It’s Just a Job

In QuickBooks, you can track invoices by customer or by customer and job. This may sound weird, but some businesses invoice customers (perhaps several times) for specific jobs.

Take the case of a construction subcontractor who does foundation work for a handful of builders. This construction subcontractor probably invoices his customers by job, and he invoices each customer several times for the same job. For example, he invoices Poverty Rock Builders for the foundation job at 11 Birch Street when he pours the footing and then again when he lays the block. At 28 Fairview, a foundation job takes more than one invoice, too.

To set up jobs for customers, you first need to describe the customers (as we explain in the preceding section). Then follow these steps: