Is there a way to do this on Quick Books Desktop version? We used hundreds of parts on jobs sometimes (electrical contractor) and we need to pull these parts from inventory but we don't want it showing up on our invoices for the customer to see all the parts. I can't find out how to do this without making a "fake" invoice to send to the customer (an Estimate formatted to look like an Invoice in the template) and pulling the parts on the real "posting" invoice.
We do not use assemblies because every job is different and uses different parts.
We have found a workaround by creating group called a "Bid Item" and all the parts inside it will not show up when we print, but then we also can't EVER print it for our own benefit to see what was used. We can only look at it on the screen, so no way to make notes or corrections as we do checkups on what parts were used. If you click the box to "print items in group" in the Group settings, it doesn't work retroactively so you can't turn it on and off.
I can't believe we are the only contractor that uses a lot of parts they don't want showing up, but I can't find information about this ANYWHERE and I have hired several Quick Books Heroes/ Experts to help.
Thanks!
