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title: "Business Central On-Premise Connection Setup"
description: "Business Central On-Premise Connection Setup"
keywords: "Business Central On-Premise Connection Setup Rapidi Connector"
url: "https://myrapidi.com/wiki/business_central_on_premise_connection_setup"
locale: "en"
published: "2025-07-22T14:25:34Z"
modified: "2025-07-22T14:26:52Z"
---

This guide walks you through the steps to configure the RapidiConnector and connect your on-premise Business Central (BC) environment to Rapidi. Before you configure the connection in Rapidi, there are a few things that you need to keep in mind:

### Prerequisites

- Business Central On-Premise installed and accessible
- RapidiConnector installed on the BC server - please check the following [instructions](https://us.myrapidi.com/wiki/installing_the_rapidiconnector).&nbsp;
- Admin access to Business Central and Rapidi.

Connection Setup in myrapidi ( after the Rapidi connector has been successfully installed):

- Go to your Rapidi service → **Connections** → Choose MS Dynamics 365 BC (NAV) OData from the drop down list and click on **New Connection**.&nbsp;
- Fill in the connection details as follows:

1. **Authentication Type** : NTLM (windows local network)
2. **Server Connect** : Specify the full path to your Business Central. For example, the URL would look like as follows:&nbsp; http://app01.lmn.lan:1541/BC\_W9/ODataV4/Company('Demo%20Master').
3. **Company** : Specify the Business Central company name ( e.g. Demo Master).
4. **UserID:** Here you specify the userid (credentials) to access your Business Central instance.&nbsp;
5. **Password:** Here you specify the Password corresponding to the above UserID.
6. **Domain:** Add your local domain ( e.g. LMN).
7. **Resource** : leave blank.
8. **Metadata URL** : Copy from the Server Connect and modify it -remove everything after OdataV4/ and add $metadata).See the following example: http://app01.lmn.lan:1541/BC\_W9/ODataV4/$metadata.
9. Use SSL - leave unchecked.&nbsp;

Then, save the connection and click on **Test** and afterwards on **Read Design** to read the full pages pages layout and metadata from Business Central.&nbsp;