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WooCommerce: Synchronizing Product Stock Between Stores

Wide angle view of a warehouse with stocked shelves and boxes.

This is a guest post by Misha Rudrastyh of rudrastyh.com. If you like the content, make sure to thank him in the comments!

In this post, we will discuss different ways of syncing product stock levels between multiple WooCommerce stores, more specifically, we will take a look at the following topics:

What is a multisite installation of WooCommerce stores, and what is the difference between syncing products across stores within a single multisite network and standalone stores?
Is there any difference between when we do the sync after updating a product via the WooCommerce admin dashboard and when an order is created by a customer?
Some caveats when working with orders which can contain lots of products.
What do we need to do to run the bulk stock synchronization for all products on a WooCommerce store?

If you’re interested in syncing more product data, not just the stock information, you can take a look at this article.

This tutorial is mostly about using Inventory Sync for WooCommerce plugin, however, if you’re a developer, you will also find some hook and performance recommendations here.

Creating a “Last Chance” Section for Low-Stock Products in WooCommerce

In a recent Business Bloomer Club thread, a member wanted to feature products in low stock to create a “last chance” section on their WooCommerce site, sparking urgency among customers.

Surprisingly, there seems to be no ready-made plugin specifically for this, leading to a discussion on how to efficiently display low-stock products.

Here, we’ll explore two main approaches to achieve this effect—either by customizing the [products] shortcode or modifying product queries.

Displaying Recently Restocked WooCommerce Products

In a recent Business Bloomer Club discussion, a member sought a way to highlight products that have recently returned to stock. When popular items come back, they often go unnoticed by customers unless they’re already on a wishlist.

The ideal solution would be to showcase restocked products using WooCommerce’s [products] shortcode, but WooCommerce doesn’t natively track or display “back-in-stock” items. This article explores how to achieve a restock display functionality with hooks, custom fields, and product queries.

WooCommerce: How to Cross-Sell on Other Stores to Expand Your Reach

Growing an ecommerce store isn’t getting any easier. With acquisition costs skyrocketing—up 222% over the last eight years—relying solely on paid ads is becoming less sustainable. Plus, new competitors are entering the market in droves, making it even harder to attract and retain customers.

So how do you cut through the noise and stand out?

One clever strategy is cross-selling your products on other stores.

In simple terms, this means making your products available for sale on complementary ecommerce stores. By partnering with stores that align with your brand or leveraging your own network of stores, you can introduce your products to new customer bases, boosting your visibility and sales—all without spending a cent on ads. Meanwhile, your partner and expansion stores get to effortlessly expand their product offerings. Win-win.

Cross-selling is one of the few low-cost ways to drive fast, meaningful sales in this crowded market. It’s also a key reason why we developed the Syncio plugin—to help WooCommerce stores grow through seamless collaboration.

Of course, like any growth strategy, cross-selling comes with its own challenges. From managing products across stores to finding the right partners, it requires the right tools and approach to work. In this guide, we’ll walk you through how to efficiently cross-sell your WooCommerce products across stores.

WooCommerce: How to Sync Products, Stock and Orders Between Several Stores

Running multiple WooCommerce stores can be a recipe for success, but keeping your products and stock levels synchronized across them can quickly turn into a nightmare.

Imagine the frustration of a customer trying to buy a product that shows “in stock” in one store, only to find it out of stock when they checkout. Yikes.

But fear not! This tutorial is your guide to conquering inventory chaos with product and stock syncing. We’ll dive into the amazing benefits of syncing your WooCommerce stores (e.g. products, stock, orders, etc.) so you can streamline your operations and watch your sales grow.

This multi-store functionality typically requires the use of additional plugins or services designed to manage multiple WooCommerce sites – one such solution is the WooMultistore plugin.

WooCommerce: Hide Sale! Badge If Product Is Out Of Stock

If a product cannot be purchased because it is out of stock, why would you want to tell people that it’s on sale – only because it has a sale price?

That would probably clutter your shop and maybe get the customer to click on the wrong item just because it was standing out, only to find out they can’t purchase it!

So, let’s fix this little “design bug” in WooCommerce – let’s make sure the Sale! badge gets hidden in case the product is out of stock. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Variable Product “Cumulative” Stock Quantity

When a variable product stock quantity is managed at variation level, the stock status is either “In stock” or “Out of stock” without any mention of the quantity.

It would be cool, however, and in certain cases only, to show the total stock quantity for all single variations. If variation Red has 3 in stock, variation Blue has 7 in stock and variation Cyan has 10 in stock, I’d like to set the “parent product” stock quantity to 3 + 7 + 10 = 20.

So, how do we do that?

WooCommerce inventory management software?

Does anyone have experience with one or more of the following inventory management systems?

Zenventory (zenventory.com)
SKUVault (skuvault.com)
Fishbowl (fishbowlinventory.com)

What’s a good stock syncing service for WooCommerce, Ebay and Amazon?

A client of mine uses Sellerchamp and has constantly issues with it.

WooCommerce: 6 Inventory Management Issues

In the competitive world of eCommerce, managing your inventory effectively is a key factor in achieving success.

However, for many WooCommerce store owners, grappling with common inventory management issues can be challenging.

As you no doubt know, inventory management can often be a complex task, but it doesn’t have to feel overwhelming.

By understanding all of these common issues found in WooCommerce inventory management and implementing the suggested solutions, you can improve efficiency, decrease errors, maintain customer satisfaction and ultimately drive your eCommerce business towards success.

To bring you up to speed, let’s talk through some of these problems and offer practical solutions to help streamline operations.

WooCommerce: Display Stock Status For External Products

By default, WooCommerce external products do not have and do not display any stock, as they are simple redirects to an external URL. This may be unfortunate, because before clicking on an external URL and send people away from your website, you may want to make sure the current item is in stock (so that you have more chances to convert the sale and earn a referral commission, if that’s your business model).

So, how do we “manage stock” for an external product, and display the stock status on the single product page, just before the “Buy Product” button?

WooCommerce: Additional Stock Inventory Location

The WooCommerce plugin allows you to manage stock for each product, but you only have a single stock quantity field!

What if you have two warehouses and, as a store admin, need to manage the inventory for each location? Besides, what if an item is out of stock at location 1, but it’s in stock at location 2, and therefore the customer needs to be able to purchase it?

This amazing workaround will add a second input number in the product settings, redefine stock quantity and status on the frontend by summing up stock 1 + stock 2, and finally decrease stock 1 until it goes to 0, after which it will decrease stock 2.

This default behavior can be changed of course e.g. it’s possible to define from where the stock is reduced (by distance?) via additional code. Also, additional code can be written to make it compatible with variable products or custom product types, as well as make it work with refunds. Either way, enjoy!

WooCommerce: Stock Quantity in a Shortcode

It’s great that WooCommerce products clearly display their stock status and quantity on the single product page (and on the shop page, with this simple customization).

However, WooCommerce store owners often need to display the stock quantity in other sections of the website, such as the homepage, a blog post, a custom pricing table, and keep the quantity dynamic so that the text changes when there is a stock change.

We can therefore build a simple shortcode, that can automatically update the output, so that you never need to worry about changing that piece of content ever again. Enjoy!

WooCommerce: Disable Restocking @ Order Cancelled

When an order that has previously reduced stock is “cancelled” or goes to “pending payment” because the payment failed or the store admin decided to change the order status, the wc_maybe_increase_stock_levels() function triggers and restores the order items’ stock quantity.

As usual, some WooCommerce entrepreneurs asked for a way to disable this automatic restocking given their custom setup. It often goes like that – you can’t really please everyone.

This is unless you’re a smart developer and can account for both options, thanks to a WordPress “filter“. Here’s a PHP one-liner that can immediately disable this default behavior, so that you can avoid the automatic restocking (and maybe doing it manually based on your business rules). Enjoy!

WooCommerce: In Stock Products Shortcode

We’ve already coded a solution to display WooCommerce out of stock products only via a custom shortcode – today we’ll do the opposite: how can we display in stock products only via a handy shortcode?

Once again, the solution “gets” the list of products IDs that are in stock, and then passes the result to the official [products] WooCommerce shortcode, so that we don’t reinvent the wheel.

You can then use the [in_stock_products] shortcode anywhere you wish – on a blog post, in a custom page, in a widget, and so on. You can even customize the output with the official WooCommerce [products] shortcode parameters such as columns, orderby, limit, etc. Enjoy!