Item description on invoice

I am trying to get the item description to show on the invoice...

Did you try to print it?
For me it shows when i print the invoice

Nothing shows... will go through setting again. must be a way to show columns

I haven't found a way to make this work as expected as I would like to have an item of 'Labour' and then change the description with the details on each invoice I create. At the moment, I would have to create completely new items for each item description change - totally unworkable. If anyone knows a workaround I'd be very pleased to hear it

I kind of figured that the 100000 current users would have the same issue and maybe have a work around...I think I saw somewhere in the forum that theis ability is due in version 3....

I checked with support on using the text field add on, and that should allow you to add a note field to the invoice but you have to buy the addon. From what I can see, the invoice_items table does not have a "description" field (equivalent of Memo in QuickBooks). The table would have to be altered and the corresponding form for presenting/editing the Invoice should also be modified to represent the altered database schema. It doesn't seem like that much of a change that would open up an entire new use of the product for independent consultants.

It looks like addons created their own set of tables that are then cross-referenced into the core tables. This seems like it would be overly complicated for the solution you want, since that would require a join on the backend for any presentation and the notes tables could get pretty big.

One other note, if you do get the text addon, you cannot import invoice items (e.g. time tracking data) with the note field. That isn't supported by the addon.

The easiest change seems to be to alter the table and the invoice UI screens.

Rob