How to Turn Advanced Inventory On and Off in QuickBooks Enterprise

QuickBooks Enterprise is tailored for larger scale operations such as manufacturers, wholesalers, and construction segments. It has the same functionality as QuickBooks but Enterprise has more complex processes and features including advanced pricing, payroll, and inventory tracking.

In this article, we’ll focus on one feature – QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Inventory. This article will help you answer the following QuickBooks Advanced Inventory questions:

What is Advanced Inventory in QuickBooks Enterprise?

How to Turn On Advanced Inventory in QuickBooks Enterprise?

How to Turn Off Advanced Inventory in QuickBooks Enterprise?

What is Advanced Inventory in QuickBooks Enterprise?

QuickBooks Advanced Inventory is an add on Enterprise feature and allows a business to maintain, track, and virtually move inventory. Using QuickBooks Advanced Inventory, a business can:

•       Manage your inventory process from a single dashboard
•       Track bin, lot or by serial number
•       Use mobile or standard bar code scanning
•       Manage inventory true costs by tracking miscellaneous expenses

QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Inventory has widespread benefits. QuickBooks Advanced Inventory provides a complete picture of how your inventory system is functioning, is especially beneficial to businesses that have multiple inventory locations and has all the right features so a doesn’t have to use a separate inventory management software.

How to Turn On Advanced Inventory in QuickBooks Enterprise?

QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Inventory is only available under the Platinum subscription. If you already have this package, Intuit provides the following steps to turn on QuickBooks Advanced Inventory:

1.     From the Edit menu, select Preferences.
2.     On the left pane, choose Items & Inventory then go to the Company Preferences tab.
3.     Check the Inventory and Purchase Orders are Active box.
4.     Select the Advanced Inventory Settings button. If the button is grayed out even though you have purchased the feature, you will need to sync license data online so that QuickBooks recognizes it.
5.     In QuickBooks, select Help then Manage my License and then Sync License Data Online.
6.     Check that Advanced Inventory Settings is no longer grayed out.
7.     Close and re-open the QuickBooks program.

How to Turn Off Advanced Inventory in QuickBooks Enterprise?

Intuit provides the following steps to turn off QuickBooks Advanced Inventory:

1.     From Edit menu, choose Preferences.
2.     Select Items & Inventory, then Company Preferences tab.
3.     Select the Advanced Inventory Settings button.
4.     Turn off each feature that you’re currently using.
5.     In the Advanced Inventory Settings window, select OK.
6.     In the Preferences window, select OK.
7.     In the warning window that appears, select OK.

Share your QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Inventory with Qbox!

QuickBooks Enterprise Advanced Inventory brings inventory management and pairs it with your accounting data so you have a perfect solution. Hopefully after reading this article, you learned how to turn Advanced Inventory on and off in QuickBooks Enterprise.

If your business operation has multiple locations, take this how to turn Advanced Inventory on and off in QuickBooks Enterprise tip a step further and share the entire QuickBooks file with Qbox.  To learn more, visit https://www.qboxplus.com/solutions/

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