A supplier sells you a case. Your recipes use grams. The reception format is the sentence that gets you from one to the other: what is in the case.
The three lines
Purchasing case — the inner pack: a quantity and a unit. 450 GR, 1 L, 6 EA. The unit is a measure or a count, never a container.
Packs per case — how many of those inner packs are in what you buy. 12. One if the case is the pack.
Pricing — the price, and what it is for: per case, per pack or per unit.
On an invoice line there is a fourth: quantity bought. It always comes from the invoice.
NexReps reads it back to you in words: Pack 6 EA, Case of 12 x 450 GR. If the sentence is not how the item arrives, the format is wrong.
The result, live
As you type, NexReps shows what the line will write: the stock added, in the unit you keep the product in, and the price per unit. These are the figures the validation writes — not an estimate.
175 packs of pita at $1.15, Pack 6 EA: +1 050 EA at $0.19 each.
A container is never a unit
BAG, BOX, CASE, FLAT, JAR are packaging. They say nothing about how much is inside. That is why they are not offered as a unit: a bag of what? Write what is in the bag.
Written once, remembered
When you correct the format on a line and validate the invoice, that format becomes the rule for that supplier's item. The next invoice takes it by itself and shows it in blue: format remembered.
If a later invoice prints a different pack, the line turns orange. Accept to keep the rule, or edit the line to write the new one — which becomes the rule from then on.
The last correction wins. Suppliers change their packs; you correct once, and NexReps follows.
Only today and the future
A rule never touches a past line, a past price or a past stock movement. Quantity and price always come from the invoice in front of you. Only the format is remembered.
On the ingredient sheet
The same block sets how a product usually arrives at your venue, under Pricing & Package. You type the case price; the price per unit is computed, never typed.
The trap it fixes
The old pack field was read as "how many were delivered" by some people and "how many per case" by others. Typing 175 where 6 was meant multiplied a delivery by 29. The three lines and the sentence exist so that cannot happen again.
Next
Discounts and charges — what else is on the invoice.