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Partner Portal
Winthrop Development Consultants has created a Partner Portal for partners to use for all their sales, support, ordering and renewal requirements. If you are a Microsoft partner and need access to the partner portal, please use this Partner Signup form to sign up as a Winthrop Development Consultants partner (no costs involved) and obtain the required credentials. Each partner organisation only needs to sign up once, so check with your primary person responsible for product renewals or contact us if you are still not sure. Click below for the Partner Portal.			Click here to Subscribe to our Newsletter.
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Latest Partner News
02-Apr-2026: The Knights of GP - Commitment beyond 2031 Winthrop Development Consultants is fully committed to the continued support of Microsoft Dynamics GP and its ecosystem. Our ISV products are only compatible with Dynamics GP and have been created to solve pain points and missing features as requested by the GP community. Read on here.
30-Mar-2026: Visual Studio Integration Toolkit Subscription Changes for 2027 For almost 20 years the application menus feature has been available at no charge as Menus for Visual Studio Tools from Microsoft and later Visual Studio Integration Toolkit from Winthrop Development Consultants. This was David Musgrave's gift to the Microsoft Dynamics GP community. Sadly, as the cost of maintaining and supporting the product increases, it has become necessary to charge a small fee for subscriptions starting in 2027. Read on here.
20-Oct-2025: Support for Microsoft Dynamics GP is Ending - What now? This is an article I wrote for the recently released Fido magazine. The magazine was published in time for Community Summit 2025 in Orlando by Fidesic, who offer Payables Automation solutions for Microsoft Dynamics GP and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. Read on here.
01-Aug-2025: Pricing Increase from January 2026 As of January 2026, Winthrop Development Consultants will be changing our product pricing to reflect the increases in functionality and features. It has been three years since the last time our pricing changed, and the world economy has also changed significantly in that time. Read on here.
08-Apr-2025: Discontinued Builds for Winthrop Products (August 2025) Winthrop Development Consultants is discontinuing old builds that used the previous generation of the registration system. This will also ensure that customers are running updated builds with fixes, enhancements and new features. Read on here.
31-Aug-2022: Critical Security Vulnerability and Price Increases Winthrop Development Consultants was recently notified by InstallAware, the supplier of the installer software used for the distribution packages for all our products, that a Security Vulnerability was identify in their product. However, the issue will exist on all machines that have used an installer built with the previous compromised versions of their installer software. Using the newly fixed installer software, we have created and released new builds of all our products which should be installed at all customer and partner sites as soon as possible. Any build of any of our products downloaded and installed after 10-Aug-2022 contains the fix. Read on here. We have not changed our pricing since 2016 when the current module-based pricing was adopted with the release of Build 21 of GP Power Tools. Since then, we have released many new builds with lots of added functionality and features in all modules of all our products, providing a massive increase in the value. So, from January 2023 there will be a minor increase in the module pricing. Read on here. There is lots more news including training opportunities and product release notices in the recent newsleter. For the full update see the August 2022 Newsleter here.
01-Oct-2020: Important: Winthrop Development Consultants internal changes As at the 01-Oct-2020 Winthrop Development Consultants is changing its internal business structure. There will be almost no external changes, all the people, contact details, addresses and phone numbers remain the same. We will be changing from Winthrop Dexterity Consultants Pty Ltd (ACN: 066 742 452) as trustee for The D & J Musgrave Family Trust (ABN: 99 549 336 945) trading as Winthrop Development Consultants to  Winthrop Development Consultants Pty Ltd (ACN: 643 065 114, ABN: 68 643 065 114) trading as Winthrop Development Consultants Australian partners and customers will need to change the ABN and bank account details only. Read on here.
02-Nov-2018: New presentation on the Benefits of Winthrop Development Consultants products is now available Selling GP Power Tools for Microsoft Dynamics GP has always been an interesting affair. If you can get a customer to sit and watch a demo (live or on video from the GPPT Portal), they immediately see the benefits and want the product. However, it is usually the people who work with the product day to day who see the demo and then they find it hard to sell to management. The problem is that GP Power Tools is not critical to your system, it is not required to perform the accounting tasks to run a business. But, it does enhance the user experience while performing those accounting tasks. It makes using GP simpler and easier and helps avoid data entry issues. And if anything does go wrong, it is there to immediately provide tools to capture screenshots, capture logs and troubleshoot issues. GP Power Tools helps manage the application level security by providing multi-dimensional views into the security system and reporting facilities not available from core Dynamics GP. It also provides analysis with insights into possible security issues and enhances security with Deny Based Security. Add to this functionality for scripting (allowing for bug fixes, customisation, advanced debugging, custom RW functions and custom web services) in multiple languages without needing any external tools, as well as functionality for resolving database access and possible upgrade issues, then GP Power Tools becomes invaluable. To demonstrate the many benefits of GP Power Tools, a presentation was created for GPUG Summit 2018. This seven minute slide deck provides a quick overview of how GP Power Tools can solve your pain points and is now available from the downloads section. Please download this deck for yourself and to show to all your customers or users. Read on here.
01-Jul-2018: Important: Winthrop Development Consultants now directly and exclusively distributes all of its products As mentioned at the beginning of May, Winthrop Development Consultants will distribute all of its products directly from 01-Jul-2018. Well, the day has arrived and the distribution arrangement with Mekorma has now ended. We have been working hard to make the transition as painless as possible for both Partners and Customers and the article below should hopefully answer any questions you might still have. A quick clarification, this transition was always something that was planned. Partnering with Mekorma in the early days got Winthrop up and running quicker, without the need to create the infrastructure for sales, support and registration systems. They already had systems in place and we agreed to work together. Note that the products have always belonged to Winthrop Development Consultants.   Read on here.
01-May-2018: Winthrop Development Consultants will distribute all of its products directly from 01-Jul-2018 Winthrop Development Consultants has been working closely with Mekorma to distribute its product range for the last two years. Back in November 2017, we moved our free Visual Studio Integration Toolkit (VSIT) product back to Winthrop. Now we are pleased to announce that the remaining products; GP Power Tools (GPPT) and Batch Posting Service Toolkit (BPST) will be distributed directly by Winthrop Development Consultants from July 2018.   From July 2018, all new subscriptions, subscription renewals, and sales and support queries will be handled via Winthrop Development Consultants. All installations will need to upgrade their software before their subscriptions expire to be able to renew under Winthrop's registration system.   Working with Mekorma has been a great experience and helped Winthrop Development Consultants get started and get our range of products to market faster and easier. Thanks to Ora, Craig, Angel, Jay, Mariano and the whole Mekorma team.   Read on here.