SarahannC,

1) Third party apps will not work.  I wrote my own app for this but QuickBooks API does not allow access to all of QuickBooks Advanced custom fields so no third party app will be able to make a PO for QuickBooks advanced users who use the custom fields feature.  This is a problem on the QB developer side that also has not been fixed for 4 years.  QuickBooks has abandoned development on purchase orders.

2)  It truly feels the provide feedback feature is just to give the illusion someone cares at QB because people have been asking for this simple change for 4 years and it has been ignored.  QB used to have a feature request board where you could upvote feature requests others have submitted.  I never saw any of the highly voted feature requests implemented and likely why they removed that board.

3) Drawing a white box over these fields on the PDF does work but QuickBooks making us do that instead of fixing the problem is a terrible customer experience.  I guess QB has the luxury of not caring when they have little competition.