A multi-store wine and spirits retailer on LS Central needed to stop wrong purchase costs and journal lines at entry, not find them at month end. We built one extension for it, with five modules from a purchase-cost check to new-item approval, and it hooks into the platform through only three event subscriptions.
The client is a multi-store wine and spirits retailer running LS Central on Business Central online. Between February 2024 and March 2026 we built one extension for it, with five modules covering purchase costs, item journals, the job queue, ledger exports, and new items.
Many stores mean many people entering data, and each entry point is a place where a mistake can get in. A cost keyed in error on a purchase line, far off what the item last cost, ends up in the inventory value and the margins once it posts. Store staff post item journals, where a line in another store's batch, or with a changed posting date, has to be found and reversed later. When a recurring job in the job queue fails, it stays stopped until someone restarts it. New items are another entry point: each one has to be requested, approved, and set up with units, a vendor, and LS Central attributes before any store can sell it.
Flags purchase lines whose cost differs from the item's last direct cost by more than a configurable percentage, rejects them on invoices, returns, and credit memos, and blocks posting, with per-item exclusions, lookup by vendor item number, and unit-of-measure confirmation.
Journal batches filtered to the user's store, batch defaults, locked fields, and a posting date that only super users can change.
An email when a job fails, and an automatic restart for failed recurring jobs.
Filtered general ledger entries, each with its source name, point-of-sale terminal, and item.
Item requests with category-driven attributes and cascading lookups, attachments, and emails to approvers, then one-click item creation with units, vendor, and LS Central attributes.
Business Central online and LS Central both release updates on their own schedules, and an extension on top of them has to keep working through each one. All five modules ship as one app of 56 objects, and that app touches the platform in only a few places:
Four of the five modules are in production: the purchase-cost check, the controls on item journals, job-queue monitoring, and the ledger export. Item onboarding, the fifth, was completed in March 2026. On Business Central 27.0 and 27.5 with LS Central 27.x, the app compiles with 0 errors.
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