At the time of writing, Dynamics 365 Business Central offers 44 standard APIs available for integration with external applications.
REST APIs permit you to create any type of application in any code language that interacts with Dynamics 365 Business Central by using HTTP CRUD operations (create, retrieve, update, delete).
To start using the APIs, you need to authenticate through Dynamics 365 Business Central. There are essentially two ways to authenticate:
- Basic authentication: Log in to Dynamics 365 Business Central, select the Users page, select the user you want to use, click on the Web Service Access Key field, and generate a key. The generated key will be the password that you have to use for ...