Zekra
Level 1

Kinda complex business setup

Hello Experts,

 

We print custom books for our customers and we accept Cash on Delivery.

 

Because we ship internationally to a limited number of countries, we assigned someone as a medium in each country, we call him a distributor.

So, we'll print books for multiple customers in the respective country and at the end of the week we combine the orders  in 1 big box and send it to the distributor to ship the orders locally to customers and collect payments.

 

At the end of the month, we ask the distributor to pay us the amounts collected (minus) their percentage  say 20%.

 

I really can't wrap my head around it, in the big picture the distributor is a vendor (provides us shipping and collection services) but our customers' invoices needs to be settled by him and his 20% is COGS.

 

How would you setup QuickBooks to handle it?

 

P.s. I'd like to look at the P&L and see it grouped by country.

 

Thanks in advance,

Amin