Grant Management for Business Central

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.