Entering freight charges

To enter freight charges on a purchase you create an account to record the freight charges and set the “Is Freight” switch to the ON position on that account.

This only needs to be done once, then on subsequent purchases you simply use the existing account.

Freight Charges Account

You then create line items that use the freight account to record the amount of the freight you are being charged.

You should have a separate account for freight charges that you charge customers (a revenue account), and freight charges that you are charged by suppliers (an expense account).

On purchase orders you can optionally have all freight charges aggregated and shown as a single summary amount on the invoice.

This is controlled by the settings in the “Purchase Order Settings” section of the “Book Settings” screen.