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Paul_R_H
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How can I import expense data, in a spreadsheet, into an invoice?

I have expense data as a spreadsheet that I need to put into an invoice to a client as I'm billing the expenses on to them. Each expense line has only two fields: description and price. But there are many lines and copy-pasting each field costs me a lot of time. The expense data in the spreadsheet is actually already inside qb, but it won't port it across from expenses to invoices so I have to copy-paste it myself which is laborious. But qb will export that data as a spreadsheet so`I hope I can re-import it into an invoice.
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Best answer March 12, 2023

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Paul_R_H
Level 2

How can I import expense data, in a spreadsheet, into an invoice?


Thanks

 
This works only if I upgrade.
 
I am a sole trader. I write about five bills a month. I have about 10 customers in all. I haven’t linked to a bank account. I don’t do budgeting or cash flow or payroll or time tracking or a chart of accounts. Quickbooks is too complex and bloated for my simple business as it is. Making it even more complex and expensive is really not what what I want to do.
 
Best wishes
 
Paul

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JessT
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How can I import expense data, in a spreadsheet, into an invoice?

It's great to see you posting today, Paul!

 

I'll help you make your expenses billable to your customers. However, please know that we can't export them to Excel and they can't be imported into QuickBooks either. The good thing is that you've already recorded them, so what we'll do is make them billable to your customers. This way, they can be converted to invoices. Let me walk you through the steps.

 

Step 1: Turn on the option to make expenses billable to customers.

 

  1. Click the Gear icon and choose Accounts and settings.
  2. Go to the Expenses tab.
  3. Click the Bills and expenses section.
  4. Enable the following options:
    • Track expenses and items by customer
    • Make expenses and items billable - enter the markup percentage and choose if you want to use a single income account or multiple account accounts for billable income.
  5. Click the Save button and then Done.

 

Step 2: Open your expense transactions and make them billable to your customers.

 

  1. Go to Expenses on the left navigation bar.
  2. Open each transaction that is billable to your customers.
  3. Put a check mark in the BILLABLE field and select a customer to be billed, as shown in the screenshot.
  4. Click Save and close, and do the same thing to other transactions. The transaction will shown under the customer's profile as a billable expense charge.

 

 

Step 3: Open each customer's profile and turn the billable expense charges to an invoice.

 

 

After record the transactions, you can run customer related reports like Sales by Customer Summary or Sales by Customer Detail. In this way, you'll be able to monitor their balances.

 

I'm only a comment away should you need more help with your expenses. Have a good one!

Paul_R_H
Level 2

How can I import expense data, in a spreadsheet, into an invoice?


Thanks

 
This works only if I upgrade.
 
I am a sole trader. I write about five bills a month. I have about 10 customers in all. I haven’t linked to a bank account. I don’t do budgeting or cash flow or payroll or time tracking or a chart of accounts. Quickbooks is too complex and bloated for my simple business as it is. Making it even more complex and expensive is really not what what I want to do.
 
Best wishes
 
Paul

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