Getting reimbursed for job expenses

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If you've set up a job to track reimbursable expenses and you've linked that job to a customer, you can assign expense transactions to the job and quickly prepare sales that bill the customer for the job's reimbursable expenses.

Creating a sale that includes reimbursable job expenses is nearly the same as the process of creating any other type of sale. See Entering sales for more information; note that you'll use Step 3 of that procedure to add your reimbursable expenses to a sale.

Click below for the step-by-step procedure:

To bill the customer for job expenses

To reverse job expenses after they've been billed to the customer

Click below for some tips that will assist you when it's time to bill the customer for reimbursable job expenses. Please read through these tips carefully; you might find it will save you a great deal of time.

Tip No. 1: Become familiar with how various sales types affect reimbursements

Tip No. 2: Use a "placeholder item" to track reimbursements on item sales

Tip No. 3: Use a special account to track reimbursements on other types of sales