Hi everyone,
I’m working on a (small) new feature that allows item rates to be based on stock UOM instead of the transaction UOM.
The background is that my company is a hotel/restaurant and we therefore mainly buy food. As food is not as easy to quantify as standardised products, it is sometimes cumbersome to enter the prices in purchase invoices and receipts.
We order many food products in Nos, but they are often invoiced in kg. ERPNext does not allow to change the UOMs within the purchase process (which is a good thing), but a higher flexibility in terms of amount calculation would be helpful.
I thought of adding a checkbox to Purchase Order Item, Purchase Receipt Item and Purchase Invoice Item (and respectively for the Sales Items as well), which changes the calculation of the item’s amount from
rate * qty = amount
to
rate * stock_qty = amount
Please let me know what you think of this idea. I checked if this breaks item valuation or price list fetching but couldn’t find any issues, but maybe I missed something.
Maybe one of the devs can point out potential issues with this.
My developing branch can be found here: https://github.com/P-Froggy/erpnext/tree/feat-price-based-on-stock-uom-develop