Accounts payable

Hi there, @Spira.

QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) offers a variety of services to help you streamline your business processes. However, automatically creating a bill to a vendor based on a percentage of your invoice is not available. As a workaround, you can create an invoice and manually calculate the 78% that you’ll enter in your bills for your vendor.

Here’s how:

1. From the Customers menu, select Create Invoices.
2. On the Customer: Job dropdown, choose a customer or customer job. You can Add New if the customer or job is not on the list.
3. Fill in all the relevant information on the invoice form.
4. Select the item/s from the ITEM dropdown. 
5. Take note of the TOTAL amount and manually calculate the percentage to be entered in your bill. 
6. Hit Save & Close once done.

After calculating for the percentage, you can create a bill for your vendor.

In contrary, QuickBooks Desktop has a feature that allows you to create a vendor transaction (such as a bill, expense, or check) and tag a customer to make it billable to them. You can even include a markup to add a profit margin. Once done, you can navigate to the profile of the tagged customer, where you’ll find a transaction called Billable Expense Charge. This billable charge can then be used to create an invoice for the customer.

Let me know if you have any further questions about creating a bill, or if you’d like to learn more about making vendor transactions billable to customers.