Inventory

Thank you for joining us here in the QuickBooks Community, @StirredDry. I can explain why the quantity of your other item shows zero at the new location.

I agree with using the Inventory qty adjustment feature when moving items to different locations. However, this feature only allows adjusting an item's quantity increase or decrease. 

That said, I recommend creating a corresponding adjustment to the second item when you make a quantity adjustment on the first item to record the transfer of physical goods. Say, for example, you have an item on location A and another on location B. A quantity increase in the first location should have a corresponding decrease in the second location.

When done, you can rerun an inventory valuation report to see the changes made.

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You're always welcome in the Community should you have updates or further concerns in managing your inventory. Stay safe.

Thanks for the comments.

Actually I think I figured out my own question. For the community, I think when you create a second (or more) location, you need to enter an opening value there. I did not do this, and had a zero. The effect was after I moved items from location A to the new location, the entire value was expensed. As soon as I deleted the transfer, and edited the second location with an estimate cost, I had properly valued inventory and a bit more profit. I opted to increase that price at location to B a bit, to include the $5/item that it cost me to move it to the new location. 

So there you go.... create an item at a new location WITH an opening value, and then transfer from one to the other!