Dynamics Business Central developing license

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Posted on by AntonioSilva

Hi all,

We are an organization who have a lot of customized objects and we use a Dynamics NAV licence to do that.

Do we need a BC developer licence to upgrade BC?

Thanks in advance,

Antonio da Silva

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JAngle 133 on at

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A developers license isn’t needed. If on premise then you need to buy the objects. If SaaS then objects are free

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Bilal Haider 414 on at

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Hi,

To upgrade to Business Central On-Prem if you are doing yourself then for sure you need a developer license otherwise you cannot take customizations and upgrade. If you are doing it with the help of a partner who have developer license then you do not need it.

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Teddy Herryanto (Th... 14,284 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at

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If you are upgrading from NAV to BC, then you need BC Developer license. Get a help from partner because it is not as easy as you think.

If you are reimplementing from scratch to BC, you don't need dev license.

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Horia Micu on at

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Hello,

For upgrades, you always need to upload a Microsoft Business Central Partner ( Developer ) license to convert the DB ( database) .

Microsoft partner licenses are far more powerful than customer licenses, always been like this.

Please, review Microsoft docs

docs.microsoft.com/.../converting-a-database

Upload the Business Central Partner license to the database.

For more information, see Uploading a License File for a Specific Database.

Important > The license that you upload must be a developer license. During the conversion, the development environment will convert the report objects that are stored in the old database.

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