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title: Create Weight Attribute for a Product
description: "If you want to assign weights to your products, you'll need to create a weight attribute in the backend. 1. Navigate to [manage.acadiapos.com](https://manage.acadiapos.com/) for Retail and[rfsm.acadiapos.com](https://manage.acadiapos.com/) for Restaurant ![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/67cdc665-1268-49fd-b03f-8bd876e6a9da/user_cropped_screenshot_52f3f4e7709d4cbc9922f51a67738487_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1) 2. Click \"Items\" on the sidebar ![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/78a65f15-76aa-4f8c-a45f-5cdd6ed23567/user_cropped_screenshot_2b70f0e07bd14868a24177afcd0f03c6_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1) 3. Click \"Custom Attributes\"…"
url: "https://acadiapos.com/doc/create-weight-attribute-for-a-product/"
updated: "2026-01-01"
category: Inventory / Products
---

# Create Weight Attribute for a Product

If you want to assign weights to your products, you'll need to create a weight attribute in the backend.

1. Navigate to [manage.acadiapos.com](https://manage.acadiapos.com/) for Retail and[rfsm.acadiapos.com](https://manage.acadiapos.com/) for Restaurant

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/67cdc665-1268-49fd-b03f-8bd876e6a9da/user_cropped_screenshot_52f3f4e7709d4cbc9922f51a67738487_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

2. Click "Items" on the sidebar

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/78a65f15-76aa-4f8c-a45f-5cdd6ed23567/user_cropped_screenshot_2b70f0e07bd14868a24177afcd0f03c6_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

3. Click "Custom Attributes"

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/73747242-817f-4dc0-8333-c7f984944bc9/user_cropped_screenshot_586a4df670484ff696181fa4089a8be7_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

4. Click "New product Attribute"

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/7faeabb6-34ab-4b9d-89ab-b045206cedf8/user_cropped_screenshot_183845c4af354ec4854ab6523a099481_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

5. 1. Under **ATTRIBUTE** **CODE**, enter “**weight**”. All letters should be lowercase.
 2. Under **ATTRIBUTE** **NAME**, enter “**Weight**”

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/9ec78c64-7632-4ef7-897f-8daae47787cd/user_cropped_screenshot_cda42ab123f44847bfe660183c3ab1e2_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

6. Under **CUSTOM ATTRIBUTE TYPE** select **Floating Point Number** from the dropdown menu

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/8891bc50-a5c7-41a3-90a3-96088c9f9d8d/user_cropped_screenshot_dcf94701a218433ab15050c618deb045_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

7. Under **UI COLUMN SIZE IN POS**, enter “**2**”

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/e296a719-a402-4856-a996-d986092c6bdd/user_cropped_screenshot_b97c69375af04c4f9ac8fe4a490a4790_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

8. Click the **"Show on Quick Update Form"** dropdown and select **"Enabled"**

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/11a2ea88-773d-4117-b490-7f2c57fc943e/user_cropped_screenshot_15e4258d716d48c6bd753786d528864f_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

9. To show on the product list in the items section on the backend, Select the **"Enabled"** option on the **"Show on the product list"** dropdown menu

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/ef5db3ec-4aea-4893-8cf0-5ca3a8be6148/user_cropped_screenshot_67134fc3059c4b3fb05d6c8aeb0259a1_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

10. Click **"Save Changes"**

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/7fc6b673-2c74-4f6d-8213-ffa105e83659/user_cropped_screenshot_3c3d18e8fe684386abd447458a623cc1_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

Tip: The next steps will show you to VIEW/EDIT

11. Click **"Items"** on the sidebar

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/c69af45d-4fdc-4a14-aa37-1e2b45bed464/user_cropped_screenshot_9dacda03125e4ad0bf2bf7ab7cd44e5c_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

12. Click **"+ New Item"**

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/904e1b9a-df6b-4d2b-b2d3-f56b620d8017/user_cropped_screenshot_d9ffacd70eb14a1a8eb9aeecb186b9b6_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

13. Look for the newly added **"Weight"** attribute, and add the value you want for the item you are creating or editing.

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/da07198c-6739-4ad8-a74f-859ff93f6749/user_cropped_screenshot_18351b445f1e474b98bd558e3d4fdcce_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)

14. Click **"Save"**

![](https://i0.wp.com/colony-recorder.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2025-12-30/619e94ca-7b80-4c30-9616-f676c9a61830/user_cropped_screenshot_c9bbe0463214407a990aa08abcbf868d_text_export.jpeg?w=780&ssl=1)