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<h2><strong>Highlights</strong></h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Create multiple inventories:<br />
</strong>Depending on your business requirements, you can add multiple inventories based on locations, stores, warehouses, suppliers, and any other inventory type.</li>
<li><strong>Add stock for each inventory by product:<br />
</strong>After creating the inventory types, you can enable the multi-inventory option for each product where applicable and add stock quantities.</li>
<li><strong>Import/Export inventories’ stock:<br />
</strong>Instead of adding stock for each product, you can choose to bulk import stock quantities for different inventories using a CSV file.</li>
<li><strong>Smart inventory management grid:<br />
</strong>Efficiently view and update stock of the entire catalog from a single listing page. Utilize the Advanced filters to find the relevant products within the grid quickly.</li>
<li><strong>Allow customers to select inventory:<br />
</strong>Display inventories on the product detail page, menu options, or in a popup. Allow your customers to select the relevant inventory/location to place orders.</li>
<li><strong>Admin backend mode:<br />
</strong>You can activate backend mode to conceal inventories from customers. Only the store admin will be able view and assign relevant inventory to each order.</li>
<li><strong>Inventory specific pricing:<br />
</strong>When adding multiple inventories for your product, you can choose to keep the existing product price or set a different price for each inventory.</li>
<li><strong>Filter products by location:<br />
</strong>If you have added location-based inventories, customers can select their preferred store location to filter products that are available in the selected location.</li>
<li><strong>Automatically detect user location:<br />
</strong>Show the nearest inventory based on the customer’s location. They can either proceed with the suggested inventory location or select a different one to shop from.</li>
<li><strong>Manage payment methods visibility:<br />
</strong>You can attach payment methods to each inventory type in order to optimize their visibility based on inventories/locations.</li>
</ul>
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<p>WooCommerce Multi Inventory Management extension by Addify enables you to effectively create and manage inventories across different location, warehouses and stores. You can add multiple stocks for each product based on type, location and suppliers.</p>
<p>Use the standard price or add a different prices for each inventory and let customers select the relevant inventory/location while adding product to their cart. You can import export inventories using a CSV file to bulk update your products stock.</p>
<p>The extension comes with a smart stock listing page that allows you to view stock and edit products stock from a single page. Dashboard offers a clear executive picture about the current stock status, stock change history and a list of out-of-stock, low stock and over stock products.</p>
<p>The store managers can enable the admin mode to hide locations from customers and let only admin users to allocate orders to relevant inventories. Following are the detailed features of this extension.</p>
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<h2>Features of Inventory Management:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Add multiple stock inventories based on vendor, location or types and customize
<ul>
<li>Warehouse/inventory description</li>
<li>Parent location</li>
<li>Contact & store manager details</li>
<li>Shipping and payment method</li>
<li>Shipping zones</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Ability set up multi inventory for selected products only</li>
<li>Add inventory price, SKU, start and end dates from product level</li>
<li>Option to show inventories in dropdown for customer selection</li>
<li>Automatically detect customer location to show stock of nearest store</li>
<li>Manage catalog visibility based on locations</li>
<li>Backend mode – only admin can choose the inventory from admin order detail page</li>
<li>Assign specific shipping zones, methods and payment gateways to inventories</li>
<li>Smart stock management table to quickly
<ul>
<li>View current stock status</li>
<li>Edit stock quantity and prices</li>
<li>Manage stock options</li>
<li>View stock change history</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Intuitive dashboard to show current stock value, quantity and more</li>
<li>Ability to import export inventories using a CSV file</li>
<li>Customize inventory display settings on shop and product page</li>
</ul>
<h2>Add multiple inventory locations:</h2>
<p>You can create multiple inventories based on location, warehouse, stores or types. While creating a new inventory you can customize following options,</p>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none">
<ul>
<li>Add location name and slug</li>
<li>Select the parent location if any</li>
<li>Add location description</li>
<li>Enter store manager name and email</li>
<li>Add store address, phone number</li>
<li>Enter latitude & longitude for each location</li>
<li>Choose to accept orders in specific time only</li>
<li>Restrict payment, shipping methods and zones</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003552357" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Adding-new-inventory-2.png" alt="" width="980" height="1119" /></p>
<h2>Adding inventory from product level:</h2>
<p>You can enable multi-inventory on product detail page and add inventories for different locations. Your existing product inventory will become the main inventory. You can add additional inventories along with the following details,</p>
<ul>
<li style="list-style-type: none">
<ul>
<li>Specify inventory location</li>
<li>Customize inventory priority and SKU</li>
<li>Provide inventory start and end date</li>
<li>Add different price for inventory</li>
<li>Add stock quantity and low stock threshold</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003552513" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Adding-inventory-stock-from-product-page.png" alt="" width="980" height="1179" /></p>
<h2><strong>Inventory Allocation:</strong></h2>
<p>You can allow customers to select the relevant inventory or turn backend mode to specify the inventory on admin order detail page.</p>
<p><strong>By customer:</strong><br />
When the inventory dropdown is displayed, your customers can choose the relevant inventory to order from.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003557999" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Inventory-selection-dropdown-product-page.png" alt="" width="980" height="634" /></p>
<p><strong>By admin:</strong><br />
When the backend mode is enabled, the customer won’t be able to select the inventory location during order. The store admin can allocate appropriate inventory from admin order detail page.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003558024" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Admin-reducing-inventory-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="472" /></p>
<h2><strong>Bulk stock management using list view:</strong></h2>
<p>Manage your product stock using a bulk stock listing page. Instead of visiting each product page, you can view and edit stock of different products from the same page. The advance filters helps you to navigate and easily find the relevant products.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003552803" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Managing-stock-from-list-view.png" alt="Managing stock from list view" width="980" height="833" /></p>
<h2><strong>Dashboard:</strong></h2>
<p>Multi Inventory Management extension comes with a smart dashboard to communicate important information about your product inventories. You can view the total stock quantity, stock value, out of stock, low stock products and more.</p>
<p>The dashboard provides a graph to let you filter stock by location and see the stock trends over a specific period of time.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003552867" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Dashboard-Stock.png" alt="" width="980" height="704" /></p>
<h2><strong>Import Export:</strong></h2>
<p>You can import and export location based stock of individual products using a pre-defined CSV file. Instead of adding stock from each product page, you can import them using a CSV file.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003557916" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/CSV-import-export-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="688" /></p>
<h2><strong>Customization options</strong></h2>
<p>Using the extension settings tab, you can customize following options,</p>
<h3><strong>General Settings:</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>Show or hide inventories on product page in dropdown or as radio buttons</li>
<li>Restrict only specific locations to be displayed on frontend</li>
<li>Customize inventories selection heading and styling options</li>
<li>Set location for your default product inventory</li>
<li>Enable backend mode to hide inventory locations from customers</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003552798" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/General-Settings-of-Multi-Inventory-plugin.png" alt="" width="980" height="1264" /></p>
<p><strong>Shop page:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Show inventories name, location and price on shop page</li>
<li>Hide out of stock products from shop page</li>
<li>Show inventories as filter on shop page</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003552822" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Shop-page-settings.png" alt="" width="980" height="565" /></p>
<p><strong>Payment and shipping restrictions:</strong></p>
<p>You can restrict shipping zones, shipping methods and payment methods to specific inventory locations. Once the restriction is enabled from settings, you should be able to apply restriction while creating new or editing an existing location.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003552823" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Shipping-and-payment-settings.png" alt="" width="980" height="363" /></p>
<p><strong>Manage stock configurations:</strong></p>
<p>Add low and over stock threshold and customize color scheme for in-stock, out of stock, overstock and low stock products displayed in bulk stock listing page.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734003552825" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Manage-stock-color-scheme.png" alt="" width="980" height="564" /></p>

Multi Inventory Management

<p>Add multiple inventories per product based on location, warehouse, stores, inventory types and more. A powerful purpose-built multi-inventory management system.</p>

<h1>Reserve Stock for a Limited Time</h1>
<p>The <strong>Reserve Stock</strong> extension for WooCommerce enables you to temporarily reduce stock when a product is added to the Cart. Using rule-based management, you can enable reserving stock for selected products, categories, and user roles. You can also set a limit for the time an item is reserved.</p>
<p>Once a reserve time is complete, the product will be automatically removed from the Cart. The reserved stock will be released. You can communicate stock statuses to customers with customizable messages about the current reserved stock count, reserve time, and more.</p>
<p>It’s a must-have extension for merchants selling rare products and those who want to avoid orders above their current stock quantity. By showing a stock reserve count and timer, you can create urgency, so customers purchase quickly.</p>
<h2><strong>Features</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>When you add a product to the Cart, stock quantities are reduced or reserved</li>
<li>Rule-based management enables reserving stock for specific products, categories, and user roles</li>
<li>Allow customers to reserve stock for a limited time</li>
<li>Show a timer on the cart page to keep your customer informed</li>
<li>Automatically removes the products from carts when the reserve timer runs out</li>
<li>Displays a reserved stock count and a timer on product and shop pages</li>
<li>Customize reserve stock messages as per your business needs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Frontend working flow</strong></p>
<p>The extension interacts with your customers to keep them informed of the stock reserve status and waiting time if all stock is reserved. You can customize these messages in General settings.</p>
<p><strong>Create multiple stock reserve rules:</strong></p>
<p>You can create multiple rules to add different stock reserve settings for various products, categories, and user roles.</p>
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<h3><strong>Create multiple stock reserve rules</strong></h3>
<p>You can create multiple rules to add different stock reserve settings for various products, categories, and user roles.</p>
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<p>While creating a new stock reserve rule, you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable for all or specific user roles</li>
<li>Apply it to specific products and categories</li>
<li>Customize stock reserve time in minutes or hours</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734001761861" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Reserve-stock-rule-detail-.png" alt="" width="980" height="1054" /></p>
<h3><strong>Customize stock messages</strong></h3>
<p>The extension includes multiple customizable stock-related messages to keep your customers informed and avoid bad user experiences.</p>
<ul>
<li>General stock reserve message</li>
<li>Reserved timer displayed on the Cart page</li>
<li>When some stock is reserved</li>
<li>When the entire stock is reserved</li>
<li>When a customer removes an item from the Cart when time expires</li>
<li>Error messages on add-to-cart when stock is reserved</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.2</p>

Reserve Stock

<p>Reserve inventory for a limited time, for customers with items in their carts, with the Reserve Stock for WooCommerce extension.</p>

Multi Inventory Management vs Reserve Stock