Microsoft Business Central Spend Overview

What is Microsoft Business Central Spend?

Microsoft Business Central Spend pairs with Airwallex’s Bank Feed to offer a seamless month-end close experience for customers using Airwallex Expenses and Bills. 

The Microsoft Business Central Spend connection is an add-on to the Bank Feed integration. It enables you to:

1. Import your accounting information (e.g., chart of accounts, dimensions, etc.) from Microsoft Business Central into Airwallex and;
2. Sync card expenses, reimbursements and bills back to Xero for reconciliation (receipts, invoices, and accounting allocations will be synced over alongside the relevant spend items)

Syncing purchase orders to Business Central is not supported at this time.

How do I set up Microsoft Business Central Spend?

1. Navigate to Connections > Microsoft Business Central > Spend
2. If you have not yet connected to the Microsoft Business Central Bank Feed, the Microsoft Business Central Spend connection flow will begin by requiring you to set it up. You can find a detailed step-by-step for this process here.
3. Import Microsoft Business Central accounting data to Airwallex: this includes importing your accounts, vendors, dimensions, and tax codes.
   1. By default, all card expenses sync to a generic “Airwallex Expenses” merchant. If you would like card expenses to sync to the actual merchant you’ve attributed them to, you must navigate to Spend > Accounting > Settings and change ‘Display Microsoft Business Central vendors to employees’ to ‘Enabled’
   2. Please note that tax codes do not currently display their associated rate value in Airwallex. The correct rate will still be applied when synced back to Business Central.
4. Configure accounting data as desired: you may select (enable), deselect (disable / hide), or rename each individual value.