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Quantity Decimal Places, UOM Conversion, and Non-Divisible Base Unit

  • January 30, 2026
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We have items we stock and count in whole eaches. We buy those items in pounds. Pounds can be a smaller unit than eaches, but we don’t want partial eaches in stock. We had our Company’s Quantity Decimal Places set to 0 and this worked fine. We assumed the risk of minor rounding errors during receipt, they never caused a problem.

Recently we increased our Company’s Quantity Decimal Places to 2 to support other items. Now we cannot receive parts in pounds unless we uncheck the Divisible Base Unit box, but we don’t want partial eaches in stock. How can we get the system to round like it did when we had Quantity Precision at 0?

 

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meganfriesen37
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What unit is the base unit for this item?  What is the purchase unit for this item?

What is the conversion ratio between the base unit and the purchase unit?  Do you have a unique conversion ratio for this item or do you have a system-wide conversion on the Units of Measure screen that is applied?
 

 

I’d also suggest adding your use case to this idea here: Add a default unit of measure for stocking purposes (i.e. Inventory counts, issuing materials to production orders, etc.). Also, Improvements to Unit of measure conversion calculations to eliminate rounding. | Community


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  • Jr Varsity III
  • January 30, 2026

@meganfriesen37 The base unit is EA (each) and the conversion is item-specific (LB - the weight of the item):