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 under Manage organization → Settings → Units. 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.