Hi there, @mardisbagley.

I want to let you know that your voice matters and I'm taking notes of your feedback and submitting it directly to our engineers. As of this time, you can consider the workaround shared by my colleague FritzF above to manually mark an invoice as sent.

Also, to show the whole invoice amount, you can consider importing your custom form styles for invoices as a workaround.

First, we need to turn on this feature. Here's how:
 

1. Click the Gear icon.
2. Select QuickBooks Labs.
3. Scroll down the screen and toggle the switch for Import Style to On.
4. Select Done. 

Then, design your own template in an MS Word file. Once done, you can import it to QuickBooks. Here's how:
 

1. Click the Gear icon.
2. Select Custom Form Styles.
3. Click the New style drop-down.
4. Choose Import style.
5. Select the drop-down under Select a form type, then choose invoice.
6. Click the link Download a sample, and make your own import form style.

I've got you an article for more details: Import Custom Form Styles for Invoices.

You can also visit our blog site so you'll be able to get the latest news about QuickBooks and what our Product Care Team is working on.

Please feel free to leave a comment if you have any other questions. The Community team and I are always here to help you out.