AL Processing Charge

Overview

AL Processing Charge lets you sell items that go through a light pre-delivery processing - sharpening, coating, grinding, finishing - and have the revenue of the processing tracked separately from the revenue of the item itself, automatically and consistently, inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central.

Without it, the processing price is usually bundled into the item's unit price or posted to a generic G/L account, blurring margin analysis. AL Processing Charge solves that by leveraging the standard Item Charge mechanism of Business Central, fully automated - no SKU duplication, no custom posting code.

Key features

• Configurable processing types - a dedicated setup list (sharpening, coating, grinding...), each bound to a standard Item Charge.
• Sales-line tagging - choose a processing type on any item line (quote, order, invoice, blanket, return, credit memo); the setup's default price is proposed and stays overridable.
• Two billing models - mark an item "Processing Only" (toll processing, item billed entirely as the processing) or sell it normally and add the processing as a separate charge.
• Automatic Item Charge line on release - quantity set and assigned to the item line, keeping item and processing revenue distinct in posting, reporting and margin analysis.
• Self-healing - change or clear the processing type before posting and the charge line updates or disappears automatically.
• Optional production integration - a setup can carry a Routing and a Production BOM; on planning, one Project Order per processing type (plus an Item Order per plain line) is dispatched with the right routing and components.
• Italian localization included.

Business benefits

• Clear revenue separation between the item and the processing - margin analysis for each.
• No SKU explosion - the same item code before and after processing; clean item master.
• Standard accounting - all postings flow through the standard Item Charge engine, audit-ready.
• Less manual effort - the charge line is generated and re-aligned by the system.
• Quote-to-cash continuity - the processing type flows from quote to credit memo without rekeying.

Typical scenarios

• Industrial supplies - sell carbide cutters with a finishing treatment billed separately and brought to production as its own order.
• Distribution with light value-add - resell purchased items finished in-house, tracking the value-add as a distinct revenue stream.
• Service-on-goods - process customer-owned material and ship it back; the processing line carries the billable amount, the item line a zero-cost movement.

What makes AL Processing Charge different

• Built on the standard Item Charge engine - every BC consultant knows where the postings land; nothing parallel to learn or audit.
• One item code, many processings - the processing is a property of the line, not the item; adding a type is a configuration change.
• Production integration is opt-in - pure distribution uses only the revenue side; manufacturers get the dispatch into Project Orders.
• Quote-to-credit coverage out of the box, AppSource certified and translatable.

Technical information

• Supported product - Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (28.0 or higher)
• Availability - Cloud (SaaS)
• Languages - English (en-US), Italian (it-IT)
• AppSource certified - yes
• Dependencies - AL Foundation App, AL License and Trial Management, AL Message Passing, AL Role Center (AppLibra)