Ability to handle "units of sale" or "units of measure"

I know this has been asked before, going back years it seems, but I'll ask again.

I buy a lot of electronics parts, and for some of these, they come in reels of 1000, 4000, 10000 etc.  So when ordering a reel of 10000 parts, each component is £0.005 so £50 for the reel.  When used in BOMs for products they are individual parts, not reels.  I have just had a close call when ordering a reel of 1000 items, where they thought I wanted 1000 reels.  The PO showed a qty of 1000, as that is the only way Sage can operate (unless I resort to editing the PDF of the PO), and they didn't read the text on the PO saying this was for 1 reel and not 1000 reels.  The order confirmation was a shock to the system.

Having moved from Quickbooks earlier this year which you could create "units of measure" of say, 'reel4000' was 4000 individual items, I find it very surprising that Sage 50 can't handle this.  In QB I could order 1 of a part with the reel4000, but for stock, it showed I had 4000 in stock.  The price for the reel, say £30, would have the individual item price automatically calculated as £0.0075 each.  Things were very simple. The correct pricing for assemblies all just worked.

It isn't feasible, for example, for a BOM to use 0.00025 of an item (1 item from a reel of 4000).  But if anyone has a workaround please let me know!

The forum search has shown this to be a repeated request going back years, so it seems to add this would help quite a few people. 

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  • 0 in reply to Fadi1

    Sage200 is way too expensive, even going to Sage 50cloud is expensive for me.  Especially in the current climate.  I’ve moved to Sage50 as it can solve many issues I had with QB Premier, including declining support for the desktop versions in the UK. 

    The BOM route doesn’t really work, I can sell 100 parts to someone else, but I’d have to invoice them for a fraction of the original reel quantity. 

    This kind of thing is fundamental to lots of small businesses, such as buying a case of wine and selling bottles. A pallet of goods sold as separate items etc.