Selling by Measure or Partial Quantity
Normally, you sell items by quantities that are whole numbers such as 1, 2, 3 and so on. For example, you would normally sell a door instead of half a door. However, there are many exceptions to this. For example, rope, certain types of wood and chain are sold by the lineal foot or meter. Tile, hardwood floors and carpet are sold by the square foot, yard or meter.
HardwarePOS handles all types of units of measure – allowing you to sell items by weight, by the linear foot, the square foot – and also by the decimal, or partial quantity. So if your customer orders 6.88 feet of an item, you can charge them for exactly what they purchased - and the system will track the partial quantity that is left in stock.
If you are selling by weight, you can use an electronic scale that is hooked into your point of sale system, and have the weight automatically entered into the quantity field on your invoice. .
