sfav8r
Senior Member
- Location
- San Francisco Bay Area
We currently enter our materials invoices into quickbooks as a lump sum. For example, if we have an invoice with 20 items totaling $482, we just enter the total and apply it to whatever job it is for. We are considering changing this. My question is, if you're going to enter every item, what do you use for an item number? If we use the same item# as our main supplier, it would make entering the items easy, but then what if we swing by Big Box and buy the same item from them? As far as we are concerned, a 10' piece of 1/2" EMT is the same thing regardless of where we bought it. but the computer would consider it a completely separate item if we used a different number.
What do you guys do? Is there a materials database for electrical contractors we could start with? We already use TurboBid for our estimates, I don't think there is a way to utilize that database though.
Thanks
What do you guys do? Is there a materials database for electrical contractors we could start with? We already use TurboBid for our estimates, I don't think there is a way to utilize that database though.
Thanks