Shipping cost when added as a manual line item showing as zero on client facing invoice

This is excerpts from a chat convo with DF as this is really a bug in my mind, and we don’t have time to keep coming here after already spending time on a long chat, so pasting is quicker.

we are having an issue with adding a manual line item to an invoice - specifically for shipping as a service. when we add it with a dollar amount, it adds it to the overall total, but shows zero on the client facing invoice even when an amount is there. it is very common for designers to charge up front for the item to get that money in prior to ordering it, and then sending a separate invoice for the freight/shipping later.

sometimes we are doing an invoice that doesn’t have items - its only for shipping costs for various past items on invoices where we want to show different amounts for the different vendors

I had to add all of that text into the item notes field so they would know what the shipping was for itemized

and then it still doesn't bring that amount over on the right

so the client sees a zero and has to them do their own math, etc.

and i know i can add it into the item cost/client cost field but then accounting wise it wont be a shipping cost

like if i am making a separate line item, a manual one, for a service, for shipping, why cant it show that cost over on the right

if i am the client im looking over to the right to see how much things cost, its saying zero

i know its being added in, but at glance i see zero, if it is its own field, why would it not just put the cost?

so for accounting, how do i designate that as a shipping cost then?

because its a shipping cost, not an item cost.

it could just be a simple line of code added in to say that if there is a manual line item added, no matter which field the cost is placed in... it puts that cost over in line on the right

yes, what you pasted is my point exactly.

if its a shipping cost, i put it in the shipping field.

when i do that, it does not carry that cost to the right on the client facing invoice like it should

i want to keep it in the shipping cost field as i should, and then have it carried to the right in line with the other costs i have on that invoice, like it should, be a feature, it should be common sense? im confused. its a bug.

it does not apply here as there is no item I am tacking shipping on to for this specific invoice. I am creating an invoice after the item has already been paid for previously, where I did not know the shipping cost at that time.

The item IS the shipping in this case.