Business Central 29 stops SOAP integrations at the update until an administrator switches SOAP back on

Ten of the wave's 12 public previews are finance and expense features ^[19]. All 14 reporting features are generally available ^[2]. CodeCore's own summary is that the finance changes usable on update day are in financial reporting and the Payables Agent ^[15]. By its count, past public previews that ran longer than 6 weeks reached general availability in a median of 2.2 months ^[11]. The Expense Agent is an agent, so I'd plan on the agent history before the median.

The old release plans flagged features an administrator had to switch on. Those features were 12 to 21 per cent of each plan ^[5]. At that share, a wave of 80 features would hold roughly 10 to 17 that need an administrator ^[17]. SOAP access to Microsoft pages is one of them ^[4]. Microsoft's launch videos also show 6 capabilities that appear on neither the feature list nor the roadmap, among them cross-environment master data management and Fabric mirroring, CodeCore wrote ^[13].

The Payables Agent is the finance feature with a price attached. CodeCore puts it at about $0.65 in Copilot Credits for a 3-line invoice ^[6]. It equates that to roughly 1 minute of a clerk paid $40 an hour ^[6]. The time its sandbox run saved is worth about $1.20 at that rate ^[18]. The test ran in a CRONUS International demo company on build 29.0.54011.55407 ^[12]. For the number to transfer, a real payables team's invoices would have to be as short as 3 lines and its tax lines would have to come out right. In the sandbox the tax did not ^[7].

The reporting work is careful engineering. A new Packages action prints several financial reports as one PDF, each with its own filters and dates ^[9]. CodeCore's package of 4 reports printed as 1 PDF of 6 pages ^[9]. Where-Used List on a G/L account now covers report definitions ^[10]. It found an account typed on its own into a totaling line. It missed 2900 and 2910, though both fall within the 2900..2990 range on that report's Cash line ^[10]. Every M-BALANCE line CodeCore checked uses ranges, and it names the new FactBox, which lists the accounts behind each totaling line, as the better check ^[10].

Printed documents stay as they are. A new environment starts without a theme, and according to Microsoft, none of the layouts it ships has a different default in this release ^[14].