Hi there, @Spira.
QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT) offers a variety of services to help you streamline your business processes. However, automatically creating a bill to a vendor based on a percentage of your invoice is not available. As a workaround, you can create an invoice and manually calculate the 78% that you’ll enter in your bills for your vendor.
Here’s how:
- From the Customers menu, select Create Invoices.
- On the Customer: Job dropdown, choose a customer or customer job. You can Add New if the customer or job is not on the list.
- Fill in all the relevant information on the invoice form.
- Select the item/s from the ITEM dropdown.
- Take note of the TOTAL amount and manually calculate the percentage to be entered in your bill.
- Hit Save & Close once done.
After calculating for the percentage, you can create a bill for your vendor.
In contrary, QuickBooks Desktop has a feature that allows you to create a vendor transaction (such as a bill, expense, or check) and tag a customer to make it billable to them. You can even include a markup to add a profit margin. Once done, you can navigate to the profile of the tagged customer, where you’ll find a transaction called Billable Expense Charge. This billable charge can then be used to create an invoice for the customer.
Let me know if you have any further questions about creating a bill, or if you’d like to learn more about making vendor transactions billable to customers.
