diff --git a/app/components/account-send/component.js b/app/components/account-send/component.js
index 4b9663bf..10e6a6ed 100644
--- a/app/components/account-send/component.js
+++ b/app/components/account-send/component.js
@@ -1,22 +1,40 @@
 import Component from '@ember/component';
-import { get } from '@ember/object';
+import { get, set } from '@ember/object';
 
+import { action } from 'ember-decorators/object';
 import { on } from 'ember-decorators/object/evented';
 
 import Changeset from 'ember-changeset';
 import lookupValidator from 'ember-changeset-validations';
 
+import BigNumber from 'npm:bignumber.js';
+
 import SendValidations from '../../validations/send';
+import { prefixes } from '../../utils/format-amount';
 
 export default Component.extend({
   accounts: null,
   block: null,
 
   changeset: null,
+  amount: null,
 
   @on('init')
   createChangeset() {
     const block = get(this, 'block');
     this.changeset = new Changeset(block, lookupValidator(SendValidations), SendValidations);
   },
+
+  @action
+  updateAmount(value, changeset) {
+    if (!value) {
+      return false;
+    }
+
+    const multiplier = prefixes.Mxrb;
+    const multiplicand = BigNumber(value).times(multiplier);
+    const raw = multiplicand.toFixed(0);
+    set(changeset, 'amount', raw);
+    return false;
+  },
 });
diff --git a/app/components/account-send/template.hbs b/app/components/account-send/template.hbs
index b6f83b6c..149f9328 100644
--- a/app/components/account-send/template.hbs
+++ b/app/components/account-send/template.hbs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 
   {{form.element class="form-control-lg" controlType="text" label="Destination Account" property="destination" placeholder="e.g. xrb_3e3j5tkog48pnny9dmfzj1r16pg8t1e76dz5tmac6iq689wyjfpiij4txtdo"}}
 
-  {{form.element class="form-control-lg" static=true controlType="number" label="Amount (XRB)" property="amount"}}
+  {{form.element class="form-control-lg" static=true controlType="number" label="Amount (XRB)" value=amount onChange=(action 'updateAmount')}}
 
   <div role="group" class="d-flex justify-content-center">
     {{#bs-button size="lg" type="primary" icon="fa fa-paper-plane" buttonType="submit"}}
diff --git a/app/utils/format-amount.js b/app/utils/format-amount.js
index 3df99ea2..716d9506 100644
--- a/app/utils/format-amount.js
+++ b/app/utils/format-amount.js
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import BigNumber from 'npm:bignumber.js';
 
 const base10 = BigNumber(10);
 
-const PREFIXES = {
+export const prefixes = {
   Gxrb: base10.pow(33),
   Mxrb: base10.pow(30),
   kxrb: base10.pow(27),
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ const PREFIXES = {
 };
 
 export default function formatAmount(value = 0, { prefix = 'Mxrb', precision = 6 } = {}) {
-  const divisor = PREFIXES[prefix] || PREFIXES.Mxrb;
+  const divisor = prefixes[prefix] || prefixes.Mxrb;
   const quotient = BigNumber(value).dividedBy(divisor);
   const digits = Math.max(precision, Math.min(1, quotient.decimalPlaces()));
   return quotient.toFormat(digits);