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make a b2b portal for customers to log in to view orders, pay bills, place orders, request quotes, view quotes and on.

I think ecommerce and customer portal is a must to have and must be from the same house (microsoft) in order to work perfectly together with the erp, inventory, finance, etc.

Many cloud erp companies targeting a built in ecommerce. I can list 20 names but it won't be fair to list them here. Microsoft will have to do it now in order to stay ahead and keep his customers ahead of competition! as the future leading us to see more and more end to end solutions.

most of the connectors, integrations and custom work are just slowing down the success of the customer which slow the success of microsoft and their partners. a growing company will always need more services from MS and its partners. Customer portal / ecommerce will have a positive effect on everybody including the partners that will have more implantation packages for the portal or ecommerce as it's the face of the company. respecting the partners that building connectors and ecommerces. but 500$ per month is not a reasonable price for ecommerce in 2018.
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Ideas Administrator

Thank you for reaching out,

We continue to monitor that requirement. Notice that currently it can be already addressed in two ways:
  • Shopify ConnectorShopify is a subscription-based application that allows anyone to set up an online store and sell products. The Shopify platform offers online retailers a suite of services for payments, marketing, shipping, and customer engagement. With the Shopify Connector, businesses can link their Shopify stores with Business Central to maximize business productivity. Using the Shopify Connector, they can access and manage insights from their business and their Shopify online store as one unit.
  • Power Pages. This feature allows unlicensed external users to access data stored in Business Central online by using Power Pages that operates on virtual tables in Dataverse.

Sincerely,
Andrei Panko
PM, Microsoft

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I agree this is important. We currently use a third-party solution, but, beside cost, it is a bit complicated. If Microsoft implemented something simpler, it would be a big bonus.Unfortunately, the Shopify solution is not ready yet in our opinion. It does lack some B2B capabilities, but the connector is quickly improving so maybe soon?

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Yes, we need it. Into shopify too.¿how many votes do you need to do it?

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In 2023/2024, with Power Pages it should be an easy task.

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It would be great to see some Microsoft comment/feedback on this idea. It has been under review I believe for many months (if not years!). It is now approaching 5 years since it was raised as an idea....

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Customer/Vendor portal is an absolute must! Customers need to place orders and see their orders, orderconfirmations, payments & invoices. Also draw their statement. In essense the functionality is all their, only and additional layer on top of BC.

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Couldn't agree more for all the petitions posted so far. Without the B2B and B2C portals out of the box in an ERP these days is unthinkable. Had we known back then, we would have not committed to this platform. Looking at so many 3rd part add on solutions out there, there's no doubt this feature will be a huge draw of existing and potential customers to BC 365. I'd prefer an in house solution that just works, and not to worry about all these ongoing syncing maintenance and upgrades to deal with a 3rd party solution.Time to bring this to the table and delight us!

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How its progressing with that - will be planned?
Ecommerce and B2B portal is needed more than ever.

COVID-19 pandemic gave e-commerce massive boost and there is no business today who doesn't need e-commerce including b2b functionality and out of the box ERP integration.

There are no many e-commerce systems working with ERP out of the box and having such solution could change the e-commerce market dramatically. Different license fees from 500 to 4000 could work out easily. MS could crab market from Magento, Woocommerce/Wordpress easily.

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This is a must , with the likes of Sage and other competitors already offering this out of the box

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Business Central is directly competing with Odoo and right now Odoo is doing all that and allot easier for users. Its more intuitive and easier to use. Dont underestimate time and effort going into training staff to use Business Central - it takes significant resources.
So B2B portal and E-commerce is a "must"

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That would be the best feature Microsoft has never released!

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