Building Assemblies

Hi Wclark8,

You can select it if you have sub-assembly items that need to be finished first before the main assembly item. Then, QuickBooks will automatically create them for you along with the main item.

If you like to see some additional references, you can press F1 while you're on the Build Assembly window. This will open the Help window, and you can read the articles about building assemblies.

You can always drop by here if you need anything else.

Have a good day!

Could you please show how to get to "automatically create sub-assemblies" in Quickbooks Enterprise?

Thank you,

Hi there, @RichardsNguyen.

It's nice to see again here in the Community. Allow me to chime in for a moment and help walk you through getting to the automatically create sub-assemblies option in QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) Enterprise.

Here's how:

1. On your QuickBooks, go to the Inventory menu at the top and pick Build Assemblies on the drop-down.
2. You'll see the Automatically build required subassemblies option on the button part of the Build Assembly page.

Just in case, you can also check out this article for further guidance: Create, build, and work with inventory assembly items.

That should point you in the right direction. Please let me know if you have any additional questions or concerns in the comment section below. I'm always here to help you. Enjoy the rest of the week.

How can I build an assembly from within a job? I want to track actual labor and material costs when building. I don't see any way to charge actual labor and actual material to a build. I also want to compare estimated values to actuals on a build.

Thanks for joining the thread, NoiseSol.

I'm here with some insight to provide regarding the assembly items.

To clarify, are you trying to create assemblies when you're creating your invoices for a certain job? At this time, the option to build assemblies isn't available when you create your sales transactions.

You'll need to go through the Inventory menu and use the Build Assemblies option. For additional insight about this, I recommend following this article: Create, build, and work with inventory assembly items

On the other hand, you can compare the estimate against the actuals by using the Item Estimates vs Actuals report. Here's how you can pull it up:

1. From the Reports menu, select Jobs, Time & Mileage, then Item Estimates vs. Actuals.
2. Change the Date as necessary.
3. Click Refresh to apply the changes.

I hope this clarifies everything for you today. Please keep in touch if you have additional questions, or if there's anything else I can do for you. Have a great day!

We are a manufacturer - we need to track our employees time in Creating each Sub Assembly against the final assembled unit (I.e. Proper costing)

1. we created a sub assembly - in this case let's call it a "frame"

Under Inventory Assembly we call it a frame

in the BOM we enter the Materials we use

HSS, Angle, etc.

We also have Non-inventory items and services that we need to add and track (some are outside services, and some are our own labor - like welding and Painting, cutting etc....

The question is how to get that time into the Part (Inventory Assembly item)

Hey there, @NoiseSol.

You can enter time by adding a service item. Let me show you how.

You'll need to create a service item for the time worked by your employees for the assembly. Here's how:

1. Click on Inventory from the menu bar.
2. Select New Inventory Item.
3. Choose Service under the Type drop-down.
4. Enter all necessary information.
5. Tick the This service is used in assemblies or is performed by a subcontractor or partner checkbox.
6. Click on OK.

Once done, you can now track this on your assemblies.

Feel free leave a comment below if you have any other concerns.