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  1. Invoices | Inventory - Add units of measure (UOM) & weight to line items

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    submitted  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

    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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    Michael Gackle commented  · 

    A Unit of measure of mm is crucial. And I am pretty sure I know how Xero can cater to the needs of any unit.

    You've gotta ask how you measure a unit at the start and for stocktake.

    When I get units in, it is in mm, so when it starts, I change a setting from Units of Unit to mm increments, from there I say how many mm I acquire and then between here and stocktake, this is the data that is required for reporting purposes.

    When assessing how to track this, ideally you need to know how to accommodate it, and when you know the item and you know the unit, you can see "Units sold" and it's 50 units is equal to 50mm based on the Original setting for that item versus say a physical item of a filter which 50 units would be a Unit qty of 50 of these.

    Either way, it's 50 and 50, 50 qty of either, but 50 in a different metric of units from Unit to metric milimetres.

    I support this feature and unfortunately this will be the achilies heel for my business operations which run on exactly the metric measurement which is difficult to implement without paying $200.00 per month which would wipe out all profits unfortunately.

    Doing things harder at this point is working smarter.