<h1>Reserve Stock for a Limited Time</h1>
The Reserve Stock 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.
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.
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.
<h2>Features</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>
Frontend working flow
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.
Create multiple stock reserve rules:
You can create multiple rules to add different stock reserve settings for various products, categories, and user roles.
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<h3>Create multiple stock reserve rules</h3>
You can create multiple rules to add different stock reserve settings for various products, categories, and user roles.
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While creating a new stock reserve rule, you can:
<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>
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<h3>Customize stock messages</h3>
The extension includes multiple customizable stock-related messages to keep your customers informed and avoid bad user experiences.
<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>
Minimum PHP version: 5.2

Reserve Stock

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

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<li>Access to all USPS, UPS, and other carriers’ shipping services 24/7</li>
<li>Discounted USPS rates – Save more money with shipping discounts on domestic and international</li>
<li>USPS Priority Mail® and Priority Mail Express™ shipments.</li>
<li>Discounted Stamps.com Insurance – Save 10% compared to USPS rates on package insurance.</li>
<li>Award-winning Technical Support Team with two gold medals to prove it</li>
</ul>
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<h2 style="text-align: left">Create shipping labels for USPS the smart way </h2>
With the <a href="http://stamps.com/woocommerce">Stamps.com</a> integration, you can automatically create ready-to-print shipping labels for USPS®, UPS®, and more carriers based on items in an order. Stamps.com seamlessly accesses the latest USPS rates when creating your labels, giving you unprecedented reliability, ease, and speed.
This extension does not display shipping rates to your customers during the checkout process. If you want USPS rates shown on the cart/checkout pages of your site, you need to purchase the <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/usps-shipping-method/">USPS Shipping Methods</a> extension as well. Using these two extensions together, your customers see the best rates during checkout and you take advantage of those same rates when creating shipping labels via the backend order admin. 
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You can also process refunds for and delete Stamps.com shipping labels, and top-up your Stamps.com account.
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With nearly 500,000 customers, Stamps.com has become the leading USPS postage provider in the country by simplifying access to the lowest USPS shipping rates and the most popular USPS services. Whether you ship one package a day or 1000, from your garage or a giant warehouse, Stamps.com has the tools to make your USPS® shipping process faster, more affordable and more efficient.
Plus WooCommerce customers get exclusive USPS shipping discounts with no minimum volume requirements to help reduce shipping costs. Your average Priority Mail rates are 3% less than standard Commercial Base Pricing and 17.3% less for Priority Mail Express.
<a href="http://www.stamps.com/woocommerce">Sign up</a> for your Woocommerce-Stamps.com account today and save!
<h2>I don’t have a Stamps.com yet. What do I need to do?</h2>
Sign up for a new <a href="http://www.stamps.com/woocommerce">Stamps.com </a>account today! Every Stamps.com account includes:
<ul>
<li>Special $100 value offer: $50 off a digital scale and $50 off a label printer</li>
<li>Unlimited shipments</li>
<li>Unlimited sales channels</li>
<li>Unlimited tech support</li>
</ul>
<h3>What type of USPS shipping rates will I get?</h3>
At WooCommerce, we understand you’re looking for ways to save money. That’s why we’ve teamed up with IntuiShip, a volume postage partner of the USPS, to offer you deep shipping discounts to help reduce shipping costs. Savings are delivered directly through your WooCommerce-Stamps.com account. No additional account is needed.
Here are examples of discounted rates you get:
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WooCommerce Stamps.com API

With the Stamps.com integration you can automatically create ready-to-print shipping labels for USPS, based on items in an order.

Reserve Stock vs WooCommerce Stamps.com API