This is one of the basic reference data lists, which contain all units you work with. These units are used to measure jobs you perform. For example, translators use words, hours, pages as measure units.

When a new Unit is added, you specify the following attributes:

Name. This is the name of the unit displayed throughout the app and printed in documents.

Base unit. When base unit is specified, price pickup mechanism will take it into account, trying to determine default price for selected base unit and applying multiplier specified in the Adjustment factor field. For example, you may have the following units: Default page, Page 1600 symbols, Page 1500 symbols with spaces, etc. In such case, you may select Default page as a base unit for Page 1600 symbols and Page 1500 symbols with spaces. And, while defining prices for your customers, specify prices only for Default page. In a real project, when you select one of dependent units, the system will pickup a price for base unit and apply adjustment factor to a detected price.

Is time. Flag which signals that a particular unit is used to measure time.

Flat rate. You can check this setting when the unit supposes to enter final amount in the job task instead of its calculation using "Price x Quantity" formula. When this option is used, you enter corresponding volume in the Quantity field (for statistical purposes), Price field becomes un-editable, and then you enter fixed amount in the Amount column. Is time. This checkbox allows to specify that current unit is used to count time. Otherwise, this unit is used to measure volume. It affects on price list generation - SDL Trados Business Manager will apply fuzzy factors only to those units which are used to count volumes, not time.

General adjustment factor. Default value for this field is 1. It is used to express all volumes in some 'average' unit, allowing to get weighted (average) quantity for all jobs in a single table column regardless of units used in job tasks. When SDL Trados Business Manager calculates average volume, it divides quantity by this factor (so, adjustment factor is a divider in formula).

In other words, no matter if you count your jobs by words or by hours. Adjustment factor allows to get weighted (average) volume of all jobs. You are free to choose which unit will be a "base unit" - it will simply be that unit whose adjustment factor is set to 1 (in a case when Base unit field is empty). For example, if base unit is "words", set adjustment factor for Words unit to 1. And then estimate adjustment factors for other units knowing that one (1) is used for Words. For example, if one line is 55 characters, which is approximately 11 words, set this value as adjustment factor for Lines unit. If you translate 300 words per hour, use this value as an adjustment factor for Hours units.

When you generate charts, Adjustment factor allows to make it possible to include quantities in different units into a single chart. Additionally, Translation job list table contains Weighted volume column, which allows to summarize values in this column.

Unit weights allows to further configure adjustment factor on a per-service basis. Sometimes you know that average amount of work completed when providing one or another type of service using the same unit could be different. For example, translating and proofreading same amount of words are different works, where proofreading is much faster (approximately, by 30%). Based on this, you may provide additional line in this table for the Words unit: