Running Balances
Why?
Running Balances is a Business Central extension that adds running balance columns to your ledger entry screens — a feature accountants expect but Business Central has never provided out of the box.
Running balances exist on some reports, but not on screen. The likely reasons: it can slow down the system, it is not trivial to build, and Business Central (and its predecessor NAV) were designed without an opening balance concept — a choice with real advantages, but a few drawbacks too. For accountants who rely on a running total to spot when a balance reaches zero, the absence of that column is a genuine gap.
What does it do?
Running Balances on Entry Screens
A new button on the most-used ledger entry pages lets you display running totals on demand:
- General Ledger Entries
- Customer Ledger Entries
- Vendor Ledger Entries
- Apply Customer Entries and Apply Vendor Entries
Running balances are triggered by a button click rather than loaded automatically — a deliberate performance trade-off. Additional parameters let you fine-tune the calculation scope to keep the experience fast even on large datasets.
Auto-Application on GL Review
When reviewing General Ledger entries and a balance reaches zero, the extension automates the application of matching entries — processing them in batches to handle large volumes efficiently.
Supported Languages
The user interface is available in 14 languages:
English, Czech (cs-CZ), German (de-DE), Spanish (es-ES), French (fr-FR), Indonesian (id-ID), Italian (it-IT), Japanese (ja-JP), Dutch (nl-NL), Polish (pl-PL), Portuguese (pt-PT), Swedish (sv-SE), Thai (th-TH), Chinese Simplified (zh-CN).
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