 So if your primary purpose is over here on the profit and loss report, then sometimes you might think that the class tracking would be better even if you're trying to break out by location if one of your attempts is to break out payroll by employee assigned to a particular location because the class tracking allows you to do that. If your location tracking is partially in order for you to have different names and whatnot that are going to be given to external reports to clients, then that would be another reason why you might use the location tracking over the class tracking. And of course you might use the two in conjunction with each other as well. Let's go ahead and just record this. I put a customer. I'm going to put it on three one. So labor, I just put it into labor and let's save and close it. And I'm going to also change this second one to be a sub account. I'm going to edit this. It needs to be a sub of California one or California. All right. So then if I go over to my profit and loss report and run it and let's bring this out just to March now 033123 and run it there. So and now I'm going to break this out not by class but by the location. I had to refresh the page because I turned on location tracking. But there it is. Location tracking. Run it. So there it is. So now I've got California and then I've got the sub category because I put it in a sub category. So note the difference of using a sub location. It's going to kind of try to house it under California. It's going to make the number of columns a lot longer because you're going to have California the sub and then the total as opposed to using class tracking and location tracking in which case you'll have a whole nother set of columns up top for class tracking and then the location tracking. So other than that it works in a similar way as some of the other tools we took a look at. So if I say let's make an expense item up top and say we're going to make an expense item and we're going to say this is going to be for vendor to and then I'll just say it. Let's just change. I'll use these items down below and do the same kind of thing. But let's say this for 1400 and let's say this is for 600 and and so notice we could make it billable and pull it over to a customer but the location tracking isn't tied to a particular customer. So I'll just record that. Let's say save it and close it. Did I assign it to a location? I didn't even assign it to a location. Did I? Let's go back on over here and run it. Notice I did that on purpose because then if you don't assign it to a location it goes like the class tracking into not specified and like with the class tracking you would like to have everything specified to a location usually and then the not specified area will tell you if you messed up. You didn't assign something to a location then I can drill back down on it and assign it to a location. I can go back into it and then when I assign to a location I have to assign the entire transaction up top. Let's this time go to the second location here and I'll say save and close and then if I go back on up top and say back to my report and run it just to make sure it's running. So now we've got this amount was assigned to the first location. These are assigned to the second location total for the sublocations and then the total on the right hand side. And let's go back on over and then do another one. I'm going to say this time I'm going to say it's an expense and let's say this is going to be for vendor one will say categories of utilities. I'm not going to put any classes in it. It's just going to be for let's say this time location Nevada. So it's on three one. Okay. So there's going to be our expenses decrease in the checking account the other side going to utilities. Let's save it and close it. And then if I go to my balance sheet by the way and break that out by locations I got to refresh the screen. Let me refresh it. And so there we have it. So now I can hit the locations and run it. So now we've got our locations broken out here. Now notice that QuickBooks might be a little bit better on the balance sheet to break out location by location because we're assigning the location to the entire transaction. But still you can't really count on the balance sheet to be perfectly lined up because these tools are generally focused more on the income statement. So you'll start to think well things aren't in balance per location kind of kind of thing. But if you assign one location to the entire transaction it's more likely to be able to work on the balance sheet than when you start assigning line by line different classes for example. If I go back on over here so there we have it now we've got our Nevada one. Now notice the problem with location tracking is that if I put like an expense form and I'm going to go vendor one if I wanted to assign these two utilities to two different locations California and Nevada for whatever reason which oftentimes you do because you might be assigning certain expenses that you're paying for both locations to each one using some percentage method or something. You can't do that with the locations because the locations are up here assigned to the full transaction as opposed to the classes where you can do that. So that's going to be one of the limitations on the location tracking that makes it a little bit easier. But if you don't have to assign per line item but if you need to assign per line item then of course that becomes a problem because you can't do that. So that's one of the things you want to keep in mind when you're thinking what are you using location tracking for. I'm going to leave it without saving that. Then there's a question of do you want to use like if I had multiple locations and then I had departments how do I want to do that? Do I could use either location tracking or classes and then use these sub-categories in order to account for the department. So I might have California and then a sub-category of admin, a sub-category of sales which gives me this nice breakout of the full amount for the California location, sub-category, sub-category and then the total but you also come up with a long kind of report and you're not easily able to categorize by admin over the entire company. I can't get a column as easily for admin for California and Nevada. Your other option would be to run these two things together. Say I'm going to use the location tracking for the two states and then maybe I use maybe I use class tracking for locations within those states or for departments within the location so that I can run a whole another set of columns up top and then I can filter. So for example if I enter my transactions here and I also use class tracking which we turned on and say we want expenses and I'm going to allocate the expenses to vendor one and this time let's say it supplies, supplies, expense, boom and let's say that is uh one one two four class this time I'll say class I have business and professional I'll keep that B and then supplies that's not supplies supplies here and let's say that's for uh 600 and that's for P and this is happening okay so now I'm breaking it out by class and it's assigned to the Nevada location now those classes you might say it's it's within Nevada and it's basically for admin maybe in Nevada and then and then sales in Nevada let's save and save and new and let's do one more