Change Customer to Vendor

Most of us want it the other way around.

No. If you've never used these customers, delete them.

delete and reenter correctly. pay more attention.

I find the way Quickbooks combines Vendors and Customers into a single long list very difficult to deal with as well. Here is how we resolved the situation for the case when the same company is both a Vendor and a Customer (common case for us).

We create two entries that are named as follows:

Company X - Customer Company X - Vendor

Now when we are typing the company's name into any pick list, we just remember to type the - and as soon as we type C or V after that the correct entry automatically comes up.

Be sure on the Vendor List to mark the option to print the company name as and enter the name without the " - Vendor". Now your checks print with the correct name.

For the case where you simply need them entered once, but as a different type, you are out of luck. There is no way to transfer from Customer to Vendor or vice versa. What you do in that case is manually create the new Vendor. Manually change all of the documents that reference them. Verify the balance on the remaining Customer entity as 0, and then we usually rename the Customer as "DELETE - Customer X". Then occasionally we go into single user mode and purge the accumulated DELETE records.

All a giant pain, but you'll get used to it.