<h1 class="p1 wp-block-heading" style="text-align: center">Manage Inventory at the Attribute Level</h1>
Shared Attribute Stock for WooCommerce enables you to manage stock at the global attribute level. With the Shared Attribute Stock extension, you can add and reduce the stock by variation attributes. It’s perfect for selling rice, lentils, peas, beans, and other products where amounts vary based on customers’ orders.
With this extension, you can group attribute inventory to share with different variations. Instead of adding attribute stock to each variation, you can group attribute stock and track it at a global level.
You can configure stock for each attribute individually or use rules to add stock and assign it to different attributes. This makes stock attribute management simple and effective.
<h2 class="p1">Use Cases</h2>
Items you customize
If you are selling custom-printed T-shirts or custom-engraved jewelry and your products are listed by printing and engraving types, then this is a must-have extension for you. If a “large-blue” T-shirt is shared by different products, it’s currently impossible to manage its inventory at the product level. Share Attribute Stock allows you to add stock of “large-blue” T-shirts at the attribute level. The stock will be reduced from the global attribute level when a new order is placed with a “large-blue” variation.
Items sold by weight or by various sizes
If you are selling rice in multiple packages created as variations, it’s not possible to correctly reduce the main stock. For example, if you have a stock of 1000 kgs of rice and you sell it in variations of 0.5, 1, and 2kg bags. By default, WooCommerce will reduce one quantity even if the 0.5 or 2kg bag is sold. By using our extension, you can reduce stock in multiples of 0.5, 1, and 2kgs when you sell these variations.
Variations offered with various products
If you are selling watches and offering multiple band types as variations, the variations are shared across different products. It’s not currently possible to track the band inventory at the product level. You can manage the inventory at the attribute level by using the Shared Attribute Stock extension.
<h2 class="p1">Features</h2>
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<li class="li2">Manage stock at the attribute level</li>
<li class="li2">Manage stock for each product</li>
<li class="li2">Rule-based management to assign a stock quantity to multiple attributes</li>
<li class="li2">Ability to reduce stock in multiples of x for different attributes</li>
<li class="li2">Option to add multiple attribute matching groups to reduce stock</li>
<li class="li2">Option to add group at a variation level to share stock variations</li>
<li class="li2">Add attribute SKUs, low stock threshold, and more</li>
<li class="li2">Dedicate reports for low-stock, out-of-stock, and over-stock attributes</li>
<li class="li2">Automatically reduces attribute stock on new orders</li>
<li class="li2">Marks variations out-of-stock when inventory is zero</li>
<li class="li2">Import and export attribute stock rules to bulk-manage attribute inventory</li>
<li class="li2">Apply attribute stock management to all or specific products and categories only</li>
<li class="li2">Customize out-of-stock messages for Product and Cart pages</li>
</ul>
<h2 class="p1">Attribute-level stock management</h2>
With this extension, you can check a stock management checkbox at the attribute level to manage its stock. The extension will automatically share the attribute stock across different products. The stock will be reduced at the attribute level when a new order is placed. The admin should be able to restock it when a new inventory arrives.
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<h2>Rule-based attribute stock management</h2>
Rule-based management comes into play if you need a more diverse attribute stock management. You can create multiple rules to assign stock to a specific group of attributes, implement it on specific products, and dynamically reduce it based on various conditions.
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While creating a new WooCommerce Attribute Stock rule, you can customize the following options:
Configure Stock settings
You can add SKUs, stock quantities, low stock thresholds, and rule notes for internal reference. If you have added multiple attribute groups, you can reduce all their stock at the same time.
Assign stock to specific attributes
Under the match rule section, you can add multiple groups and each group can have multiple sets of attributes. For example, you can add blue as a color attribute and large as a size attribute.
Quantity multiplier for stock
While adding the attribute groups, you can add stock multipliers if you wish to reduce the stock in multiples of “X” when a new order is placed.
Assign attribute stock to specific products
In the third section of the rules, you can choose to assign an attribute stock rule to specific products, categories, and tags. The attribute stock will apply to these select product(s) only and the other products having the same attributes will be tracked with standard inventory practices.
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<h2>Import-export stock</h2>
To manage your attribute stock in bulk you can use export and import attribute stock rules. You can make edits in a CSV file to perform bulk changes and implement them at once via CSV import.
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<h2>Product-level shared variations inventory</h2>
Do you have a group of variations that share the same inventory? You can select multiple variations and add a single stock inventory for the group. So, variations will use a shared attribute inventory to sell the available stock.
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<h2>Stock Reports</h2>
The Shared Attribute Stock extension includes three detailed reports to keep store admins informed about the stock status of different attributes. The extension triggers an automatic email when the attribute stock goes below the low stock threshold.
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<li class="li1">Low Stock (lists attributes stock that falls below the “low stock threshold”)</li>
<li class="li1">Out-of-stock (lists attributes that went out of stock)</li>
<li class="li1">Most stock (lists the attributes with good stock quantity)</li>
</ul>
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You can also update attribute stock by hitting the update button along with the edit pencil icon on the table. 
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Shared Attribute Stock

Manage inventory at the attribute level with the Share Attribute Stock extension for WooCommerce.

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<h2>Highlights</h2>
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<li>Create multiple inventories: 
Depending on your business requirements, you can add multiple inventories based on locations, stores, warehouses, suppliers, and any other inventory type.</li>
<li>Add stock for each inventory by product: 
After creating the inventory types, you can enable the multi-inventory option for each product where applicable and add stock quantities.</li>
<li>Import/Export inventories’ stock: 
Instead of adding stock for each product, you can choose to bulk import stock quantities for different inventories using a CSV file.</li>
<li>Smart inventory management grid: 
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>Allow customers to select inventory: 
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>Admin backend mode: 
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>Inventory specific pricing: 
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>Filter products by location: 
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>Automatically detect user location: 
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>Manage payment methods visibility: 
You can attach payment methods to each inventory type in order to optimize their visibility based on inventories/locations.</li>
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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<h2>Features of Inventory Management:</h2>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
You can create multiple inventories based on location, warehouse, stores or types. While creating a new inventory you can customize following options,
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<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>
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<h2>Adding inventory from product level:</h2>
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,
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<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>
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<h2>Inventory Allocation:</h2>
You can allow customers to select the relevant inventory or turn backend mode to specify the inventory on admin order detail page.
By customer: 
When the inventory dropdown is displayed, your customers can choose the relevant inventory to order from.
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By admin: 
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.
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<h2>Bulk stock management using list view:</h2>
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.
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<h2>Dashboard:</h2>
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.
The dashboard provides a graph to let you filter stock by location and see the stock trends over a specific period of time.
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<h2>Import Export:</h2>
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.
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<h2>Customization options</h2>
Using the extension settings tab, you can customize following options,
<h3>General Settings:</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>
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Shop page:
<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>
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Payment and shipping restrictions:
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.
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Manage stock configurations:
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.
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Multi Inventory Management

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

Shared Attribute Stock vs Multi Inventory Management