The question posed regarding "Total Contract Value" also applies to QB Enterprise Desktop. The required process is:

1. We provide the Customer and Estimate.

2. They provide a Contract, with various line items for types of work under the Contract.

3. We can only invoice to the total value or funded amount of the total value, of the contract.

4. Your method, invoicing from an 'estimate' is not a proper method.  We should be albe to turn that into a 'Sales Order" from the Customer, then perform and invoice against that Sales Order.  The Sales Order would at least provide a 'credit balance' for the customer, and the invoices created against that sales order would decrement the balance on account the Customer has provided to us. This factor/process prevents over-billing the Customer, since the Sales Order Balance is decremented down as we invoice.

5: HOWEVER, YOUR SYSTEM DOES NOT LET US DO THAT.  it is so designed around very simple processes, that even in Enterprise Desktop, we struggle to get the right information keyed in and returned in reports.  Way too much manual effort to bypass the gridlock of normal accounting. 

6: And your 'process labels' need to catch up to Government Accounting Standards.  No one in Industry invoices from an Estimate. 

PLEASE.FIX.THIS.