County not country

[Brian Bielefeld]

We would like to see an account field for "county." Country is given a prominent position, however we never have need for this. County is much more relevant for marketing and sales tax purposes.
We have used a custom field but the problem with this is that if people don't see it on the screen they don't enter the information. In addition if I create a custom report that uses a custom field the report generation is slow as molasses.

[Guest]

Thanks for the suggestion Brian - I'll add it to our list. However, real-estate is at a premium and I've never been asked for this before, so I'm not sure if we could add this to the main screen...

[Bob Williams]

James,
I'll second Brian's suggestion. Many states have Sales Taxes that are based on the County, and the only way to record that a particular Account is in that County now is in a custom field.

[Guest]

I do see your point! I'm just not sure where we'd put the field yet...

[nxiollc]

Isn't the need for the county field sales tax based? Attaching the full set of sales tax fields on a ship-to by ship-to basis woudl make the most sense to me.

Bob and I have spoken about using multiple accounts to represent multiple locations of one company to get past the issues, but always in QuickBooks we used the ship-to to represent the "service location" and then woudl ajust the sales tax as necessary.

Brian, Is there some reason other than taxing primarily that you were asking for the county field?

[Brian Bielefeld]

I have had many requests from the sales department to produce account lists by county. We set up "county" as a special field. We got two results: the first was that because "county" was in fact hidden in under the special fields button it was commonly left empty and the second was that any custom report using special fields takes a long time to run.

We would like the "county" and "sales tax" awareness be reinforced at the account setup level rather than later on by accounting. I know that training can solve this however it is suprising that without the reinforcement of having the field present to the eye it just doesn't get entered.

We have no accounts outside the USA so this space is wasted.

[Mihir Kotwal]

Our company would also like to see a county field replace the country field.

I don't know how easy this would be to implement into Tigerpaw, but it would be helpful for us to hide the country field (We also only have accounts in the US.) and show a county field in its place.

It would be really nice if we could fill in the address, city, state, and zip and Tigerpaw would input the county for us.

[Guest]

Thanks guys!

[Sheila D]

I would love a county field! In Illinois, prevailing wage is based on the county the account is located, so it would make payroll SO much easier.

[Bob Williams]

Another need for this field is that some counties require business licenses, which are based on revenue within their county. This can't be based on city since some cities occupy multiple counties (Atlanta for example).

[mikenco]

Couldn't this just be added to the Accounting Information screen under the Lampshade? Plenty of real estate there.

[ccsolutions]

I'd prefer it to be under the Accounting Information as well.

[LisaK]

It is necessary for our company to know the County the account is located in. We utilize the Country field as County but that is only for US accounts. We populate the Country Field with the Country Name if it is outside of the US. We do have accounts outside of the US so for us we would need County and Country field!

[Ed Mana]

Not sure if you use service zones. That *could* be used for the county. You would create a service zone for each county and then default the zone in the account level service defaults.