Dynamics 365 Business Central Trials and Subscriptions

Business Central, you can sign up for a free trial. Then, when you're ready, you can talk to a reselling partner about getting a subscription.

If you're not already working with a partner, see How do I find a reselling partner?.

Get started with a trial

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Go to the trial site, choose Finance and operations, and then, on the Dynamics 365 Business Central card, choose the Try for free button.
Enter your work or school email address and other details. You'll be redirected to your trial at https://businesscentral.dynamics.com/.

The trial takes a few moments to load, then you can start using the app. The Get Started checklist takes you through the steps to make you ready for business. The steps vary depending on your country and any industry-specific functionality that you've added to your Business Central.

In Business Central, some things will be familiar to you, and other things might be unfamiliar. When you first sign in to the demonstration company, you get access to a Get Started card with a link to show demo tours. For more information, see Get Ready for Doing Business and the quick starts articles.

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Business Central includes tooltips for fields and actions that can help guide you through the various business processes. Some pages also have teaching tips and tours to help you. On each tooltip and teaching tip, choose the Learn more link to open the Help pane where you find information about the current page and related tasks. On all pages, use Ctrl+F1 on your keyboard to open the Help pane. On any device, use the question mark in the upper right corner to get to the Help.

If you decide not to use Business Central, you can let the trial expire.

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[!NOTE] If a Business Central tenant is deleted.

If the trial is converted to a paid subscription before the trial expires, the countdown to 45 days of non-usage does not apply.

Should you run into problems, check the Trial FAQ or Frequently Asked Questions articles to find answers to some of your questions. If you're unable to sign up for the trial, check the Troubleshooting Self-Service Sign-Up article for tips. You can also contact a partner and ask them to create a free trial or a different type of preview of Business Central for you.

We recommend that you work with a reselling partner to help your organization get started with Business Central. See also the Sign up for a free Dynamics 365 Business Central trial article to get started.

Depending on your country or region, the trial includes the languages and functionality that your country or region requires. For more information, see Changing Language and Locale.

Add your own data to an empty trial company

If you want to try out Business Central online.

If 30 days aren't enough for you to decide, you can extend your trial. For more information, see Need More Time to Decide Whether to Subscribe?.

Set up your company in Business Central

The quick start articles can help you take the first steps into setting up Business Central, the Assisted Setup page lists the assisted setup guides that can help you. Depending on your role and country or region, the page shows different assistant setup guides as illustrated in the following table:

Assisted Setup	Description
Set Up My Company	Creates a new trial company for you to enter data and try out Business Central.
Set Up Approval Workflows	Sets up the ability to automatically notify an approver when a user tries to create or change certain values on documents, journal lines, or cards. For example, you can set up approval of amounts above a specified limit.
Set Up Email	Gets you ready for sending email messages directly from, for example, sales orders or contacts in Business Central.
Set Up Your Business Inbox in Outlook	Gets you ready to manage business interactions with your customers and vendors, directly in Microsoft Outlook.
Migrate Business Data	Lets you import your existing company data such as vendors, customers, and items from Excel or Quickbooks.
Set Up Email Logging	Sets up the capability to log email correspondence in Business Central to follow up on interactions.
Set Up an Item Approval Workflow	Sets up the ability to send a notification to an approver when a user changes or creates an item.
Set Up a Customer Approval Workflow	Sets up the ability to automatically notify an approver when a user tries to create or change a customer card.
Set Up a Payment Approval Workflow	Sets up the ability to send a notification to an approver when a user sends payment journal lines for approval.
Set Up Dynamics 365 Sales Connection	Sets up a connection to Dynamics 365 Sales, which allows you to synchronize data such as contacts and sales order information.
Set Up Cash Flow Forecast	Sets up the Cash Flow Forecast chart, so you can view the predicted movement of cash in and out of your business. The chart is available on the Accountant Role Center.
Set Up Reporting Data	Sets up data sets that you can use to build powerful reports using Excel or Power BI, for example.
Invite External Accountant	If you use an external accountant to manage your books and financial reporting, you can invite them to your Business Central so they can work with you on your fiscal data.

The Assisted Setup page may contain other entries. When you go through a setup, the setup will be marked as Completed. You can set up other areas of the company by using manual setup. For more information, see Setting Up Business Central.

Resetting your Business Central trial experience

If you have added data to your Business Central free trial, you can still start over with a fresh experience. Just create a new evaluation company, and then delete the original company. Open the Companies page and choose the New action to start the Create New Company assisted setup guide. The guide can help you set up a fresh evaluation company with sample data. You can also create a copy of your current company, sign out, and then sign into your new company.

[!IMPORTANT] When you share Business Central with other people from your organization, you must make sure other people are not logged in when you delete a company.

Get started with a subscription

Each time you sign in during the trial period, a notification in a blue bar at the top displays the time remaining. If you decide to subscribe, find a Business Central by adding apps from the Microsoft commercial marketplace.

Business Central on-premises.

You can also contact the Business Central Sales team.

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If you want to start using Business Central to do work.

For more information about what you can do with Business Central, see Getting Ready for Doing Business and Business Functionality.

Get started with sandboxes

Sandbox environments are a way for you to practice with Business Central. For example, if you want to take the free online training from Microsoft Learn, your administrator can create a sandbox environment. This way, you and your colleagues can practice in a safe place rather than in your production environment.

If you're a developer, a sandbox lets you safely build and test extensions and develop new functionality to customize the service without affecting the data and settings of your production environment.

Right now, all customers can use a sandbox, including organizations who have signed up for a trial. For more information about how to get started with a sandbox, see Sandbox Environments.

[!NOTE] Sandboxes created this way contain demonstration data for the fictitious CRONUS company. No data is copied or otherwise transferred from the production environment.

The administrator of your Business Central and your reselling partner can create more environments in the administration center. For more information, see The Business Central Administration Center.

Start a free trial!

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