Invoice stub

It can't be done with QuickBooks. Consider sending 2 copies of the invoice, or consider using different software.

water

You can create an invoice with the type of payment stub you wish. Though you can only copy or add certain items, such as grand total, you cannot copy line items, as you wish. You can always click on the Add button to see what fields are available. QuickBooks has one on their website that you can download and modify, so that you don't have to totally recreate the wheel. Might save you a little time.

gary

I am a bit disappointed with the software as it appears somewhat clumsy to me. It is too bad as I've created more sophisticated applications with both Excel and Access and I hoped for an easier ride with this one. Do you have any suggestions for software that would be more pliable?

Anyone that has experience or knows anything about QB would not be supprised if they heard that Intuit spent over the years in excess 50 million dollars in R&D on the product. Grant you I am making this number up, its probably a larger number, but the number is as good as any other.

Here you come on the scene and state that little old you created more sophisticated applications with Excel and Access. We are so lucky to meet someone so humble.

Allan, I just KNEW you'd have a good response! Your reliance on the arbitrary $50million is a little weak, but it's a good answer otherwise.

would be

You don't know the half of it yet. It's clumsy when you first see its first inane and idiotic limitation. After about two dozens of them you then see what complete crap this program is.

Unfortunately the field of bookkeeping and accounting is the most backwards field in terms of software development. A major reason for this being the case is that small business owners in addition to accountants and bookkeepers are in a prohibitive majority computer illiterate and have no idea of what their computers should be able to do with a $200-$500 program. As long as they don't have to manually add numbers together they're content, therefore Intuit is getting away with a horrid piece of garbage for so many years.

In addition to Intuit's lack of interest in offering decent features, they have also dumped all development to third-world pc-slave farms where the last thing one would expect to find is someone who has any idea about what features would be useful in a bookkeeping program. So it's a double whammy. First, they don't care and second, the developers are ignorant idiots.

For the sake of clarity, he means anyone who has experience kissing corporate ass due to recognition of personal incompetence and due to personal preference of worshiping anyone with a corporate title.

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Kinda get the idea *someone* here had his job outsourced.. eh?

Lookit pal, I don't think it's excessive to assume a program's ability to copy a field to another portion of a report or invoice. Using Access this is SIMPLE stuff! With Excel it's even more basic!

I never claimed to be a genius at applications, but I thought some simple customization would be available considering the price charged for this app.... oops, I meant crap. I looked on Intuit's site and found a link to one application that applied to utilities (water, electric, etc) that used Excel alongside QuickBooks but they wanted somewhere around $450.

Since I don't control the checkbook with this rural water district, I guess my lil ole wife will have to fumble along with this clumsy software for awhile.

Thanks Gary. your post was the only one that helped.

Russ

You're welcome Russ, wish I could have been of more help.

Gary

You said that you wrote more sophisticated applications in Excel and Access than Quickbooks. You are a genius.

but I thought some

I looked on Intuit's site and

Not at all. My job is as safe as can be. I can see why you'd think that but it's not the case. Quickbooks is garbage, I have not lost my job to anyone and I am in no danger of losing it in the future either while Quickbooks continues to be developed by glue sniffers.

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What the f*ck do I care about what's available when I do a Vendor Quick Report, filter to show only bills, I then cannot filter for CUSTOMER but I can filter for CUSTOMER TYPE (????) and whatever crap Quickbooks decides to show, THERE IS NO TOTAL!

It doesn't matter what report I'm after and if I'm lucky enough to be able to find a workaround for it. I should be able to do such simple actions in that simple report as I described them. Several thousand users need to do this exact report every day and tens of thousands of others need to do simple reports like this where they have to face SEVERE and INANE limitations like the above.

This piece of trash could only be developed by incompetent underpaid slave labor *AND* it can only be considered good enough (and even worshipped for the idiots among us) by equally incompetent ignorants who are unaware of what a computer should be able to do after 25 years of software development.

There is no shortage for ignorance - there never was.

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Quickbooks also has a service available as part of the online billing package that will send a paper invoice to customers that has a remit portion attached. They will send you a free sample if you click here: