Jobs & Estimates
If you create estimates or document job progress in QuickBooks, head to the Jobs & Estimates preferences section to set up your progress terminology and estimating features. QuickBooks forces nonprofits to think in terms of customers, but it does allow you to choose the terminology you prefer for progress on a job. For example, if you're a professional gigolo, your terminology for a woman you didn't win over might be "Rejected" and you can instruct QuickBooks to display that term in the Job Status field.
Note
Because the Basic edition of QuickBooks doesn't support jobs, the Jobs & Estimates preferences section applies only to QuickBooks Professional, Premier, and Enterprise editions.
QuickBooks includes five fields for job status: pending, awarded, in progress, closed, and not awarded. You might wonder why Intuit bothered to name these fields as they did, because the status terms do nothing more than appear in Job Status fields and columns (see page 68 to learn more). Despite QuickBooks field names, you can type any term you want for status in any of the five boxes. Type Waiting in the Pending box; Whoopie! in the Awarded box, and Finally in the Closed box. When you edit a job and display the Job Status drop-down list, you can choose from these terms.
The rest of the preferences on the Company Preferences tab relate to estimates and progress invoicing. Choose any or all of the following preferences:
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