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Posted on by AntonioSilva 10

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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    Horia Micu Profile Picture
    Horia Micu on at
    RE: Dynamics Business Central developing license

    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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    Teddy Herryanto (That NAV Guy) Profile Picture
    Teddy Herryanto (Th... 14,033 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    RE: Dynamics Business Central developing license

    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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    Bilal Haider Profile Picture
    Bilal Haider 391 on at
    RE: Dynamics Business Central developing license

    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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    JAngle Profile Picture
    JAngle 113 on at
    RE: Dynamics Business Central developing license

    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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