Spend Money – Quantity field not functioning (Case 02666678) — longstanding issue, still not fixed

Thanks for the reply, but this doesn’t address the issue I’ve reported.

I’m already aware that:

• The Amount field can evaluate expressions (e.g. 2*5 → 10), and
• The Quantity field can be used for things like km, litres, etc.

The problem is that on Spend Money, the Quantity field is not actually being used in the calculation at all.

At the moment:

• If I enter Quantity = 2 and Amount = 5.00, the line still posts as $5.00, not $10.00.
• In other words, Qty × Amount ≠ Line Total — Qty is effectively ignored.

That means:

• We have to manually pre-calculate everything in the Amount field (which defeats the whole point of having a Qty field there in the first place).
• It’s inconsistent with how quantity/amount behaves elsewhere in MYOB and in pretty much every other accounting system.
• It creates real risk of under- or over-stating spend if someone assumes Qty is being honoured.

This is why I raised it as a bug / design defect, not a training question:

• Either Qty should be part of the calculation logic, or
• If MYOB’s position is that Qty is “for reference only”, that needs to be clearly documented in-product — and frankly, that’s not fit-for-purpose for most businesses actually using it.

Can you please confirm this has been logged with product/engineering as a defect in Spend Money behaviour, not just filed as “feedback”?

Happy to provide a simple example/file if that helps, but you can reproduce this in seconds in any file:

1. Go to Spend Money
2. Enter Qty = 2, Amount = 5.00
3. Observe that the transaction still only records $5.00, not $10.00.

This is the core of the issue.