Hi there, S Kappel.

We're unable to provide a timeline when an particular feature request can be added in the program. 

Please know that the invoicing feature in QuickBooks Self-Employed is mainly used to create the transaction, send it out to your customers, and collect payments from them. It does not impact the calculation of your income and taxes.

Check out these articles for more details how the invoicing feature works in QBSE:

• Create an invoice in QuickBooks Self-Employed
• What happens when you send an invoice?

We'll post an update in this thread as soon as they become available. Don't hesitate to visit us again in the Community if you have other questions. 

This really is tragic - and they have no plans to fix it. I thought it was weird last year, this is the first time I'm using accounting software as I'm a new business owner. I just continued to deal with it, but the thought kept coming every time ... isn't this going to cause a headache in knowing when invoices were actually paid? It seems I was right, it is a headache. And honestly, if the program is written with any decency this would be a very simple feature to implement. They clearly don't care though which is disappointing.

It's now 15 months since the original post - promises to refer this to developers don't seem to have been actioned. 

This is a very serious but simple omission.  I work on the cash accounting basis - something QBSE is supposed to follow.  That makes it very important that I can correctly record when money was received, irrespective of the invoice date and note which invoices payments link to - sometimes a client will pay me a single sum to cover several invoices.    Like many I cannot do daily accounting tasks -  I am a freelancer and don't have staff!!     If I were to go on holiday over the year end, I'd come back and find I've been paid for something, but it cannot be recorded in the correct tax year.  That could be said to be false accounting on my part.  

PLEASE amend this or I will be leaving for an alternative system.  I see others have been recommending Kashflow and Wave - I will be checking them out.

Hi Aitch As you are aware the invoice section of the self employed product is independent of the transactions page. You can mark the invoice as paid at any point. If your customer informs you that the invoice has been paid before you receive the payment then you can mark it as paid if you wish or wait until the payment is received. When you receive payment for an invoice/s you can either create the payment manually or if you have your bank connected review and categorise the payment when it populates. The self employed product is designed to assist you in calculating your disallowable and allowable expenses and is only a partial template of the self assessment form. The self employed product does operate on a cash basis as you can record income and expenditure at the point they were received and paid out. If you operate on a cash basis you have to notify HMRC by selecting the correct box ion the actual self assessment form, section 10 if you are using the SA103F and section 8 if you're using the SA103S.

Hi - I'm just adding my voice to the chorus of people saying that this really, really needs addressing. I've switched to QBSE from Xero and I really don't want to have to switch again, but the lack of this feature is making QBSE almost untenable for me.

I recognized the importance of having this feature, @jajh.

Currently, we don’t have a specific time frame as to when this feature will be available in QuickBooks Self-Employed (QBSE). Rest assured, our engineering team is aware of this feature request and is working on implementing it in the future.

In the meantime, I encourage checking our QuickBooks Blog page from time to time. This way, you stay updated on the latest news and updates that are happening in QuickBooks.

You can also visit these links to learn some tips in managing your QBSE account effectively.

• QuickBooks Self-Employed Overview
• Help Articles

In case you have other questions in mind, you can always post it in the Community space or leave a reply in this thread. I’m just a post away from you. Keep safe!

It is simply unacceptable to not have such an essential functionality on an accounting tool. Its like a car without brakes. Cancelling my account. What is the point in staying?

Bazin Makonnen

I'm new to QBSE and just discovered payment date of an invoice cannot be adjusted to show the acutal date of payment. Wow! Found this forum and can see this has been a known issue for almost 2 years! That's ridiculous. Such a simple, basic task that QB cant' (or won't) add to the system. The only help I've seen offered is to upgrade to the QB Online, which is not something I'm interested in. I'm not a software developer, but come on, we're just talking about the ability to change the date. I'll be looking into other programs to find one that handles this issue. Such a disappointment.  

I'm a new business owner and just found this out as well. I would have never selected Quickbooks for my small business if I had known that this wasn't a possibility. It's a very basic functional requirement -- not an option -- a requirement of running a business.

It seems like such a simple technical fix. 

I ended up going to Kashflow. It's pretty basic but it's cheap, gets the job done and super easy to use - AND YOU CAN CHANGE THE DATE - My Accountant can directly access it too and do my tax returns from there. Won't be coming back to Quickbooks after the misleadings last year.

Is there any update on this feature? It's been 6 months since the promise that they are working on it but still no sign of a way to do this. It seems like an odd thing to still be waiting for given that this is obviously losing customers yet seems like such a simple thing to fix.

I would like to see this feature added as well.

My suggestion is a pop-up window that opens when you tap or click on "mark as paid" that reads "When was this invoice paid?" and then under it, a place to select or type a date. And then a button that says "OK" or "Save" and another button that says "Back" or "Cancel" in case you need to go back before selecting a date. 

That's a nice suggestion, MOtis.

We'll take note of this one. That way, this will be considered in future updates.

If you need more references for QuickBooks Self-Employed, you can click on Help and search for the topics that you need help with. We also have quick references in the Community. Just select the QuickBooks Self-Employed product and select a topic from the tiles.

You can always reach out to us if you have other questions in mind.

It’s been two years since I first raised the issue of Quickbooks Self-employed not being able to change an invoice paid date. Despite numerous posts from support saying that it will be passed to developers there has been nothing in response advising of the availability of the feature.

I have been more than patient like many other users and put up with this deficiency, hoping that the feature will be included in an app update - but still nothing.

Last week I purchased an item which came out of my bank account on 3 April (last tax year) and via open banking was posted to Quickbooks on 6 April (this tax year). I need to amend the payment date to 3 April otherwise my financial records and tax return will be inaccurate and misleading.

Please advise how the payment date can be amended.

Is this feature request even on the roadmap for the product? Simply advising you are passing comments on is not a resolution to the problem!

I've been "trying out" Quickbooks for 2-3/4 months now and have encountered the problem of not being able to change a paid invoice date.  Seeing this thread continue since 2019 tells me that this company is not one that is responsive to its customers.  I too need this function for the same reasons that this multi-year thread describes.  It is clear from these threads that what your existing customers really need is not going to be  incorporated in your software.  This is one of the reasons that you have competition, in a market that you should have and could have completely taken over by now.  There are many things to like about your software, but the lack of this function and your not resolving what is a problem for many, has caused me to take my business elsewhere.  A few free months is great, but what we really need is a software that does what we need for our businesses.  Thanks for the trial period.  It was insightful.

Hello Rhondarobinson, Thanks for your frank feedback about the Self Employed product. It is the case there has not been a change to that functionality and we do see that there were multiple requests here. We do pass any requests on to the product developers so these kinds of comments are important. We're sorry it has meant that you have taken your business elsewhere.

I want to add my name to the list of very disgruntled customers. Absolutely shocking that this isn't a feature. It's 100% essential. 

Yes this is such a basic feature that could be added quite easily I imagine. 
I have encountered the same problem and it is very frustrating when you are trying to have all transactions aligning with the date they are paid. 

Two years ago some of these post were made and still nothing has been done to fix this feature.

Dissatisfied to say the least.  

Thanks for joining this forum, @J-S.

Having all transactions align with the date they're paid would be a great feature to add to QuickBooks Self-Employed. 

Although our engineers are already aware of this limitation, I'd still recommend sharing your suggestions directly with them. They'll need more reviews about this idea and might consider updating it in the future.

Here's how you can send feedback:

1. Go to Assistant located in the upper right-hand corner. 
2. Type Feedback and click the Add a feature button.
3. Enter your request in the field.  

This article will guide you in managing your QuickBooks Self-Employed account.: QuickBooks Self-Employed Overview.

Let me know if you have more questions about invoicing in QBSE. I'll be there to listen and help you again.

I'd find this really helpful too. I would also agree that this is such a basic need that this should be a part of QBSE as standard.

This is a very important thing to be able to do. Please advise when this option will be available. 

Thanks for checking in with us, LRG Csonsulting.

At this time, we're unable to provide a timeline for when a particular feature request can be added to the program. Please know that the invoicing feature in QuickBooks Self-Employed is mainly used to create the transaction, send it out to your customers, and collect payments from them. It does not impact the calculation of your income and taxes. Check out these articles for more details on how the invoicing feature works in QBSE:

• Create an invoice in QuickBooks Self-Employed
• What happens when you send an invoice?

In the meantime, I encourage checking our QuickBooks Blog page from time to time. This way, you stay updated on the latest news and updates that are happening in QuickBooks. Feel free to visit these links to learn some tips for managing your QBSE account effectively:

• QuickBooks Self-Employed Overview
• Help Articles

In case you have other questions in mind, you can always post them in the Community space or leave a reply in this thread. I’m just a post away from you. Keep safe!

4 years and this is still not possible this is my last years using this software if has totally messed up my taxes for the  last year.

I loved TurboTx and Quicksight integration but the fact you can set a payment date on an invoice and this data is used to push to TurboTax is rediculous.

Software design or developes must be trash it it takes 4 years for such a small feature!

Reading through this thread, it seems that Intuit has been aware of a basic, fundamental flaw in the software for 4 years and have done nothing to address it. It would be useful for potential customers if you could point out this really annoying bug before having us sign up for your service and then waste a couple of days trying to get things set up. Not sure what we're meant to learn from this - maybe, "the customer is always right, but we don't really care"?