When designing QBO, someone at intuit simply disregarded some key business processes that have been a staple in all QB desktop & enterprise platforms for dozens of years. They made the assumption that all businesses that sell products, simply have all of their widgets on a shelf just waiting for immediate fulfillment and invoice.

We have been trying for years to go from QBE to QBO, but all trials fail miserably. We just suck it up, and continue using QBE while we search for an alternative.  

Insult to injury, the latest versions of QBE are even worse than the previous versions. We are now blessed with random mandatory security updates in the middle of workdays which paralyze productivity, and can last for hours. 

Sales Order Processing in QBO needs to be address, not worked around. The work around does not work.