Inventory
Units and alternate units
Create the measurement units your products are bought and sold in, then add a secondary unit so a carton and a piece refer to the same stock.
Updated 12 September 2026
Units decide how quantities are counted everywhere in Kuver Books. If the units are wrong, your stock, prices and reports will be wrong too. Set them up correctly at the start and you will not need to change them later.
Open the units page
- Go to the left navigation panel.
- Click Inventory.
- Select Product Units.
The page header has Import Units and Add New Units. The table shows the serial number, unit name, acronym, the date it was added and an options menu. The page also has a search box, a records per page selector and Export Data in XLSX, PDF or CSV. View Inactive Units is in the options menu.
Add a unit
- Open Product Units.
- Click Add New Units.
- Enter the Unit Name, for example piece, kilogram or litre.
- Enter the Acronym (the short form), for example Pc, Kg or L.
- Click Add Unit.
Click Cancel to discard. Keep acronyms short and consistent. They appear on printed invoices and in exports.
Edit or disable a unit
Use the options menu on each row. To edit, change the unit name and acronym, then click Update Unit. Disable removes a unit from active use, after a confirmation message. A disabled unit stays on old records, so old documents still read correctly.
Alternate units
Many shops in Nepal buy a product in one unit and sell it in another: they buy by the carton and sell by the piece. Alternate units handle this, so you do not need two products.
On the product form, open the Additional product information section and go to the Alternate Units tab.
- Click Add Secondary Unit.
- Enter the New Unit.
- Enter the Unit Conversion, for example 1 carton equals 24 pieces.
- Enter the Purchase Price for that unit.
- Enter the Selling Price for that unit.
Use Remove All Secondary Units to clear them.
After you set it up, the secondary unit uses the same stock as the primary unit. With 1 carton equal to 24 pieces, receiving two cartons adds forty-eight pieces, and selling one piece takes from the same stock. You have one product and one quantity, counted in two ways.
Before you start
Create your units before you create products. A product cannot be saved without a primary unit. Changing the primary unit later, on a product that already has stock movements, is a lot of work.