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Thanks for reaching out to us, nickchapple.
Please know that each field in the program has a maximum number of characters that can be entered. I understand that you need to track the complete details of your invoices. Your ideas and suggestions will help us determine what functionalities our customers need and want.
To help improve your experience, I encourage submitting feedback to our Product Development Team. We always are check feedback submissions, and take them into consideration when prioritizing feature development. Here's how:
In the meantime, you'll want to consider entering the rest of the details in the Message section. This field can contain up to 230 characters.
I'm also adding this article to help manage your invoices and edit your invoicing preferences in QuickBooks Self-Employed: Create invoices.
Keep me posted if you have any other concerns or follow-up questions about how invoices work. The Community always has your back.
hi, so can you please tell me how many characters are allowed please and why it is limited at all ? also how many characters are allowed in the MESSAGE field please as this maybe helpful whilst i am trying to complete invoicing ? many thanks
Hi there, @nickchapple.
Thanks for getting back to us. Allow me to chime in and answer your questions about character limitations in QuickBooks.
In QuickBooks, each field has a maximum number of characters that can be entered. For the customer message (invoice), it has a maximum of 101 characters.
You can check out this article to see the other fields with their character limits: Character limitations for fields in QuickBooks.
If you wish to have more characters in each field, I suggest sending feedback directly to our Product Development Team. You can follow the steps shared by my colleague Klent above on how to do it in your QBSE account.
For tips and other resources, you may visit our website for future reference: Self-help articles.
I'm only a few clicks away if you need more help with invoices or anything else in QBSE. Take care and have a good one.
also how many characters are allowed in the MESSAGE field please as this maybe helpful whilst i am trying to complete invoicing ? many thanks
Hi there, nickchapple.
Allow me to share information about the character limitations for the message field in QuickBooks Self-Employed.
In QuickBooks Self-Employed, there is no limit of characters that can be entered in the message field. To learn more about the other field's limitations, please check out this article: Character limitations for fields in QuickBooks.
You can also check out this article about the invoicing feature in QuickBooks Self-Employed: Easy Invoicing In QuickBooks Self-Employed.
The QuickBooks Community is available 24/7. Post again if you have any questions about the character limitations in QuickBooks. Take care!
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