Product inventory

In this tutorial I will show you how you make both Stock Quantity and Stock Status to be automatically shared between different products on your WooCommerce store. But if you come to this tutorial looking for a product inventory synchronisation tool between different WooCommerce stores, then please take a look at my plugin.

Also I am going to show you an example with variations of the same product.

The whole idea is pretty simple and can be breaked down into two steps:

1. Creating a custom function connected either to the woocommerce_product_set_stock or to the woocommerce_variation_set_stock action hook if we talking about variations.
2. Obtaining the connected products and to setting the same stock values for them.

Easy peasy.

In this tutorial I would like to share with you a ready to use example how you can sync WooCommerce products and variations inventory with a CSV file automatically.

Our CSV file is going to look like this:

To make this tutorial a little bit simpler we are going to put the file in the WordPress uploads folder, but for sure you can create a WooCommerce settings page where you can upload it.

When you turn the option “Manage Stock” on for your WooCommerce products (or variations), then every time an order is made, stock quantity of the products from the order is going to be automatically decreased.

But sometimes you don’t need that, or just need it for specific order statuses or payment methods. In this tutorial I will show you how you can do that.

Since I’ve been working a lot lately with synchronising product stock quantities between multiple WooCommerce stores or within a WordPress Multisite network, I can share with you some interesting insights how it is working.

In this tutorial I will not only show you how to get stock quantity in WooCommerce (of a product or a product variation by the way) but we will also display it on the shop page. Like this: