Comments on: Groups vs Assemblies in QuickBooks

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 07:09:07 +0000

Charlie, there isn’t a good way to change the name of more than one item at a time, although I’m not sure how you would want to do that.

You can change descriptions in the add/edit multiple list feature, depending on the type of change you want, and item type. Or use an Excel export/import

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:27:29 +0000

I have Quickbooks manufacturing & wholesale Edition 2010.
i want to change the name of our product names.
under inventory assembly can i change the name’s of the “Item Name/Number” more than one at a time? also can i change the ” Description ” more than one at a time?

Thank you

By: Charlie

Charlie — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 23:08:49 +0000

Aaron, not really. That is the limit, even in Enterprise. All you can do is to break things up into multiple bundles…

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:53:25 +0000

We want to use groups to track bundles of products. We sell software both a-la-carte and in bundles. The grouping will work perfect for us (using a tracking item at $0), but we need more than 20 items in some groups.

Any way around this?

Thanks,
Aaron

By: Charlie

Charlie — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:54:54 +0000

Trevor, I’m not sure what you mean about the “inventory item does not track” for the assembly…

However, with Groups, the only thing you can do is to create another item, let’s say an “other charge” item, for the discount. Give it a negative price. Then add it to the group item.

There are other variations of that to play with.

By: Trevor

Trevor — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 11:31:06 +0000

GROUP ISSSUE!

Hi Charlie. Here is my problem. I sell 5 individual items which has a cost of $10, $12, $14, $21 and $30. If a customer buys the whole set of 5, he can then have a discount.

If I group this, and call this group say a “deal”, then the group selling prices will come up as $87 (which is the sum of the items in the set), but I want the customer to only pay $71. How do I set this price?

If I go the assembly route, I can set the price, but then the inventory item does not track, so I need to go the Group route.

Help please!
Thanks (from South Africa)
Trevor

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:21:54 +0000

Joy, take a look at this article for a starting point: http://qbblog.ccrsoftware.info/2008/08/outsourced-or-sub-contract-work-in-quickbooks/

By: Joy

Joy — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:00:00 +0000

We are currently using Quickbooks 2008 Manufacturing. I need help with the following: We have an item that we order from our supplier with the part number we’ve assigned to it via Quickbooks. Once we receive the part, we send it out to have a “process” done to it. This makes the part a customized part. We want to be able to show that the part left inventory, went out for processing (not sold/but added value), and then came back in to inventory as a different part number. This new part is just one piece in the main assembly item. We’re currently making this new part an assembly within the main assembly, but then it doesn’t reflect accurate inventory totals, because the original part is still showing a large quantity in stock because the item won’t be removed until the main assembly is sold. So, is there a way to way to remove a part from inventory, modify it, and bring it back in under a new part number? Thank you.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 20:40:58 +0000

Tonya, sure, just right click on the assembly item in the item list and select the “QuickReport”…

By: Tonya

Tonya — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 21:57:01 +0000

Can you do a quick report on a assembly item?