Yes. With DocumentsCorePack for Business Central, teams can design and customize document layouts — invoices, quotes, orders, confirmations, and reports — directly in Microsoft Word, with no RDLC, no AL coding, and no need for technical expertise.
Many Business Central teams still assume layout changes mean opening a developer ticket. The gap isn’t knowing that customization exist. It’s understanding just how far it can actually go.
Layout customization isn’t about replacing Business Central’s document engine. It’s about giving the business users the control a developer currently holds.
What “layout customization without code” actually means
In Business Central, true no-code layout customization means every layout lives in Word — not in an RDLC report, and not in an AL extension.
That includes:
- Designing invoice, quote, order, confirmation, and report layouts directly in Word
- Adding Business Central fields directly to the layout
- Generating the finished document straight from the Business Central record
- Reusing and updating the layout anytime business needs change
No separate interface to learn, no new workflow to master. Your team designs layouts in the Word they already know, and the document is generated directly from the Business Central record it belongs to.
Why Business Central’s native tools fall short here
Business Central does include native layout tools: Word layouts and RDLC reports.
Word layouts offer limited formatting and data access on their own. RDLC reports can do more, but only through report objects and AL/RDLC programming — which means a developer, a project queue, and a timeline most finance or operations teams don’t control.
For BC Implementation Consultants and Solution Architects, this shows up directly in delivery math: document layout work that should take hours turns into days pulled from the implementation timeline. For Business Systems Managers and ERP Admins on the customer side, it means even a small invoice change means calling a developer.
It’s not just invoices — one layout can carry real complexity
A common misconception is that no-code layout tools only handle simple, low-detail documents. In practice, a single layout can carry as much complexity as the business document itself requires.
Example: an invoice that needs to combine billing and shipping details, salesperson data, tax fields, product weights, product images, regional branding, and payment instructions that change depending on the record. All of that can be built into one reusable layout in Word, connected to live Business Central data — the finished PDF generates directly from the posted invoice, with no separate document for each variation.
Pattern we see repeatedly
Teams often assume that customizing a Business Central document layout means opening a development project — new requirements, estimates, a queue.
In reality, moving a logo, adding a field, or changing an invoice format can be handled directly in Word — by the team that owns the document, not by a developer pulled off higher-value work. What looks like a quick fix request is often where RDLC work, testing, and developer time quietly start piling up instead.
Where DocumentsCorePack for Business Central fits
This is where DocumentsCorePack for Business Central fits: Business Central documents, without the development.
It brings layout design into Word, connected directly to Business Central data — so layouts for invoices, quotes, orders, confirmations, and reports can be designed, adjusted, and reused without RDLC, without AL coding, and without needing technical expertise.
For BC Implementation Consultants and Solution Architects, that means cutting document setup from days to hours, fewer support tickets after go-live, and a faster delivery that earns referrals and a differentiated add-on to offer. For Business Systems Managers and ERP Admins, it means updating your own BC documents in Word — without calling a developer — using self-service layout changes in the Word you already know.
Frequently asked questions
No. DocumentsCorePack for Business Central replaces that work with layout design in Word, connected directly to Business Central data.
No. It applies to invoices, quotes, orders, confirmations, reports, and more.
Yes. A layout can combine multiple data sources, conditional content, and branding in one reusable design, even for something as detailed as a multi-field invoice.
The business team that owns the document — finance, operations, or BC admins — not IT or development.
Explore DocumentsCorePack for Business Central or schedule a call with mscrm-addons to see Business Central documents, without the development.