If you ship product out of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, you probably know this routine: pull the order in Business Central, switch to a carrier portal to get a rate, switch again to book the shipment, print the label somewhere else, then come back to Business Central to enter the tracking number and freight cost by hand. Repeat that for every order, every carrier, every day.
None of that is a Business Central problem. It’s a shipping problem that happens to touch Business Central. And it’s the reason Dynamic Ship exists.
The real cost of shipping outside your ERP
Every time an order leaves Business Central to get rated, booked, or labeled somewhere else, you lose something: time, accuracy, or both. A rate gets keyed in wrong. A tracking number never makes it back to the sales order. A customer calls asking where their shipment is, and someone has to log into three different systems to find out.
None of this shows up as one big problem. It shows up as a dozen small ones a day, and it adds up to real labor cost and real customer service risk, especially as order volume grows.
One app, not a workaround
Dynamic Ship from Insight Works is built to keep shipping inside Business Central instead of working around it. It handles rate shopping, label printing, package management, and tracking from the same screens your team already uses to process orders. That means:
- Rate shopping across carriers without opening a separate portal for each one.
- Label printing tied directly to the sales order or shipment, not a standalone station.
- Package management that reflects what’s actually going out the door, in the units and packaging your warehouse uses.
- Tracking that updates the shipment record in Business Central, so the answer to “where’s my order” is one screen away, not three.
The goal isn’t another tool bolted onto your ERP. It’s fewer tools, period.
More carriers, same workflow
Dynamic Ship already connects to 25 shipping and freight partners, covering parcel, LTL, and specialized carriers. That range matters because most distribution and manufacturing businesses don’t ship one way. A company might use a parcel carrier for small package orders and an LTL provider for palletized freight, sometimes on the same day, sometimes for the same customer.
The point of having that many connectors isn’t to offer choice for its own sake. It’s so a Business Central user can add or change carrier relationships without changing how shipping works inside their ERP. The workflow inside Business Central stays the same—only the carrier on the other end changes.
Priority1 joins the list
The newest addition is Priority1, a network of more than 47,000 vetted carriers across LTL and parcel freight. Through Dynamic Ship, Business Central users can now rate shop, book, and track Priority1 shipments in both modes without leaving Business Central.
This one is worth a closer look if you’re coming to Business Central from Dynamics GP. Priority1 has a long-standing presence among GP shippers, many of whom built freight processes around that carrier relationship over years. With Microsoft winding down support for GP, a lot of those companies are now looking at Business Central. Losing an established carrier relationship in the middle of an ERP migration is exactly the kind of disruption that makes a switch harder than it needs to be.
That’s the problem this connector solves. If Priority1 is already how you rate, book, and track freight, moving to Business Central doesn’t mean giving that up or rebuilding it from scratch. Dynamic Ship brings the same carrier relationship into your new ERP.
What this means for you
Whether you’re already running Business Central or evaluating a move from GP, the underlying question is the same: how much of your shipping process still happens outside your ERP, and what is that costing you in time, accuracy, or manual work?
If the answer is “more than it should,” that’s the gap Dynamic Ship is built to close, and it’s why the carrier list keeps growing.
Learn more about Dynamic Ship or see the full list of Dynamic Ship connectors, including Priority1.