Field notes on Dynamics 365 Commerce & Retail
Practical fixes, gotchas, and technical write-ups on MPOS, CRT extensions, Retail Server, Cloud POS, and hardware stations — from real D365 Commerce & Retail implementations.
Building the MPOS solution can fail with: It reads like a project configuration issue, but the actual cause — confirmed with a colleague hitting the same error …
Read article →> Based on the 7.1 Retail SDK, but likely applicable to later releases unless this has since been fixed. A customer reported several transactions as "missing," …
Read article →On a MSDyn365FO 8.1 Microsoft-hosted VM, you don't get admin rights. Open the Cloud POS solution from the Retail SDK under those conditions and you'll hit an er…
Read article →The class runs whenever this option is triggered in Dynamics 365 for Operations: Retail and commerce → Headquarters setup → Retail scheduler → Initialize retai…
Read article →> Based on the 7.1 Retail SDK. Renaming or refactoring a Commerce Runtime (CRT) entity that inherits from — say, from to — breaks the build of your Retail Se…
Read article →Three ways to surface a custom error message in MPOS, depending on where the error condition is detected. From resources.json MPOS's standard error handlers exp…
Read article →I'm Hitesh Manglani, a D365 Commerce & Retail engineer. This site collects the fixes, workarounds, and technical notes I've accumulated shipping MPOS customisations, CRT pipeline extensions, and Retail Server integrations in production — the kind of thing that usually only lives in a support ticket or a Teams thread.
If you're debugging the same error at 2am, I hope one of these posts saves you the hours it cost me.
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