Business Central, configured in minutes — not weeks

Watch it happen

One real deployment, recorded unedited. It starts by proving the company does not exist yet — a demo that opens with the answer already on screen proves nothing.

Recorded 12 August 2026 against a live Business Central tenant. Elapsed time is the wall clock.

From £249 fixed. No day rates, no change requests.

A new Business Central company arrives empty. Before anyone can raise an invoice, someone has to build the chart of accounts, the posting groups, the VAT setups, the number series, the currencies, the dimensions. That work is normally measured in consultant-days and billed accordingly.

We do it in about five minutes, to a known-good standard, for a fixed fee — and every package includes the 23 branded process guides that walk your team through it.

This is a flat, standardised install, not a bespoke build: every FastBC deployment sets up the same 88 general ledger accounts, the same 117 number series, and the same VAT and posting setup, every time. That consistency is exactly what makes the fixed fee possible — fixed fee, no day rates, no change requests, because we are not re-designing your chart of accounts each time, we are installing a known-good one.

What "configured" actually means

Not a template you still have to finish. A complete, working configuration:

• 88 general ledger accounts — a full chart of accounts, ready to post to
• 117 number series and their lines — sales, purchases, items, resources, journals
• 18 VAT posting setups and 15 general posting setups — the matrix that decides where every transaction lands
• 47 currencies with 53 exchange rates, and 68 countries and regions
• 48 accounting periods, created as a proper fiscal-year run
• Customer, vendor and inventory posting groups, dimensions and dimension values
• Manufacturing, fixed assets, jobs and HR — work centres, machine centres, BOMs, routings, depreciation books

57 configuration tables. 797 records. Zero failures on the last run.

Why this is not a RapidStart package

A RapidStart package is a spreadsheet you still have to import, validate and repair. It fails partway through on dependency order and leaves someone diagnosing why a posting group will not save.

FastBC deploys in dependency order — number series exist before the setups that reference them, and the chart of accounts exists before the posting setups that post into it. Every step is checked. If a record already exists it is recognised rather than duplicated, so running it twice does not create a mess.

That ordering is the difference between a configuration that works and a weekend of unpicking.

What you get

Both packages deliver a Business Central company configured to a known-good standard and ready to transact, plus the full set of 23 branded process guides. FastBC Full adds a handover call to walk your team through it.

FastBC (£249)

• A Business Central company configured to a known-good standard, ready to transact
• 23 branded process guides — one per business process, mapped to Microsoft's own Business Process Catalog: order to cash, source to pay, inventory to deliver, record to report, acquire to dispose, project to profit, plan to produce
• A written record of exactly what was configured, table by table

FastBC Full (£499)

• Everything in FastBC, including the 23 branded process guides
• A handover call to walk your team through the setup

What is not included

We would rather be straight about this than surprise you later.

• Your data. This configures the company; it does not migrate your customers, suppliers, stock or open balances. We can quote separately.
• Your bespoke chart of accounts. You get a complete, working chart. Replicating yours exactly is a tailoring job on top.
• The Business Central licence. Not part of the fixed fee — but we can sort it out for you. We are a Microsoft partner, so if you would rather not deal with licence purchasing, renewals and support yourself, we can take that on. Just ask.

Who this is for

• Businesses going live on Business Central who do not want to fund weeks of setup before seeing value
• Groups adding another company to an existing tenant, who need it configured the same way as the last one
• Partners who would rather bill the interesting work than the configuration

How it works

1. Place your order — choose FastBC or FastBC Full and submit via the order form
2. You give us access to the Business Central environment
3. We deploy — about five minutes, plus your 23 process guides
4. Handover (FastBC Full) — a call to walk through everything

Questions we get asked

Five minutes? Really?
Two measured runs on 12 August 2026 took 5 minutes 32 seconds and 4 minutes 4 seconds, from an empty company to a fully configured one. Both were verified by reading the data back out of Business Central rather than trusting the tool's own report. Your tenant may be slower. It will not be weeks.

What if something fails halfway?
Records that already exist are recognised, not duplicated, so the deployment can be re-run safely. The last run reported zero failures across all 57 tables.

Can we change it afterwards?
Yes. It is a standard Business Central company — nothing proprietary, nothing locked. Everything is configured through Microsoft's own APIs, exactly as a consultant would have done by hand.

Do both packages include the process guides?
Yes. All 23 branded process guides are included in both FastBC and FastBC Full. The only difference between the two is the handover call, included in FastBC Full.

Are the prices really fixed?
Yes. £249 for FastBC, £499 for FastBC Full — one company, one deployment. Data migration and bespoke tailoring are quoted separately, and always before any work starts.

How do we pay?
Place the order via the form, we confirm and invoice you. No card details, no Stripe checkout. Invoiced on completion.