
From Navision to cloud-based Business Central: why finance leaders should pay attention now
2026-06-20What Guests Never See May Be What Keeps a Hotel Running Efficiently
A guest arrives, checks in and settles into their room. From their perspective, everything feels simple — as it should.
Behind the scenes, however, purchasing, approvals, contracts, invoices, fixed assets, banking processes, reports and cost centres are all moving at the same time. The more these processes are spread across separate systems, Excel spreadsheets and disconnected workflows, the harder it becomes to understand what is actually happening in the hotel’s financial back office.
This is exactly what our new Business Central app, Loginform HotelBackoffice, is designed to address.
One System Behind Your Hotel’s Back-Office Processes
Loginform HotelBackoffice is a hospitality-specific extension for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Its purpose is simple: financial and back-office processes should not operate in isolation, but should instead be tracked and managed within a single integrated system.
We have extended the standard functionality of Business Central with solutions designed specifically for hotel operations. These can reduce manual administration, make processes more transparent and give managers access to more up-to-date information.
Not Another Standalone System
This is one of the most important differences.
HotelBackoffice connects directly to Business Central, so there is no need for another parallel database. With Opera PMS integration, an automated data connection can also be established between hotel operations and the financial system.
Instead of collecting information from multiple separate sources, the aim is to give finance teams and management a more unified view of hotel operations.
What Can Loginform HotelBackoffice Do?
The solution supports, among other things:
- multi-level purchase requests, approvals and delegation,
- data exchange between Opera PMS and Business Central,
- barcode-based fixed asset tracking and inventory management,
- cost centre-based management reports, budgets and month-end analytics,
- contract registration, expiry monitoring and accrual management,
- banking processes and Electra integration,
- customer and vendor analytics,
- simultaneous management of multiple hotels or locations,
- NAV Online Invoice integration and Hungarian financial requirements,
- as well as Nexon, Excel and other data imports.
But technology itself is not the goal.
The real question is what the hotel gains from it.
Less Administration. More Control. Faster Decisions.
When purchasing, contracts, assets and cost centres can all be tracked in one place, cost control becomes easier.
When management reports are based on up-to-date data, decision-makers no longer have to piece together the full picture from separate Excel spreadsheets before every important decision.
And when repetitive financial processes can be automated, there is less manual work and fewer opportunities for error.
This becomes particularly important for multi-site operations and hotel chains, where maintaining transparency becomes increasingly challenging as complexity grows.
⭐ What Does This Look Like in a Five-Star Hotel?
In a detailed case study featuring Kempinski Hotel Corvinus Budapest, we show how Business Central and Loginform HotelBackoffice became a key part of the hotel’s financial and operational back-office environment.
The case study explains, among other things, how the transition from Navision to Business Central was carried out, how automation supports the processing of up to 800–900 incoming invoices per month, and how Hungarian accounting requirements and international hotel reporting standards can coexist within the same system.
Please note that the case study is currently available in Hungarian only.
👉 Download the “Five-Star Operations with a Five-Star IT Background” case study
Designed for Hotels, Not as a Generic ERP Solution
Loginform HotelBackoffice is based on the same approach we bring to our Business Central projects: it is not enough for a system to work technically — it also needs to understand and support the underlying business processes.
That is why HotelBackoffice is more than just another Business Central add-on. It is a solution built around the real financial and back-office processes of hotel operations.
For hotel managers, finance directors, financial managers, controllers and central finance teams of hotel chains, the goal is the same: spend less time collecting information and more time making decisions.
See It in Action
If you would like to make your hotel’s financial and back-office processes more transparent and efficient, take a closer look at Loginform HotelBackoffice.
👉 Loginform HotelBackoffice – Features, Benefits and Demo
Fewer disconnected processes. More control. One Business Central.





