Allday Consulting's Peachtree and QuickBooks Support Boards

When accepting orders from customers for delivery in the future, there seems to be only two choices in QB. The first is a Pending Invoice and the Second is a Sales Order. The Sales Order seems to be the best choice - acceptance of a customer order. The problem is that the delivery is expected in the future and not the current date. The second problem is when you have multiple items in the customer order, to be delivered at various times in the future, and possibly with different quantities.

All of this is needed for two reasons. One is to record the acceptance of a customer order and create a list of open orders to be processed over the subsequent months. The second is to develop a forecast of revenue for orders that have not been shipped.

Cash flow reports could show both the current open Receivables, as well as future revenue from predicted shipments.

What can I do in Quickbooks?