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Quickbooks - Customer and Vendor?

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  1. sBiz101

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    I've got a small business question. I'm using Quickbooks Pro 2007 accounting software to do my bookkeeping, and I can't seem to figure out how to make a company both a customer and a vendor.

    For example, I might be making purchases from a software company, in which case they would be categorized as my vendor. However, recently I've started doing affiliate marketing for them (selling their products and receiving a commission), in which case they would be my customer. However, I Quickbooks makes me choose one or the other.

    How do I go about assigning a company as both customer and vendor. Should I simply list it once as an "other" account?

    Posted 10 months ago #
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  3. cwd

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    Joined: Jul '09
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    That's a great question. We're not accountants, but what we do is add a "-V" to the one that's a vendor. So, for example, if "Blue Gadgets Inc." is your "customer" account, then you could make "Blue Gadgets Inc.-V" your "vendor" account.

    Bottom line is they should have a different name so Quickbooks can distinguish between the two. How you actually name them is up to you (ie. you could name the company "Blue Gadgets Inc. Vendor" as well, for example).

    Posted 10 months ago #

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