Quick Bid can accommodate both Imperial and Système International (SI)-metric UOMs. When you create a database, you choose which system of measurement to use. All UOM boxes in the database will be based on the system of measurement you choose.
The UOM is the base measurement used to define quantities throughout the database tables including Bid Reports. The UOM also controls the options available at the Calculation, Sizing and Pricing tabs. These measurements dictate the data required for the calculations. The UOM is a tag that always accompanies a quantity. If you are building a material record, the UOM will generally correspond with the UOM quoted by your supplier.
An Item record can only hold a single UOM, therefore once you set the UOM to define material quantities, all labor values will carry the same UOM. For example, you may price wall covering by the LY, so the UOM would be set to LY. If labor is attached to the same record, you must price the labor by LY. If you prefer labor priced by the SF rather than LY, you must build a separate Labor only record using SF as the UOM.
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Imperial UOM
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Système International (Metric) UOM
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When entering in height, the last two digits that you type will always calculate inches and will always convert to feet. For example: 824 will be 10' 0", 10 will be 10" and 1010 will be 10' 10". If using the metric system, all measurements are entered and stored as millimeters.
Follow the links below to continue creating an MS Access or SQL database.