QuickBooks Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet Followup

In a previous post, I talked about the Sale Order Fulfillment Worksheet. After playing around with it some more, there are some odd behaviorsthat I’d like to point out, in case anyone is looking to use this. The first behavior I came across was printing packing slips for sales orders. The client was printing them in bulk and it was showing the “Shipped” column for the amount that would be sent out. Later, they found that they needed to reprint one of the orders. They went to the client list and found the sales order, double clicked on it and clicked the print button across the top. The order printed, but the “Shipped” column was blank. The order had been converted to an invoice, but the shipped still showed nothing. As it turns out, the only time that QuickBooks will print anything in the “Shipped” column, is if you print from the Sales Order Fulfillment Worksheet(SOFW) screen. Any printing done after that would be blank for the column. The work around (according to Intuit) is to go back to the SOFW screen and print from there. The problem, though is that if you have invoiced for the order in full, it will not appear on the worksheet. What I ended up doing for the client was to create a new print template (I duplicated the existing one, so it would retain all the customizations). I then removed the “Shipped” column and added the “Invoiced” column. I then renamed the column to display the “Shipped” label. When the client wants to reprint a packing slip, they will bring up the order, change to the new template, and print the packing slip.