Unit of measurement helps you to define the various measurement that you use in order to purchase and store items.  GoodBooks provides various powerful options to setup how you want to measure a particular item.

Units of Measurement (UOM) is the way in which any measurement is done.  In the case of items this can be measurement of Quantity.  Other units can be on time, distance etc

For Quantity measurement generally the following units are used.    Nos, Kgs, Meters, Doz etc.  Depending on the nature of items dealt in an enterprise many units may be required and can be created here.  This is a simple process.  In most of the cases simple   units this should be sufficient.

However, there are some complex measurement requirements in handling some of the items based on the business practices. These situations need advanced functionality in handling the UOM.  GoodBooks provides the necessary options for handling these situations.  Please refer to section on UOM SET for details on this.

Code    Code for the unit of measurement.

Name   Name of the unit

Type      Type of the units like weight, distance, length etc

No. of Decimals  The number of decimals that will be accepted  for this  UOM.

This can vary from 0 to 4 digits.

Goodbooks comes with several standard UOMs.  Users can add more untis as and when required.