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Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce

Deliver a seamless, personalised shopping experience across every channel — in-store, online, mobile, and call centre — unified on a single platform that connects your front-end sales to your back-office operations, implemented by Finsys Apps.

The Commerce Challenge Every Retailer Faces

Retail has changed fundamentally. Customers no longer think in terms of channels — they expect a seamless experience whether they are browsing online, buying in-store, collecting from a click-and-collect point, or returning through any channel they choose. Yet most retailers are still running their commerce operations on systems that were never designed to work together: a separate e-commerce platform, a disconnected POS system, a standalone loyalty programme, and an ERP that receives data from all of them on a lag.

The result is fragmented customer data, inconsistent pricing and promotions, inventory that is visible in one channel but not another, and a back-office team manually reconciling transactions that should flow automatically. Dynamics 365 Commerce eliminates this fragmentation — bringing every sales channel, every customer interaction, and all the back-office operations that support them onto a single, unified platform.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales dashboard

One platform for every channel — backed by a single view of every customer

Customer shopping online on laptopDynamics 365 Commerce is Microsoft’s unified commerce platform — connecting your e-commerce storefront, point of sale, back-office operations, call centre, and digital marketing on a single platform, all drawing from the same product catalogue, inventory, pricing engine, and customer data.

Finsys Apps implements Dynamics 365 Commerce for retailers, brands, and wholesalers who are ready to move beyond channel-by-channel technology and build a genuinely unified commerce operation. We configure the platform around your specific retail model, integrate it with your existing technology estate, and ensure your team is fully operational across every channel from go-live.

Single Platform

In-store, online, mobile, and call centre managed from one unified system.

Of Every Customer

Purchase history, loyalty, preferences, and interactions unified across all channels.

Businesses Transformed

Finsys Apps clients across the UK and Europe.

E-Commerce & Digital Storefront

The Dynamics 365 Commerce e-commerce module provides a fully featured digital storefront — product catalogue management, content management, search and merchandising, personalised recommendations, checkout, and order management — built on a headless commerce architecture that gives your team full control over the customer-facing experience without requiring heavy development resource for every content update.

Because the e-commerce platform is natively connected to the same product catalogue, pricing engine, and inventory as your physical stores and back-office, there is no synchronisation lag, no overselling risk from disconnected stock levels, and no need for manual price updates across channels. Promotions, offers, and loyalty rewards apply consistently regardless of which channel the customer uses to shop.

  • Headless e-commerce architecture with built-in CMS for content management
  • AI-powered product recommendations personalised to each customer’s behaviour
  • Real-time inventory visibility across all channels — no overselling
  • Consistent pricing, promotions, and loyalty rewards across every channel
  • Buy online, collect in-store, return anywhere — fully supported natively

Modern Point of Sale

Retail store associate serving customerThe Dynamics 365 Commerce POS is a modern, cloud-connected point-of-sale application that runs on standard Windows hardware, tablets, and mobile devices — giving your store associates the tools they need to deliver an exceptional in-store experience while operating as part of a fully unified commerce platform.

Store associates have access to the complete customer profile at the point of sale — purchase history across all channels, loyalty points, saved baskets from the website, and active promotions — enabling genuinely personalised service at the till. The POS operates in offline mode when connectivity is unavailable, synchronising automatically when the connection is restored, so store operations are never dependent on a stable internet connection.

In-store capabilities

  • Cloud-connected POS on Windows, tablet, and mobile hardware
  • Full customer profile and cross-channel history at the point of sale
  • Offline mode — POS operates without internet connectivity
  • Clienteling — associate-led outreach to loyal and high-value customers

Fulfilment and returns

  • Ship from store — use store inventory to fulfil online orders
  • Click and collect — reserve online, collect in-store
  • Cross-channel returns — return in-store regardless of where the purchase was made
  • Centralised order management handling fulfilment across all channels simultaneously

Loyalty, Customer Data & Personalisation

Retailer reviewing customer loyalty analyticsLoyalty programmes are only as effective as the customer data that powers them — and that data is only complete when it captures every transaction regardless of channel. Dynamics 365 Commerce’s built-in loyalty engine accumulates points, tracks tiers, and applies rewards consistently whether a customer shops online, in-store, or via the call centre — with the complete loyalty ledger visible to every associate and the customer themselves through self-service.

Customer Insights integration brings AI-powered customer segmentation and predictive analytics into the commerce platform — enabling your marketing team to identify high-value customers at risk of lapsing, personalise promotions based on actual purchase behaviour, and measure the true lifetime value contribution of loyalty members versus non-members. Every customer interaction feeds back into a continuously improving model of who your customers are and what they want next.

  • Built-in loyalty engine — points, tiers, and rewards consistent across all channels
  • Customer Insights integration for AI-powered segmentation and predictive analytics
  • Personalised product recommendations driven by purchase history and behaviour
  • At-risk customer identification — proactive re-engagement before lapse occurs
  • Lifetime value analysis connecting loyalty programme data to financial outcomes

Back-Office, Merchandising & Finance Integration

Retail back-office team reviewing financial dataThe back-office capabilities of Dynamics 365 Commerce cover the full retail management lifecycle — buyer and merchandising workflows, assortment management, replenishment, pricing and discount management, and the financial postings that connect every transaction to your general ledger. For retailers running Dynamics 365 Finance alongside Commerce, these financial postings happen in real time with no manual journal uploads or end-of-day batch processes.

Retail analytics and reporting give merchandising and operations teams real-time visibility of sales performance by store, product, category, channel, and time period — with drill-down from summary to transaction level in seconds. Power BI integration extends this to executive dashboards and board-level reporting, while AI-driven insights surface the inventory and pricing decisions that will have the greatest impact on margin.

  • Assortment management and buyer workflows for product range planning
  • Automated replenishment based on sell-through rates and safety stock policies
  • Pricing and promotion management — centralised and applied across all channels
  • Real-time financial postings to Dynamics 365 Finance with no batch processing
  • Power BI retail analytics — sales by store, product, category, and channel

Why Businesses Choose Finsys Apps

Commerce implementations are technically complex — they touch every part of a retail business, from the customer-facing digital experience through to the back-office financial postings — and they are operationally critical, because any disruption to trading channels during go-live has an immediate and measurable impact. Finsys Apps brings the technical depth and retail domain experience to manage this complexity.

We configure Dynamics 365 Commerce around your specific retail model — your channel mix, your product hierarchy, your fulfilment approach, and your loyalty strategy — and we manage the go-live process to minimise disruption, including cutover from legacy POS systems, data migration of customer and product records, and store associate training. For retailers also running Dynamics 365 Finance, we configure the financial integration from the outset so there are no reconciliation surprises post go-live.

  • Retail domain expertise across fashion, grocery, specialist retail, and brands
  • Configured around your channel mix, fulfilment model, and loyalty strategy
  • Managed POS cutover and store associate training as part of go-live
  • Microsoft-certified consultants across Dynamics 365 Commerce and Finance
  • Fixed-price implementations with clear milestones and no hidden costs
  • 24/7 post-go-live support as standard

“I started Finsys Apps because I believed businesses deserved better — better implementations, better support, and better outcomes from their technology investment. Every client we work with gets my personal commitment to that standard.”

Matt Cooke

Founder & CEO, Finsys Apps

Frequently Asked Questions

A standalone e-commerce platform — Shopify, Magento, or similar — manages only the online channel, requiring integration work and ongoing maintenance to connect to your POS, inventory, finance, and loyalty systems. Dynamics 365 Commerce manages all of these as a single unified system: the same product catalogue, pricing engine, inventory, customer record, and loyalty ledger underpin every channel simultaneously. For retailers operating both physical and digital channels at scale, this eliminates significant complexity and cost.
Yes. If you have significant investment in an existing e-commerce platform, Dynamics 365 Commerce can be implemented for POS, back-office, and financial operations only, with the e-commerce platform connected via API integration. However, for retailers who are open to migrating their digital storefront, the fully unified approach delivers substantially better data quality, operational efficiency, and customer experience. Finsys Apps will assess both options during the scoping phase.
Yes. Dynamics 365 Commerce includes a built-in loyalty engine supporting points-based, tier-based, and transaction-based reward programmes. Points are earned and redeemed consistently across all channels — in-store, online, and call centre — and the complete loyalty ledger is visible to store associates at the POS and to customers through self-service. More sophisticated loyalty programme requirements can be extended using the Commerce SDK or integrated with specialist loyalty platforms.
Dynamics 365 Commerce is designed to work natively with Dynamics 365 Finance and Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, with financial transactions posting in real time to the general ledger and inventory movements reflected immediately in the commerce inventory. It can also be integrated with Dynamics 365 Business Central for smaller retail operations, or with third-party ERP systems via the API framework. Finsys Apps will advise on the most appropriate back-office integration approach for your situation.
A standard implementation covering POS, e-commerce, product catalogue, and back-office operations for a single retail brand typically takes between 6 and 12 months depending on the number of stores, the complexity of the product catalogue, and the extent of integration required with third-party systems. Implementations including full loyalty migration, multi-brand operations, or complex fulfilment models are scoped individually. Finsys Apps provides a fixed-price proposal before any work begins.

Let’s Make Things Happen

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“Matt and his team at Finsys Apps were fabulous. They took us through the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central, helping us design our new BI financial reporting structure, migrate our legacy data and developed new integrations.  The whole process was painless”.

David Drummond

Finance Director, Stott and May