 So we'll just give an overview of of the concepts here. So notice that if I go into the sales items We've got our customers. So our customers are here And if I was in the business view by the way, the customers are located in the get paid and paid area And then on are the customer view So oftentimes if we're gonna have a job that we want to track I'll just give you the quick history on this from the software perspective in the old Software or in the software that's still relevant But it was the software before in use before QuickBooks online the desktop version. They would have the jobs Now note that you might have a different in terminal terminology again Between how you might use a job in a job cost system from a textbook scenario to how you might more Specifically use the concept of job or sub-customer when or project when you move into The QuickBooks system from a textbook standpoint are our general ideas that we want to be tracking The job by by job basis for longer or extended extended jobs Now from a practical basis within QuickBooks, there's a couple ways that you could do that and the in the old It used to be that we have just the the jobs that called that they were called which QuickBooks online now calls Sub-customers that allow us to track a particular project as a sub to a to a customer. So we can track that individual Job that's kind of related to a customer now They also QuickBooks desktop and online have added other tools such as class tracking, which can actually break out income statements Based on and so you could use like a class tracking method in a similar kind of thing To to break out in essence jobs so you can kind of add a class which would be your jobs That that might not be the most common way to break it out But notice class tracking is another way that you can kind of break out your income statement So so we've got to think what tool are you going to be using and then when we get to the online version? They also added tags which has a similar method of being able to break out Breakout items like on the income statement, which isn't isn't normally what you would do with the job cost system And then the online version decided to change the name of a job Which on the desktop version to sub-customers so now we can set up a sub-customer So if you were to convert a job cost system where you used jobs on the desktop system To the online version the jobs that you had hopefully would convert over into Customers and then the new thing that happened so jobs from the old version and sub-customers are like the same thing the new thing now Which is I believe only on the online version and not on the desktop version is this concept of the projects and the projects have Some more functionality with it than possibly the Sub-customer or jobs so they do a similar thing because they're gonna allow us to track Items by job from a job cost system or by project whatever you want to call it from a textbook kind of terminology But now they're using like a different tool to do it It's in a whole different section than your customer section up here now projects is the new and improved kind of Think here, and I think it's only available Like if you have the lower versions of of the software you might not have access to it You have to have like pro or above I believe to have projects so if you're below that and you don't want to pay more then you might be able to do the same You might have to use then the sub-customers which you can typically use and then if you're using the projects then Then the question is well if I have access to the projects and access to the sub Contractors aren't the sub-contractors functionality redundant meaning why you know how can you use them both at this point in time and One way that you can kind of use them both as you could have like like a sub like a Customer and then a sub-customer which might be breaking out another sub category such as like a location and then which within the Location for this particular custom customer. You might then apply your Projects to them so you've got to be kind of a little bit careful on that also just note that as you pull in Your information if you started from the desktop version and you're converting to online then I Don't believe you can just convert your jobs automatically Over to projects directly. I think you're gonna have to convert them. They'll convert over to sub-customers And then you might be able to go from the sub-customers to convert them to projects if that's the end goal So it might be a little bit more burdensome than then you first think but you know You may be able to do that But you want to kind of research that Process and how exactly you're gonna make the conversion if you're going from another software such as the desktop version to the online version and you're using jobs there and you want and you want to use the Projects functionality in online. Okay, that's it. Let's first let's do some comparisons between these two things So let's let's look at our customers section I want to see all my customers and I'm gonna make a sub-customer for Jones guitars So here's Jones guitars I'm gonna make a sub-customer which will be kind of tied to Jones come guitars here and so the way I'm gonna do it as I'm gonna say I can hit the new button up top and In the new item, I'm just gonna put it the name as the number three oh five We might have more detail. It might be a sub job for you know a project We're gonna build a guitar for them or something, you know, whatever the project's gonna be But I'm just gonna give it a number For now, so we give it the number and then down here This is where we have is it a sub-customer which is similar to a job Basically the same thing as a job on the desktop version. I'm gonna say sub-customer for Jones guitars Boom and then it says bill Parent customer. So if you look at the little questionnaire, it'll it'll give you an item but in essence that means it's gonna be billed, you know through the parent and So you might have this is this is one of those areas where you might use the sub-customer In alignment with the projects because you might have the parent being Jones guitars And then you might have a sub-customer that has a different billing Then billing, you know Jones guitars and that could be your sub-category and then possibly have the projects Tied to the sub-category. That's one way that you could you might you could see out both of these things might be tied in Even though you might be using projects instead of jobs or sub-customers as we go here All right, so there's that so then I'm gonna so if I save that I'm gonna say save that and then if I scroll down or look now I'm going it's going into the to the job So I'm gonna say let's go back to just the sales and the customers and then I scroll down So there is our sub-customer now if I was to make an invoice. I won't actually record it I can say the invoice is gonna go to that sub-customer right so I can say plus button In voice I'm not gonna actually record anything, but if I just say 3005 Then It'll it'll apply it to Jones guitars colon the sub-customer So the invoice will be going to the sub-customer Well, which will ultimately be billed to Jones guitars so I can track it within The sub-customer and so I'm gonna say do you want to leave without saving I'm gonna say yes And then I created another one here so you can do that by going back up and saying new customer again and within new customer I'm just gonna say it's gonna be 4002 for the name and then this one I'm gonna say it's a sub-customer for Sam the guitar man and then we're gonna say it's gonna be billing the parent as well So pretty easy to set those two up I'm gonna say save it and then if I go back to my my customers Now I've got these two sub-customers for Jones guitars and Sam the guitar man and I can apply items to them directly now as we do so you could say okay, then I can Have reports if I go to the reports over here and look at my my reports There's a profit and loss by customer for example They can break out that'll break out the activity up top As we put the information on a customer by customer kind of basis And that's one way that we can track this information We don't have anything into those sub-customers yet. So we don't have anything in there at this point in time