What’s New in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance

The latest Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance update brings key improvements, including features that are new, changed or enhanced, designed to make financial processes faster, more accurate, and easier to manage. All this will be available on the following schedule:

 

  • Preview of release: October 2025
  • General availability of release (self-update): December 2025
  • General availability of release (auto-update): February 2026

 

New or Changed Features

 

A number of new and changed features have been introduced to simplify finance workflows and enhance overall efficiency.

 

Accounts Receivable

 

  • Faster Global Transaction Page— Optimized performance for large datasets, allowing quicker lookups and smoother navigation.
  • Structured QR-Bill Addresses (Switzerland)— Supports structured “S-type” addresses for both biller and debtor, improving accuracy and compliance in Swiss billing.

 

Fixed Assets

 

  • Stable Acquisition Proposals— Recurring batch jobs for asset acquisitions now continue even if older journals are deleted, preventing interruptions.
  • Consistent Asset Naming— Asset names from purchase orders remain intact; new details are added without overwriting existing data.
  • Accurate Transaction Timing— Inventory sold transactions now post at the correct time for cleaner and more reliable financial tracking.
  • (Preview) Intercompany Asset Transfers— A new data entity streamlines transfers between legal entities, helping organizations automate asset management.

 

Subscription Billing

 

  • Optimized Batch Processing— Reduced a significant amount of chattiness in batch process.
  • Faster Invoice Posting— Billing schedule invoices now post using multithreaded batch processing, allowing multiple invoices to be processed in parallel for significantly faster execution.
  • (Preview) Parallel Deferral Recognition— Enhanced the subscription billing deferral recognition batch process by processing deferral data in parallel, allowing each run to complete more efficiently.

 

Enhanced Features

 

Several improvements have been made to refine existing processes, making daily finance tasks smoother and more reliable.

 

Accounts Receivable

 

  • Free Text Invoice— Corrects posted invoice totals to include all line amounts, ensuring consistent reporting.
  • Case Management Visibility— Invoice and Invoice line details information now appear on the Associations FastTab on My cases.

 

Credit & Collections

 

  • Interest Note Flexibility— Users can now view and select the option for the Due Date and the Terms of Payment when posting a customer interest note.
  • Smarter Collection Emails— Email template on the collection process automation uses the variables on the Subject line.
  • Faster Interest Note Creation— Uses top-picking optimization when creating customer interest notes, to speed up processing for large transaction volumes.

 

General Ledger

 

  • Account Reconciliation Agent (Production Preview)— Now provides suggested actions for In ledger not in subledger and In subledger not in ledger exception types.
  • User ID Visibility in Settlements— The Ledger Settlement Inquiry page now shows the user ID that did the settlement for full audit transparency.
  • Ledger Settlement Performance— The Ledger settlements page has been updated to improve the performance, although customizations may need to be updated to work with the new page.

 

Subscription Billing

 

  • Automatic Discount Groups— Discount group setup in trade agreement for item prices now automatically applies to the billing schedule when created for the corresponding customer record.
  • (Preview) Deferral COGS Dashboard— Dashboard monitors for visibility into deferral adjustment errors with rerun capability.
  • (Preview) Process Completion Notifications— A notification message is displayed when the asynchronous process finishes so that the user is notified.
  • Consistent Credit Note Exchange Rates— At the termination of billing schedule, a credit note is created against the invoices (sales orders) with the same exchange rate used at the time of invoicing.

 

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The Latest Update from Microsoft about Dynamics 365: Microsoft Brings Artificial Intelligence and Modular Apps to Dynamics 365

At Microsoft’s Ignite Conference, taking place this week in Orlando, Microsoft unveiled several updates to its technology portfolio, including a tighter integration between its LinkedIn and Microsoft 365 properties, and artificial intelligence capabilities for its customer care solutions in Dynamics 365.

 

Microsoft Ignite

 

“The nature of work is changing,” said Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO during his keynote. “It’s no longer about routine tasks; it’s about unlocking the creativity inside your organization.

 

It is about going beyond individual productivity in dynamic teams; it is about ensuring the security of your digital estate, really changing the frontier of simplicity of managing the digital estate, and that is what’s driving us to build Microsoft 365.”

 

This powerful speech from Nadella affirms the digital transformation started by their vision and allocated through their new technology improvements aimed for the companies’ adaptation in the constant changing environment.

 

Satya Nadella

Dynamics 365 AI Solutions

 

When it comes to Dynamics 365, Microsoft announces a portfolio of new capabilities at the conference, which are including expansion of Dynamics 365’s intelligence capabilities with “Dynamics 365 AI solutions” that are designed to deliver high-value and complex enterprise scenarios.

 

These new Dynamics 365 AI solutions run on the existing Microsoft’s platforms in AI and machine learning. The first of the solutions is innovated for customer support and engagement teams in a form of “virtual agents”.

 

The virtual agents engage with the customers in order to receive real-time suggestions about their problems, and also a real-time feedback, which helps them to train more effectively to become even more effective over time. This AI solution is already used by worlds’ biggest retailers and is handling more than 650 000 sessions weekly.

 

Modular Apps

 

Kept in mind that customers need more targeted solutions, Microsoft introduced modular SaaS applications which allow the business users to transform a single process. These apps are meant to be used every day, and take advantage of the existing data, connect to existing data and deliver insight from the other Microsoft’s product to deliver meaningful results.

 

Microsoft introduced two modular apps: Dynamics 365 for Talent: Attract and Dynamics 365 for Talent: Onboard, which will allow its users to perform more effectively and more easily the attract and the onboard activities in the hiring process, using Human Capital Management capabilities module.

 

Also there are announced improvements within integrations between Dynamics 365 with Linkedin, as well with other productivity apps, delivering new opportunities and improved user experience.

 

Another upcoming integrations from Microsoft include Microsoft PowerApps and Microsoft Power BI which will allow to embed contact information from Linkedin and to create and analyze detailed reports.

 

Microsoft continually improves its products and services and also create powerful integrations of the products, in order to achieve its mission – to empower every person and organization on the planet to achieve more.

 

If you are interested in finding more about Satya Nadella’s keynote presentation at Microsoft Ignite, take a look at this video: