Creating a job

Although the New Customer and Edit Customer dialog boxes have a Job Info tab,…you don't want to use that when you have several jobs for the same customer.…Instead, you should create a job record for each job you do for a customer.…That way, you can fill in different addresses for each job if necessary and…you can track the profitability of each one separately.…Similar to sub-accounts, jobs act like sub-customers.…When you create invoices, you can create them for specific jobs.…

When you receive payments, you receive them against the corresponding jobs.…When you create a job, QuickBooks pulls in the information from a customer record, …but you can change any values that are different for the job, like the…billing address or the payment method.…To create a job, click Customers on the homepage.…The easiest way to create a job is to right-click the customer you want and then…choose Add Job from the shortcut menu.…The New Job dialog box contains fields similar to the New Customer dialog box…and the only field you have to fill in is the Job Name.…