IT WILL NOT WORK. I spent hours with Quickbooks.
If you invoice a customer for an inventory item, it will pull out of inventory. If you invoice an assembly item, lets say model #1 consisting of an A B C item, once invoiced the # 1 product will be taken out of inventory but the items A B and C will not.
The issue is, when you BUILD an Inventory item or Assembly item, it adds that to your inventory. In the case of an assembly item, during your building, the BOM components are deducted from inventory. So that's how it tracks inventory. Only until I Build product #1 then its ads the build to inventory while BOM A B C is deducted from inventory.
The only workaround which I find a huge hassle, is you create your Product SKU as a Group, then list the components in that group. So when you invoice #1 group, it lists all the components A B C in that group on the invoice, and that will deduct from your inventory in real-time. I don't recommend this as Quickbook isn't really designed to work like that. You're just not going to have accurate inventory totals until you complete your builds and invoice your sales. You won't have real-time data showing your actual inventory while sales orders are waiting to be completed and your builds are waiting to be entered.
