Sometimes the unit you cook with isn't the unit you buy. For example:
- Rice: recipes call for cups, but you buy it by the pound. You don't want to shop for 120 cups of rice.
- Olive oil: you measure it by the tablespoon, but buy it by the bottle.
- Bulk buying: you order by the case rather than the single box or package.
A purchase unit conversion keeps your recipes in their own units and shows the amount to buy in your purchase unit.
Set up a conversion
- Go to Ingredients.
- Click Manage → Ingredient Info on the ingredient.
- Under Purchase unit conversion, enter how much one recipe unit is in your purchase unit, for example 1 cup = 0.4 lb.
- Click Save.
Purchasing details, with the purchase unit conversion at the bottom
The conversion also lets Wholesum cost the ingredient correctly when you buy it by weight but measure it by volume.
Show it on your shopping lists
To see the converted amounts in your exports, go to Settings → Export settings → Edit and tick the Purchasing quantity and Purchasing unit columns (Enterprise). See Export settings (columns, sorting and PDF layout).
