Comments on: Managing Service Truck Inventory in QuickBooks

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:37:34 +0000

It is there, you just have to turn the preferences on. Edit/Preferences, select Items & Inventory/Company Preferences, you have a box to check to get Quantity Available to show.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 23:03:58 +0000

Thanks for the prompt response.

One more question: will this method work in 2010 Premier Contractor Edtion? It seems that the “Current Availability” window is oddly absent from this version.

By: Charlie

Charlie — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:58:30 +0000

Classes don’t generally apply to inventory.

You can see financial info based on classes, but you wouldn’t see a list of outstanding parts assigned to a “class”. Classes are generally used to create “departmentaL’ financial statements.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:10:34 +0000

Wouldn’t creating classes for each truck achieve multiple inventory location tracking, or am I missing something?

By: Shannon V Waldron, CPA

Shannon V Waldron, CPA — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 04:02:50 +0000

I have a client using Intuit Field Service and this was one issue we could not resolve without an Excel spreadsheet to track each truck. I have another client in the jewelry business needs a way to track the product carried in “suitcases” by each of their 200 sales reps. I think this may also work for them. Thank you, thank you!!!

By: Vince Triolo, mba

Vince Triolo, mba — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:56:33 +0000

A very clever workaround. This might also work with companies who have more than one warehouse, giving QB a multi warehouse feature for the poor and starving client.
Vince Triolo, mba
Intuit Solution Provider