Dynamics GP to Business Central migration services

Itransition handles Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Business Central migration end-to-end, helping businesses create a tailored strategy and manage the transition of data and workflows, delivering predictable migration results and helping minimize operational disruption and potential risks.

With Microsoft ending Dynamics GP support in 2029, businesses need to plan their move to a supported ERP platform. Itransition helps companies migrate to Dynamics 365 Business Central, handling migration planning, data transfer, workflow adaptation, and system validation to minimize disruption to daily operations.

Our Dynamics GP to Business Central migration service offer

Our Dynamics 365 team helps migrate business data and workflows from their legacy Dynamics GP systems to solutions built on top of Dynamics 365 Business Central. We cover the migration process end-to-end, supporting every stage of the transition:

Our Dynamics GP to Business Central migration service offer

System assessment & migration scope establishment

  • We audit your current GP setup, reviewing modules, data sources, integrations, customizations, and the functionality and data for transfer, as well as assess your company’s overall readiness for migration.
  • We define the migration scope and strategy, identifying the required Business Central functionality, data migration priorities, potential risks, and implementation requirements to establish a clear project roadmap.

Migration planning & preparation

  • We develop a detailed migration plan that includes the project scope, roadmap, costs, and timelines and choose migration tools.
  • We conduct cleansing, restructuring, organizing, and validation of master data, transactional data, and other relevant business records.
  • We prepare your GP environment for migration to Business Central, ensuring it meets all the prerequisites for transfer (e.g., upgrading it to Dynamics GP 2015 or later versions, etc.)

Designing the Business Central solution

  • We map your existing GP functionality to Business Central’s out-of-the-box capabilities and determine the scope of required configurations and customizations.
  • We set up the Business Central solution, setting it up to meet functional, security, and integration requirements.

Data & workflow migration

  • We run trial migrations in safe sandbox environments to validate core migration workflows and prevent unexpected system downtime.
  • We migrate your data and workflows from GP to Business Central using selected migration tools.

Testing & validation

  • We conduct functional, integration, regression, performance, and user acceptance testing to verify that the Business Central solution functions as intended.

User training & ongoing support

  • We develop role-based user training materials to ensure employee familiarity with the new solution’s capabilities and streamline user adoption.
  • Once we validate smooth platform operation, we deactivate your legacy GP environment.
  • Our team monitors and troubleshoots any post-go-live issues and ensures all workflows, configurations, and integrations function as intended.

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Why turn to Itransition

Official Microsoft partnership

As a certified Microsoft Partner with access to Microsoft's official tools and training resources, as well as support from Microsoft’s experts. We also align our Dynamics GP to Business Central migration approach with Microsoft’s best practices and proven methodology to ensure secure, efficient, and low-risk data transfer.

Rich industry expertise

Our team relies on extensive experience and a proven track record across 20+ industries, including manufacturing, retail, professional services, and healthcare, which allows us to align Business Central capabilities with real-world industry-specific workflows and requirements.

Various collaboration models

We offer multiple collaboration options to fit the needs of various migration projects. We can provide full project outsourcing, with our team managing your project end-to-end, a dedicated team assembled to work alongside your other migration specialists, and staff augmentation, with individual experts from Itransition joining your project.

Dynamics GP to Business Central migration best practices we follow

To avoid costly mistakes, reduce migration risks, and ensure smoother transition to Business Central, we leverage the following established migration best practices:

Opting for configuration over customization

We prioritize Business Central system configuration, using the solution’s standard functionality to cover as many of your business requirements as possible and only using customization to cover the workflows that out-of-the-box capabilities cannot. This approach helps reduce migration complexity and simplify the system’s ongoing maintenance and future updates.

Adopting a phased rollout approach

Rather than deploying all Business Central functionality at once, we implement the solution in phases, guided by business priorities and dependencies between processes that need to be tested and launched together. This approach allows us to incrementally validate core processes, address issues early, and gather user feedback, helping reduce implementation risks and making the transition more manageable.

Getting executive involvement

We involve key executives from the outset of a Dynamics GP to Business Central migration to align the Dynamics GP to Business Central migration project with business priorities and establish clear ownership of key decisions. Active executive engagement can also help communicate the importance of the change across the organization and secure the budget, personnel, and time required for the migration.

Dynamics GP to Business Central migration timelines

The transition from Dynamics GP to Dynamics 365 Business Central typically takes anywhere from 3 to 12 months depending on the migration project size, broadly defined by various factors, including the number of GP functionality used, the volume of data, and the number of third-party or ISV add-ons.

Small projects

Medium projects

Large projects
Project scope
  • General Ledger
  • Accounts Payable
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Cash management
  • Core business management + purchasing
  • Sales
  • Inventory
  • Jobs functionality
  • Business management and operations + manufacturing
  • Advanced warehousing functionality + ISV add-ons
Potential timeline

2-4 months

3-6 months

6-9+ months

Total cost of moving from Dynamics GP to Business Central

The total cost of migrating from Dynamics GP to Business Central consists of two major components, platform implementation and licensing costs. Implementation costs cover the work involved in migrating data, configuring the new system, and adapting it to business requirements, while licensing costs are recurring subscription fees. Understanding both helps businesses estimate the initial investment and ongoing costs of switching from GP to Business Central.

Implementation costs

The cost of a Dynamics GP to Business Central migration is primarily determined by the functionality and data to be transferred and implemented. Costs typically fall within the following ranges, depending on the features required, the number of integrations, reporting needs, data quality, and the level of customization involved.

Core finance
Finance + inventory
Custom functionality
+ manufacturing
Pricing

$20 - $40k

$30 - $50k

$140 - $180k+

Licensing costs

In addition to implementation costs, businesses need to budget for Dynamics 365 Business Central licenses. The total licensing costs depend on the number of users and the chosen Business Central plan that covers the needed functionality. As of 2026, Microsoft is offering a 30% discount* on Business Central licenses as part of the Bridge to Cloud 3 (BTC3) migration promotion which gives businesses cost-effective opportunities to switch from discontinued solutions. Here’s a breakdown of discounted Business Central license pricing and capabilities included:

Business Central Essentials
Business Central Premium
Business Central Team Member
Description

Comprehensive features for finance, sales, and operations management (Microsoft Copilot included)

Essentials capabilities, plus enhanced features for service management and manufacturing support

Limited capabilities to read data, approve or reject tasks, edit existing records, and create quotes

Pricing

$56 per user/month as compared to the regular price of $80 per user/month

$77 per user/month as compared to the regular price of $110 per user/month

$5.60 per user/month as compared to the regular price of $8 per user/month

*The Microsoft Bridge to the Cloud 3 (BTC3) promotion is available to Dynamics GP, NAV, and SL customers with a perpetual license purchased before September 1, 2024, an active Enhancement Plan, and a three-year NCE subscription purchased through CSP. The promotion is available until December 31, 2027.

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Benefits of migrating from Dynamics GP to Business Central

Migrating from Dynamics GP to Business Central brings multiple benefits related to companies’ operational efficiency, scalability and business agility, and software licensing and IT infrastructure costs. Here are some of the most common improvements businesses experience after the migration:

Cost efficiency

Business Central is provided on a subscription-based model, which reduces the need for upfront investments and allows for spreading licensing costs over time. When deployed in the cloud, Business Central can also reduce costs for on-site server hardware and its installation and maintenance, although companies implementing it on-premises will still need to account for these expenses.

Greater scalability

Another benefit related to Business Central’s cloud nature is simplified operational scalability. When hosted on Azure, the platform can be easily scaled, whether to meet the growing numbers of users and transactions or a business’s geographical expansion. As a result, Business Central offers improved flexibility and adaptability to emerging business needs without additional investments.

Simplified integrations

Business Central can be easily integrated with other tools from the Microsoft ecosystem, including Microsoft 365 apps, Power Platform-based solutions, and Azure services, enabling the exchange of business data across systems and boosting team productivity.

Improved analytics

Due to a wide range of built-in artificial intelligence and machine learning tools (including Copilot and AI agents) and seamless integration with Power BI, Business Central can provide adopters with access to real-time insights and advanced operational and financial reporting, enabling faster, better, and more informed decision-making.

Related Business Central services

Development & support

We ensure the long-term value of the implemented Business Central solutions, tailoring them to the SMBs’ changing needs by developing new functionality, improving existing workflows, troubleshooting emerging issues, and maintaining the solution’s high performance.

Implementation
Implementation

We deliver tailored Dynamics 365 Business Central solutions to SMBs across industries, taking on all implementation activities from initial discovery to on-going maintenance, aligning the solutions with businesses’ long-term strategic and operational goals, and maximizing business value from their Dynamics 365 investment.