Tori B
QuickBooks Team

Other questions

Thanks for reaching out, @kstewart.

 

How are you doing today? I hope everything is going great so far. 

 

To answer your question, no, you do not need to have Advanced Inventory enabled to turn on Enhanced Inventory Receiving (EIR) in QuickBooks Desktop. EIR is a separate feature that can be enabled independently of Advanced Inventory. If you need some help activating the feature, follow the steps I'm including below. 

 

Please take note that once this feature has been activated and turned on, you cannot turn it back off. 

 

  1. From the Edit menu, choose Preferences and select Items & Inventory.
  2. Go to the Company Preferences tab and click on Enable under "Enhanced Inventory Receiving" section.
  3. Review the warning message and hit Continue, then OK.User-added image
  4. You will be prompted to back up your company file.User-added image
  5. Depending on the size of your company file, it may take a while to complete this process.
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  6. When finished, QuickBooks Desktop will provide a summary of changes that happened during this process.User-added image

 

That should do the trick. For more information about this feature, check out Turn on Enhanced Inventory Receiving

 

Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns. I'm happy to lend a hand. Take care!