Dispensing units & uses
Buy in one unit and dispense in another, with pricing per use and automatic stock deduction.
You often buy an item one way and dispense it another — buy a vial, give doses; buy a bottle, hand out tablets. decavet handles this with a dispensing unit plus optional uses (also called dispensing options), so billing and stock both stay right.
Prerequisites: the inventory item exists.
Dispensing unit vs uses
- The dispensing unit is the basic measure you track (tablet, mL, dose, each).
- A use is a way you commonly hand the item out, with its own price and the amount of stock it consumes.
Example: A medication tracked in tablets might have two uses — "Single tablet" (consumes 1, priced per tablet) and "10-day course" (consumes 10, priced as a course). Picking the use at dispense time bills the client correctly and deducts the right number of tablets.
Add uses to an item
- Open the item from Inventory.
- Find the uses / dispensing options section.
- Add a use: give it a name, the amount of stock it consumes, and a price (or let it use the default).
- Repeat for each common way you dispense it.
- Save.
You'll know it worked when…
When you dispense the item on a visit, you can pick the use, and stock drops by the right amount.
Tip: Set up uses for anything you measure out in more than one way. It removes mental math at the barn and keeps your counts honest.