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What a B2B buyer sees in Litium ought to be exactly what their own company agreed in Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and a quarterly export is the reason that it usually is not.
A B2B buyer does not shop. They order against an agreement somebody negotiated for their company, at prices that are theirs rather than anybody's, and they expect the storefront to know that before they log in. Litium can show them all of it, and the prices and terms live in Business Central where finance maintains them. What usually happens between the two is a price list exported quarterly and loaded by hand, which is accurate for a fortnight. Connecting Litium and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central lets the buyer see what their company actually agreed rather than a copy of it taken in April.
DATA THAT FLOWS BETWEEN THEM
Customers
Price agreements
Items
Orders
Order lines
Credit status
A signed-in Litium buyer is shown the price their company agreed in Business Central, so the order that arrives does not have to be corrected before anybody can accept it.
Nobody exports a price list and loads it by hand every few months, so a negotiated change reaches the storefront in the week it was agreed rather than in the next quarter.
What the account owes and whether it is on hold is visible where the order is placed, so a buyer is not allowed to commit to something finance was never going to release.
An order reaches Business Central with the agreement it was placed under attached, so the line can be checked against what was negotiated rather than against a guess.
When a buyer signs in to Litium, Alumio supplies the Business Central price agreement that applies to their own company, so what they see on the page is what will appear on the invoice a fortnight or two later.
At the moment terms change in Business Central, the storefront follows, because Alumio reads what Litium makes available and publishes the new agreement rather than waiting for the next quarterly load to come round.
When finance places a hold, the Litium buyer is stopped at checkout rather than after the order exists, so the conversation happens before anybody has been told their order was accepted and is on its way to them.
Alumio sits between sales channels and fulfillment systems as a governed integration backbone. Orders are routed, transformed, and validated, while status updates return to every channel.
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A business selling on agreement usually bills on one too, and subscription or contract billing sits somewhere else again. A buyer ordering against terms expects the invoice to match them, and that is a third system's job. Alumio holds that connection alongside this one, so the price, the order and the bill all come from the same agreement.
Yes, and prices and orders move on different cycles because they change at different speeds. Agreements are revised occasionally and orders arrive continually, so treating them as one flow makes one of them late. Alumio publishes the agreements you nominate and creates orders as they are placed, within what Business Central exposes for each.
No, and who maintains it afterwards decides whether it lasts. Price agreements change because somebody in sales negotiated something, and if reflecting that means a piece of work then the storefront drifts from the ledger within a quarter. Because it is configuration, finance keeps it current. Where an agreement has to be worked out rather than read, the Code Transformer works it out.
Their own company's, which sounds obvious and is the thing most B2B storefronts get wrong. A buyer signing in has an agreement negotiated on their behalf, and showing them a general list makes the storefront useless to exactly the customers it was built for. Supplying the agreement from Business Central at sign-in is what makes the page worth using rather than a catalogue somebody telephones about.
The one that causes an argument is an order posted before its payment state was confirmed, because the goods are allocated and the money is not there. Alumio records the state the order was in when it posted, so the sequence can be checked rather than reconstructed. Each transfer is monitored live and logged, a refusal alerts with the reason, retries run where configured, and nothing is lost quietly.
Talk to an Alumio integration specialist. We'll map the right architecture for your systems, at the right scale, so your operations stay reliable through every change.
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