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# Update unit conversion rule

> Update an existing conversion rule. Same payload shape and rules as create.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/build.yaml post /unit-conversion-rules/{id}
openapi: 3.0.0
info:
  title: Luminous API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: API documentation for Luminous
servers:
  - url: https://{companyName}.api.joinluminous.com/external/api/v1
    variables:
      companyName:
        default: companyName
        description: Your company-specific subdomain
security: []
tags:
  - name: Products
    description: Get and manage products
  - name: Pricing
    description: Manage price schedules, levels, and customizations
  - name: BOMs
    description: Manage Bills of Materials (BOMs)
  - name: Labels
    description: Label rendering via Labelary ZPL service
  - name: Companies
    description: Manage business accounts and their associated data
  - name: Contacts
    description: Manage contact information for individuals
  - name: Suppliers
    description: Manage suppliers (factories) — vendors used on purchase orders
  - name: Supplier SKUs
    description: Manage per-supplier SKU and unit-cost overrides for products
  - name: Locations
    description: Manage warehouses and locations
  - name: Inventory
    description: Get and adjust product stock levels
  - name: Lots
    description: Create, update, and delete product lots (batches)
  - name: Transfer Orders
    description: Manage transfer orders
  - name: Fulfillment Orders
    description: Manage fulfillment orders and picklists
  - name: Purchase Orders
    description: Get and modify purchase orders
  - name: Receiving Reports
    description: Manage receiving reports
  - name: Payment Obligations
    description: Manage payment obligations for purchase orders
  - name: Sales Orders
    description: Manage sales orders and sales order shipments
  - name: Purgatory
    description: >-
      Inspect and resolve non-posted sales orders in the purgatory staging
      workflow
  - name: PickFlow Shipping
    description: >-
      Provider-agnostic shipping rates, services, packages, and label purchase
      for PickFlow
  - name: Cycle Counts
    description: >-
      Create, drive, and post PickFlow cycle counts — batches, per-warehouse
      sessions, and CSV import/export
  - name: Print Stations
    description: List paired print stations and enqueue print jobs to them
  - name: Invoices
    description: Get and manage invoices
  - name: Work Orders
    description: >-
      Manage work orders — production lifecycle, steps, materials, links,
      shipments, and comments
  - name: Production Batches
    description: Group and manage work orders as production batches
  - name: Bills
    description: >-
      Accounts payable bill management, payments, attachments, allocations, and
      variance
  - name: Prepayments
    description: Manage vendor prepayments and applications
  - name: Vendor Credits
    description: Manage vendor credits and applications
  - name: Vendor Returns
    description: Manage vendor returns and credit generation
  - name: Customer Returns
    description: Manage customer returns (sales returns), receiving, and restock behavior
  - name: Stock Snapshot
    description: Point-in-time stock snapshots with export support
  - name: Consumption
    description: Consumption reports and exports
  - name: Inventory Aging
    description: Cost-layer-based inventory aging reports
  - name: Bills Reports
    description: Accounts payable bills aging reports
  - name: Forecast
    description: Materialized forecast data
  - name: Reports
    description: Close the books, inventory discrepancy, transaction COGS, and EDI reports
  - name: Tags
    description: Add/remove tags across various resources
  - name: Custom Fields
    description: Get and set custom fields across various resources
  - name: Currency
    description: Currency configuration, exchange rates, and conversion
  - name: Integration Mappings
    description: Manage integration mappings for external systems
  - name: Integration Field Mappings
    description: Manage field-level mappings between Luminous and external systems
paths:
  /unit-conversion-rules/{id}:
    post:
      tags:
        - Unit Conversion Rules
      summary: Update unit conversion rule
      description: >-
        Update an existing conversion rule. Same payload shape and rules as
        create.
      operationId: updateUnitConversionRule
      parameters:
        - in: path
          name: id
          required: true
          schema:
            type: integer
          description: Unit conversion rule ID
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
                - type
                - base_unit_of_measure_id
                - converted_unit_of_measure_id
                - conversion_factor
              properties:
                type:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                    - SYSTEM
                    - SKU
                product_id:
                  type: integer
                  description: Required when `type=SKU`; omit when `type=SYSTEM`.
                base_unit_of_measure_id:
                  type: integer
                converted_unit_of_measure_id:
                  type: integer
                conversion_factor:
                  type: number
                  minimum: 0
                  exclusiveMinimum: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Updated
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: object
                    description: >
                      A rule converting from one unit of measure to another.
                      `type=SYSTEM` rules apply globally for a class (e.g.

                      1 lb = 0.453592 kg). `type=SKU` rules override system
                      rules for a specific product (`product_id`).
                    properties:
                      id:
                        type: integer
                      created_at:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
                      updated_at:
                        type: string
                        format: date-time
                      status:
                        type: string
                        nullable: true
                      base_unit_of_measure_id:
                        type: integer
                      base_unit_of_measure:
                        type: object
                        description: Present when the relation is loaded.
                        nullable: true
                        properties:
                          id:
                            type: integer
                          name:
                            type: string
                          unit_class_id:
                            type: integer
                          base_unit:
                            type: boolean
                      converted_unit_of_measure_id:
                        type: integer
                      converted_unit_of_measure:
                        type: object
                        description: Present when the relation is loaded.
                        nullable: true
                        properties:
                          id:
                            type: integer
                          name:
                            type: string
                          unit_class_id:
                            type: integer
                          base_unit:
                            type: boolean
                      conversion_factor:
                        type: number
                        description: >-
                          Multiply a quantity in `base_unit_of_measure` by this
                          factor to get the quantity in
                          `converted_unit_of_measure`.
                      type:
                        type: string
                        enum:
                          - SYSTEM
                          - SKU
                      product_id:
                        type: integer
                        nullable: true
                        description: Required when `type=SKU`; null when `type=SYSTEM`.
                      product:
                        type: object
                        nullable: true
                        description: >-
                          Present when the relation is loaded. Shape mirrors the
                          standard product resource.
                        additionalProperties: true
                      product_alternate_skus:
                        type: array
                        description: Present when the relation is loaded.
                        items:
                          type: object
                          additionalProperties: true
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  message:
                    type: string
        '404':
          description: Conversion rule not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  message:
                    type: string
        '422':
          description: Validation error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  message:
                    type: string
      security:
        - BearerAuth: []
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: >-
        Authenticate using a bearer token. To create a token, navigate to
        /settings/api-tokens and click Create API Token.

````