Microsoft Dynamics 365

Unify ERP, CRM, analytics, and cloud on one connected Microsoft platform.

Explore Solutions
ExploreIndustry SolutionsFind the right solution for your business

End-to-End Delivery

From advisory and implementation to integrations and 24×7 managed support.

Explore Services
ExploreBook a ConsultationTalk to a senior Dynamics 365 consultant

Built for Your Industry

Microsoft ERP and cloud solutions tuned to nine core industries.

Explore Industries
ExploreCase StudiesResults we have delivered across industries

Insights & Resources

Blogs, case studies, and practical guides from our consultants.

Browse Insights
Book Consultation
Microsoft Dynamics 365

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce

Connect Stores, E-Commerce, B2B, Call Center, Inventory and Fulfillment on One Platform

A customer never thinks “today I am an online customer” or “today I am a store customer.” They expect the right product, the correct price, honest availability, the channel they prefer, and a return that does not depend on where they bought it. Urewa Technologies helps retailers, distributors, manufacturers and multi-channel businesses implement Dynamics 365 Commerce around real customer journeys, store operations, pricing, inventory and fulfillment.

Omnichannel experience with the finance, inventory, warehouse and fulfillment foundation underneath it — because an attractive front end cannot compensate for either.

A customer does not think in channels

Dynamics 365 Commerce is an omnichannel retail and B2B solution covering point of sale, mobile commerce, call center, digital commerce, clienteling, merchandising, channel management, inventory visibility and order orchestration.

Its architecture is built so channels use shared commerce services and business logic rather than operating as isolated selling systems. That distinction is the whole argument — and it is what most retail estates are missing.

  • Find the right product
  • See the correct price
  • Know whether it is available
  • Buy from the channel they prefer
  • Collect or receive it where they want
  • Earn and redeem loyalty consistently
  • Return it without channel friction
  • Receive the same level of service everywhere
From Product to Customer

One Connected Commerce Journey

Thirteen stages, one platform. Select any stage to see what happens there — and where it usually breaks.

Stage 1 of 13

Create and enrich the product

Product masters, variants, attributes, category and navigation hierarchies. Everything downstream inherits whatever is decided here.

Channel Types

Four Ways to Sell, One Commerce Engine

Retail, online and call center are native Commerce channels; B2B is a distinct selling model on the same foundation. All of them share products, customers, pricing, inventory and orders.

Store Commerce is Microsoft's current point-of-sale experience, supporting cashiers, sales associates, inventory associates, stock clerks and store managers on Windows, Android and iOS.

What it covers

  • Cash-and-carry sales
  • Customer orders
  • Returns and exchanges
  • Price and product lookup
  • Discounts, coupons and loyalty
  • Gift cards
  • Clienteling
  • Endless aisle
  • Inventory lookup
  • Store fulfillment and pickup
  • Cash and shift management
  • Offline operation
  • Hardware peripherals
  • Self-checkout

Typical use

  • Fixed checkout counters
  • Mobile associates on the shop floor
  • Queue busting at peak
  • Pop-up and temporary stores
  • Assisted selling

An integrated digital-commerce platform for direct-to-consumer, B2B and wholesale, built on a responsive React front end over a scalable headless retail engine.

What it covers

  • Product discovery and search
  • Product detail pages
  • Cart and checkout
  • Customer sign-in and profile
  • Order history
  • Shipping and pickup
  • Promotions and coupons
  • Loyalty
  • Inventory
  • Payments and gift cards
  • Returns experiences
  • Content and digital asset management
  • Store locator

Typical use

  • Direct-to-consumer brands
  • Retailers with an existing store estate
  • Wholesale and indirect B2B
  • Manufacturers selling direct
  • Multi-brand groups

Call center is a native Commerce channel type. Multiple call-center channels can be defined, each with its own defaults and order-processing behaviour.

What it covers

  • Telephone orders
  • Service-assisted sales
  • Large order entry
  • Catalogue sales
  • B2B assisted orders
  • Order corrections
  • Customer queries
  • Remote selling

Typical use

  • Catalogue retailers
  • High-value considered purchases
  • B2B account management
  • Customers who start online and finish on the phone
  • Order rescue and recovery

B2B e-commerce for manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers — including business-partner onboarding, account experiences and indirect B2B2B models where product moves manufacturer to distributor to business buyer.

What it covers

  • Business partner onboarding
  • Organisation accounts and users
  • Customer balance
  • Invoices
  • Order templates
  • Bulk purchase
  • Quick product entry
  • Contract and account pricing
  • Multi-outlet access
  • Credit considerations
  • B2B indirect (B2B2B)

Typical use

  • Distributors and dealers
  • Manufacturers selling through networks
  • Trade counters
  • Multi-outlet customers such as restaurant groups
  • Automotive parts and spares

Urewa’s store design principle

POS design starts with the store operation, not the button layout. Before configuring anything we review store formats and size, checkout model, product categories, customer journey, peak volume, returns, exchanges, promotions, loyalty, cash management, payment methods, hardware, the warehouse relationship, pickup operations, staff responsibilities and offline requirements. A fashion store, an electronics retailer and an industrial trade counter should never receive the same POS design.

Platform Capabilities

Dynamics 365 Commerce Capabilities

Merchandising and assortments

Decide what you sell, and where

1/12
  • Product masters
  • Product variants
  • Product attributes
  • Category hierarchies
  • Navigation hierarchies
  • Commerce categories
  • Channel assortments
  • Catalogs
  • Channel groups
  • Store groups
  • Product status
  • Release to channels

The Urewa view

Urewa principle: an assortment is a design decision, not a workaround. Flagship, small-format, airport, e-commerce and B2B should each carry a defined mix — far more controllable than hiding products store by store.

Endless Aisle

Out of Stock Here Should Not Mean a Lost Sale

A customer visits the Pune store. The product is not available locally — but inventory exists in Mumbai and at the central warehouse.

Where the stock is

  • Pune store0
  • Nearby store A2
  • Nearby store B1
  • Central warehouse18

Instead of losing the sale, the associate creates a customer order for delivery, later pickup, or pickup from another location.

The omnichannel order

  1. 01Customer shops online
  2. 02Selects pickup in store
  3. 03Chooses Chinchwad store
  4. 04Order created
  5. 05Store receives fulfillment requirement
  6. 06Associate picks the product
  7. 07Marks the order ready
  8. 08Customer arrives and the store recalls the order
  9. 09Pickup completed

This is not simply an e-commerce order. It is a connected digital and store commerce process.

Urewa’s fulfillment principle

Do not automatically enable every store as an e-commerce fulfillment centre. DOM can evaluate inventory, distance, cost, service level and business constraints — but the nearest store is only the right answer if it can actually deliver on the promise.

01

Inventory accuracy

Can the store's stock figure actually be trusted?

02

Staff capacity

Can employees pick orders without hurting in-store service?

03

Packing capability

Can the location prepare shipments correctly?

04

Carrier access

Can orders be dispatched efficiently from here?

05

Pickup space

Where will customer pickup orders be staged?

06

Order volume

Can the store cope at peak as well as on a quiet Tuesday?

07

Service level

Can this store meet the promise made at checkout?

Pricing & Promotions

Configure Offers Without Rebuilding POS Logic

Commerce supports several discount structures, with concurrency rules deciding which combination applies.

01

Simple

20% off Product A.

02

Quantity

Buy 3 and receive 10% off.

03

Mix & match

Buy Product A + Product B and receive a configured offer.

04

Threshold

Spend ₹5,000 and receive ₹500 off.

05

Tender-based

Discount applies when a specified payment method is used.

Urewa’s pricing principle

Before creating promotions, answer seven questions: who qualifies, which products qualify, which channels qualify, can it combine with another offer, what happens on a return, does loyalty change the result, and which price should win. Promotion setup must be designed together with return and exchange scenarios — because selling is simple, and correctly reversing a complex promotion is not.

In Practice

Representative Commerce Scenarios

Fashion retailer

Challenge80 stores and an e-commerce site running separate inventory and different promotions. Customers cannot return online purchases in store.

ApproachCentral products, assortments and unified pricing behind Store Commerce and e-commerce, with Inventory Visibility, store pickup and cross-channel returns.

OutcomeA consistent omnichannel experience instead of two businesses sharing a logo.

Electronics retailer

ChallengeA customer wants a laptop model the store does not hold.

ApproachProduct search, cross-store inventory lookup, then a customer order fulfilled from the warehouse with home delivery.

OutcomeThe associate keeps the sale without local stock.

B2B distributor

ChallengeDealers order by email, with different catalogues, pricing, quantities, accounts and delivery addresses.

ApproachAccount sign-in, applicable catalogue, business pricing, bulk ordering and invoice or balance visibility.

OutcomeLess manual order entry and genuine customer self-service.

Multi-brand retailer

ChallengeThree brands, four legal entities, 150 stores and two e-commerce sites needing shared visibility but separate brand pricing.

ApproachCommerce channels, price groups, assortments, legal-entity ownership and DOM designed around the group's operating model.

OutcomeCentral merchandising with brand and entity control intact.

Store as fulfillment centre

ChallengeThe central warehouse is overloaded at peak while stores hold available stock.

ApproachDOM selects a nearby store, which receives, picks, packs and ships the order.

OutcomeDistributed inventory and capacity used properly instead of sitting idle.

Call center to store pickup

ChallengeA customer phones the sales centre rather than ordering online.

ApproachAgent creates the order, customer selects local pickup, store prepares it, customer collects.

OutcomeProof that call center belongs in commerce, not just customer service.

Why Urewa

Commerce Needs More Than a Storefront

01

Commerce is more than POS

We design store, digital, B2B, call center, inventory, fulfillment and finance as one operating model — not a till with a website attached.

02

Finance and supply chain foundation

Commerce depends on product, inventory, warehouse, cost, tax, procurement and fulfillment. Our Finance and Supply Chain experience means we design the whole process, not only the storefront.

03

Omnichannel first

We analyse the customer journey across channels before configuring any individual application.

04

Pricing and promotion discipline

Base, channel and customer pricing, promotions, loyalty, discount concurrency, override policy and return behaviour — defined before mass configuration.

05

Inventory promise before marketing promise

Inventory and fulfillment design has to support whatever the customer-facing channel is promising. Otherwise technology creates a service problem rather than solving one.

06

Standard before customisation

Standard Commerce, then configuration, then Power Platform, then integration, then extensions — and custom headless development last.

07

Store operations matter

We design around cashiers, associates, store managers, inventory staff, e-commerce and call-center teams and merchandising — not only IT administrators.

08

Real scenario testing

Retail UAT covers mixed promotions, partial payment, failed payment, partial pickup, offline, cross-store orders and statement posting. An implementation is not done because a POS invoice posted.

Our Method

How We Implement Commerce

  1. 01Understand the customer journeyHow do customers discover, compare, buy, pay, collect, return and engage again?
  2. 02Understand the channelsStores, online, B2B, call center, marketplace and any custom channels.
  3. 03Design product and assortmentWhat exists, which channels sell it, which variants, which categories, which geographies.
  4. 04Design pricingBase, channel, customer, B2B, promotion, loyalty and override rules.
  5. 05Design inventoryAvailability, reservation, stores, warehouses, safety stock and Inventory Visibility.
  6. 06Design the order journeyCash-and-carry, delivery, pickup, split fulfillment, cancel, return and exchange.
  7. 07Design fulfillmentWarehouse, store, DOM, shipping, pickup, carrier and the customer promise.
  8. 08Design paymentsCard, cash, wallet, gift card, online, refund and reconciliation.
  9. 09Design financeSales, tender, inventory, tax, returns, statements and the general ledger.
  10. 10Test complete journeysNot “POS sale works” — discover, buy, pay, fulfill, collect, return, refund and financial posting.
Commerce Maturity Assessment

How Connected Is Your Commerce Operation?

1

Do your stores and e-commerce site use the same product information?

2

Are prices and promotions managed centrally?

3

Can customers see accurate inventory before placing an order?

4

Can store associates check inventory across other locations?

5

Can a customer buy online and pick up in store?

6

Can a store fulfill an online order?

7

Can online purchases be returned through physical stores according to policy?

8

Does loyalty work consistently across channels?

9

Can store associates see relevant customer history?

10

Can an out-of-stock store still create a customer order from another location?

11

Can B2B customers place and review orders digitally?

12

Can the business determine the best fulfillment location automatically where required?

13

Do store transactions reconcile accurately into Finance?

14

Can management analyse store and digital performance consistently?

15

Are POS, e-commerce, inventory and ERP tightly connected?

Answer all fifteen questions to see your result (0/15 answered).

Where It Fits

Industries Dynamics 365 Commerce Suits

Retail

Stores, POS, digital commerce, loyalty and omnichannel fulfillment.

Fashion & lifestyle

Variants, promotions, loyalty, clienteling and omnichannel inventory.

Electronics

Product discovery, inventory visibility, endless aisle, pickup and delivery.

Food & specialty retail

Store sales, product ranges, pricing, promotions and customer engagement.

Distribution & trading

B2B commerce, customer-specific pricing, inventory and order management.

Manufacturing

Direct-to-consumer, dealer commerce and B2B digital channels.

Automotive parts

Large product ranges, B2B ordering, trade-counter selling and distributed inventory.

Multi-brand groups

Shared commerce architecture with controlled channel, brand and legal-entity structures.

How It Compares

Commerce Alongside the Rest of Dynamics 365

Commerce vs Business Central

Business Central provides broad business management across finance, purchasing, inventory, sales, manufacturing and projects.

Commerce adds deeper enterprise commerce — Store Commerce, e-commerce, omnichannel, retail pricing, promotions, loyalty, B2B, call center, store fulfillment, DOM and Commerce Scale Unit.

Commerce vs Supply Chain

Supply Chain Management covers procurement, inventory, warehousing, planning, manufacturing, logistics and operational fulfillment.

Commerce covers the customer-facing side — stores, POS, digital commerce, pricing, promotions, loyalty, order capture and omnichannel experiences. Most enterprise retail needs both.

Commerce vs Dynamics 365 Sales

Sales focuses on leads, accounts, opportunities, relationship selling, pipeline and forecasting.

Commerce focuses on transactional selling — product, POS, digital and B2B ordering, pricing, checkout, payment and fulfillment. A business with both complex relationship selling and high transaction volume may use each.

Common Questions

Dynamics 365 Commerce FAQs

What is Microsoft Dynamics 365 Commerce?

An omnichannel retail and B2B platform that connects physical stores, point of sale, digital commerce, call center, products, pricing, promotions, customers, inventory and order fulfillment through shared commerce services.

Is Dynamics 365 Commerce just a POS system?

No. It includes a modern POS application called Store Commerce, but Commerce is broader — e-commerce, B2B, call center, pricing, promotions, loyalty, clienteling, inventory, orders, fulfillment and headless commerce.

What is Store Commerce?

Store Commerce is Microsoft's current point-of-sale application for Dynamics 365 Commerce. It supports sales, customer engagement, inventory, fulfillment, assisted selling and store operations across supported Windows and mobile platforms.

Does Dynamics 365 Commerce support offline POS?

Yes. Store Commerce supports offline operation when the appropriate offline architecture is configured. Microsoft also provides self-hosted Commerce Scale Unit options for stores where connectivity to headquarters may be unreliable.

Can customers buy online and pick up in store?

Yes. Commerce supports store-pickup scenarios through its online and POS order-management capabilities, including pickup at a different store from the one the order was raised in.

Can stores fulfill online orders?

Yes. Store order-fulfillment capabilities let store users accept assigned orders, pick, ship, prepare for pickup and complete pickup — turning stores into fulfillment nodes.

What is Distributed Order Management?

DOM helps determine appropriate fulfillment locations based on available inventory, location, customer destination, distance, cost, service-level requirements and defined business constraints, using optimisation techniques rather than fixed rules.

Does Commerce provide real-time inventory?

Commerce integrates with Microsoft's Inventory Visibility service to support near-real-time inventory queries, reservations and adjustments across relevant commerce scenarios, including cross-store and cross-company lookup.

What is Commerce Scale Unit and headless commerce?

Commerce Scale Unit hosts the headless commerce engine, Commerce Runtime and channel database used by Commerce channels. Headless commerce separates the customer-facing experience from the business logic, exposing products, customers, prices, inventory and orders through APIs so custom storefronts and apps can use them.

Does Dynamics 365 Commerce support B2B?

Yes — business accounts and users, account-management experiences, order templates, bulk ordering, quick product entry, customer balance and invoices, plus indirect B2B2B models where product moves from manufacturer through distributor to business buyer.

Can Commerce work across multiple legal entities?

Yes, depending on the process. Microsoft has expanded cross-company inventory visibility and, in its 2026 release, cross-legal-entity DOM fulfillment with automated intercompany order flows. The deployed version and enabled features should be validated before relying on this in production.

Does Dynamics 365 Commerce include AI?

Microsoft provides Copilot-based insights in Store Commerce for customer, product and store-report scenarios. Agentic commerce through Commerce MCP is also in development, but Microsoft currently labels it preview — it should not be planned as a production capability until that changes.

How is Dynamics 365 Commerce licensed?

Microsoft lists Dynamics 365 Commerce, the e-Commerce add-on and the headless add-on as separate commercial offerings. Licensing should be verified against Microsoft's current licensing guide for your country and deployment before budgeting.

Can Urewa implement Store Commerce without replacing our existing website?

Often yes. Because Commerce has a headless API architecture, you can keep a custom or third-party storefront while using Commerce as the business-logic platform for products, pricing, inventory and orders. The right architecture depends on your existing applications and integration requirements.

Can Urewa improve an existing Commerce implementation?

Yes. We assess Store Commerce, POS, e-commerce, products, assortments, pricing, promotions, loyalty, inventory, orders, fulfillment, payments, statements, integrations, extensions, Commerce Scale Unit and performance, then produce a prioritised improvement roadmap.

Explore the Platform

Other Microsoft Dynamics 365 Solutions

Connecting commerce to payment providers, marketplaces and portals is covered in our ERP integration guide. Project-based businesses should also look at Project Operations. Microsoft documents the product itself on Microsoft Learn.

Build One Commerce Experience Across Every Channel

Separate POS and online platforms, inconsistent pricing, promotion complexity, poor inventory visibility, lost sales because a product is not in this store, B2B orders arriving by email, duplicate customer records, difficult returns, payment reconciliation — these are the symptoms. We design the architecture that removes them, from product and pricing through stores, e-commerce, B2B, inventory, fulfillment and Finance.