Purchase of inventory and labour and parts to be added later on

Thanks for getting in touch with us today regarding your inventory concern, @Lookout1,

When you want to add labor or overhead costs to an inventory in QuickBooks, we recommend using the Inventory Assembly Item. This helps incorporate direct and indirect costs of the business into the cost of the product you sell.

First, create a non-inventory item for the Direct Labor. The checkbox labeled “This item is used in assemblies or is purchased for a specific customer:job” must be ticked. This way you can assign a wage expense account to it.

Once done, assign this to the Assembly item. 

To learn more about this item type and how to use it, see the following articles:

• Track the products you manufacture
• Combine your inventory items to build finished goods

You can also refer to an accountant for additional help with the way your business wants to track labor on inventory.

Let me know if you have any questions or clarifications. I'll be right here to help you anytime. Have a nice weekend!

Those labour and parts come from entries of payroll and bills respectively.

I want these labour and parts added into the inventory assembly upon payroll and bills are entered.

Is there a way of doing it? or it will be 1. make entry of payroll or bill, 2. go to item list and add those items to the inventory assembly item?

Please advise.