QuickBooks POS: Receiving Inventory with Multiple Units of Measure

 

Today we are going to talk about receiving an inventory with multiple units of measure.

Let’s begin:

1. On your Homepage, go to “Receiving Vouchers”.
2. Choose a vendor where you ordered the item. (For example, Knives Unlimited)
3. A confirmation screen will appear, Select “Yes”.
   
4. Choose the item you want to receive. Then select “Receive All Due”.
   
5. You will see that your Unit of Measure is Box.
   
6. You can change your Units of Measure by clicking “Units”.
   
7. Choose “Each” or “Box” depends on how you want to measure your items. Then select “Ok”.
   
8. This is now your Billing Info. Select “Save Only” if you don’t want to print your voucher.
   
9. Confirmation screen will appear, select “No”.
   

Now you have received the item in inventory and you want to check it:

1. On your Homepage, select “Item List”.
2. Select “Knives Unlimited” (as our example).
3. Select “Item Detail”.
4. Inventory Item Detail will appear.
   1. All your costing on your inventory will be done automatically by the system.
      
   2. On your History section it shows here that your items that you receive has 60 pcs on hand. And you ordered 5 boxes with 12 pcs on it, so basically your unit of measure in your inventory is “EACH”.