@MtnMoon - Exactly!  Almost everyone gets their Invoices emailed to them as soon as stuff ships, so this must be a problem for almost every single business.

The way it's set up, it looks like QB are stuck in the days when all invoices were posted out, and the goods sometimes arrived before the invoice did - but, those days are far behind us now.  The issue is that we have to now hold a bill until the goods arrive and enter it then - which has caused us a number of problems.

It's further proof that people that write software have no idea how people actually use it out in the real world.  QB is written for accountants, not the front-line people that enter orders and have to order & track inventory.
I submitted a similar request on their form on "Send Feedback Online" a couple of years ago - and nothing came of it...

I've been with QuickBooks Desktop for around 15 years now, but getting so frustrated with it's lack of basic functionality and does not meet the actual needs of my simple buy and resell type business.  I'm sure that there must be many other businesses in exactly the same situation.