We are on our way expanding to first country abroad (a new company there). Naturally follows the question how to set up NAV.
Same database and multiple companies would seem reasonable for three reasons:
- No need for licenses, or only need for smaller number of new licenses
- Same changes to NAV would work straight away in all companies (ok, not probably that much of benefit, but small)
- Ease for users: in back office employees could easily change between companies within NAV when doing the same tasks in all companies or whole company group.
Now we have been discussing with different NAV software vendors - many of them seem to think that it can require much work to set up multiple localisations. Instead they are suggesting a new clean install - into a newer version.
Out of accounting perspective this seems odd - shouldn't NAV check the country code of the company and automatically fetch the right setup or definitions. So only import new localisation tables etc and start running the business? Ok, few new reports may be required?
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