung	Teilweise Unterstützung
Built, installed and supported on your own tenant by the vendor	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Nicht im Lieferumfang enthalten	Nicht im Lieferumfang enthalten
Full AL source code delivered (no vendor lock-in)	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Nicht im Lieferumfang enthalten
Configured to your specific funders, dimensions and chart of accounts	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Teilweise Unterstützung	Nicht im Lieferumfang enthalten
Upgrade-safe (table/page extensions, base app untouched)	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Teilweise Unterstützung	Im Lieferumfang enthalten
Grant data exposed via BC REST/OData for Power BI & portals	Im Lieferumfang enthalten	Teilweise Unterstützung	Teilweise Unterstützung

Häufig gestellte Fragen zu Grant Management for Business Central

Is this a download from Microsoft AppSource?

No. This is a build-to-order, per-tenant extension. ECOSIRE develops it in AL specifically for your Business Central tenant, then publishes and installs it directly to your environment (via Extension Management for cloud SaaS, or the Admin Center for on-prem/hybrid). There is no instant AppSource listing — you get a scoped, configured solution and the source code, not a generic shelf product.

How long does delivery take after I order?

Typical lead time is about 2 to 4 weeks from the point we confirm the scope. We start with a short discovery to lock the grant structure, funders, indirect cost rules and reporting needs, then build, test against a sandbox copy of your tenant, and install to production with you. Complex multi-funder or Dataverse-integrated builds can run longer; we commit to a firm date before work begins.

What support and updates do I get after go-live?

The one-time fee includes a post-go-live support window for fixes and configuration adjustments. Because we deliver the full AL source and a version-controlled project, the extension is upgrade-safe across Business Central's twice-yearly releases, and ECOSIRE can handle recompiles and revalidation against new BC versions under an ongoing support arrangement. You are never locked to us — you own the code.

Will it modify the Business Central base application?

No. The extension uses table extensions, page extensions and event subscribers — the standard, upgrade-safe AL extension model. We do not edit base-app objects, so Microsoft's platform and application updates continue to install cleanly. Grant fields and logic ride alongside native BC objects rather than replacing them.

How does it handle indirect cost (overhead) rates and funder restrictions?

Indirect cost rates are configurable per grant against a chosen base (for example modified total direct cost), and recovery can be calculated and posted automatically via the job queue. Funder restrictions — allowed categories, periods and caps — are enforced by AL event subscribers at posting time, so a non-compliant cost is blocked or flagged before it hits the ledger rather than caught later in reconciliation.