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title: "Mapping BC chart of accounts for Administrators - Payhawk Help Center"
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description: "Map your MS Business Central chart of accounts to Payhawk categories, see which accounts Payhawk syncs, and update the categories in the Fields library."
updated: 2026-10-27T15:10:04Z
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# Mapping Payhawk categories to the MS Business Central chart of accounts

Payhawk supports user-friendly options for mapping the chart of accounts in MS Business Central with the respective accounting categories in Payhawk.

When you connect to your MS Business Central organization for the first time, Payhawk automatically pulls the available chart of accounts. Later, you can manually update them at any time.

## Specifics

During the synchronization, Payhawk filters out only accounts that have specific fields configured. Payhawk will not sync categories that lack any of the following settings:

- A valid number and name
- An accounting category
- **Posting** account type
- **Direct posting** enabled

## Synching the categories between Payhawk and MS Business Central

To synchronize your categories from MS Business Central with the corresponding Payhawk categories, follow the steps:

1. [Connect Payhawk to MS Business Central](/help/connecting-payhawk-to-ms-business-central).
2. In the [Payhawk Web Portal](https://portal.payhawk.com), go to **Settings** > **Fields library**.
3. Click on **Category**.
4. Click on the **Update from MS Dynamics Business Central** button.
5. Map your existing Payhawk categories with the corresponding MS Business Central chart of accounts by clicking on the desired category and, in the panel that opens, selecting the account from the **Account code** drop-down list. Then, click on **Save**.

The default VAT rates of these categories will be updated in MS Business Central.

![Category field in the Payhawk Fields library with the Update from MS Dynamics Business Central button and the categories with their account codes.](https://cdn.payhawk.com/Adm%3AIntegrations%3AMSBC/Mapping_Payhawk_categories_to_the_MS_Business_Central_chart_of_accounts_1_20261016_ai.png)

## Next steps

- [Exporting expenses to MS Business Central](/help/exporting-expenses-and-payments-to-ms-business-central)