Making these changes automatically with QuickBooks doesn’t quite beat a hot dog with sauerkraut in the park on a sunny day, but it’s pretty close.
When you revise an estimate, QuickBooks asks whether you want to treat the revision as a change order that appears on the estimate. If you indicate “Yes, that sounds like a solid idea,” QuickBooks adds detail to the estimate to clearly flag and describe whatever bits of the estimate you changed: items, quantities, prices, and so forth.
You can keep only one estimate per job. After you click Save & New, any changes that you make automatically take the place of the old estimate. If you make changes in an estimate, though, you can tell QuickBooks to treat the revision as a change order. With a change order, the modifications to an existing estimate get added to the bottom of the estimate. Cool, right?