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Why can't I create a simple PO in QB online essentials?
Good evening, @Pridepro1.
Welcome to the Community! I'd be more than happy to help you create purchase orders in your QuickBooks Online Essentials account.
Have you turned on the purchase order feature? This feature allows you to create PO's and more. Here's how:
For more details about PO's, review this guide: Create and send purchase orders in QBO.
This should do the trick. If you need any more assistance, don't hesitate to ask. Have a great day!
have to upgrade account just to have a purchase order form - no way
There is no edit (pencil) in the Purchase Order section! It is requiring an upgrade. This is ridiculous! Purchase orders are essential and should be included in Essentials version.
Let me share details with you about creating Purchase Orders, WPLOGO.
For now, this feature is only available to QuickBooks Online (QBO) Plus and Advanced users. If you're using a lower subscription, you'll want to upgrade your account to either Plus or Advanced to be able to use the feature. Let me guide you on how:
Once done, follow the steps in this article on how to turn on the feature and create purchase orders: Create and send purchase orders. You can also refer to these articles with purchase orders in QBO:
Don't hesitate to click the Reply button below if you have follow-up questions on this matter or referring to something else. Please know I'm always around to help with any QuickBooks issues you may be having. Take care always.
As others have commented, purchase orders are an essential part of basic business. Paying extra for them is not an option. I will just have to use estimates for purchase orders. Please tell your program developers to revise essentials to include a simple purchase order. Thank you.
Thanks for getting back to this thread, @Pridepro1.
I can see the importance of having the option to create a purchase order on all versions of QuickBooks Online.
In light of this, I recommend submitting a product suggestion directly to our software engineers. Your ideas and insights are valuable to us, and we are actively collecting feedback. For specific instructions, you can refer to the information provided by my colleagues earlier in this thread.
Here's how:
For now, you set up estimates for purchase orders. For more information, you can check out this link: Create and send estimates in QuickBooks Online.
To help personalize sales forms in QBO, you can review this resource for your reference: Customize invoices, estimates, and sales receipts in QuickBooks Online.
Thank you for your patience while we work on this. Feel at ease to get back to this thread if you have other concerns with QuickBooks. I'll be more than happy to help. Please take care.
Rubielyn,
Thanks for responding.
Replying to your comment: , I recommend submitting a product suggestion directly to our software engineers. Your ideas and insights are valuable to us, and we are actively collecting feedback.
It's not necessary to suggest a product - whatever purchase order form currently offered in QBO would be great in QBO essentials. No need to 'reinvent the wheel'.
It is an easy fix if software engineers would just add 'purchase order' option to QBO essentials.
I'm sure you will agree and hopefully you will suggest it to your software engineers!
Thanks for your time. Barb
Couldn't agree more with this, how PO's are not part of essentials is ludicrous. Xero includes it with all software versions.
I see zero progress on this issue over an entire year to facilitate a critical need. While "essentials" is overkill for my needs, leaving the only option of raising a subscription by 50% for "plus" now more overkill just to regain access to PO's isn't feasible. Seems like "essentials" isn't really living up to its name.
I've been a subscriber since 2015 and had PO availability in a lower cost subscription. I've requested this simple change for years.
Here's a suggestion to the team determining what's actually essential when dealing with a large variety of business types. Let the subscriber pick and choose from a list of items from all your plans and the amount of items chosen determines the plan cost. Some items may be cost more and that's understandable with an easy fix where the need for inventory for example would take away 2 items. I would be willing to give up 2 items for PO's.
Provide a "customized feature" based on individual businesses needs and I guarantee a substantial growth in sales. You may even get back those who left. You can thank me with a lifetime subscription plus a $1 royalty on every subscription sold.
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