Unit types and unit configurations (typologies)

A unit type is the kind of unit: Apartment, Office, Shop, or whatever else your organization sells, such as Showroom or Row House. A unit configuration is the typology within a type: Studio, 1 BHK, 2.5 BHK, Penthouse, Office, Shop. A configuration is only a name, a unit type and a bedroom count; the areas belong to each unit, because two 2 BHKs are rarely the same size.

How it works in NirmaanOne

Unit types

Unit types are an organization-level lookup under Settings, Lookups, Unit types, seeded with Apartment, Office, Shop and Refugee (a refuge area, which suits both residential and commercial projects). Each type says which projects may use it:

• Suits residential: offered on Residential projects.
• Suits commercial: offered on Commercial projects.
• A Mixed project offers every active type, including one that suits neither yet, so a half-set-up type is never lost.

A unit, a unit configuration, a pricing plan, an opportunity's preferred unit type and an allottee's existing flat all name a unit type. The Excel sheets and saved filters name the type in words, so after renaming a type, a sheet typed before the rename must use the new name. A name that does not exist is refused with "No unit type called "<name>". Known types: …", and a type that does not suit the project with "<type> is not a unit type for a <property type> project; change the project's property type, or mark the unit type as suiting it under Settings > Lookups".

A type in use cannot be deleted ("<n> units still use this unit type; deactivate it instead"; the count may name unit configurations, pricing plans, opportunities or allottees instead). Deactivate it and it disappears from the pickers while the existing records keep it.

Unit configurations

Unit configurations are another organization-level lookup, Unit configurations, seeded with Studio, 1 BHK, 1.5 BHK, 2 BHK, 2.5 BHK, 3 BHK, 3.5 BHK, 4 BHK and Penthouse (all Apartment), Office and Shop. A configuration has:

• a Name, unique in the organization;
• a Unit type, required ("Required for a unit configuration.");
• Bedrooms, from 0 to 20 in steps of 0.5, blank for offices and shops.

Nothing else: no carpet area, no built-up area. The areas are typed on each unit.

You can also add a configuration from the Structure tab's New configuration… link, with the Create permission on Towers, Floors & Units, without going to Lookups. A configuration in use cannot be deleted ("<n> unit(s) use this configuration; deactivate it instead"), and an inactive one is refused on new units ("That configuration is inactive; reactivate it or pick another.").

How a unit uses them

On a unit, picking a Configuration fills the Unit type from it (the field is disabled with the hint "From the configuration"). A configuration whose type does not match what you typed is refused: "Configuration <name> is for <type> units, not <type>" (the unit panel avoids this by taking the type from the configuration). Without a configuration, the unit type is required on its own. The generator works the same way per floor range: pick a configuration, or a unit type, and type the areas for the range or per position.

The project's property type narrows both pickers: a Residential project shows the residential types and the configurations built on them, a Commercial project the commercial ones, a Mixed project everything.

What else reads the unit type

• Pricing plans are made per project and unit type (a plan name is used once per type), so the Apartments of a project can be priced on one plan while Shops have another. The plan's Per Sqft lines then use each unit's own area on the area basis.
• Opportunities record a preferred unit type for a lead.
• Society members and PAP tenants record the unit type of their existing flat, and members their existing bedrooms as a plain number: the old building has no configurations to point at.
• The Structure tab's List view and the units sheet filter and carry the type and configuration by name.

Business reason

Which typologies exist, and what a developer calls them, changes from office to office and from project to project (a "Jodi flat", a "Showroom", a "Row House"). Keeping types and configurations as lookups lets each organization use its own words, and keeping areas off the configuration avoids the mistake of pricing a 612 sqft flat as if it were the 645 sqft one it shares a name with.

Example

Shree Ganesh Developers sells apartments and, on its mixed-use projects, ground-floor showrooms.

1. Under Lookups, Unit types, the administrator adds Showroom and ticks Suits commercial only. Apartment (residential), Office and Shop (commercial) and Refugee (both) are already there.
2. Under Unit configurations she adds Showroom with unit type Showroom and no bedrooms, and Jodi 4 BHK with unit type Apartment and 4 bedrooms.
3. Skyline Heights is a Mixed project, so its Structure tab offers Apartment, Office, Shop, Refugee and Showroom, and every configuration. Sagar Residency is Residential: its pickers show Apartment and Refugee and the Apartment configurations only, and a pricing plan for Showroom units there is refused with "Showroom is not a unit type for a Residential project; change the project's property type, or mark the unit type as suiting it under Settings > Lookups".
4. In Tower A of Skyline Heights, units A-1203 and A-1204 are both configured 2 BHK, so both take unit type Apartment. Their areas are typed on each unit: A-1203 has 645 sqft carpet (Mofa), A-1204 has 612 sqft.

The pricing plan "Skyline Apartments" is made for unit type Apartment, with a Unit Price line of ₹18,500 Per Sqft in the Unit Base Price group, and the project charges on Carpet area (Mofa). Because the configuration carries no area, the two 2 BHKs price differently:

Unit	Configuration	Carpet area (Mofa)	Unit Price line
A-1203	2 BHK	645 sqft	645 × ₹18,500 = ₹1,19,32,500.00
A-1204	2 BHK	612 sqft	612 × ₹18,500 = ₹1,13,22,000.00

Mrs Kulkarni, a society member, records her existing flat as unit type Apartment with 2 bedrooms and 512.50 sqft carpet (Mofa); no configuration is involved.

Where you see it

• Lookups: the Unit types and Unit configurations lookups.
• Structure: the unit panel's Configuration and Unit type, the generator's ranges, New configuration…, and the List view filters.
• Unit pricing: pricing plans made per unit type.
• New project and Edit project: the property type that narrows the types.
• New opportunity: the preferred unit type.
• Society & Tenants and Society: the existing flat's unit type and bedrooms.
• Importing and exporting Excel sheets: types and configurations by name in the units sheet.

Related

• Unit areas and the area basis
• Lookup codes
• Project type
• Lookups
• Structure