Hi,

We are a coffee roasting business and are looking at ways to enter and manage raw materials as inventory on QB Online.

We've already decided to not to use the inventory tracking feature on QBO, but to do this manually on a separate spreadsheet. So we just want to enter raw green coffee as a raw material (as a non-inventory item) and then transfer this to a 'roasted coffee' inventory account on production days via journal entries.

So the question is, do I need to create a separate inventory/ raw materials account for Un-roasted Coffee in Products and Services in order to do the journal entries 'migration' or is there another way of doing this?