What’s New in Business Central’s Product Configurator v4.0?

The Product Configurator app from Insight Works is a trusted tool for manufacturers and distributors using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. The app simplifies creating BOMs and routing to make quote and order generation more efficient.

Product Configurator streamlines how companies create and manage production and assembly BOMs, routings, and quotes for configurable products, making it easier to deliver precisely what the customer wants, without creating manual overhead for sales or production teams.

Whether you’re configuring a custom desk, a mountain bike, or a complex machine, Product Configurator ensures every option is valid, priced accurately, and production-ready—automatically generating the required BOMs, routings, and item data right inside Business Central.

With the release of v4.0, Product Configurator introduces several enhancements designed to increase flexibility, speed up configuration, and give developers more power.

Why Product Configurator Stands Out

Product Configurator brings advanced CPQ-style (Configure, Price, Quote) capabilities into your Business Central environment, with benefits including:

• BOM & Routing Automation: Instantly create Assembly or Production BOMs and routings based on user-selected options.
• Smart Sales Configurations: Configure directly from sales quotes or orders without creating permanent items using quoting items.
• Advanced Rule Builder: Enforce product logic, hide/show options, and guide users through valid configurations.
• Bulk Configuration Builder: Configure multiple products at once in a spreadsheet-style view for large or complex orders.
• Live Pricing & Costing: Dynamically calculate unit price, net weight, and standard cost based on selected options.
• Seamless Integration: Fully integrated with Business Central’s MPS and MRP systems for clean production planning.
• Developer-Friendly: Extend the app with APIs, public events, and procedures to match your unique business processes.

What’s New in Product Configurator v4.0?

The v4.0 update introduces several powerful enhancements focused on customization, usability, and developer extensibility. These highlights represent just a selection of over 40 new features introduced in Product Configurator v4.0.

• Enhanced Flexibility for Extended Text and Template Variables: Numerous new events, options, and text variables like unit price and net weight have been added to create detailed Extended Text and comment entries.
• New Lookups Functions: Use expressions in the Rule Builder to look up values from generic lookup tables or existing Business Central tables to simplify rule creation.
• Smarter Option Choice Lookups: Apply rules to hide or show option choices dynamically in lookups, tailoring visibility based on configuration logic.
• Expanded Developer Extensibility: Numerous new events and public procedures for managing choices, attributes, assembly orders, and more to improve developer access to core Configurator capabilities.
• Reusable Option Choice Sets: Define option choice sets once and apply them across multiple categories and configuration options for simplified configuration and consistency.
• On-Hand Visibility in Lookups: Display on-hand item inventory directly in option choice lookups, aiding in selection decisions.
• Relaxed Item Category Requirement: Allow configurations without requiring a linked Business Central item category.
• Faster Bulk Editing: Copy selected configuration lines into new lines directly from the Bulk Editor for quicker adjustments.

Upgrade to Product Configurator v4.0 Today

Product Configurator v4.0 brings real, functional improvements to one of the most widely used configuration tools for Business Central. With better rule logic, expanded developer access, cleaner user interfaces, and more intelligent bulk editing, v4.0 helps teams configure products faster, with fewer errors and more flexibility.

To learn more or upgrade to the latest version, visit CPQforDynamics.com or contact your Microsoft Partner today.