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# Item Weights and Measures

Set weights and measures used for duty, freight, and additional charge allocation.

Bevica can hold item related weights and measures, and any format (Units of Measure) it is sold, purchased, and stocked in.

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**Prerequisites**

Items created.

Measures can be entered in a number of places.
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We recommended that you use the same measure across Bevica, i.e. mm, cm, m / gr, kg.
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### Item Card

* **Net Weight**. The weight of the content of one base unit. i.e. liquid in a bottle
* **Gross Weight**. The weight of one base unit. This includes the content and packaging, i.e. liquid + bottle, closure, etc.

Both values are copied to sales, purchase, transfer, and manifest documents to calculate total weights on each document.

### Item Unit of Measure

Each unit of measure has the following fields:

* **Height**. The height of one unit
* **Width**. The width of the unit
* **Length**. The length of the unit
* **Cubage**. The cubage of the unit. This is calculated automatically (height x width x length)
* **Weight**. The weight of the unit

These values are used/calculated on warehouse documents including Warehouse Put-Aways, Shipment, and Receipts.

* **Packaging Weight**. The weight of the packaging

This is used in Deposit Return Scheme reporting.

### Unit of Measure

The Unit of Measure table holds defaults that are automatically copied to Item Unit of Measure records as they are applied to items. See [Item Units of Measure](/documentation/guides/items-and-inventory/item_units_of_measure.md) for more details.


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