Microsoft Dynamics 365 in Polar: the costs your store never saw, added to your margin.

Microsoft Dynamics 365 holds the numbers finance closes on: cost of goods, operating expenses, purchase orders and stock. Your store does not see any of it, so contribution margin is estimated and net profit is a spreadsheet. Bring Microsoft Dynamics 365 into Polar and margin is computed on what you actually spent.

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Bring Microsoft Dynamics 365 into Polar See the setup

The costs your store never saw, added to your margin.

Cost of goods, operating expenses, purchase orders and stock from Microsoft Dynamics 365, applied onto governed revenue, so contribution margin and net profit are computed on what you actually spent.

Real cost of goods

"My margin is an estimate."

Ledger cost of goods applied per SKU, not an average typed into the store.

ledger COGS

Operating expenses

"Where does opex land?"

Payroll, rent, software and the rest applied on top of contribution margin.

down to net profit

Stock & cover

"What runs out first?"

Inventory and days of cover read against demand and margin.

cover · demand

Purchase orders

"What have we committed?"

Open orders and landed cost, so committed cash is visible.

committed cash

Actuals vs plan

"Are we on plan?"

Budget against actuals on the same statement, by month and by line.

plan vs actual

One P&L

"Finance and growth disagree."

One statement from revenue to net profit, on ledger numbers.

one P&L

Setup Guide

How to Connect Microsoft Dynamics 365 to Polar.

A Polar account with Shopify connected, access to your Microsoft Dynamics 365 instance, and Polar's AI Data Engineer, which builds the connector from a plain-language request.

01 · What you need

A Polar account with Shopify

A Polar account with Shopify connected. Microsoft Dynamics 365 data only means something read against the orders behind it.

Connect your data →

Your Microsoft Dynamics 365 instance

Access to Microsoft Dynamics 365 with the ledger, cost and inventory data you want to bring in, and API credentials.

Open Microsoft Dynamics 365 →

Polar's AI Data Engineer

No native Microsoft Dynamics 365 connector yet? Describe what you need in plain language and the AI Data Engineer reads the Microsoft Dynamics 365 API, writes the connector and pipes it into your warehouse, in minutes.

02 · Bring Microsoft Dynamics 365 into Polar

Ask for the connector ~ minutes

Plain language, no code.

Tell Polar's AI Data Engineer what you want from Microsoft Dynamics 365 in plain language. It reads the source documentation, lays out everything the API offers by category, then writes the connector and pipes the data into your warehouse as governed data. No code, and it ships in minutes.

Worth knowing: this also works on connectors you already have. If the Microsoft Dynamics 365 API exposes a field, you can have it, down to a single hidden one the standard connector never pulled.

Cost applied to revenue automatic

Real COGS, real opex.

Polar applies Microsoft Dynamics 365 cost of goods and operating expense to the revenue they belong to, so contribution margin and net profit are computed on ledger cost instead of an average someone typed in.

Stock and demand together the payoff

Operations, priced.

Inventory, purchase orders and days of cover sit next to demand and margin, so what you reorder is a profit decision rather than a stock alert.

Side by side

Microsoft Dynamics 365 closes the books. Polar runs the business on them.

Cost of goods, operating expense and stock live in Microsoft Dynamics 365, a month behind and away from the revenue they belong to. So margin is estimated in the store and reconciled later in a spreadsheet. Polar applies the ledger cost to the revenue as it happens.

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Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Polarblended

Real cost of goods never reaches the store's margin.

Ledger COGS applied per SKU, so margin is real.

Operating expense lives outside the reporting.

Opex applied on top, from revenue down to net profit.

Stock is an operations number, not a profit one.

Days of cover read against demand and margin.

Plan and actuals meet once a month, in a spreadsheet.

Budget against actuals on the same live statement.

Featured Use Case

Margin on the ledger, not on an estimate.

A store-level average cost flatters some products and punishes others. Polar applies the cost finance closed on, per SKU, and the ranking changes.

M Revenue to net profit Illustrative

Metric

This week

WoW

Net revenue

$482,100

+6%

Orders

3,240

+4%

Blended CAC

$38

-9%

New vs repeat

42 / 58

-3pts

Email revenue

$71,400

+12%

Revenue, ledger COGS, opex, net profit. Illustrative figures.

Ledger cost

Real cost

Margin computed on the cost finance closed on, not on a per-product average that was last updated two seasons ago.

Down to net profit

No SQL

Operating expense lands on the same statement as revenue and spend, so the number at the bottom is the one the business is actually run on.

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