Finance teams are under more pressure than ever. As businesses strive to do more with less, manual data entry, paper invoices, and spreadsheets have become bottlenecks slowing growth, increasing error rates, and distracting staff from adding strategic value. Cloud ERP platforms like Dynamics 365 Business Central have made big strides addressing these challenges—but even Business Central has process gaps and admin burdens that slow finance down.
These inefficiencies directly impact profitability, which is why many SMBs focus on how Business Central and Continia cut costs for SMBs in 2025 through finance automation and smarter workflows.
That’s where Continia comes in. With a suite of automation solutions purpose-built for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Continia transforms the way businesses handle accounts payable, receivable, expense management, banking, reporting, and compliance. In this guide, we’ll unpack Continia’s impact—why it matters, what it automates, how it works, and the real differences it delivers for finance teams.
Continia is not a standalone external app or an awkwardly glued-on portal. Its solutions are designed to live inside Business Central, extending the native interface, workflows, and data model. This approach ensures:
Continia makes finance automation feel like a natural part of your daily Business Central experience.
Automating the receipt, processing, approval, and archiving of supplier invoices is one of the greatest impact areas:
Impact: Businesses can eliminate more than 90% of manual AP steps, cut time-to-posting, and reduce invoice processing turnaround from weeks to days or hours.
Employee expenses and reimbursements are painful for both staff and accounts teams. Continia Expense Management brings:
Impact: Drastically reduces manual entry and approval delays, improves spend visibility, and ensures everyone gets reimbursed on time.
Sending invoices, remittances, and statements should be seamless—not a manual PDF export/upload/download task:
Result: AR closes faster, errors drop, and teams spend less time exporting and emailing documents.
Cash flow is king. Payment management is at the core of financial operations, and Continia delivers big advantages:
These features turn previously days-long tasks into an exercise of minutes.
For advanced finance management, Continia offers powerful extensions that plug holes in Business Central’s native functionality:
Manual finance processes create delays, errors, and bottlenecks across the entire AP workflow. Teams often spend hours entering invoice data, tracking missing documents, and following up on approvals. These challenges make month-end closing difficult and increase compliance risks. Continia solves these issues by automating repetitive tasks directly inside Business Central—making your finance team faster, more accurate, and fully streamlined.
Key Benefits:
| Module | Business Central Limitation | Continia Automation Benefit |
|---|---|---|
| Document Capture | Manual invoice handling | Automatic data extraction, approval, archive |
| Expense Management | Manual expense input/reports | Mobile receipts, auto-policy check, approvals |
| Document Output | Manual AR output/emails | Automated, branded, tracked AR docs |
| Payment Management | Manual payment file creation | Bulk payment files, auto matching/reconcile |
| Finance (Essentials) | G/L & VAT basics only | Smart VAT/currency, dimension auto-alloc |
| Extended Fixed Assets | Basic asset management | Templates, partial retirements, batch action |
| Associations | No customer grouping | Multi-entity reconciliation, unified reports |
| Treasury | Manual liquidity monitoring | Real-time cash/bank/journal centralization |
A growing Aussie retail chain struggled to keep AP and expenses under control. With Continia, invoice processing time shrank from a week to 24 hours. Finance staff validated over 90% of approvals from their inbox. Expense claims dropped from ‘paper storm’ to self-service mobile entry, freeing staff for stock planning and analysis. As a result, their finance team handled expansion to new stores—without adding extra admin staff or hours.
Continia continues to evolve with AI-powered invoice interpretation, automating even more review steps and learning from user feedback. Upcoming modules support carbon emissions tracking, helping businesses automate not just financial, but environmental reporting. As finance complexity grows, Continia’s deep integration ensures businesses are ready for whatever’s next.
Continia’s finance automation suite inside Dynamics 365 Business Central changes the game for modern finance teams. By combining smart data capture, flexible workflows, powerful reporting, and seamless integration—all within the familiar Business Central interface—Continia removes the friction from daily finance tasks. The benefit? Faster processes, higher accuracy, happier teams, and leaders confident that finance is ready for growth, compliance, and the future.
If your business is ready to upgrade from manual, paper-driven finance to a smarter, connected, and agile future, Continia and Business Central deliver a powerful, proven path forward.
Continia is a suite of finance automation solutions designed to work seamlessly within Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. It automates key finance workflows such as invoice processing, expense management, payment handling, and document capture directly inside the ERP environment.
Continia automates several critical finance workflows including invoice capture and approval, expense reporting and reimbursement, payment processing, bank reconciliation, document archiving, and collections management.
Continia uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology to automatically scan and extract data from invoices. The data is validated and entered into Business Central, reducing manual data entry and accelerating invoice approval workflows.
Yes, Continia automates expense tracking and reporting by enabling employees to capture receipts digitally, track mileage, and submit expenses through mobile or web portals. Approval workflows and integration with Business Central streamline reimbursements.
Continia automates payment matching by connecting payment data with invoices and bank transactions. The solution supports electronic invoice approval and automates bank reconciliation, reducing errors and manual reconciliation time.
Yes, Continia provides solutions for automated document capture, output, and archiving. This ensures all finance-related documents are electronically stored and easily retrievable from within Business Central.
Benefits include increased accuracy and efficiency, reduced manual workload and errors, faster processing times, improved compliance and audit readiness, enhanced visibility and control over financial operations, and seamless integration with Business Central.
Yes, Continia is designed to scale and support SMBs by automating routine finance tasks, allowing finance teams to focus on higher-value activities and strategic financial management.
Continia solutions are designed for quick deployment and tight integration with Business Central, minimizing disruption. Many features are configurable to adapt to specific business requirements.
Yes, Continia offers mobile-friendly features for expense capture, approvals, and document management, enabling finance workflow automation on the go.
