Invoices | Inventory - Add units of measure (UOM) & weight to line items
Ability to add units of measure (UOM) and weight to line items.
Purpose: Customers can have clearer information. Because some of the items that Xero users’ sell are having these.
Hi everyone, we appreciate your input and sharing detail of how you'd like to see this developed to help suit the needs of your business.
We want to upfront that we don't have plans for developing this in the next year. However looking further out to the future, our teams will continue to review and consider how they might build inventory in Xero to cater for units of measure.
If you're after an immediate solution, it might be worth exploring connected apps that can integrate with Xero and cater for your business needs. As soon as there's any change or news around this to share we'll be sure to update our community and all of your interested in this, here.
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Bryn Parrott
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Absolutely I need this. My raw material consists of plastic filament for 3D printing. It comes in a roll of a given weight and length, it is consumed by each sale by weight (some fraction of a roll). There are "N" rolls of the same type. I buy them by the roll but sell by weight. So, qty is the number of rolls, weight is the amount each roll contains. When one roll is consumed, I move onto the next roll.
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Rinny Rinny
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I need to use other software since xero do not support this. It is important to enable to add field to put uom and weight for export sales
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Fiona Lake
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We need to be able to display UOM for our clients, I managed to add this as a tracking category but it won't appear on the invoice or quote! so frustrating! Please Xero look into adding a column for this!!
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Ira Haber
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Customers need clarity as to the unit of measure that the price on their invoice relates to. This is not a big ask. This is a basic expectation from a system that offers invoicing functionality.
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Irene Nesci
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We have an insulation business and when we quote, we need to use sqm? It would be great if Xero can provide this as part of their inventory?
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Cindy Kensett
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It would look more professional on our invoices if we showed the customer the weights of their purchases.
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Chris Baldwin
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Weight is critical as it is closely related to cost of sending any parcel. How hard can it be?
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Ariye Mahdeb
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Why can we not get this implemented already I am at the point of searching for alternative accounting softwares
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Olivia Hatt
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Absolutely absurd that Xero doesn't have an option to include a unit of measurement for an item on an invoice?! This is an essential field.
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Admin Operator
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"Building on Beautiful" how about just Building the BASICS ?
How Annoying & Time consuming is Xero - Invoice templates, UOM - qty/amount gives you the unit price, Sort and Filter to the Main reconciliation screen, the number of lines per page - scroll back to the botton to go to the next page plus for Bills & Invoices with payments applied having to remove the payment !!!!! What I have noticed is we are all wasting our breath posting thing that are ESSENTIAL, day after day, minute after minute - Units of measures, 30 60 90days etc - all Basic requirement - no customer service you can phone - -
Aman Deol
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Any movement on this? Units of measures are important for basic inventory management. I use different units of measures for purchasing, inventorying and sales.
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Terry Bluck
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yes, more fields needed for an inventory item, for example : preferred supplier, alternate item, stock group. does not have to be mandatory, can even piggy back on the tracking categories except maximum of 2 tracking categories is not enough.
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ARCHIE LORD
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Our Laundry business is heavily based around the weighing of linen to invoice customers. Also having the UOM in kg would allow us to run reports to see how much kg of laundry our attendants are able to process per hour.
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John McGovern
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Year, why don't we all leave and go to MYOB. They have it and also invoices can be sorted by their number.
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Brian Levin
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If this isn’t added illl unfortunately have to leave Xero.
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Robert Bruhm
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My butcher business work on weights per units and I have scales. I need the ability to add the weight to my invoices.
I also sell items with a unit price so adding the UOM is critical to distinguish between the items with or without weight. -
Chin Fatt Young
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So many years still didn't update the ability to include UOM in the invoice? ridiculous.
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Grazia Gargiulo
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Quote
Add an additional column with the quantity description e.g., hours, days, analysis.
There is the "description" column, the "quantity" column and the "price" but not the description of the quantity.Reporting 3 $100 it would be good to have Reprting 3 HOURS $100
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Karen Steel
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Sales invoice as a requirement needs to have unit types and kg/tonnage
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Margaret Woodrow
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Can you change the format of the invoice to include type of Unit Kg/Litre as
this is important.