Custom Report that shows transactions with Customer First Name and Last Name columns

Thanks for reaching out to the Community, JM952.

I can certainly understand how an ability to separate customer names into two columns (one for their first names and another for their last names) could be useful and have submitted a suggestion about it as of today.

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As a workaround, you can export the report and further customize it outside of your books.

I'll be here to help if there's any questions. Have a lovely day!

It appears that these fields were added recently by the Payroll team to support the 'state mandated retirement' reports for Illinois, California, and Oregon.

However, the did it in such a (lame) way that the fields only work for those specific reports. I'd call that a bug, more or less. At the least it's a really a really lazy implementation by, I suppose, a company that just doesn't really care to do it right.