Parties

Learn how to setup a Party, a company in Business Central sharing data with other companies.

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A Party is a company in Business Central sharing data with other companies. A Party can both send and receive data. You must set up all companies you will send data to or receive data from. Before you start setting up the Parties, decide on a naming strategy and stick to it. Try to avoid just a land code; use the land code in combination with a number, e.g. UK10, UK11, UK12.

Set up your standard party code

  1. Choose the 🔎 icon, enter Pryme Intercompany Setup, and then choose the related link.
  2. Fill in your party code in My Party code.

Parties

Every company must have a unique party code that identifies the company. Decide on a naming strategy, and stick to it.

  1. Choose the 🔎 icon, enter Parties (IDM), and then choose the related link.
  2. Fill in the fields as necessary. Hover over a field to read a short description.

Party groups

Party Group is a subset of parties and can be used in a Topic to restrict which companies are allowed to receive data.

  1. Choose the 🔎 icon, enter Party Groups (IDM), and choose the related link.
  2. Fill in the fields as necessary. Hover over a field to read a short description.
  3. Add the Code of Parties that should be related under the Parties subpage.