Solution Architecture
Built on the Microsoft Stack. Designed for Performance, Flexibility, and Reliability.
Nav-to-Net™ is an advanced eCommerce platform that fully leverages the Microsoft technology stack to deliver a powerful, enterprise-grade web solution.
It combines two fundamental components that work seamlessly together – a management layer inside Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, and a feature-rich web storefront that serves your customers globally.
Managed Entirely Within Business Central
At its core, Nav-to-Net™ includes a Business Central app that allows users to manage every aspect of their eCommerce operations directly within their ERP.
This means product catalogs, pricing, customer accounts, content, and orders are all controlled from one system – with no manual duplication, middleware, or third-party connectors.
All website content, including categories, product details, images, multiple catalogs, regional pricing, and multilingual content, is maintained inside Business Central.
Every update flows automatically to the website through our secure synchronization framework – no manual intervention required.
A Robust, Independent Web Storefront
The second component is the Nav-to-Net™ web storefront – a complete, high-performance eCommerce website built with proven Microsoft technologies, including Microsoft .NET, SQL Server, and IIS.
This storefront can be hosted anywhere that supports a Windows Server environment – either through your own infrastructure or via DVP’s managed hosting partner, IONOS.
While fully synchronized with Business Central, the storefront operates independently to ensure performance and business continuity.
If connectivity to Business Central is ever interrupted, the website continues functioning normally – taking orders, showing accurate pricing, and maintaining a seamless customer experience.
Always Take Orders™ – No Exceptions
Nav-to-Net™ is built on a simple but powerful principle: “Always Take Orders”
Even if Business Central becomes temporarily unavailable, Nav-to-Net™ ensures customers can still browse, place orders, and complete transactions.
The system securely stores all submitted orders locally until Business Central is reconnected, at which point orders can be transmitted – protecting revenue and customer trust.
This architecture guarantees that your ERP performance remains unaffected by web traffic or external site activity, while your eCommerce channel never stops working.
Performance, SEO, and Customization
The website is designed for both speed and scalability, balancing performance with the flexibility of client-specific business logic, dictated by Business Central.
It supports:
- Multi-lingual and multi-currency operations
- Multiple catalogs, regions, and tax models
- Advanced SEO features – including canonicalization, meta data, and slug management – all handled directly inside Business Central
Because of our deep understanding of both Business Central and the Microsoft web stack, we can translate your unique business logic, custom pricing models, or workflows from deep within your ERP, directly to the website.
This ensures your users’ web experience mirrors the same tailored business intelligence that drives your ERP – maintaining data integrity and consistency even when offline.
Data Synchronization and Real-Time Transactions
Nav-to-Net™ maintains a local SQL Server database that mirrors essential Business Central data – such as pricing, product details, tax logic, inventory, customers and personalization rules.
When data changes in Business Central, it is automatically shared with the website, ensuring all information remains current and accurate without manual input.
Certain “high value” interactions, like order submission, order history, invoices, and reports, are retrieved directly from Business Central in real time to ensure up-to-date accuracy and traceability.
Built to Grow with You
Nav-to-Net™ scales as your business grows – across products, regions, and global markets.
It’s engineered to align with your Business Central investment, extend your ERP into eCommerce with confidence, and give you full control of your digital operations in one unified, Microsoft-powered environment.
You’ve seen how Nav-to-Net™ is built – now experience what it can do. In our live demo, we walk you through the architecture in action, showing how eCommerce inside Business Central works seamlessly across data, workflows and the web.
Business Central eCommerce Architecture FAQs
These Business Central eCommerce architecture FAQs answer common questions companies ask about ERP-governed eCommerce, middleware, connector risk, pricing logic, inventory accuracy, performance, order continuity, and keeping Business Central as the source of truth.
What is ERP-governed eCommerce architecture?
ERP-governed eCommerce architecture means the ERP controls the core business data and rules that drive online commerce. For Business Central users, this includes products, pricing, inventory, customers, approvals, content, and order logic.
Nav-to-Net™ is built around this architecture so eCommerce is managed inside Business Central rather than bolted on as a separate layer. This helps companies reduce duplicate data, separate pricing logic, middleware dependency, and reconciliation work.
Should eCommerce logic live in Business Central or the website platform?
For companies with complex pricing, customer rules, inventory, approvals, catalogs, or order workflows, it is often safer to keep eCommerce logic governed by Business Central. When that logic is duplicated in a website platform, companies can face mismatches, sync delays, troubleshooting issues, and long-term maintenance challenges.
With Nav-to-Net™, eCommerce logic is designed to stay aligned with Business Central, so the website reflects ERP-managed business rules instead of becoming a separate system of record.
What are the risks of connector-based Business Central eCommerce?
Connector-based Business Central eCommerce can work for simpler needs, but it may create long-term risk when products, pricing, inventory, customer rules, content, or order logic are duplicated outside Business Central. Common issues include sync delays, middleware dependency, duplicate data, exception handling, and reconciliation work.
For companies with complex B2B or B2C requirements, the bigger risk is that the website gradually becomes a second place to manage business logic. ERP-governed eCommerce helps reduce that risk by keeping Business Central at the center of commerce operations.
Does Business Central eCommerce need middleware?
Some Business Central eCommerce approaches use middleware to synchronize data between the ERP and an external website platform. Middleware can be useful in certain scenarios, but it can also add another layer to monitor, maintain, troubleshoot, and upgrade.
An ERP-governed approach can reduce middleware dependency by managing key eCommerce data and logic inside Business Central. Nav-to-Net™ was designed specifically for this model, helping companies avoid recreating critical commerce rules in a separate platform.
How can companies avoid duplicate pricing and inventory logic online?
Companies can avoid duplicate pricing and inventory logic by keeping Business Central as the source of truth for eCommerce data and rules. Instead of rebuilding ERP pricing, inventory, customer terms, and availability logic inside the website, the online experience should reflect what is already managed in Business Central.
Nav-to-Net™ helps support this model by keeping products, pricing, inventory, customers, and order logic aligned with Business Central, reducing mismatches between the ERP and the storefront.
Can eCommerce keep taking orders if Business Central is temporarily unavailable?
Yes, with the right architecture. A Business Central eCommerce solution should be designed to protect order continuity if ERP connectivity is temporarily interrupted.
Nav-to-Net™ is built around DVP’s Always Take Orders™ approach, allowing the storefront to continue accepting orders during temporary Business Central connectivity interruptions and securely process them once the connection is restored.
What should companies look for in Business Central eCommerce architecture?
Companies should look for Business Central eCommerce architecture that keeps products, pricing, inventory, customers, content, orders, and business rules aligned with the ERP. They should also evaluate middleware dependency, sync timing, performance, order continuity, customization, SEO controls, and whether Business Central remains the system of record.
The most important question is whether the eCommerce architecture simply connects Business Central to a website or actually keeps commerce governed by Business Central. That difference can affect accuracy, scalability, upgrade complexity, troubleshooting, and long-term control.
Experience eCommerce Managed Inside Business Central
See how Nav-to-Net™ transforms Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central into a fully integrated eCommerce platform. No middleware. No duplication. Just one source of truth for every order, customer, and product.
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