Open the Edit menu and select Preferences, then Sales & Customers. Or you simply don’t enter an order unless you know you have the item(s) in stock.īut if you plan to use sales orders, you must first make sure QuickBooks is set up to accommodate them. Perhaps you have a service-based business, or you never run out of inventory. You may never need to create a sales order for a customer.
When you want to document sales that you can’t (or won’t) fulfill immediately, but you plan to do so in the future, you can’t create an invoice just yet. QuickBooks Sales Orders are not as commonly used as invoices however, if you need them, they’re there.
