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Business Central development capacity

Hire a Business Central AL Developer

Add Business Central development capacity without adding headcount.

When your list of Business Central changes grows faster than your team can deliver, STW Services provides AL developers who work as an extension of your team: on your priorities, in your sandbox and repositories, following your processes. Full-time, flexible hours, or a defined piece of work.

  • Dedicated or flexible
  • Your tools, your process
  • Source code stays with you
An STW AL developer working inside your team's tools with agreed overlap hours between India and your time zone Your team + an STW AL developer Your team product owner · consultant Your tools repo · sandbox · tickets · Teams STW AL developer Pune, India WORKING HOURS (example: UK client) ■ Client (UK time) ■ Developer (shifted to UK time) ▢ overlap for stand-ups & reviews Dedicatedfull-time on your backlogFlexible hoursagreed hours per week/monthDefined worka set of changes or an upgrade task
Overlap hours are agreed per engagement; the chart is an example
When it makes sense

When hiring a developer beats a project

A steady backlog

Enhancements, fixes and reports, not one defined project.

Backup for your developer

Holiday cover, peak periods or specialist help.

Partner capacity

More Business Central demand than AL capacity.

NAV customizations to rebuild

Extra hands while you move to AL.

Continuity

One developer who learns your system.

One clearly defined requirement? A scoped AL development project is usually simpler.

Scope of work

What your Business Central developer can work on

Extensions & enhancements

Reports & layouts

Integrations & APIs

Workflows & automation

Upgrades & refactoring

Bug fixing & update compatibility

Performance improvements

Automated tests

Technical scope & tools

  • AL in Visual Studio Code with Microsoft’s AL Language extension
  • Business Central online sandboxes (on-premises where agreed)
  • Table/page/report extensions, event subscribers, codeunits, API pages & queries
  • Install and upgrade codeunits
  • CodeCop, UICop, PerTenantExtensionCop analyzers
  • Git, pull-request reviews, Azure DevOps or Jira
  • Business Central REST/OData APIs, webhooks, Power Automate

We match the developer’s skills to your specific work before the engagement starts.

Engagement options

Choose how you work with us

Best for: Continuous enhancement work or partner capacity

Dedicated developer

A developer works on your Business Central tasks for an agreed period and becomes familiar with your system, processes and backlog.

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Best for: Smaller, steady workloads

Flexible hours

An agreed number of hours per week or month, or time billed as used, alongside Business Central support.

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Best for: A specific set of changes or an upgrade task

Defined piece of work

A developer (with a lead or consultant where needed) delivers against agreed requirements.

Discuss this option

Terms, start dates and minimum periods are agreed in a written proposal.

How hiring works

From requirement to productive developer

1

Share your requirement

Work, BC version, tools, time zone, duration.

2

Proposal

Engagement model, developer profile and terms.

3

Onboarding

Sandbox, repository, tickets; coding standards agreed.

4

Delivery

Your sprint or ticket process, with code reviews.

5

Review & adjust

Regular check-ins; scale up or down.

Remote delivery

Working with a remote team in India

STW Services has delivered Microsoft business-application work for clients in the Middle East, Europe, the UK and North America as well as India, so remote collaboration across time zones is part of how we work.

Overlap hours

Agreed at the start so stand-ups and reviews happen live.

Communication

Teams, email and your ticketing system; daily or weekly updates.

Access & security

Only the environments you grant; production releases follow your approvals.

Code ownership

Code in your repository, or handed over, under the IP terms in our agreement.

Microsoft partners

Extra AL capacity for your customer projects

Developers follow your coding standards, repository structure and release process, under your project management.

Software vendors (ISVs)

Build or maintain a Business Central app

Including preparing for Microsoft Marketplace technical validation.

FAQ

Hiring questions

What teams ask before adding a Business Central developer.

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What does a Business Central AL developer do?

Builds and maintains AL extensions (fields, pages, logic, reports, APIs, integrations), tests them in sandboxes and keeps them compatible with Microsoft’s twice-yearly releases.

Do we need a functional consultant or a developer?

A functional consultant works out what the system should do; a developer builds what configuration can’t. Many requirements need both.

How quickly can a developer start?

It depends on the skills your work needs and current schedules. We give a realistic start date in the proposal.

Do you work in our repository and tools?

Yes: your Git repository, Azure DevOps or Jira, and your Teams channels, or we host and hand over.

Can your developer work alongside our existing partner?

Yes. Developers can take requirements from your functional consultant or partner and work in their process.

Is this different from your AL development service?

Yes. Hiring gives you capacity directed by your team; the AL development service delivers a defined customization end to end.

Next step

Add Business Central development capacity

Tell us the work, your Business Central version, your time zone and how many hours you need. We’ll come back with a proposal.

  • A reply from someone who knows Business Central
  • Practical next steps, whether or not we work together
  • No obligation

Discuss Your Developer Requirement

Tell us about your Business Central requirement. We’ll reply with practical next steps.

  • Pick “Business Central Solutions” in the form
  • Share your current system and what you need
  • Or email support@stw-services.com
Discuss Your Developer Requirement