<p>Efficiently managing SKUs is crucial for proper inventory management and product identification when selling across different channels (Amazon, eBay, Etsy, etc). Adding SKUs manually by going through each product page would take ages if you have a large catalog. With Bulk SKU Generator you can automate your SKU creation process for your new and existing products.</p>
<p>Create multiple rules to set different SKUs for different products and categories using the inbuilt variables like product ID, name, slug, attributes, and more. Option to add new, replace, or set additional SKUs. The detailed features of this extension follow.</p>
<h2>Features List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Create unique SKUs for products and variations</li>
<li>Ability to add new, set additional, or replace existing SKUs</li>
<li>Apply SKUs to specific products, category, and attributes</li>
<li>Create multiple rules to add different SKUs for different products</li>
<li>Customize SKU format by adding custom text anywhere in SKU along with variables,
<ul>
<li>Product id</li>
<li>Product slug</li>
<li>Product name</li>
<li>Parent category name</li>
<li>Child category name</li>
<li>Product tag</li>
<li>SKU number</li>
<li>Product attribute</li>
<li>Product term</li>
<li>Variation name</li>
<li>Variation ID</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Ability to set different SKU format for product and variations</li>
<li>Add a certain length for generated SKUs to maintain consistency</li>
<li>Option to automate SKU updates for new products</li>
<li>Customize cronjob interval and view SKUs creation progress</li>
<li>Option to add placeholders for empty variables</li>
<li>Allow customers to search by SKU and automatically include SKUs in order emails</li>
</ul>
<h2>Rule based management</h2>
<p>Create multiple global rules to generate different SKUs for different products. Rule based management offers a better control over how the SKUs should be generated for different types of products.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004624246" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Multiple-SKU-Generator-Rules.png" alt="" width="980" height="484" /></p>
<h2>Conditional SKUs</h2>
<p>You can conditionally add SKUs to your products using following rule types,</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Replace SKUs<br />
</strong>Replace your existing SKU with a new one. If there is no SKU to replace, the extension won’t add a new SKU.</li>
<li><strong>Additional SKUs<br />
</strong>This rule type will assign an additional SKU to products, regardless of whether they already have an SKU or not.</li>
<li><strong>Product with no SKUs<br />
</strong>Add SKUs to products with no SKU only. If the SKU is already present in any of the selected products, the rule will not add an SKU for that product.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Apply rule to future products</strong></p>
<p>Automate the SKUs generation for upcoming products added to your store. When this feature is enabled, the extension will generate SKU according to your rule settings.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004624250" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Multiple-types-of-SKU-generator.png" alt="" width="980" height="472" /></p>
<h2>Customize SKU length for consistency</h2>
<p>Define the maximum length for SKUs generation to ensure that your product codes stay within a specific character range. This customization provides flexibility, allowing you to control the length of SKUs according to your store’s preferences.</p>
<h2>Flexible product SKU format options</h2>
<p>The SKU format can be easily personalized by adding any custom text anywhere in the field along with the predefined variables. The variable values are replaced dynamically to generate SKUs that uniquely identify each product and variation, making inventory management more efficient. The pre-defined variables includes,</p>
<ul>
<li>Product id</li>
<li>Product slug (Product URL)</li>
<li>Product name</li>
<li>Parent category name</li>
<li>Child category name</li>
<li>Product tag</li>
<li>SKU number</li>
<li>Product attribute</li>
<li>Product term</li>
<li>Variation name</li>
<li>Variation ID</li>
</ul>
<p>You can add different SKU formats for products and variations as per your business needs.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004624248" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/SKU-Format.png" alt="" width="980" height="745" /></p>
<h2>Apply SKUs to all or specific products</h2>
<p>When creating a new rule for SKU generation, you can choose to apply it to all products or specific products. You can specify individual products or select them by their category or attribute.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004624254" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Product-Restriction-for-SKU.png" alt="" width="980" height="447" /></p>
<h2>General Options:</h2>
<p>Using the general settings, you can customize following options,</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Enable search by SKU:</strong> Allow your customers to search your catalog by product SKU.</li>
<li><strong>Include SKU in emails: </strong>Automatically include SKU number in customer order emails.</li>
<li><strong>Empty variables placeholder:</strong> You can skip or add custom placeholders for empty variables while generating SKUs. Leaving these fields empty the extension won’t add anything in the SKUs if the variable values are empty.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004624256" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/General-Settings-of-SKU-generator.png" alt="" width="980" height="739" /></p>
<h2>Conjob and progress view:</h2>
<p>The extension uses cron jobs to schedule SKU generation in phases to avoid overloading the server. You can customize the cronjob time as per your needs. You can view all active rules that are currently being applied along with the product list where the SKU has been added.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004624258" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Cronjob-settings-of-SKU-manager.png" alt="" width="980" height="619" /></p>

Bulk SKU Generator

<p>Automatically generate SKUs in bulk for multiple products, including variations. Option to add new or replace existing SKU. Format SKU using multiple variables like product ID, slug, attribute, tag, category, and more.</p>

<h2>Add Stock Options and Increase Control of Your WooCommerce Store</h2>
<p>Out of the box, WooCommerce provides a generalized basic inventory management solution for everyone. To automate the process, people need more complex stock-related options to make things easy for store managers and customers.</p>
<p><strong>Advanced Stock Options for WooCommerce</strong> helps by simplifying the flow for the store manager and customer in low stock and out-of-stock conditions by recommending other products, displaying out-of-stock badges, managing proper low-stock or out-of-stock email notifications with multiple recipients, and other features.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-8361781 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/p5cure_advanced_stock_options_main_settings_screen_focused.png" alt="" width="837" height="387" /></p>
<p>The extension comes with a modular structure. You can enable only the features you want to use in your online store.</p>
<h2>Stock options</h2>
<ol>
<li>Add an out-of-stock message on single product pages.</li>
<li><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Options include admin low-stock or out-of-stock email templates.</span></li>
<li>Options to sort out-of-stock products to display last on the shop and archive pages.</li>
<li>Manage custom-stock status.</li>
<li>Recommendations for out-of-stock products.</li>
<li>Display sold-out badges on product thumbnails.</li>
</ol>
<h3>Out-of-stock message</h3>
<p>With the Out-of-Stock message module, you can display a message on a single product page for any out-of-stock product. There is an option to set a message to display globally for all out-of-stock products. You can also set it for individual products.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-8326927 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Out-of-stock-message.png" alt="" width="945" height="556" /></p>
<h3>Admin low-stock or out-of-stock emails</h3>
<p>Gives you more control on admin low-stock, and out-of-stock email templates, just like other standard WooCommerce email settings, with the functionality of managing multiple recipients, subject, and additional content.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-8361787 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/p5cure_advanced_stock_options_out_of_stock_email_template-1.png" alt="" width="770" height="644" /></p>
<h3><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Show out-of-stock products last</span></h3>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">You can push out-of-stock products to display last</span><strong><em>—</em></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">sort and push all out-of-stock products to the end of the shop and archive pages, this will help store owners, reduce distractions for customers and increase conversion at the same time.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-8361798 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/p5cure_advanced_stock_options_push_out_of_stock_products_to_last_cropped.png" alt="" width="730" height="901" /></p>
<p> </p>
<h3>Custom stock status</h3>
<p>The Custom Stock Status module lets you change the text and color of default stock statuses. You can manage custom values for each status globally, or each product individually. <strong>Advanced Stock Options for WooCommerce</strong> also includes support for each variation at the same time. For example, easily managing discontinued products.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-8361724 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/p5cure_advanced_stock_options_custom_stock_status.png" alt="" width="622" height="371" /></p>
<h3>Recommendation for out-of-stock products</h3>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Are you scared to lose customers when a product is out of stock? Providing recommendations for out-of-stock products helps. </span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Advanced Stock Options for WooCommerce</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true"> allows you to select products, to appear as a recommendation on a single product page when a product is out of stock. It grabs the attention of buyers encouraging them to view suggested products instead of leaving your store.</span></p>
<p> </p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-8362029 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/p5cure_out_of_stock_recommendation-1.png" alt="" width="717" height="633" /></p>
<h3>Sold-out badge</h3>
<p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">When a WooCommerce product is out-of-stock, using the sold-out badge functionality, you can display a badge on the product thumbnail. You can customize the text and style you set in the backend, on the shop, and on single product pages.</span></p>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-8326972 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/p5cure_sold_out_badge.png" alt="" width="820" height="458" /></p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ol>
<li>Add an out-of-stock message on single product pages</li>
<li>Admin low-stock or out-of-stock email templates</li>
<li>Includes an option to sort out-of-stock products to display last on the shop and archive pages</li>
<li>Manage custom stock statuses</li>
<li>Make alternate recommendations for out-of-stock products</li>
<li>Display sold-out badges on product thumbnails</li>
<li>A modular structure to enable the specific functionality you select for your store</li>
</ol>
<p>Get complete control on stock alerts, stock status visibility, and more stock options today with <strong>Advanced Stock Options for WooCommerce</strong>.</p>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 7.0</p>
<p> </p>

Advanced Stock Options

<p>Get complete control on stock alerts, stock status visibility and more stock options.</p>

Bulk SKU Generator vs Advanced Stock Options