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Questions we get asked, answered from the source
Two trades read this: service contractors running Jobber, and people opening an Amazon business. One question per article, answered from the body that sets the rule — Jobber’s own documentation, the IRS, a Secretary of State, CBP, the European Commission, HMRC, or Amazon. Every answer carries the source and the date we checked it.
For service contractors running Jobber
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Jobber tells you when a client opens your quote. Then the notification disappears.
The push lands once, on a phone, while you are up a ladder. A quote that was read needs the opposite message to a quote that never arrived.
16 September 2026 -
An unpaid invoice has two causes. They need opposite messages.
Either the client never saw the bill, or they saw it and did not pay. Jobber records which one you are dealing with, and pressing the wrong one costs you the customer.
16 September 2026 -
Jobber and QuickBooks Online stopped matching. Here is how to tell which one is wrong.
There are two live QuickBooks integrations and the advice for one is wrong for the other. What crosses the line, what gets quietly changed on the way, and why a payout is never a payment.
16 September 2026 -
It is easy to click Allow Access without reading it. The screen is worth ninety seconds.
The difference between read and write access, what an app asking for more than it needs is telling you, and where you turn the connection off again. Apply it to us as well.
16 September 2026
For people opening an Amazon business
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Can I get an EIN without a Social Security Number?
The online tool needs an SSN, but three other channels do not, and line 7b of Form SS-4 has an official answer for people who have neither an SSN nor an ITIN.
11 September 2026 -
Do I need to collect sales tax if Amazon already collects it for me?
Amazon collects in every state that has a sales tax, but collecting and registering are two different questions, and stock in a warehouse decides the second one.
11 September 2026
The courses these articles sit alongside
Selling on Amazon in Europe
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