QuickBooks Customer Account Number
Software: QuickBooks Desktop accounting software
You can search for a customer by the account number from the Customer List but not when recording a sales invoice. Hence, the customer account number may not be as useful as the customer name in QuickBooks.
QuickBooks search and display the Customer Name instead of the company name when creating invoices; therefore use the company name for the customer name field may be more logical for B2B businesses.
Let’s say you assigned account number AC123 for customer ABC Pte Ltd. To record this in QuickBooks, you may enter the Customer Name as ABC, the Company Name as ABC Pte Ltd, and AC123 into the account number field. The system picks up ABC Pte Ltd if you enter ABC in the ‘Customer:Job’ field when preparing an invoice.
You may use Student ID, which is unique, as the Customer name if you are using QuickBooks for school. Mobile phone number is also unique, which you can use it as a Customer Name if you are operating a car repair shop. Alternatively, you can join both code and name in the customer name field such as ID-CompanyName (example: 63360300 – Solarsys Microsystem Pte Ltd).
QuickBooks Accounts Receivable Ageing Summary Report only shows Customer Name. It’s good to record a few transactions and test the results before deciding on what to use for the Customer Name field.
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