WarehouseQ User Guide
WarehouseQ turns a phone, tablet, or paired barcode scanner into a mobile warehouse scanner for Business Central. This page is the orientation — what it is, who it’s for, and the mechanism it’s built on. The pages after this one go deeper on each piece.
For the concepts behind the product — what warehouse topology means, how directed put-away and pick work, why item tracking has to be attached a specific way — see the Learn Center and the Business Central bridge articles.
What it is
WarehouseQ is a mobile scanning experience — receive, put away, pick, ship, move, count, adjust, transfer, and more, covered in full on operations covered — that posts directly into Business Central’s own inventory ledger. It’s built for the warehouse floor: an operator with a phone, tablet, or paired scanner, working against whatever Business Central location and bin setup they’re actually standing in front of.
The mechanism, plainly
- Never a shadow table. WarehouseQ posts directly into Business Central’s own inventory ledger — never a bypassed posting routine, never a side table that syncs on its own separate schedule. What’s on the ledger is what was scanned; there’s no second dataset to reconcile against.
- Confirmed, not assumed. Every operation is confirmed by an independent read of the ledger before it’s ever reported complete to the operator. Where that confirmation can’t be made — a locked table, a document number that never lands — the app declines and says so, rather than reporting success on faith.
- Tracking attached correctly. Item tracking — lot, serial, package — is attached the way Business Central actually requires it, through the platform’s own tracking mechanism, not just typed onto a line and hoped for. See why this distinction matters and how it reaches an operator in practice.
- Adapts to your warehouse. The mobile experience reads each location’s actual current setup — from a simple bin location all the way to full directed put-away and pick — so an operator is only ever offered the operations that location genuinely supports. See warehouse topology, explained for what that range actually looks like.
- Offline-aware. A scan queued while a device has no signal is held in a durable, on-device queue, and each queued entry is tagged with its own identifier that Business Central uses to recognize a scan it has already accepted. Full detail — including exactly what that mechanism does and doesn’t promise — is on offline & connectivity.
- Built on a posting engine built line-by-line against Microsoft’s own Base Application source. WarehouseQ doesn’t reimplement Business Central’s posting logic from a guess at how it behaves; it’s built and checked directly against the platform’s own shipped source, and posts through Business Central’s own posting engine rather than around it.
Who it’s for
Two audiences, two different surfaces. Warehouse operators work entirely on the mobile scanning surface — phone, tablet, or paired hardware scanner — and never need to open Business Central’s desk client to do their job. Admins and managers configure the app, assign licenses and permissions, and can review activity from inside Business Central itself, using the same location, bin, and item-tracking setup they already maintain there. Neither surface requires the other to be present at every step: an operator scans without needing desk-client access, and a manager can configure and monitor without needing a floor seat.
Getting started
- Setup reference — what has to already exist in Business Central before anyone can scan a real transaction.
- Licensing & permissions — who needs a seat, the two permission levels, and planned pricing.
- Your first scan — a concrete, numbered walkthrough from install to a posted, ledger-confirmed receipt.
- Operations covered — the current, version-dated list of what an operator can scan.
What’s in this guide
- Operations covered — the current operation list, and why it’s deliberately not published as a per-warehouse-configuration matrix.
- Item tracking & FEFO — how lot, serial, and package numbers reach an operator, and how FEFO enforcement shows up on a scanned pick.
- Offline & connectivity — exactly what happens when a scanner loses signal, worded no more strongly than what’s actually been verified.
- Licensing & permissions — permission levels and planned pricing.
- Setup reference — prerequisites, short by design.
Support
If you need help or have questions about WarehouseQ:
- Email: support@dynamicspro.ca
- Phone: 416-843-6575
- Hours: Monday–Friday, Eastern Time