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One bill often covers several compounds — a lab's bill for testing, a customs charge, a shipping bill for a shipment carrying four products. On the order, Split an Expense Across These Compounds assigns it by what each one actually cost you.
Pick the expense, then type what each compound incurred. The sheet tells you where you are as you go.
What you do not assign stays in operating expenses, so a bill that is only partly about this order is not forced onto it. You can assign the rest to another order later if it belongs there.
You cannot assign more than the bill. Assigning more than you were charged would put money into cost of goods that nobody spent, so it refuses rather than quietly accepting it.
⚠️ Money moved this way comes out of operating expenses and onto the purchase, so it is never counted twice. An operating expense hits your P&L the day you log it, while a cost on a purchase is carried by the stock and lands as that stock sells — so net profit for a period you have already reported can shift.
The bill's own record shows where its money went. Open the expense under Expenses and it states three figures that always add up to the bill: what it was, how much is on purchases, and how much is still in operating expenses — followed by each purchase carrying part of it and how much. That is the figure to check a report against: only the operating-expenses part is counted on the Expenses screen and in your profit.
In the list, a bill that has been split says so on its own row. When all of it has gone it reads "On a purchase — counted in cost of goods, not here". When only part has, it names both amounts: "$100.00 is on a purchase — $168.00 counted here".
Only bills with money left are offered. The picker lists what is left of each bill rather than what it originally cost, and a bill you have fully assigned drops out of it.
You cannot split a bill onto a quote. Nothing on a quote has been bought, so there is no purchase for the money to sit inside — it would leave your operating expenses against an order that does not exist.