Hi there, @joncraw4d. 

Thanks for taking the time to follow along with the thread and sharing your concerns. 

In QuickBooks Online, when the purchase order is created, the status is Open. Once your vendor accepts the purchase order, you can then add it to an expense or bill transaction in QuickBooks to make the transaction official. This keeps all the transactions connected and your accounts balanced. 

However, you can manually adjust an item's quantity without recording a purchase or sale to match what is in your account. To do this, you'll need to use the Inventory Adjustment feature to increase/receive what you need. 

Although this is our current process of receiving inventory in QuickBooks, I can see the importance of getting the feature needed that fits your business needs while handling inventory entries. For now, you can use the Feedback feature to send this idea directly to our Product Development Team. Our developers review each request and consider them for future updates. 

Here's how:

1. Sign in to QuickBooks.
2. Select the Gear icon at the top, then Feedback.
3. Enter your comments or product suggestions. Then select Next to submit feedback.

Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns. Take care!