In the simple start version does the "make expenses and items billable" to a customer work when creating an invoice? Can you pull the info from the receipt into an inv.

I can share some ideas about using the billable expense feature, @ericscire-gmail-.

Making expenses and items billable to a customer works only in QuickBooks Online Plus and Advanced. 

If you wish to record billable expenses, you need to upgrade your Simple start account. To manage your QuickBooks plan to add more or have fewer accounting features, you may check this article for a detailed process: Upgrade or downgrade your QuickBooks Online subscription.

Once done, you can start to turn on the Make expenses and items billable feature. Then, pull the info from the receipt into an invoice by manually entering the transactions into QuickBooks.

Feel me if you have additional questions about handling billable expenses. I'll be happy to help you. Keep safe!

Thank you so much for your reply. The different versions must have the same templates because there is a checkbox to make expenses and items billable. That makes things confusing for someone trying to learn the programs capabilities.