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Decimal Placement for Purchasing

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Posted on by john.ellis 3,518

Hi:

In our current environment, the number of decimal places for "Qty. to Receive" in the Purchase Order is four.

Line item Type is "G/L Account".

Are there any issues, short term or long term, with trying to change this decimal placement from four to eight?

If not, how can this change be made?

Thanks!

John

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    Inge M. Bruvik Profile Picture
    Inge M. Bruvik 1,161 Moderator on at

    The default number of decimal places in Business Central is 5 - basically all over the system.

    So changing that will require a lot of customization that i would not recommend you to do.

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    YUN ZHU Profile Picture
    YUN ZHU 98,026 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi, as igne mentioned, The qty in BC is forced to 0:5 in the code, you cannot change it.

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    Hope this info will help.

    Thanks.

    ZHU

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    John,

    Adding to other replies... BC max decimal is 5. You can see this in the Unit-Amount Decimal Places 2:5, 5 being the max decimals.

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    Though you can change code but 8 decimal places is not practical and that many decimals, I cannot see how it would impact an Item with 5 decimals. Are you having Quantity issues? I would recommend using 5 and if your Type = G/L Account not sure why it would matter about Quantity since you are not recording the transaction with a Quantity in a sub-ledger like Inventory. Also, I would guess your Accounting team would want the Amounts to round to 2 decimals places. 

    Thanks,

    Steve

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