Changing QuickBooks Units of Measure – No, No, No!

January 19, 2017

12:05 AM

QuickBooks Desktop, depending on the version you're using, may offer either one or two unit of measure (U/M) options – Single U/M Per Item or Multiple U/M Per Item. QuickBooks Pro doesn't offer U/M. The U/M feature first must be enabled from the Items & Inventory Company Preferences......

THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN MOVED TO OUR PREMIUM CONTENT SITE.

FREE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO VIEW THE FULL ARTICLE

UOM is enabled under Items & Inventory Company Preferences.

UOM-NoNoNo-figure 1

Comments (7)

Comment Feed

Base Units for Multiple U/M

If you purchase in a larger unit than you can sell (i.e. purchase a box (BX) containing 12 pieces and can sell the individual items from within the box (EA)) is there a best practice for setting up base units? I had originally set them up with EA as the base, however this leads to inaccurate margin/markup as cost is based on a BX quantity. If I try to setup the base unit as BX, then QB spits out a warning that the related EA unit is below 1 and will cause rounding issues and recommends adjusting the base unit to the smallest tracked unit.

Mel more than 4 years ago

Multiple Units of Measure

Is there a way (or way around) to change the units of measure on QB Online?

Phil House more than 7 years ago

The 'title' says it all...

Changing QuickBooks Units of Measure ... 'No, No, No'

insightfulaccountant.com more than 7 years ago

Asking about QBO, not QBD...

QB Online doesn't have multiple UoM as a feature - I think @Phil House was asking if there is a manual work around that could be used to mimic the functionality?

CDC more than 5 years ago

Not really

You're going to need a 3rd-party inventory App for QBO if you need that level of sophistication.

insightfulaccountant.com more than 5 years ago

UM

Hi - do you know if on Qb Enterprise you can buy in KG and sell in oz? Thank you.

christy more than 7 years ago

Fundamentally - yes

You can set-up under 'multiple units of measure' a conversion unit of measure-set that uses 'ounce (oz)' as your base unit of measure, and has a related-measure in 'kilograms (kg)'. You can set up this UOM to use 'kilograms (kg)' for purchases, and to use 'ounce(s) (oz)' for sales, but unfortunately in QuickBooks (even Enterprise, including latest 2019 version) you can only have a single 'shipping' value which overrides the sales UOM if you select one, there is no similar default option (overide) for the purchase-related-shipping side of the equation.

insightfulaccountant.com more than 7 years ago