For Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central

The pallet is real.
Now the record is too.

ContainerQ gives Business Central a first-class License Plate — a pallet, tote, carton or container you build, pack, move and nest as one unit. Every plate is checked back against Business Central's own ledger, so the label on the goods and the record in the system never drift apart.

Built line-by-line on Microsoft's Base Application · standalone or alongside WarehouseQ

Pallets · totes · cartons · containers GS1 SSCC-18 & GS1-128 labels Lot, serial & package tracking Append-only event log
The problem

A pallet is one thing. Your system thinks it's forty.

On the floor, a pallet moves, ships, and gets counted as a single unit. In standard Business Central there's no object that is that pallet — so its contents live as scattered lines that any ordinary transaction can change without anything tying them back together.

The moment a count, a transfer, or an adjustment touches an item outside the app, a home-grown "container" table quietly falls out of step with reality. Nothing is checking, so nothing looks wrong — until it ships.

  • One scan should move the whole pallet, not forty lines.
  • A hold on a container should stop what's nested inside it.
  • The barcode should mean something to a carrier or a 3PL.
Without a real license plate
PalletPLT-88 · 40 linesunlinked Countcycle count, 2 itemsoutside app Container qtystale snapshotdrifted Shipwhat left the dock?unknown

A "green" list only proves nothing is checking. Silence is not the same as verified.

The ContainerQ difference

The app never becomes shadow inventory.

Every posting ContainerQ makes is confirmed by an independent second read of Business Central's own records before it's reported complete. If the ledger doesn't agree, the operation doesn't claim success. That single discipline is what keeps a plate honest.

The ledger is the truth

ContainerQ posts through Business Central's own engine — it never writes inventory tables directly and keeps no shadow copy of your stock.

No parallel bookkeeping

Every posting is re-read

Success means a second read of the ledger confirmed the rows landed — not that no error was thrown. A silent failure can't pass as done.

Confirm, don't assume

Identity that can't quietly slip

A plate's identity is either enforced by Business Central's own tracking, or continuously re-checked against the ledger and flagged the moment it stops matching.

Enforced or re-verified
One product, the whole workflow

Everything a container needs, in a single app.

Creation, movement, nesting, holds, tracking and labels — not five add-ons from four vendors you have to make agree with each other.

Build & pack

Create a plate and pack items onto it — a pallet of cases, a tote of picks — then handle the whole thing as one unit for the rest of its life.

Move as one

One instruction moves everything on the plate to a new bin or location, and Business Central's inventory follows in the same breath.

Nest & unnest

Put totes on a pallet, pallets in a container — many levels deep. A move or a hold on the outer unit reaches everything within it.

Item tracking, done right

Lot, serial and package numbers plus expiration dates are attached the way Business Central actually requires — so tracked goods stay tracked.

GS1 labels

Standards-based SSCC-18 identifiers and GS1-128 barcodes a carrier, a 3PL or a trading partner can scan the moment the plate leaves your building.

Quality holds & history

Place a hold that actually stops nested operations, and read a complete append-only history of everything that ever happened to a plate.

From build to proof

Four moves, and the ledger agrees at every one.

The order matters: nothing is reported done until Business Central's records confirm it. That's the difference between "the app says so" and "the ledger says so."

Walk through it in detail

Build the plate

Give the pallet, tote or carton an identity — an SSCC you can print and scan.

Pack it

Add items, with their lot / serial / package and expiry attached the way BC requires.

Move, nest, ship

Handle the whole unit at once; nested contents come along, holds are respected.

Confirm against the ledger

A second read verifies the rows landed before the operation is ever called complete.

Barcodes that travel

A standards-based identifier, not a house number.

A proprietary container number means nothing the moment goods leave the dock. ContainerQ labels every plate with a GS1 SSCC-18 — the same serial shipping container code carriers, 3PLs and trading partners already scan — encoded in a GS1-128 barcode.

  • One globally-unique plate ID from build to delivery.
  • Application identifiers for content, quantity and dates.
  • Scannable by anyone downstream — no proprietary reader.
GS1-128Shipping label

SSCC (00)0 0614141 000000188 9

(00) 006141410000001889

(02) Content06414100001234
(37) Count24
(17) Best before2027-04-30
(10) LotL-2405-A
Fits your stack

Runs on its own. Plays well with WarehouseQ.

ContainerQ is a complete license-plating product by itself. Already run — or planning to run — BDP WarehouseQ for mobile warehouse operations? The two are designed to sit in the same tenant without stepping on each other.

Standalone

Everything you need to build, track and ship license plates in Business Central — no other app required.

Side by side with WarehouseQ

Container identity is globally unique whoever creates it, so a package moved by one app is recognized by the other — safely co-installed by design.

How the two work together

Where it earns its keep

Wherever goods move as a unit.

Food & beverage

Lot- and expiry-tracked pallets, FEFO-friendly, ready for GS1 shipping labels.

3PL & distribution

Standards-based SSCCs that mean something to every carrier and customer downstream.

Manufacturing

Build finished-goods plates off the line and keep serial / lot identity intact.

Cold chain & regulated

Hold a container and stop everything nested inside it — not just a status flag.

Explore the scenarios

Good questions

The things buyers actually ask.

Does Business Central have license plates natively?

No. Business Central has bins and item tracking, but no single object that is a pallet or container you can build, move and nest as one unit. ContainerQ adds that entity — and, unlike a home-grown table, keeps it reconciled against BC's own ledger.

How is this different from a custom container table?

A custom table is only ever as current as the last time someone remembered to update it. ContainerQ posts through Business Central's own engine and re-reads the ledger to confirm every operation, so the plate can't quietly drift when an ordinary transaction touches the same stock.

Are the barcodes standards-based?

Yes — GS1 SSCC-18 identifiers encoded in GS1-128 barcodes, the same standard carriers and trading partners already use. No proprietary numbering scheme.

Does it handle lot, serial and package tracking?

It does, with expiration dates, attached the way Business Central requires so tracked goods stay tracked through pack, move and ship.

Can I run it with WarehouseQ?

Yes. ContainerQ works standalone and is designed to coexist with BDP WarehouseQ in the same tenant. See how the two fit together.

Is it available on Microsoft AppSource?

Yes. ContainerQ is published on Microsoft AppSource, and is also sold direct for tenants that prefer a quote. Get in touch to arrange a demo.

See a plate stay honest.

Book a walkthrough and watch a pallet get built, packed, moved and shipped — with the ledger confirming every step.