I am a photographer and am trying to create an editable text box that I can describe the usage rights for each invoice. As much of my billing revolves around usage terms I need a place to describe this. In my old invoice using filemaker I was able to create a box that I could put this info in. It is different for each job as there are many variables. I don't see a way to do presently.

Unfortunately, you cannot create new data fields in your accounting software. You can customize the invoice to have a text field but because the customization is only for printing, there would be no way to enter data into that field from the invoice window.

Well where would you enter text if you had a text field? Would you have to enter it in layout mode? I guess I could continue to create invoices in FileMaker but I loose about half the functionality of MYOB and I would have to sets of invoices not an attractive prospect. I am assuming since you cannot create a field there would be no way of saving the info if I do create it?

NOt sure what invoices you are using, but if you are using items, I would just create an inventory item for each "variable" you might encounter, and then a "MISC" variable. (Obviously no selling amount...)

We did this for very wordy jobs.

Eg: I had item #'s TRANS01, TRANS02, TRANS03, etc... that when entered in numerical order on the order, formed a long description of a particular job we did often.

I had made inventory items for about 500 different descriptions of things I wanted to say...

(I'm using past tense because we now use a huge outside application to do our work orders)

HTH....

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You can try using the comments box on you invoices.