You can code direct costs to jobs and there are some ways to allocate indirect cost, but not based on indirect rates unless you pull all the cost out of QB into...

I have heard it only does hours for billing, but maybe that was based on QB version.

You are right, what you are doing is a nightmare.I have never heard of QB payroll handling job costing but would love to hear if it does.My clients all require ...

I do not think QB is setup to sort dollars bsed on billing or shipping address fields. However, it is good that you have that info so you can assign states to e...

I usually assign state by job/project/contract, which is a subset under customer, where one customer = multiple jobs in multiple states.