Available in Sage 50 Quantum Accounting.
Maintain Units/Measures
Note: You can access this window only if you have selected the option to Enable Multi-Packs and buying and selling items in different units/measures in the Inventory Item Defaults window.
If you purchase or sell items in bulk or in multi-pack units, create new units/measures to accommodate bulk sales or purchases. This saves you time because you won't have to enter a new item for each unit/measure of an item that you buy or sell. By creating a new unit/measure based on the stocking unit, you can purchase and sell the multi-pack unit and the single units contained in the multi-pack.
Setting
up a unit/measure
When you create a new unit/measure, it can either be generic or item specific. For example if you sell various size boxes of items, like a box that contains 10 items, you might create a generic BX-010 unit/measure. This could be used for any item that you sell as a box of ten. Likewise, you could set up a unit/measure that is used only for one specific inventory item. While you have a great deal of flexibility in naming units/measures, you cannot change the number of stocking units contained in a unit/measure once it has been saved.
You can set up as many units/measures as you need, but you can only assign two U/Ms to an inventory item: one for sales and one for purchases.
Assigning
unit/measures to inventory items
Once you've set up units/measures, you assign them to individual inventory items in the Item Multi-Packs window, which is available by selecting the U/M button next to the Stocking U/M field in the Maintain Inventory Items window. After you assign units/measures to an inventory item, they will be available for selection for line items on the following windows: Quotes, Sales Orders, Sales/Invoicing, Receive Money, Credit memos, Purchase Orders, and Purchase/Receive Inventory.