Perpetual Licensing

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Perpetual Licensing

With Perpetual Licensing, you license the desired solution functionality and access to that functionality is secured by licensing access licenses.

It is now easy for small and midsize businesses to quickly and affordably get started with Perpetual Licensing. The Essentials user gives customers all setup utilities, provides usage rights to core financial, sales and opportunity, supply chain and inventory, and project management functionalities. The Premium user include everything in the Essentials user, plus service management and manufacturing.

Under Perpetual Licensing, you license Full access to the solution with Full Named CALs and Limited access to the solution with Team Members CALs. When assigning security rights to users, the system administrator will designate each user as a full user or a Team Members user.

Note, you may not mix and match Essentials and Premium users. You must license Essentials or Premium users but not both.

You must acquire and assign an access license to each user that accesses the ERP solution directly or indirectly.

Minimum License Purchase Requirement

There is no minimum license requirement.
  • Note:
  • Customers may not mix and match Essentials and Premium users.
  • Customers must license Essentials or Premium users but not both.

    Dynamics 365 Business Central

    The Dynamics 365 Business Central application can be licensed two ways:

    Essentials Functionality

    (i) Financial Management
    (ii) Customer Relationship Management
    (iii) Project Management
    (iv) Supply Chain Management
    v) Human Resources Management
    vi) Warehouse Management

    Premium Functionality

    (i) Everything in Essentials
    (ii) Service Management
    (iii) Manufacturing

      Dynamics 365 Business Central Limited Users

      Dynamics 365 Business Central Limited Users requires that at least one other user be licensed with Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials or Dynamics 365 Business Central Premium. Dynamics 365 Business Central Limited Users use rights:

      Limited Users

      (i) Read anything within Dynamics 365 Business Central
      (ii) Update existing data and entries in Dynamics 365 Business Central – existing data are records like customer, vendor or item records which are already created. Entries means entries on which it is specifically allowed from an accounting perspective to update specific information. e.g. due date on customer ledger entries)
      (iii) Approve or reject tasks in all workflows assigned to a user
      (iv) Create, edit, delete a quote
      (v) Create, edit, delete personal information
      (vi) Enter a time sheet for Jobs
      (vii) Use PowerApps for Dynamics 365
      (viii) A Team Members application module may ot be customized with more than 15 custom entities available to the Dynamics 365 Team license*

      Limited Users Included Tables

      The following tables do not count towards the maximum of three permitted for Limited Users in Dynamics 365 Business Central on-premises.