Can QB Pro 2006 do small manufacturing?

Intuit does indeed make a big distintion. Anyone using their product that produces 1,000,000 per month is considered an idiot and those building 600 per month are customers.

Stop being such a tight wad and go for it. Sometimes we do things because we feel we are worth it.

Bob

Have you looked into creating Groups within the item list? This allows you to group up to 20 items together for a given item. You can show or not show the items which make up the group on the printed invoice. Assemblies (which you get in the premier packages) are better, but you might want to look and see if this might meet your needs

Gary

The problem is that these parts are the same items that are being sold individually to customers. If I buy a dozen sets of guitar strings, 10 might be sold from the display and I might use two sets on new guitars. If I put some in groups and some in regular stock I'd have to enter the item in two different places when received, and I wouldn't know at that point how many would be sold directly or how many would be part of an assembly. I was looking for a way to move an inventory item from one place to another as needed. Can items be moved from regular inventory stock to part of a group as I needed them?

Bob

Ah, you don't understand groups. You receive the individual things. The group is just a fast way to put a bunch of how you see fit individual things on an invoice. Once you have the group item on the invoice you can change what is in the group to add items, take them away items or change individual quantities of the items in the group. The group is just a container for individual items.

You can also choose not to print the individual items making up the group on the invoice.

Then a group won't solve the problem. I'd still need paper and pencil to keep track of which items were used from inventory to make a specific guitar. The problem is two fold. One is the customer sales receipt and the other is that the items may be taken from inventory for the new instrument weeks before they were sold. I need to remove the items from inventory at the time they are assembled into the guitar and then be able to track which items are in the final product. If items in a group are not indicated as removed from inventory until they the final product is sold, it'll look like I still have them on the display for sale and will not accurately reflect how many are available for immediate sale. Is there a way to change an inventory item and rename it without changing the value or removing it from inventory. What if each new instrument were a job and the parts became part of the job. I've never used jobs so I don't know how those work, either. Might just be easier to upgrade to Premier or keep my pencil and paper.

Bob

Bob

Bobby,

Just get the corect version of QB and be done with it.

Sounds like you need Assemblies to me, the Premier will do that for you

Gary

I've been looking at it for a couple of weeks and it seemed I'd need to upgrade. Just wanted to check here first because others have much more experience with QB than I have. I'm not concerned about spending the money. I hate dealing with another Intuit upgrade. It'll rearrange my desktop, windows preferences, redirect my home page and spam me to death during the upgrade process. One shouldn't have to fear an upgrade but that's life with Intuit.

Bob

That is assemblies and builds

Ah you do know Intuit.