Hello,sfvaughan.

Thank you for utilizing the Community space. I'll be glad to help you run a sales report by state.

Before we can open a sales report by the state you have to run the sales location detail report, This way you can pull up all the information that you are looking for. 

Let's make sure that the track location is on, in this way you can track your transaction by the state in a report.


Here's how:

1. Go to Settings ⚙, then choose Account and Settings.
2. Tap Advanced.
3. Pick the Edit ✎ icon in the Categories section.
4. Select the checkbox to track locations.
5. Hit Save, then Done.
    

Then, you'll have to add the location.

Here's how:
 

1. Let's go again to Settings ⚙️, then pick All Lists.
2. Select Locations.
3. Tap New, then add the Name of the location you want to track.
4. Hit Save and Close to confirm the action.

Once done, everything is ready in running sales by the location detail report.

Here's how:

1. Go to the Reports menu at the left pane.
2. Look for and type Sales by Location Detail in the search box.
3. Pick a Report period, Group by Location, and Accounting method.
4. Hit Run report to display the desired info for this report.

You can check this article link to give you details How to customize reports in QBO?

Keep me posted if you have additional customizing a report. Have a great day.