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Orders and stock levels are copied between Business Central and your online store by hand.
Your ERP Should Talk to Everything Else. Safely.
VLC engineers the API and agentic (MCP) connections that link Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central to your e-commerce, legacy, and business systems — and to the AI assistants your team is starting to use.
Start here
Three Questions. The Right ERP Integration Path.
Answer these and we'll come back with a scoped quote within 24 to 48 hours.
The real cost
Disconnected Systems Cost More Than the Integration Would.
Most ERP problems are not ERP problems. They are the gaps between systems: orders re-keyed from the storefront, inventory that is right in one place and wrong in another, reports stitched together by hand, and an AI pilot that cannot see the data it needs.
"Integration done properly removes those gaps. Done as an afterthought, it becomes the next one."
Sound familiar?
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A legacy system everyone depends on has no clean way to share data.
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Reports need three exports and a spreadsheet before anyone can trust them.
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Your team wants to ask questions of the ERP in plain language, but nothing is connected.
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An integration was built once, nobody documented it, and now nobody wants to touch it.
Every one of these gaps has a cost — in re-keyed orders, inventory disputes, and reporting hours. Integration engineering is the fix, and it is cheapest when it is scoped first.
Two tracks, one story
API Integration Gives Your Systems a Shared Language.
Agentic (MCP) Integration Gives AI a Safe Way to Use It.
API Integration
Moves data between Business Central and the systems you run — e-commerce, business applications, legacy and custom systems — so nothing is re-keyed and everyone works from one version of the truth.
- Best when data must flow automatically between systems
- Typical result: no re-keying, one version of the truth
- Where it starts: scoping the systems and data flows
Agentic (MCP) Integration
Lets AI assistants and agents read — and where you allow it, act on — Business Central data, through Microsoft's Business Central MCP server with permissions you set and an audit trail you can follow.
- Best when your team wants to ask questions or delegate work to AI over ERP data
- Typical result: answers from live data, in plain language
- Where it starts: deciding what AI may see and do
| Compare | API Integration | Agentic (MCP) Integration |
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| What it does | Moves data between Business Central and the systems you run | Lets AI assistants and agents read, and where you allow it, act on Business Central data |
| Best when | Data must flow automatically between systems | Your team wants to ask questions or delegate work to AI over ERP data |
| Typical result | No re-keying, one version of the truth | Answers from live data, in plain language |
| Where it starts | Scoping the systems and data flows | Deciding what AI may see and do |
Most clients start with API integration and add agentic access once the data flows are reliable.
Track 1 · API integration
Business Central API Integration: Connect the Systems You Already Run
Business Central exposes a REST API for third-party integration. We design and build the connections around how your business actually works, rather than forcing a generic connector to fit.
E-commerce
Magento and Shopify orders, inventory, and fulfilment kept in sync with Business Central.
Business applications
System and application integrations that remove manual re-entry between your ERP and the tools your teams use daily.
Legacy and custom systems
Point-to-point integrations for older or homegrown systems, built around how they work today.
Data migration and validation
Legacy data migration, cleansing, and validation, so what you connect is data you can trust.
Reporting
Power BI dashboards on top of connected, reliable data — no spreadsheet stitching required.
Not sure where to start?
We scope the systems and data flows first, then agree what needs API integration and what needs something else entirely.
Track 2 · Agentic integration
Let AI Work Inside Your ERP, Within Limits You Set
MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard that lets AI assistants and agents connect to business systems. Microsoft now ships an MCP server for Business Central, so the building blocks are native to the platform.
VLC's job is the part that decides whether it is useful and safe: what the AI can see, what it can do, and how that is governed.
Default access
Read-only
Authentication
Microsoft Entra ID
Ask your ERP in plain language
"Which sales orders are on hold, and why?" — answered from live data instead of a report request that takes days.
Read-only by default
Microsoft's Business Central MCP server gives agents read-only access to exposed API pages unless you configure create, modify, or delete operations.
You choose the permissions
Which API pages are exposed and which operations are allowed are configured deliberately, one decision at a time.
Authenticated through your identity layer
Agents connect through a registered app in Microsoft Entra ID — not an anonymous workaround.
Auditable
Configuration changes can be tracked through Microsoft Purview audit capabilities, so governance is something you can demonstrate.
Governance first. We decide with you what the AI should — and should not — be able to do before a single agent is connected.
Our delivery method
How We Engineer ERP Integrations
Scoped Before It's Built. Tested Before It's Live.
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Scope
We map the systems, data flows, and endpoints involved, and agree what needs API integration, what needs agentic access, and what needs both.
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Build
Integrations are built and tested in a sandbox environment, so nothing touches production until it is proven.
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Test
Integration testing and User Acceptance Testing run against your real processes, not a demo dataset.
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Deploy and support
Documented handover so your team can own it, with support through go-live and beyond, including through VLC Managed Application Services.
Business Central at the centre, everything else connected around it
Why VLC
Integration Is Engineering, Not an Afterthought
We build it in from discovery
Integration is where implementations most often go wrong because it gets scoped last. We scope it first.
We know the platform
Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Business Central are what we work in every day.
One partner from strategy to support
Advisory, implementation, and managed services under one roof, so the integration is supported after go-live.
Standards you can verify
ISO 27001, ISO 9001, and CMMI Level 3 — governance that stands up to scrutiny.
Ready to see what a scoped integration looks like? Send us the systems you need connected and we'll return a scoped quote in 24 to 48 hours.
Scope Your IntegrationKeep exploring
Where integration fits in your ERP roadmap
FAQs
ERP Integration Questions, Answered
The questions we hear most from manufacturing, distribution, e-commerce and government contractor teams planning ERP integration.
Still unsure? Talk to an integration engineer — no obligation.
Does Business Central have an API?
Yes. Business Central provides a REST API that external applications use to read and write business data, and VLC builds integrations on top of it.
What is an MCP server for Business Central?
It is a bridge that lets AI assistants connect to Business Central data in a standard way. Microsoft provides one for Business Central, and by default it is read-only.
Is it safe to connect an AI assistant to our ERP?
It can be, when it is configured deliberately. Access is read-only unless you enable more, you decide which API pages are exposed, and authentication runs through Microsoft Entra ID. We help you decide what the AI should and should not be able to do.
Does the MCP option work with on-premises Business Central?
Microsoft's documentation describes its Business Central MCP server for Business Central online. If you run on-premises or hybrid, tell us your setup and we'll recommend the right path.
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Can you integrate Business Central with Shopify or Magento?
Yes. We keep orders, inventory, and fulfilment synchronised between your storefront and Business Central. See
Magento Commerce and
E-Commerce development services.
Can you connect our legacy systems?
Yes. We build point-to-point integrations around the systems you already run and can migrate and validate legacy data first.
Do we need API integration before agentic integration?
Usually the two work best together. Reliable data flows make AI answers more accurate, so most clients start with API integration and add agentic access next.
How quickly can we get a quote?
Tell us what you want to connect and we'll return a scoped quote within 24 to 48 hours.
Scoped quote in 24–48 hours
Tell Us What You Need to Connect. We'll Tell You How.
Answer three questions and get a scoped quote in 24 to 48 hours — API integration, agentic (MCP) integration, or both.
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