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DesignFiles vs Dynamics 365 Business Central: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 9th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 1,140 reviews from Business Management users.
% Fit
Missing features
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Collaboration Tools
NA
Payroll Management
NA
Real-Time Data
NA
API
NA
Accounting
5.0
% Fit
Missing features
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Collaboration Tools
4.6
Payroll Management
NA
Real-Time Data
4.9
API
4.0
Accounting
4.3
User satisfaction
4.6
User reviews535
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.2
Value for money
4.6
Customer support
4.8
4.0
User reviews183
Ease of use
3.7
Functionality
3.9
Value for money
3.7
Customer support
3.7
Price starts from
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Free version
Free trial
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Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Interior Designers, Decorators and Stagers

Designed for small and medium-sized businesses, it is a business management solution that helps chart financial performance in real-time, optimize manufacturing capacity, and prioritize sales leads.

User reviews
pros & cons
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Video reviews
Bianca B
Interior Designer
5.0

Bianca B.: Hi, I'm Bianca. I'm an interior designer and I would rate DesignFiles at a five. And for more reveals like this, you can just click below. Before using DesignFiles, I was doing everything manually, from spreadsheets and design programs to create my mood boards and also using emails to communicate with my clients. So I decided to join DesignFiles and start using the program because I wanted one place to be able to do everything simultaneously, from creating proposals, to doing the design boards, getting feedback for my customers, and as well being able to upload that into my invoice system, which is integrated with DesignFiles. It was very easy getting started with DesignFiles, mainly because they already had all this video clips with instructions and I could just watch them all over me and my team. So we could watch them and get a sense of what we needed to do it before doing all the work. So for someone wanting to start using DesignFiles, this is something I wish I'd known before. It saved me a lot of time. And time in design, it means money. So for me, it's essential to have one program that I can do basically everything all at once.

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Yonatan W
Head of Sales
3.0

Jonathan: Hey, my name's Jonathan, I'm an AE and this is a review for Dynamics 365 Business Central, and I'm giving it three out of five. For more information click below. So Dynamics was mostly used for collaboration, syncing things, updating the team, creating anything from files together, collaborating around that. And of course, the one drive is an easy one internally, but it was more to have stuff that we can all work on together. I think one of the best things about Dynamics was the fact that it was in a single ecosystem. So if you're a Microsoft user, if you are used to using all of the Microsoft suites, it's just really convenient because it supposedly sync itself and you can actually share things easily without switching to a different platform or switching to different file sizes or file extensions and so on. So that's kind of the sweet spot. I have to admit that I was not that impressed with Dynamics compared with Google, the updates were clunky. It was sluggish. It was hard to find the files in it. I think the sorting system is not that great. There're way too many updates and kind of bug patches on things like that. So it feels like something that was made originally with an afterthought to be a collaborative tool in a cloud and originally is how can we bring the off line into an online environment instead of creating something brand new? Which is a bit of a shame, because it didn't have the same slick feel that other tools do have.

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DesignFiles

Top Features
26/50
  • API
  • Business Process Automation
  • Calendar Management
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Communication Management
  • Compliance Management
  • Employee Management
  • Financial Management
  • HR Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Marketing Automation
  • Mobile Access
  • Payroll Management
  • Performance Metrics
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Productivity Tools
  • Real-Time Data
  • Sales Automation
  • Scheduling
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Support Ticket Management
  • Time Off Management
  • Training Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Client Management
  • Client Portal
  • Contact Management
  • CRM
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Electronic Payments
  • Order Management
  • Project Management
  • Purchase Order Management
  • Purchasing & Receiving
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Task Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time & Expense Tracking
  • Workflow Management
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Dynamics 365 Business Central

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DesignFiles
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
DesignFiles
  • By DesignFiles
  • Located in Canada
  • Founded in 2016
Dynamics 365 Business Central
  • By Microsoft
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 1975
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