{"id":41156,"date":"2015-02-03T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T12:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/?p=41156"},"modified":"2016-04-12T10:17:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T14:17:10","slug":"woocommerce-how-to-manage-inventory-and-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/woocommerce-how-to-manage-inventory-and-stock.html","title":{"rendered":"WooCommerce. How to manage inventory and stock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Our Support team is ready to present a new tutorial that will show you how to manage inventory and stock in WooCommerce.<\/p>\r\n

WooCommerce. How to Manage Inventory and Stock<\/a><\/p>\r\n

Using WooCommerce inventory controls is an important part of managing physical goods and ensuring you do not oversell a product.<\/p>\r\n

Global Inventory Settings<\/h3>\r\n

Global settings allow you to configure how inventory and stock is managed in your WordPress installation, and also a number of thresholds that can apply to all products in your shop.<\/p>\r\n

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    Fist, navigate to WooCommerce > Settings > Inventory<\/strong>: <\/p>\r\n

    \"woocommerce_how_to_manage_inventory_1\"<\/a>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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    Check the Manage Stock<\/strong> option to enable stock on all products. If you have a mix of virtual and physical products, you can skip this option here and enable stock on individual product posts (explained in the next section).<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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    Hold Stock <\/strong>(minutes) – This option determines how long WooCommerce will hold inventory for unpaid orders. This means that if a person has a pending order, WooCommerce will remove the item from the global inventory amount until this time limit is up. <\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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    Check the Notifications<\/strong> option to receive an email notifications for low or out of stock items:<\/p>\r\n

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      Enter the email to send notifications to in the Notification Recipient<\/strong> field.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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      Enter a Low Stock threshold<\/strong> – when stock reaches this number, a low stock notification will be sent.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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      Enter the Out of Stock Threshold<\/strong> \u2013 The number in this field will determine the point in which an item is out of inventory (typically 0)<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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      Check Out of Stock Visibility<\/strong> if you want to hide out-of-stock items within the WooCommerce catalog.<\/li>\r\n

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      Select a Stock Display Format<\/strong> for how stock should be displayed within the WooCommerce product page.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

      Per-Product Inventory Options<\/h3>\r\n

      The following steps will walk you through setting inventory via the Product options panel in the Product post.<\/p>\r\n

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        Navigate to Products<\/strong> section in your admin panel, open a product.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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        In the Product Data<\/strong> area click on the Inventory <\/strong>tab:<\/p>\r\n

        \"woocommerce_how_to_manage_inventory_2\"<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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          Check Manage Inventory<\/strong> if you need to set the option on this individual product.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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          Enter a Stock Qty<\/strong> – number of products you have on hand.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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          Set the Stock Status<\/strong> \u2013 basically if the Stock Qty is zero, then the Stock Status is out of stock and vice versa.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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          Choose whether to Allow Backorders<\/strong> or not.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n

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          As noted, enable Sold Individually<\/strong> to only allow one of this item to be bought in a single order.<\/p>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

          Feel free to check the detailed video tutorial below:<\/p>\r\n

          WooCommerce. How to Manage Inventory and Stock<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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          Our Support team is ready to present a new tutorial that will show you how to manage inventory and stock in WooCommerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":43508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1556],"tags":[1819,1810,2418],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.templatemonster.com\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}