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Invoicing Kobra 04-07-2008
---> Re: Invoicing Haskel LaPort04-08-2008
Posted by Kobra on April 7, 2008, 8:17 pm
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 Hello group,

I am not a quickbooks user, but I have a question.

A business I deal with does use Quickbooks and once per month they sent me
an Invoice for service and products that they supply. On it is the date of
sale, the invoice number and the amount of the sale. There is a column for
description and it is blank.

I'm forever calling them to ask them what an individual invoice is for which
they have to look up on the computer. I ask them constantly if they could
have the description of the item invoiced printed on their invoices and they
tell me there's no way to do that. I think that is BS. Can some tell me if
this is BS and how can they get the description to print on the invoice?

GW



Posted by dpb on April 7, 2008, 8:24 pm
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 ...
> A business I deal with does use Quickbooks and once per month they sent me
> an Invoice for service and products that they supply. On it is the date of
> sale, the invoice number and the amount of the sale. There is a column for
> description and it is blank.
>
...
> ...I ask them constantly if they could
> have the description of the item invoiced printed on their invoices and they
> tell me there's no way to do that. I think that is BS. Can some tell me if
> this is BS and how can they get the description to print on the invoice?

Of course it is BS..."all" they have to do is to enter the data into
their list of items and it will then be automagically filled in. It is
probably simply they don't want to take the time to do that if they have
a sizable number of items.

So, the question is whether you have enough clout to get them to change
their behavior and whether their services/products are unique enough to
continue to put up w/ them rather than find another vendor... :)

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Posted by Laura on April 7, 2008, 9:46 pm
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> ...
>> A business I deal with does use Quickbooks and once per month they sent
>> me
>> an Invoice for service and products that they supply. On it is the date
>> of
>> sale, the invoice number and the amount of the sale. There is a column
>> for
>> description and it is blank.
>>
> ...
>> ...I ask them constantly if they could
>> have the description of the item invoiced printed on their invoices and
>> they
>> tell me there's no way to do that. I think that is BS. Can some tell me
>> if
>> this is BS and how can they get the description to print on the invoice?
>
> Of course it is BS..."all" they have to do is to enter the data into their
> list of items and it will then be automagically filled in. It is probably
> simply they don't want to take the time to do that if they have a sizable
> number of items.
>
> So, the question is whether you have enough clout to get them to change
> their behavior and whether their services/products are unique enough to
> continue to put up w/ them rather than find another vendor... :)

If they are not using Items they can still manually enter text into the
description field. Sounds like someone is either lazy or does not know how
to use QB very well.


Posted by Golden California Girls on April 8, 2008, 12:25 am
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Laura wrote:
>
>> ...
>>> A business I deal with does use Quickbooks and once per month they
>>> sent me
>>> an Invoice for service and products that they supply. On it is the
>>> date of
>>> sale, the invoice number and the amount of the sale. There is a
>>> column for
>>> description and it is blank.
>>>
>> ...
>>> ...I ask them constantly if they could
>>> have the description of the item invoiced printed on their invoices
>>> and they
>>> tell me there's no way to do that. I think that is BS. Can some
>>> tell me if
>>> this is BS and how can they get the description to print on the invoice?
>>
>> Of course it is BS..."all" they have to do is to enter the data into
>> their list of items and it will then be automagically filled in. It
>> is probably simply they don't want to take the time to do that if they
>> have a sizable number of items.
>>
>> So, the question is whether you have enough clout to get them to
>> change their behavior and whether their services/products are unique
>> enough to continue to put up w/ them rather than find another
>> vendor... :)
>
> If they are not using Items they can still manually enter text into the
> description field. Sounds like someone is either lazy or does not know
> how to use QB very well.

Extreme lazy. I'd just not sign the check they get. Maybe they will get the
point.

Posted by vcardx on April 8, 2008, 2:30 pm
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:
: > ...
: >> A business I deal with does use Quickbooks and once per month they sent
: >> me an Invoice for service and products that they supply. On it is the
date
: >> of sale, the invoice number and the amount of the sale. There is a
column
: >> for description and it is blank.
: >>
: > ...
: >> ...I ask them constantly if they could
: >> have the description of the item invoiced printed on their invoices and
: >> they
: >> tell me there's no way to do that. I think that is BS. Can some tell
me
: >> if this is BS and how can they get the description to print on the
invoice?
: >
: > Of course it is BS..."all" they have to do is to enter the data into
their
: > list of items and it will then be automagically filled in. It is
probably
: > simply they don't want to take the time to do that if they have a
sizable
: > number of items.
: >
: > So, the question is whether you have enough clout to get them to change
: > their behavior and whether their services/products are unique enough to
: > continue to put up w/ them rather than find another vendor... :)
:
: If they are not using Items they can still manually enter text into the
: description field. Sounds like someone is either lazy or does not know how
: to use QB very well.
:
If this is actually an invoice, then I agree with the above. However, is
there any chance that what you are calling an invoice is actually a
statement? When I read "once per month" and "on it is the date of sale,
invoice number and amount of sale", it sounds to me like a statement listing
the invoices. Especially when you add "[I call] them to ask ...what an
individual invoice is for".

No one else gets that from reading this?


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