Payments and finance modules from the OPplus successor, incoming invoices with approval and audit-proof archiving, document dispatch with Peppol: Continia closes exactly the gaps that the standard leaves open – all three as AL Extensions in the same company. We license, set up and train your users.
Everything Business Central leaves open in finance and accounting.
Payments & finance
Continia Banking & Finance
The successor to OPplus, the finance Add-on that German-speaking mid-market companies have used for years to handle payments, bank statements and open items. Banking covers everything that moves money, Finance the accounting modules alongside it. Existing OPplus customers face an end date – end of sale 10/2026, end of support 10/2027.
01 · Incoming
Bank statement and allocation
Import bank statements and incoming payments, apply open entries automatically using freely selectable fields. Anything that is not clear-cut ends up in the journal for review.
02 · Outgoing
Payment proposal and file
Create, check and approve payment runs from open vendor entries and hand them over as a payment file – including foreign payments.
03 · Bank
Direct communication
Secured connection between Business Central and your bank, inside the module itself. The bank can transfer statements on its own, and exchange rates arrive daily.
04 · Security
Release and review
Approval workflows before payment, verification of bank details and checks against payment fraud and transposed digits.
Modules & scope · Continia Banking & Finance
Two solutions, one package - or separately.
Continia Banking
Everything that moves money
The core of OPplus, technically rebuilt and extended to include the bank connection.
Incoming payment
- Payment Import
- Bank statement camt / MT940
- Automatic settlement of open items
- Application via free fields
- Import journal for review
Outgoing payments
- Payment Export
- Payment suggestions
- SEPA credit transfer & direct debit
- International payments
- Payment posting matrix
Bank & security
- Direct Communications
- Daily exchange rates
- Approval workflow
- Checking bank details
- Fraud prevention
Operation
Business Central SaaS and OnPremise.
Continia Finance
The remaining OPplus modules
Functions that the Business Central standard does not include - bundled and licensable individually.
Base module · free of charge
- Easier application of entries
- Simplified entry of postings
- Freely definable CSV ports
- Balance confirmations
Financial accounting
- Open-item-managed G/L accounts
- Associations / central settlement agencies
- Entry display & printing
- Installment payment
- Factoring
Reporting & attachments
- Balance sheet & VAT
- G/L account groups
- Extended fixed asset accounting
- Fixed assets via templates
- Quantity management
License
per module and production environment, bundles possible.
Incoming invoices
Continia Document Capture
Takes the incoming document in at the door and never lets it go again: import it, capture it with text recognition, match it against the purchase order and goods receipt, approve it, post it, archive it in an audit-proof way.
01 · Import
Document comes in
From the monitored mailbox, by drag & drop, from the desktop scanner or as an electronic document via the Continia Delivery Network.
02 · Detection
Fields are read
Text recognition at header and line level. You show once where each field is; from the second document of the same vendor onwards it runs on its own.
03 · Reconciliation
Check against the purchase order
Lines checked against purchase order and goods receipt, with tolerances per line. Deviations are flagged instead of being posted silently.
04 · Approval
Approval and posting
Multi-level approval with amount limits and substitution – in the client, on mobile or in the Web Approval Portal for approvers without a BC license.
Modules & scope · Continia Document Capture
What goes in and what comes out.
Incoming channels
Where the documents come from
Paper, PDF and electronic documents come together in the same document journal.
Files & mailbox
- PDF by e-mail
- Monitored mailbox
- Drag & Drop
- Desktop scanner
- Batch import
Electronic documents
- XRechnung
- ZUGFeRD
- Peppol BIS 3
- Continia Delivery Network
- PDF with embedded XML
Document types
- Purchase invoice
- Credit memo
- Purchase order
- Goods receipt
- G/L documents
- Customer & vendor attachments
Text recognition
operated as a cloud service or locally.
Modules
What you add on
Can be licensed individually – most projects start with Essential, reconciliation and approval.
Mandatory
- Essential · import & header recognition
- Templates per vendor
- Document journal & archive
Processing
- Line recognition
- Order Matching
- Tolerances per line
- Item translation
- Cost allocation
Approval & control
- Approval workflow
- Amount limits
- Four-eyes principle
- Web Approval Portal
- Secure Archive
- Fraud check
- Purchase Contracts
Billing
transaction-based, per processed document.
Document dispatch
Continia Document Output
The other direction: invoices, reminders, order confirmations and account statements are generated, laid out according to a template and sent in bundles – as an email, as print or as an electronic document via Peppol.
01 · Templates
Define the design once
Email templates in the HTML editor, with merge fields from the document, signatures and attachments. Variants per language, customer type or dimension from a single template.
02 · Dispatch
Bundled instead of individually
Send invoices, reminders and account statements from the queue in one pass – manually or automatically when posting.
03 · E-invoicing
Peppol without detours
Invoices and credit memos are sent as validated XML files via the Continia Delivery Network directly into the OpenPeppol network. ZUGFeRD and Factur-X are included as well.
04 · Protection
Documents protected against manipulation
The security module protects PDFs with a password, signs them with your certificate and applies eIDAS-compliant eSeals.
Modules & scope · Continia Document Output
Channels, formats and modules.
Channels & formats
How the document is delivered
Stored per customer and document type – one document can also take several routes at once.
E-Mail
- PDF attachment
- Multiple attachments
- PDFs into one file
- To / Cc / Bcc per customer
- Template by language code
- Time-controlled signature
Electronic
- Peppol BIS 3
- ZUGFeRD (DE)
- Factur-X (FR)
- Continia Delivery Network
- Schematron check
- Resending corrected XML
Printing & filing
- Print queue
- Print server for the cloud
- Batch printing
- Azure Blob Storage
Document types
Sales, service, reminders, account statements, payment advice.
Modules
What you license
Essential covers dispatch completely; Security is the only additional module.
Essential · mandatory
- More than 25 email templates
- HTML editor
- Merge fields
- Recipient control
- Dispatch log
- Background PDF & watermark
- Variants per dimension
Automation
- Sending on posting
- E-mail jobs in the job queue
- Automatic account statements
- Reminder with open documents in one file
- AI translation of the templates
Security · optional
- PDF with password
- Signature with your own certificate
- eSeal under eIDAS
Extensible
your own pages can be connected via the AL Extension Builder.
Collaboration
Why Continia through IOI.
You can get Continia from any Microsoft partner. The difference lies in who then makes sure that the modules really hold up in daily use.
Licensing from a single source
We license the modules you need – and only those. We compare bundles against individual licenses.
Setup in the company
Bank accounts, approval workflows, document templates: we set the modules up in your environment instead of only installing them.
Training for your users
Accounting and purchasing get to know the new processes on their own documents, not on demo data.
One contact person afterwards
The same Business Central specialists who know your system – without forwarding tickets to third parties.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions.
What does Continia cost?
Continia is licensed per module and per productive environment; bundles are possible. Document Capture is also billed per processed document on a transaction basis. We will tell you the specific price for your scope after a short conversation.
Do we have to take all three solutions?
No. Banking, Document Capture and Document Output can be licensed individually. Most projects start with the area that currently causes the most manual work.
We use OPplus today. What happens to it?
Continia Banking and Finance are the successors to OPplus. You will find the familiar functions for payment transactions, bank statements and open items there again, technically rebuilt and extended with a direct bank connection.
Does Continia also run OnPremise?
Yes. The modules run in Business Central SaaS and OnPremise. You can run the text recognition for incoming invoices as a cloud service or locally.
Who sets up Continia for us?
We take care of that. Licensing, setup in the tenant and training for your users come from a single source – including coordination with your accounting department.
Which Continia module suits you? Let's talk about it.
Banking, incoming invoices or document dispatch – together we determine the scope, the license costs and how the setup will run.
Licensing, setup and training from a single source
Advice on the right module selection
Business Central Cloud and OnPremise
Answer usually within a few hours