Big Business includes options for Units of Measure, including:
• Abbreviations for units of measure
• Counts for each item's units of measure
• automatic conversion of Price and Quantity
This Solution describes the Setup for Units of Measure. (6592)
Big Business includes options for Units of Measure, including:
• abbreviations for units of measure
• counts for each item's units of measure
• conversion of prices and quantities
This Solution describes entering Transactions. (6593)
Units Prefs control whether you see Units for Qty's on transactions including Quote, Order, Invoice, PO, and Bill.
This Solution describes this setting. (6596)
Smart Units will translate from your base unit to optimized Units that you sell. If you sell sodas, you might only offer cases (CS, 24 per) and packs (PK, 6 per) only. Enter an Order for 40 each (EA, 1 per) and Big Business will automatically replace this with:
1 CS
3 PK
That's 42. And now you're wondering, What if?
If you want to skip conversion, add EA (1) as a Unit for this Item and it will not be replaced.
If you want exact conversion add a different Unit for singles (Can, 1x, PCS for 1 per). Contact support@bigbusiness.com for setup help.
This Solution describes this feature. (6816)
Big Business includes Fields on Imports for Units of Measure:
• UoM Abbrev. - abbreviation for unit of measure
• UoM Count - count for unit of measure
• UoM Qty - quantity for unit of measure
• UoM Price - price for unit of measure
This Solution describes using Units on Imports. (7154)
This Solution provides quick step-by-step instructions for creating a new Form that displays Units of Measure.
Units Defaults are updated in Big Business to make it easier to set units of measure.
Turn on Units of Measure in Item Prefs and then set defaults such as New Line Item, set to EA for each, and on New Item Cards, set to CS for case, PK for pack, and EA.
Access Denied would appear for installed file with Permission issues and is now fixed.
MyStart Server enables Big Business Server to install Demo Files for testing, simplify startup for selecting your Data Files, and monitor automatic operations, like Backup.
Big Business Server is an application you run to serve your Data File to multiple people connecting with Big Business Client, to share data and coordinate data entry.
MacOS Golden Gate is in Beta as of June 8, 2026 and in testing to see what's needed.
MacOS 27 promises improvements to Liquid Glass and other display related changes. MacOS 27 will not run on Intel processors, only Macs with Apple Silicon processors.
Units Protection prevents errors by setting Employees' Access for Cannot Edit Units.
This change is made for one on an Employee card or for many in an Employees Search, adding a column for Cannot Edit Units and using Update to change several at one time.
Smart Prices was a customization to count rows for volume discounts and overeaching.