Purchase Orders to Vendors

Thank you for reaching out to the Community, sciencetothemax. You may need to change your subscription to accommodate this inventory management.  There are two ways of possibly doing this in QuickBooks Desktop products.  This could be set up as a unit of measurement system or build assemblies.

The unit of measurement system allows you to show quantities, prices, rates, and costs for an item. In the example, you stated the base measure could be one shirt. You would make a unit for the vendor of two shirts, then make a separate unit of measure for selling 10 shirts.

The build assemblies combine inventory parts and other items to build a product that can be used for the pack of the ten shirts (as per your example) and run reports showing the differences. 

The articles below I have linked, you can view them to see if this is something that you would like. 

• Use single and multiple units of measure for items
• Combine your inventory items to build finished goods

Please let me know if you have any other questions or concerns. My team and I are here to help.

Can it be done in Quickbooks Online? 

Can it be set up in QuickBooks Online?

Thanks for chiming in! In QuickBooks Online, depending on your subscription, the build assemblies are known as bundles. I am attaching this link which goes through how to set it up in detail. The first steps are:

1. Go to the Gear icon.
2. Select List.
3. Click Product and Service
4. Choose New, then hit Bundle.

The article highlights ways to add a bundle to a form, inventory reordered points, and many other neat things.

• Introducing QuickBooks Bundles and Reorder Points

If you need any help along the way, reply below! Take care for now.