<h2>Track Your Products by the Batch and Keep Tabs on Their Expiration Dates </h2>
Product Batch & Expiration Tracking for WooCommerce allows store owners to track their products stock through batches and sets of same expiration dates. Take control of your inventory and set up and track sub-quantities of your products in batches and/or expiration dates. 
This breakthrough plugin allows store owners to keep track of their inventory, as parts of a whole, allowing them to oversee their products as a group of batches and a set of expiration dates. 
<h3>Who is this for?</h3>
If you are running a WooCommerce store that carries products with expiration date, e.g. food/edible, cosmetic, medicine, drink (tea, coffee etc.), or, from time to time you might need to recall your products. This plugin is for you!
Our batch tracking feature allows you to enter the batch number, batch date and vendor (if you are not the manufacturer) info, save them in your WooCommerce store. Later on, you can track your products’ batch info from the dedicated batch report dashboard. This is a great feature for food/edible manufacturer.
Our product expiry/expiration date tracking feature allows you to track your product’s expiration date, send you email notification of expiring products, as well as moving them into sales/clearance category automatically.
To sum up, our target audience is WooCommerce store owners who are looking to upgrade their inventory management by incorporating expiration date tracking, or expiration date tracking. By being able to track expiring products, better planning around promotions and sales can be done. In addition to expiration date tracking, there is batch tracking for store owners who are interested in being able to reference orders by a batch number.
<h2>Most Important Features </h2>
Product Batch & Expiration Tracking has a wide variety of features which allow you to manage inventory and keep yourself notified of any inventory with upcoming expiration dates. Using it will save you tons of time and money, which would normally be spent on keeping track of all the varying expiration dates of products on your store. Here’s a list of features: 
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Product Batch & Expiration Tracking – When enabled each product will have its own batch tracking and expiration date tracking table.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Managed stock in Batches – Manage and track product quantities using a batch system, assigning each batch an ID, a batch date, and a supplier name.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Managed stock by Expiration Date– Manage and track product quantities, using expiration dates, assigning each sub-quantity of your product an expiration date.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Expiration Report – Dedicated page that lists all currently existing records with expiration dates that are close to expiration.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Batch Report – Dedicated page that lists all currently existing batches sorted by their batch date.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Track Orders by Batch – Orders of products with batches set up, remember which batch was used and the batch can be searched for. </li>
</ol>
<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8046927" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PBET-Expiry-Report.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="250" /> <img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8046925" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PBET-Batch-Report.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="227" />
<h2>Additional Features </h2>
In addition to the main features listed above, there are some additional features you can opt in to that can be configured in the settings. The settings page can be found by going to the products tab and clicking the “Batch & Expiration by Webis” sub-tab (Note that these settings require expiration tracking to be enabled). Here is the list of additional features: 
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Display the Expiration Date – If this option is enabled, the expiration date will appear on the product page if a batch is expiring in a set number of days. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Receive Emails for Soon-to-expire Products – If this option is enabled, the plugin sends a notification email with a list of products that are expiring a set number of days from the current day.</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Add to Clearance Category – If this option is enabled, when the expiration date of a product reaches a set number of days, the product is added to a set category.</li>
<li>Shortcode to Show Batch Number and Expiry Date –You can use [wpbet_batch_expiry] shortcode to show batch number or expiry date wherever you want.</li>
</ol>
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<h2>Why Did We Develop This Plugin? </h2>
As a store owner, we encountered the need to be able to track and record the expiration dates of our perishable goods like food products. We searched for existing solutions on the market but couldn’t find one that fulfilled the need in a straightforward and easy-to-use way. As a result, we developed this plugin to satisfy this need for expiration date tracking and we hope it can be of benefit to you as well. 
<h2>How Do I Set It Up? </h2>
Once the plugin is enabled, in the product data section of the product edit page, under the inventory tab, there will be a section called “Product Batch & Expiration Tracking”. In that section, you can enable “Expiration & Batch Tracking”. Once you’ve enabled it, the batch table will appear underneath if the product type is simple and under each variation if the product type is variable. Within this table you can create new batch entries that are saved when the product is saved. 
The steps: 
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable the plugin </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Go to the product edit page, go into the Inventory tab, enable the “Enable Expiration & Batch Tracking” option </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">You can find the table in the Inventory tab if the product type is simple, and under each variation if the product type is variable. 
<img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8147450" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PBET-Simple-Product.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="401" /><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8147449" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/PBET-Variable-Product.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="405" /> 
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Fill in the table with the information about your batches. </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">You’re all set to start tracking your batches! </li>
</ol>
<h2>How Can I Use the Shortcode?</h2>
Shortcode [wpbet_batch_expiry type=”” order_id=”” variation_id=””] can render batch number or expiry date of the product variation that was ordered. It requires three parameter, type, order_id and variation_id. Type can be either batch_num or expiry_date depends on what you would like to show.
<h2>What Can Our Plugin Do? (Use Cases) </h2>
The Product Batch & Expiration Tracking for WooCommerce plugin allows you to track your product expiration date and batch numbers. You can also segment the product inventory into separate batches.
<h3>For Example (Expiration Date Use Case)</h3>
Say you have 100 bags of candy in stock, you purchased these 100 units in two batches. some of them are going to expire in 30 days, the rest of them are expiring next year.
<h4>Without our plugin:</h4>
You will need to ask your warehouse stuff constantly for each SKU in order to plan your clearance sales.
<h4>With our plugin:</h4>
Not only that you just need to go to the Expiry Report Dashboard to check the expiring products, you will also get email notifications regarding the expiring products. And if you setup the auto on sale feature, the product will automatically move into the clearance category (you can choose which category it is). These features will save you a lot of money from product wasting.
<h3>Another Example (Batch Number Use Case)</h3>
Say you sell chocolate cakes for years, and you just got notified by your supplier that, the last batch’s cakes are on the recall list. You want to notify your customers about this.
<h4>Without our plugin:</h4>
You will need to guess which orders contain the recalled cakes
<h4>With our plugin:</h4>
You can search orders by typing the batch number from the WooCommerce’s orders page. This will save you a lot of time.
There are much use cases of batch & expiry date tracking, and we pick a few more use cases that our plugin can cover: 
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Track the expiration date of products, so that when the expiration date approaches a promotion can be held to clear out items before expiration. 
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Track expiration dates for multiple shipments to clear out inventory in a FIFO system based on closeness to expiring. 
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Recording inventory shipments as batches, in the case a recall becomes necessary and the orders involved with the inventory requiring a recall can be tracked. </li>
</ol>
<h2>A Comparison of the Different Possible Implementations of Expiration Date & Batch Tracking </h2>
As always, prior developing our plugins, we check to see whether the existing plugin can fulfill the features we want to fulfill. After testing the existing product batch tracking or product expiration plugins, we found that either some of the plugins are not working at all, or the setup configuration is overly complicated, or lack of features. That was why we developed this plugin for our own use case, as well as sharing with WooCommerce store owners and hope to help out stores like us.
To sum up, there are a few approaches to solving the product expiration date problem: 
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400">A centralized dashboard where you can create records for all products. 
The problem with this solution, is that it is overly complicated. When a store manager goes to update the stock of a product, they would normally go to the product edit page to make their changes. By adding another dashboard that they have to use to make records, the process becomes very inefficient and inconvenient. We prefer to remain the existing workflow for normal store owners, and not introduce million other places to setup the product. 
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Use expiration date tracking to only track expiration date. 
Some plugins do handle expiration date tracking, but they usually only provide the default features like updating stock values, and simple features like displaying the expiration date. Our plugin offers much more in-depth features, for example, moving expiring products into sales/clearance category (you can select which category to go to), sending expiring notifications to store manager regarding the upcoming expiring products. 
</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Use expiration date tracking alongside batch tracking right on the product edit page, and have a dedicated dashboard for the report. 
This is our solution, and we believe that it is the most effective and complete solution.</li>
</ol>
<h3>It Works Well With</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/variation-shared-inventory-for-woocommerce/">Variation Shared Inventory for Woocommerce</a> 
Variation Shared Inventory for WooCommerce is an inventory management system that allows a group of variations to share a single quantity.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
Minimum PHP version: 7.0
<h3 class="p-rich_text_section">Get started</h3>
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<li>Purchase this extension</li>
<li>Download, install, and activate the extension, in your WooCommerce store</li>
<li>Review our <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/product-batch-and-expiration-tracking-for-woocommerce/">documentation</a> for any additional information</li>
</ul>

Product Batch & Expiration Tracking

Track product batch & expiration date info, get email alerts on expiring products, auto add to clearance category for expiring products and search orders by batch number.

With the WooCommerce mobile app builder, you can now create an app for your WooCommerce store. An app that is device and platform-independent, allowing you to build customizable apps for both Android and iOS platforms. 
Building the store app with this mobile builder creates no hurdles in integration with the website backend and database, ensuring swift action to customer queries. Your mobile users get to shop from their favorite brands displayed in the brand slider effortlessly. This way, you can improve your sales by connecting with your potential mobile user audience. 
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li style="font-weight: 400">Develop a mobile app for your store</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Sync all products and orders to the App</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Personalize mobile app display</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Select a theme color for the App</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Display new, best-selling, top-rated products</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Add a category slider with selected categories</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Enable banner slider with images of your choice</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Translate the mobile app into any language</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Create unlimited push notifications</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Project business logo on the sign-in, and sign-up page</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Dedicated ‘Why Buy from us?’ section</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Add and manage brands</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Specify terms and conditions</li>
</ul>
Having your very own mobile app built with our mobile app builder, you can significantly improve your overall conversions and sales. More than half of your target audience prefers to shop through their mobile phones, and this can happen only when you have a full-fledged mobile app.  
With a mobile app for your online store, you choose to keep your customers informed about your services through multiple push notifications and similar features. Build your mobile app today and gain the competitive advantage to outperform your competitors like a breeze. 
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005403708" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mobile-view.png?w=664" alt="" width="352" height="690" />
<h3>Easily Build your WooCommerce Store Mob App</h3>
With WooCommerce app builder you can create a Rest API key i.e. Consumer Key and Consumer secret key from the backend. It allows you to link your web store with a mobile app. When we receive the key, we will create the APK file, integrate it with the Store, and send it to the customer. For APK file you need to fill Google form after click on a link which is mentioned in Key Configuration.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004609416 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mobile-app-key-confi.png" alt="Easily Build your WooCommerce Store Mob App,' showing how simple it is to create a store on mobile." width="728" height="370" />
<h3>Personalize App Content</h3>
You can change the color of the mobile app theme to match your brand. You can also hide or display product sliders such as new products, best sale, on sale, top-rated, and product categories. Furthermore, you can also select which categories to display in the mobile app.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004609417 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Moble-App-display.png" alt="Personalize App Content, showing how users can customize their app content." width="704" height="588" />
<h3>Display Banner and Slider within the App</h3>
WooCommerce mobile app builder allows you to customize and display the slider and banners on your WooCommerce store. This enables you to effectively display your new product and offers on your mobile app.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004609418 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/mobile-app-image-set-1.png" alt="highlighting the feature to add banners and sliders inside the app." width="798" height="1601" />
<h3>Unlimited Push Notifications</h3>
Send unlimited push notifications to capture your users’ attention and keep them engaged with your app. Promote offers, discounts, product updates, and more to encourage frequent visits. The plugin allows you to manage the notifications by:
<ol>
<li style="font-weight: 400">
<h4>Configure Notification Settings</h4>
</li>
</ol>
You can easily configure the order push notifications. Enable notifications for both “create order” and “order status change”. You can customize the title and message for both notifications.  
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005370638 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-from-2025-06-04-12-48-55.png" alt="" width="759" height="664" />
<h4>2. Create Notifications</h4>
The mobile app builder plugin allows you to create custom notifications. You can add the title and message for the notifications, and also upload an image for more details. You can also select a product or category for a particular notification.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005370642 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-from-2025-06-04-12-49-42.png" alt="" width="757" height="452" />
<h4>3. Send Notifications</h4>
Control the notifications by sending them manually. You can review all the notifications, search them and decide to delete or send depending on the requirements.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734005370646 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-from-2025-06-04-12-50-18.png" alt="" width="1169" height="449" />
<h3>Translate your Mobile App to a Language of your Choice</h3>
Translate your app into the language your customers speak and build stronger connections. Match your app language with your website to offer a consistent experience and boost user engagement. Localization helps improve customer trust, satisfaction, and overall app performance.
<h3>Set Custom App Logo</h3>
Set the logo of the app to display on sign-in and sign-up page. It enables you to personalize your WooCommerce store app with your branding.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004609421 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Screenshot-from-2024-12-10-11-29-07.png" alt="Button to set a custom app logo for your application." width="644" height="261" />
<h3>Display Brands in Mob App</h3>
With WooCommerce mobile app builder you can display the brand’s slider and allows customers to shop by brands. It helps customers to easily purchase the products of their brand improving customer shopping experience. You can also upload custom thumbnails for the brand.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004609422 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mobile-App-Brands.png" alt="Option to display brands in the mobile app interface." width="1202" height="464" />
<h3>Effectively respond to Customer Queries</h3>
You can quickly view and respond to customer queries from the web backend. Messages sent through the app’s “Contact Us” form and the customer’s email and phone number are displayed in the backend. This makes it easy to reply to customer’s inquiries.
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734004609423 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Mobile-App-Contact-Us.png" alt="Feature for efficiently responding to customer queries." width="1171" height="524" />
<h3>Benefits:</h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Boosts revenues by building an advanced mobile app for your store </li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Ensures business presence on Android and iOS App stores</li>
<li style="font-weight: 400">Improves user-friendliness and mobile-responsiveness </li>
</ul>

Mobile App Builder

Boost sales by creating your WooCommerce store app without coding with Mobile App Builder.

Product Batch & Expiration Tracking vs Mobile App Builder