Maintain Units/Measures

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.

Set up a unit/measure

Change a unit/measure ID

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.

Learn about item multi-packs