Editor's Note: Intuit recently released QuickBooks Desktop 2024, including QuickBooks Enterprise (v24.0). Murph has evaluated pre-release versions of these products for months and spent hours communicating with Intuit personnel so we can help you learn about the new products. This is one in a series of individual product articles intended to provide additional content to what's provided in Murph's QuickBooks 2024 Product Summary.
About QuickBooks 2024 Enhanced Item Categorization Features
Until 2023, QuickBooks Enterprise only provided the following ways to identify items and inventory:
- Item name/number
- Purchase description
- Sales description
- Manufacturer's part number
- Serial or lot numbers (for Advanced Inventory users)
- Barcodes (for Advanced Inventory users)
- Custom fields
Even with this diversity of nomenclatures, only the Item Name/Number field allows you to configure a hierarchy of items by creating layers of sub-items. Still, nothing prevented a user from selecting the parent item rather than being required to choose only sub-items.
But then, QuickBooks Enterprise v23 delivered a new way ...