Available in Sage 50 Quantum Accounting.
Maintain Units/Measures
How Do I...
The Maintain Units/Measures window allows you
to set up new units/measures (U/M), other than the ,
for purchasing or selling inventory items. In this window, you can set
up new units/measures, change the ID for, and delete existing 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.
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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.
Set
up a unit/measure
Change a unit/measure
ID
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.
Learn about item multi-packs