Change Which Features are Displayed

Business Central is designed to help you run your business regardless of the size and complexity. At the core of the product, you find essential features, such as financial reporting, sales, purchasing, and inventory management. As business complexity increases, you can turn on functionality for manufacturing and service management, for example.

You can define the product complexity level, and thereby which features the company's users get access to, by changing the Experience setting on the Company Information page. Note that the experience setting can also be changed by adding certain extensions from AppSource. For more information, see Customizing Business Central Using Extensions.

The following table lists the experiences that are currently available.

Experience	Impact on User Interface
Essential	Shows all actions and fields for all common business functionality.
Premium	Shows all actions and fields for all business functionality, including Manufacturing and Service Management.

The experiences that can be selected in Business Central reflect the solution licenses, called plans, that are defined for the product. For information about the Essential and Premium plans, see Business Central on the Microsoft Dynamics 365 marketing site. See also the Business Central Licensing Guide.

Important

All regular users in a solution must be assigned the same plan, Essential or Premium, before that experience can be selected for the company. Accordingly, one user cannot access Premium features if one or more other users can only access Essential features. This is not the case for non-regular users of type Team Member, Internal Admin, External Accountant, and Delegated Admin, who can each be assigned a different plan than other users in the solution.

Only users of type Evaluation or Premium can change the value in the Experience field from Essential to Premium.

Prior to defining a company's experience setting, you define users' access to specific functions and pages by assigning permission sets. For more information, see Assign Permissions to Users and Groups.

The Experience setting applies to all users in a company, but each user can personalize their own experience further by changing page layouts and content. For more information, see Personalize Your Workspace.

Enabling Premium Features after Upgrading a Plan

Users are assigned to plans in Microsoft 365 Admin Center in connection with the general work to create the Business Central users. For more information, see Add users and assign licenses at the same time.

To update plan changes in users groups

When you have made a change to users plans in Microsoft 365 Admin Center, such as assigned more users to the Premium plan, you must reflect the change in Business Central.

Sign is as an administrator.
Choose the icon, enter Users, and then choose the related link.
On the Users page, choose the Refresh all User Groups action.

All new information about the users' plans and their assigned user groups are now updated according to the plan changes.

To select the Premium experience

You can now proceed to select the new experience.

Choose the icon, enter Company Information, and then choose the related link.
On the Company Information page, on the User Experience FastTab, select Premium in the Experience field.

Help Assumes Premium Experience

All feature descriptions in user documentation for Business Central assume the Premium experience, meaning the descriptions cover the full scope of UI elements.

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