Units of measurements on Items

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hey hey i was trying to figure out if Retail edge allows you to assign units of measurements like lbs or ounces, or sometimes our customers here prefer to take stock by the bag, so they would would order 100 BAGS for the main area, and then send 20 BAGS to another area. is there a way to add BAGS, or pounds to the system to show that 100 BAGS were ordered and not just 100 ?

[RetailEdge Moderator]

RetailEdge can do units of measurement only for units that we are approved for by our NTEP (National Conference of Weights and Measures) Certification. So that means, grams, lbs and kilograms.

Typically these are automatically added to the sale when a scale is attached to the point of sale machine. However, we also support Manually Weighed Items. This will also put the units in (grams, lbs and kilograms) and will state on the receipt that it is a manually weighed item (MAN/WT). This can be useful for items that have been weighed prior to being brought up to the counter.

The problem is actually that there is not usually enough room on the tape style receipts to put this type of information and a meaningful description. You can make it look like this information is part of the receipt if you prepend your descriptions with the units if you really need to. For instance. If you normally have an item for coffee (say Hawaiian Kona) you could have the description be BAG Hawaiian Kona. So then the receipt will look something like:

2 BAG Hawaiian Kona $50.00

This is actually similar to what we do programatically for the weighed items above.

hey hey i was trying to figure out if Retail edge allows you to assign units of measurements like lbs or ounces, or sometimes our customers here prefer to take stock by the bag, so they would would order 100 BAGS for the main area, and then send 20 BAGS to another area. is there a way to add BAGS, or pounds to the system to show that 100 BAGS were ordered and not just 100 ?

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hmmmm, interesting, so what about showing how many Bags where order to the Main Location, and then how many Bags where sent to another Location? it will just be a numerical value and not a numerical value + Bags

[RetailEdge Moderator]

I am assuming you are talking about purchase orders and transfer orders? If that is the case then no there is no way to do this. But this is just another reason why a good description goes a long way.

hmmmm, interesting, so what about showing how many Bags where order to the Main Location, and then how many Bags where sent to another Location? it will just be a numerical value and not a numerical value + Bags