What does Trans # refer to in Custom Transaction Detail Report

Question

When I run Custom Transaction Detail Report in QuickBooks, I can include a column called Trans #. I am not sure what it means. How is it different from Reference Number and Transaction ID?

Answer 1

Trans # and Transaction ID are both internal unique ID's of the transaction that are automatically generated by QuickBooks. Neither of them are something that you can edit or even see when you have the transaction itself open. I'm not sure why QuickBooks has both, other than that I don't think you can see the Transaction ID via the GUI.

Reference number is a user defined ID for the transaction (check number, "Entry No." on Journal Entries, etc.). This can be edited after the fact and doesn't have to be unique.

Hope this is what you were looking for.