I appreciate you for sharing your thoughts and opinions, Dav.

I'd be delighted to impart some insights on how to add a Ship Date column in your Sales Order. 

You'll want to customize the form and add the ship date column. However, you'll have to manually enter the date from the column when creating a sales order. Let me show you how.

1. Go to the Customers menu in your QuickBooks Desktop (QBDT).
2. Select Create Sales Order.
3. Go to the Formatting tab.
4. Select Customize Data Layout.
5. From the Additional Customization window, select the Columns tab.
6. Put a checkmark inside the box from the Other 1.
7. Change the reorder number if need and enter a title for the field. 
8. Then click OK. 

You can also check out this article for more details: Use and customize form templates.

On the other hand, you can send your feedback to our Product Developer team. This way, they can review it and help you with your QuickBooks experience. To submit your feedback, you can follow these easy steps:

1. Go to the Help menu.
2. Select Send Feedback Online.
3. Then click Product Suggestion.
4.  Enter your suggestions and details then click Send Feedback. 

In the meantime, you can look for a third-party app that let's you personalized your sales order base on the data you need. Just hover to the App Center inside your QBDT or visit our QuickBooks Desktop Apps page for reference.

Once you're all set, you'll want to utilize these resources for reference. These provide details on what to do next after creating a sales order:
 

• Create an invoice in QuickBooks Desktop
• Get started with customer transaction workflows in QuickBooks Desktop 

In case you have more questions about Sales Order in QBDT, Please let me know in your reply and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.