I have noted that the "Weight Per Item"
in the item master only is available whether the "Maintain Stock"
option is checked. I assume I can customize the item master doctype to take that dependency away, but generally I do not see any reason for this behavior.
Let’s say you just do not want to Maintain Stock withing ERPNext (yet) in order to simplify usage and reduce Workflow dependencies at a certain point in time of adoption, you still may want to be able to define the weight of an item (so i.e. you know how much weight a shipment package has)
Is there any reason beyond this default behavior which I am just not seeing?
EDIT:
“I assume I can customize the item master doctype to take that dependency away, but generally I do not see any reason for this behavior.”
doesn’t work actually. Because it’s part of the “Inventory” Section, which is hidden entirely on non-maintain-stock items. So I would say at best the weight per unit needs to move into another section in order to utilize it for non-stock items.