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What Is an Inventory Part?

Chief Mechanic · September 25, 2010 ·

An Inventory Part is one type of Item and is maintained on the Lists->Item List menu selection.

See our article on all of the Item types supported by QuickBooks for more information.

Generally speaking, Items are designed to pre-fill invoicing and purchasing forms. An Inventory Part represents an item that your firm keeps on hand for sale to customers. It can be stocked and sold on its own or included as part of an inventory assembly.

Here’s a screenshot of the QuickBooks Item List showing a range of inventory parts:

QuickBooks 2011 Item List Inventory Parts

QuickBooks tracks certain information that apply only to Inventory Parts. Fields tracked only for Inventory Parts include:

Quantity On Hand
Quantity On Purchase Order
Quantity On Sales Order
Reorder Point
Asset Account

Some fields are tracked both for Inventory Parts and other item types, such as Inventory Assemblies and Non-Inventory Parts. Some – but not all – of these fields also may be tracked for other item types if you select the checkbox This item is used in assemblies or is a reimbursable charge. These fields are:

Quantity On Pending Builds
COGS Account
Preferred Vendor

The above screenshot shows a mix of inventory parts and sub-items of inventory parts. This structure is often described as a “parent child relationship”, where a sub-item is a child of its parent. While both parent and child items are labeled as Inventory Parts, QuickBooks only tracks quantity information for sub-items (i. e., child items) when this structure is used. It does not aggregate information for parent items where sub-items exist for that parent item.

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How Do I Collect and Track Sales Tax?

Chief Mechanic · September 12, 2010 ·

The first step to collect and track sales tax in QuickBooks is to enable the preference to do so.

On the Edit->Preferences menu, select the Company Preferences tab on the Sales Tax submenu.

Click Yes on the Do you charge sales tax? preference.

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 10 Preferences Sales Tax

Once the preference is set, you use:

sales tax codes to specify whether a customer or item is or is not taxable
sales tax items to specify the sales tax applicable to a customer or invoice
sales tax groups to combine multiple sales tax items into a combined rate for a customer or invoice

To collect and track sales tax, you’ll need to create at least 1 sales tax item, which you can do directly from the Preferences window.

QuickBooks Premier 2009 Preferences Sales Tax Items

If you are changing your sales tax preference after you’ve already created customers, inventory, or non-inventory parts, you’ll be given the opportunity to change the tax status of those existing customers and items. When the Updating Sales Tax window appears, choose what you’d like to update and click Ok.

QuickBooks Premier 2009 Updating Sales Tax

This update process will update all customers and all items that are either an inventory part or non-inventory part, so make your decision to update carefully. Decide based on the characteristics for the bulk of your customers or inventory items, because the exceptions will have to be reviewed and changed individually.

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What Is an Inventory Assembly Item?

Chief Mechanic · August 23, 2010 ·

In QuickBooks an inventory assembly item is a specific type of Item that is the result of putting together a new inventory part out of a bundle of individual items to enable tracking finished goods separately from individual components. Normally, an inventory assembly item is used when separate raw materials are assembled, packaged, and sold as an inventory item that is separate from the component parts.

See our article on all of the Item types supported by QuickBooks for more information.

The inventory assembly item type is only available in QuickBooks Premier and Enterprise Solutions. It’s not available in QuickBooks Pro.

It is similar to – but different from – a group item, another approach to managing a bundle of individual items. A group item is a way to quickly add a bundle of items to a form while preserving the ability to track those items individually. Where an inventory assembly item functions like a pre-assembled kit, a group item functions like an “on the fly” kit.

An inventory assembly item is made up of a Bill of Materials (visible by clicking the Full View… button) which can contain a range of item types: service, inventory part, another inventory assembly, non-inventory part, and other charge. Note that a subassembly can be nested within an inventory assembly. However, the Bill of Materials cannot contain these item types: subtotal, group, discount, payment, sales tax item, or sales tax group. Further, there’s a limit of 100 items in the Bill of Materials for an inventory assembly in QuickBooks Premier; for Enterprise Solutions, that limit is 500 items.

QuickBooks Premier 2009 Bill of Materials Full View

The Cost shown for an inventory assembly item should normally not be entered. When a Cost is not entered, QuickBooks will use the Bill of Materials Cost that appears at the bottom of the table.

An inventory assembly is built from its components parts by clicking on the Vendors->Inventory Activities->Build Assemblies menu selection. During the build process, the Quantity on Hand of the inventory assembly item is increased by the Quantity to Build, and the Quantity on Hand of each component is reduced by the product of that item’s Qty in the Bill of Materials and the Quantity to Build.

Builds in QuickBooks can be either pending or final. If there are insufficient quantities of the component parts, a build will automatically be marked as Pending. You can also manually mark a build as pending by clicking on the Edit->Mark Build As Pending menu selection while the Build Assemblies window is displayed. The Pending Builds report (Reports->Inventory->Pending Builds) supports managing future build requirements.

Here’s an example of invoicing for the inventory assembly item Interior Door kit shown above. Unlike a group item, which automatically adds other items to a form and controls whether these other items are printed, the inventory assembly item appears as a single line item on a form.

QuickBooks Premier 2009 Create Invoices Inventory Assembly Item

The price of an inventory assembly item is specified, just like the price of an inventory item, and can be changed directly on a form.

Sales tax for an inventory assembly item is calculated based on the single Tax Code assigned to the inventory assembly.

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What Item Types Does QuickBooks Support?

Chief Mechanic · August 23, 2010 ·

QuickBooks supports 11 Item Types.

Items themselves are maintained on the Lists->Item List menu selection, but the Item Types are pre-configured in QuickBooks and can’t be maintained by a user.

QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions 10 New Item

The 11 Item Types are:

Service
Inventory Part
Inventory Assembly
Non-inventory Part
Other Charge
Subtotal
Group
Discount
Payment
Sales Tax Item
Sales Tax Group

There is a 12th Item Type, Fixed Asset, which is maintained on the Lists->Fixed Asset Item List menu selection.

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Can I Add or Edit Multiple List Entries In QuickBooks?

Chief Mechanic · March 25, 2010 ·

Starting with QuickBooks 2010 and Enterprise Solutions 10.0, you can add or edit multiple list entries by clicking on the Add/Edit Multiple List Entries menu selection on the Lists menu.

QuickBooks Premier 2010 Add Edit Multiple List Entries

However, only certain lists can be manipulated with this feature and not all fields on these lists can be modified. These 5 lists can be edited:

Customers
Vendors
Service Items
Inventory Parts
Non-inventory Parts

For Customers, 6 fields can’t be manipulated with this tool: Sales Rep, Ship To address, Cc (Email), Preferred Send Method, Price Level, and Preferred Payment Method. In addition, 6 fields can be added for new customers, but can’t be edited for existing customers: Currency, Customer Balance, Opening Balance as of Date, Terms, Tax Code, and Tax Item.

For Vendors, 3 fields can’t be manipulated: Cc (Email), Billing Rate Level, and Accounts to pre-fill transactions. In addition, 3 fields can be added for new vendors, but can’t be edited for existing vendors: Currency, Vendor Balance, and Opening Balance as of Date.

For Inventory Parts, the screen shot below shows the available columns which can be modified. Columns in both the Available Columns and Chosen Columns list can be included. In this example, Shelf and Warehouse represent custom fields, so custom fields can be edited using this technique. At least 1 column can’t be edited for either Inventory or Non-inventory Parts: Unit of Measure.

QuickBooks Premier 2010 Add Edit Multiple List Entries Inventory Parts

Similarly, here are the available columns for Non-inventory Parts:

Using this tool, you can choose the columns in the window by clicking the Customize columns… button and use either the Copy/Paste features of Windows or the context menu (discussed below) to quickly duplicate values in a column. You can also create a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that exactly matches the column layout you’ve selected for the Add/Edit Multiple List Entries window and paste that spreadsheet into the window to quickly add new list entries.

QuickBooks Premier 2010 Example of Add Edit Multiple List Entries

For editing existing entries, you can access the context menu by right-clicking in a cell to gain access to menu choices to insert a new row, copy the value in existing cell down to all of the rows below it (which will overwrite data), and to duplicate an existing row (to prepare it for further editing).

QuickBooks Premier 2010 Add Edit Multiple List Entries Context Menu

The Add/Edit Multiple List Entries tool includes data validation to insure that your pasted data is in the format expected by QuickBooks for that data element and that you haven’t attempted to save a duplicate list entry. Data validation is extremely important in a tool that can easily add or modify large amounts of data.

For the first time starting with QuickBooks 2010, QuickBooks users have a tool to easily and safely add or edit multiple list entries from within QuickBooks itself.

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