How to Sync Product Stock Programmatically

There are two ways to run the stock sync for a specific WooCommerce product in your code.

First of all, I want to highlight that triggering the hooks woocommerce_product_set_stock and woocommerce_variation_set_stock won’t do the trick – my plugin doesn’t use them because these hooks are very slow when you need to sync a lot of products within a single order.

The first method is to run the save_post or (better) save_post_product hook:

// trigger the stock sync
do_action( 'save_post_product', $post_id, $post );

When you use this method for a variable product, all its variations are going to be synced. However, you can not run it for a specific product variation.

$post_idint

The product ID.

$postWP_Post

The post object of a product. You can use the get_post() function to get it.

Another way is to trigger the sync using the product_sync() static method of the Rudr_Simple_Product_Sync class.

// trigger the stock sync
Rudr_Simple_Product_Sync::product_sync( $product );

This method can be used for both products and variations.

$productmixed

The product WC_Product object or product variation WC_Product_Variation object. You can get it with the wc_get_product() WooCommerce function, for example.

Both methods will trigger the inventory sync to all connected stores.

Need more help?

• Inventory Sync for WooCommerce: Hook Reference
• How to Automatically Run Full Stock Resync at a Specific Time of the Day
• Simple Inventory Sync vs Simple Crossposting