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Hi, I'm curious whats the difference between those 2. I've notice that they are almost the same but there is one API (Customer Ledger Entry) that exists in the `Web Services` but not in the `API V2.0`. Also I just want to know if `Web Service` is designed to handle large amount for read-only queries. Thanks in advance!

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AS-05060801-0 86 on at

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Got it Mr. ZHU. Just a quick follow up question, is it recommended to use Direct Tenant over Common Endpoint for production?
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Yes.

More details: https://yzhums.com/6117/#toc1

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Please clarify what is `c8558e71-6ad8-4fcd-9f29-3ca165b41bbe` from your URL? is it TenantId?
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Hi, In BC21, Microsoft added standard APIs

Business Central 2022 wave 2 (BC21): Use new dedicated APIs for financial reporting (Advanced APIs -> reportsFinance/beta)

https://yzhums.com/29540/

customerLedgerEntry resource type (Beta)

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/financereportsapi/resources/dynamics_customerledgerentry?wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004336

But because it is a Beta version, the endpoint is a little different from v2.0.

Endpoint: https://api.businesscentral.dynamics.com/v2.0/c8558e71-6ad8-4fcd-9f29-3ca165b41bbe/Sandbox241/api/microsoft/reportsFinance/beta/companies(938320db-e10b-ef11-9f8d-6045bdacaf36)/customerLedgerEntries

Hope this helps.

Thanks.

ZHU
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Thank you for sharing that info, YUN ZHU. My issue with the API is that it does not have a way to get the Customer Ledger Entry, would you suggest anyway I can get it via the API?
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The main difference is in performance. API is much better than Web Service (Odata). Here are some data from Microsoft.

Hope this helps.

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ZHU