Custom units

You buy habaneros by the crate and count jars by the case, but the built-in unit list stops at grams, liters and pieces. Custom units let you measure in the words your workshop actually uses. Both unit sections live on the Units tab of Manage organization. Custom units are part of the larger plans.

Choosing the built-in units

The Units section lists every built-in unit: metric and imperial mass, volumes, kitchen measures, count. Tick the ones your team measures in; exactly those appear in every unit dropdown across the app. Keep at least one mass unit and one volume unit enabled. Turning a unit off only hides it from pickers: amounts already recorded in it keep working.

Defining a custom unit

Under Custom units, press Add unit and fill three things:

• Name: what pickers show, e.g. “Case”.
• Short name (optional): the compact form shown next to numbers, e.g. “cs”.
• Equivalency: what one of it equals, expressed in a built-in unit or in another custom unit. 1 Case = 12 units. 1 Bunch = 25 g.

The equivalency is the whole definition. Amounts entered in the unit convert through it: order 3 cases and BatchDash counts 36 units; weigh out 2 bunches of coriander and the recipe math sees 50 g. Since formulas compute in grams under the hood, a mass equivalency plugs your unit straight into costing; see mass-based formulas.

Where custom units appear

Everywhere units are picked: an ingredient’s unit, order lines, vendor offers, recipe lines. They sit in the picker next to the built-ins, grouped under “Custom units”.

Editing and deleting

Edit a unit to change its name or equivalency. Stored amounts always convert through the current equivalency, so adjusting it re-reads history too; correct a wrong definition early. Deleting is refused while ingredients or recipes still measure in the unit: change their unit first, then delete.

Custom units are workspace-wide. For a conversion that only makes sense on one ingredient (“1 clove = 5 g” for garlic and nothing else), use an ingredient equivalency instead.