As a business owner there can be several different situations that you encounter where you might need to include a long legal disclaimer or explanation when you sell a specific item, offer special discounts, provide warranty disclaimers and information or explain your payment requirements when bidding on a job or even invoicing a customer.
- Items
- Template
- Letters Function
- Outside of QuickBooks
- Using Items to add long disclaimers – If the additional information needs to be included when a specific product is sold, that information can be included in the description OR you can create a new item with a zero sales cost for the purpose of adding the information to a Purchase Order, an Estimate, or an Invoice. The advantage of creating a separate item is that you can place the disclaimer item where you would like it on the form; right after the item it relates to, or at the bottom of an Estimate form. Later, you can delete it for billing purposes – as long as both you and your customer have a copy of the Estimate that contains the detailed information.
- Modifying the Form Template to include long disclaimers – If the disclaimer is long and you have the same disclaimer for every Estimate you create, for example your billing terms, and would like to make it a standard part of your form, using the Long Text Disclaimer section on the template itself may be the best solution. Choose Lists -> Templates -> select form -> Edit. The text can be entered and then the font size and placement can be adjusted using the Layout Designer.
- Using the QuickBooks Letters function – If the disclaimer is exceedingly long, after you create the form create an accompanying Letter in QuickBooks. Access the Letters function from the Customer Center by clicking on the Word option. Use this method with option with option 1 or 2 above to indicate that additional information is included on a separate page.
- Outside of QuickBooks – Depending on what needs to be included, it might make more sense to print the disclaimer on the back of the form. It would also be possible to use this method in conjunction with option 1 or 2 to state something along the lines of “see additional disclaimer information on the back of this form” to include a reference to the information without having to actually include it on the form.
I want a memo type field on my Invoice screen, where I can type Invoice amount in words, and it can be printed as invoice footer. any way to do so?
Hi Michael
Yes, that is another way of adding a “disclaimer” – I’m just wondering if there is a difference in the number of characters that can be stored in a text box vs the long text area area.
I know this conversation is a little out of date.
It seems there is another way.
You can just, in layout designer, click “add text box” and type the disclaimer in there.
(I’m having trouble seeing what is the point and the difference of the “long text” data field versus just adding a text box and putting the disclaimer in that way?
Any thoughts?
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Charlie, thanks for these additional ideas!
Two other ways:
1) Print as a PDF, then modify the PDF to insert your disclaimer form. This is similar to other methods you use.
2) Use a third party add-on program that will let you print the invoice WITH a disclaimer. CCRQInvoice is an example.