Quarterly Capabilities Update – Q4 2024-25 | OnActuate
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As the new year begins, Microsoft continues to enhance Dynamics 365 Finance with new features to meet evolving business needs. Stay informed with the Quarterly Capabilities Update: Q4 2024-25.

Features releasing in February 2025 
Module  Feature  Description  Public Preview  General availability 
Core Financials  Get batch log summarizations of sales invoice copilot  Users have an enhanced experience in reading batch logs. They’ll get an AI-driven summary so they can answer questions about what is outstanding, what has failed, and why it failed. This will prevent users from contacting customer service and support for assistance.    Feb-25 
Core Financials  Make payments in advance with prepayment sales invoice.  The prepayment sales invoice feature streamlines the invoicing process for customers who make prepayments (advance payments). It helps businesses manage their cash flow more effectively by accurately recording and tracking prepayments. Overall, the prepayment sales invoice optimizes financial operations, increases efficiency, reduces risk, and contributes to the overall success of the business.    Feb-25 
Business Performance  Track change management in business performance planning  This feature improves the overall transparency and accountability of changes made to cube data in business performance planning, providing users with a comprehensive view of the data’s history and facilitating better decision-making.    Feb-25 
Business Performance  Manage Assets using Acquire to Dispose Data Models  The Acquire to Dispose data model in Business performance analytics enhances asset management by streamlining processes, ensuring accurate tracking and valuation, and offering detailed financial visibility. This feature enables customers to efficiently manage their assets from acquisition to disposal, reducing errors and saving time. With precise asset tracking and valuation, businesses gain better control over their financials, leading to more informed decision-making.

The comprehensive financial visibility provided by the Acquire to Dispose data model allows customers to identify cost-saving opportunities, optimize asset utilization, and ultimately drive profitability and growth. 

Feb-25  March-25 
Business Performance  Generative help in business performance planning application  Business performance planning is the extended planning and analysis application that Dynamics 365 finance and operations users will leverage to do financial budget planning and forecasting. With Copilot generative answers, users can ask questions about product features and functionality and get quick and summarized responses from Microsoft Learn content.  Feb -25  Feb -25 

 

Features in latest service update 10.0.43: 
  • Preview of release:  January 2025 
  • General availability of release (self-update):  March 2025 
  • General availability of release (auto-update):  April 2025 
  • Build Number: 10.0.2177 

 

Module or feature area  Feature name  More information  Enabled by 
Accounts receivable  Return order invoice support through dual-write  New entities and new mappings are available in Dynamics 365 Finance to sync return orders invoice from Finance to the customer’s environment.  Default 
Budget control  Enable Non-retrievable purchase orders page for purchase order year-end process  If this feature is enabled, users can validate the reason why specific purchase orders aren’t available for purchase order year end processing on the Non-retrievable purchase orders page.  Feature management 
Cash and bank management  Enable process automation for accounts receivable and accounts payable foreign currency revaluation  This feature introduces accounts payable and accounts receivable foreign currency revaluations process automation.  Feature management 
Cash and bank management  Enable offset account financial dimensions for general ledger voucher posting during bank account reconciliation  By enabling this feature, users can define offset financial dimensions for general ledger voucher that is posted manually during bank account reconciliation or automatically if reconciliation rule for voucher generation is created.  Feature management 
Cash and bank management  Payment journal cancellation from bank reconciliation worksheet  Cancel customer payment journals directly from the Modern bank reconciliation worksheet. It simplifies the reconciliation process by enabling easy reversals and ensuring accurate financial records.  Feature management 
Subscription billing  Performance improvement for consumption quantity update  This feature enhances the performance of recurring contract billing when the consumption quantity is updated on the billing detail line for a usage-based billing schedule line.  Feature management 
Electronic reporting  (Preview) In-app PDF conversion for configurable business documents  This feature facilitates the seamless conversion of configurable business documents from Word or Excel formats to PDF. It supports a wide range of business scenarios and gives users the flexibility to generate and distribute professional-grade PDF documents directly in the app. 

Because this feature uses Application Object Server (AOS) resources, external conversion services aren’t required. By taking advantage of in-app capabilities to ensure efficient and secure document processing, this feature reduces dependency on third-party tools while it also maintains high performance and reliability. 

Learn more in  Output conversion to PDF. 

Feature management 
Regulatory reporting  (Production ready preview) Security enhancements in UK MTD VAT integration (cloud-based deployments only)  This feature is a Production Ready Preview feature for companies that use direct integration of their cloud-based Finance instance with Making Tax Digital for Value-Added Tax (MTD VAT) APIs of His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC). 

When you enable the feature, your UK MTD VAT TEST and UK MTD VAT returns electronic messaging processing is automatically updated to enhance the security of your Finance integration for direct VAT return submissions for your UK VAT registration. The following actions of the Web service type were changed to executable classes: retrieve VAT obligations, test retrieve VAT obligations, submit VAT return, test submit VAT return, request VAT liabilities, and request VAT payments. 

After this feature is enabled, it can’t be disabled. 

Learn more in  Making Tax Digital – VAT return submission in the United Kingdom. 

Feature management 
Regulatory reporting  (Preview) SAF Accounting Books Income Tax – JPK_KR_PD 

JPK_KR_PD (Jednolity Plik Kontrolny – Księgi Rachunkowe Podatnika) is a new reporting standard in Poland that is mandatory for businesses as of January 1, 2025. It requires that taxpayers submit detailed accounting books in a structured electronic format. Large taxpayers must report the new SAF Accounting Books Income Tax – JPK_KR_PD for the first time in March 2026, which is their deadline for filing their 2025 tax returns.  

Learn more in SAF Accounting Books Income Tax – JPK_KR_PD. 

Electronic reporting (ER) configurations 
System Administration  Master Company Data Sharing  Master company sharing, also known as single record sharing (SRS), is a concept where a single physical record belonging to a master company is virtually shared across child companies. Create, update, or delete in any company in the policy updates the single records used across all companies. After this feature is enabled, it can’t be disabled  Feature management 

 

There are feature enhancements and bug fixes in this release. Visit Microsoft’s website for more details. 

 

Looking for consulting support related to the new features mentioned in Quarterly Capabilities Update: Q4 2024-25. or more information about implementing Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance? Contact OnActuate experts for a 1:1 consultation today. 

 

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