<h1>Sell Products in Bulk and Easily Keep Track of Your Total Inventory</h1>
<p>Variation Shared Inventory for WooCommerce allows store owners to collectively manage their product’s stock when selling the same product in various quantities. Sell your items in groups of any amount, and track those groups in the total inventory.</p>
<p>This innovation allows store owners to track their total inventory, even when items are sold in multiple bulk quantity variations, and easily integrate the bulk sale of products.</p>
<h3>Most important features</h3>
<p>Variation shared inventory has easy-to-use methods to allow you to manage inventory for sharing stock among variations. Using it will save you tons of time on managing individual stock values and provide a better shopping experience for your customers which can lead to higher sales. Here’s a list of features:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Variation quantity multiplier</strong> – Each variation has its own “<label for="wsvi_multiplier0">Inventory reduction per item sold</label>“</li>
<li><strong>Managed variation stock</strong> – Once the variation is sharing with other variations, its quantity is disabled for better control and to prevent human error</li>
<li><strong>Managed stock values</strong> – Automatically updates stock values for products & variations based on the total available stock</li>
<li><strong>Dedicated stock manager</strong> – Dedicated tab on product edit page for stock management</li>
<li><strong>Overselling prevention – </strong> Cart validation that prevents products from being sold if they exceed the total inventory</li>
<li><strong>Dedicated dashboard – </strong> Dedicated dashboard showing all variation groups and quickly manage stocks</li>
</ol>
<h3>Why Did We Develop This Plugin?</h3>
<p>As a store owner ourselves, we found it very difficult to track inventory when selling different quantities of products. We searched for existing solutions on the market but couldn’t find one that solved the issue in a simple and straightforward way, hence we have developed this plugin ourselves to solve this bulk quantity issue and we hope it can solve yours as well.</p>
<h3>How Do I Set It Up?</h3>
<p>Once this plugin is enabled, in the product data section of the product edit page, there will be a new tab called “Shared Variation Inventory” where you can enable the “Shared Variation Inventory” option for this product. Once you’ve enabled it, in the “Quantity Manager” section, you can group the variations that you want to share inventory for, enter the total stock of this group, and give the group a label. You can create as many groups as you need (e.g. Variations A & B are different quantities of Peach Candy and Variations C & D are different quantities Apple Candy).</p>
<p>The steps:</p>
<ol>
<li>Enable the plugin</li>
<li>For all variations you’d like to share inventory for, fill in the “Inventory reduction per item sold” field and turn on the “Manage stock?” option</li>
<li>On the quantity manager section, select the variations you want to group, enter the total quantity and if you’d like a group name as well</li>
<li>You’re all set.</li>
</ol>
<p><img class="alignnone wp-image-18734001401592 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Screen-Shot-2023-01-09-at-12.43.11-PM.png?w=620" alt="" width="620" height="317" /></p>
<h3>What Does This Plugin Do?</h3>
<p>This plugin allows you to share the total stock (e.g. 100 units) of a product internally among its variations (e.g. variation A sells by single units, variation B sells in groups of 10 units), and control the total product stock in a centralized section.</p>
<h3>For Example</h3>
<p>Say you have 100 bags of candy for sale, and you want to sell the candy as singles as well as in bulk amounts of 10, you can set it up so that variation A sells by 1 bag and variation B sells by 10 bags (1 box).</p>
<p><strong>Without our plugin:</strong></p>
<p>You would need to split your 100 units and manually allocate and manage stock for the two variations. The problem with this setup is that the variations might sell at different speeds resulting in one of the variations showing up as out of stock while there is still stock left.</p>
<p><strong>With our plugin:</strong></p>
<p>You can simply put down 100 as the total stock. On your storefront, the product page would show that there are 100 units available for variation A and 10 units available for variation B. Then, if 50 units of variation A are sold, your total product stock becomes 50, which updates the stock of variation A to 50 and the stock of variation B to 5.</p>
<p>Our Variation Shared Inventory for WooCommerce plugin also prevents your products from being oversold. In the above example where the total product stock is 100, your customer can’t checkout with 51 units of variation A and 5 units of variation B as it would total to more than 100 total units.</p>
<h3 class="p-rich_text_section">What You Can Do With It</h3>
<p>The Variation Shared Inventory for WooCommerce plugin automatically synchronizes the inventory for variations that share the same total stock, effectively managing your stock for you. When you manually change the total stock of a product, it will automatically update stock quantity of each variation in that group as well.</p>
<p>Here is a few example of what can you do with it:</p>
<ol>
<li>Selling products in bulk at a discount, e.g. 1 chocolate bar for $2, 10 chocolate bars for $15.</li>
<li>Selling white label products, e.g. 100 customizable t-shirts, set up as variations for solid white, solid black, or graphic t-shirt.</li>
<li>Selling weight based products, e.g. 10kg of premium coffee beans, set up with variations for 100g, 250g, 500g, etc.</li>
</ol>
<h3><img class="aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/1-1.png" alt="" width="800" height="auto" /></h3>
<h3>Solutions for Selling Products In Bulk</h3>
<p>If you want to sell products in different quantities (e.g. in single or in bulk), there are a few ways of doing it:</p>
<ol>
<li>Setup one variation per quantity you want to sell<br />
<strong>Pros</strong>: It is easier for customer to browse as well as for you to manage.<br />
<strong>Cons</strong>: N/A<br />
<strong>Conclusion</strong>: We recommend this solution.</li>
<li>Setup one product per quantity<br />
<strong>Pros</strong>: On the product list page (e.g. shop page or category landing page), the customer can see all available options right away.<br />
<strong>Cons</strong>: Most customers are interested in your product first and pricing/quantity options after.<br />
<strong>Conclusion</strong>: We do not recommend this option (unless you have unique business requirements).</li>
</ol>
<h3>Different Approaches to Bulk Selling and Why We Chose the Method We Did</h3>
<p>There are a few different approaches for sharing stock among products or variations:</p>
<ol>
<li>A centralized stock page for all sharing products & variations<br />
There are plugins that provide a dedicated page for all the products & variations that are sharing stock, but the problem is that, it is overly complicated. When a store manager would like to make changes to a product, they would normally go to product edit page to make their changes. By adding another dashboard that they have to use to make changes, the process becomes very inefficient and inconvenient.</li>
<li>Using a common product attribute to share stock between products<br />
This solution sounds good at first, but when you have a large catalog (e.g. 100+ products), attributes often need to be reused, which this method does not support.</li>
<li>Using a variable product to manage shared stock<br />
This is our solution, and we believe that compared to the other shared stock solutions out there, it is the easiest solution to setup & manage by far.</li>
</ol>
<h3>It Works Well With</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/product-batch-expiration-tracking-for-woocommerce/">Product Batch & Expiration Tracking 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>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 7.0</p>
<h3 class="p-rich_text_section">Get started</h3>
<ul class="p-rich_text_list p-rich_text_list__bullet" data-stringify-type="unordered-list" data-indent="0">
<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/variation-shared-inventory-for-woocommerce/">documentation</a> for any additional information</li>
</ul>
<p> </p>

Variation Shared Inventory

<p>Variation Shared Inventory for WooCommerce is an inventory management system that allows a group of variations to share a single quantity.</p>

<h2>Automatically Open and Close Your Store</h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The WooCommerce Open Close plugin allows you to manage your online store’s business hours easily. You can set daily hours, hide the “Add to Cart” button during off-hours, and close your store for holidays or events. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">You can also schedule multiple hourly time slots and customize display pop-ups and messages for customers. The plugin also allows manual store closures and full-screen banners to display maintenance or coming soon messages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">You can also customize the display pop-ups and messages for customers, letting them know if your store is under maintenance or if a product is coming soon. This way, you can easily manage your WooCommerce store and keep your customers informed.</span></p>
<h3><strong>Features</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Setup Store routines such as business days, and working hours</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Schedule Breaks During Working Hours</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Display a store closure message in a bar or popup</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Disable the Add to Cart option when the store is closed</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Exclude specific products or categories from shopping restrictions</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Notify visitors about maintenance with custom messages and a countdown timer</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Inform visitors about coming soon products and send email notifications when the product is available</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Temporary close your store for an event</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Manually close your store with one click</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Customize store closure popup and bar</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Personalize upcoming closure notifications</span></li>
</ul>
<div class="woo-sc-box normal" style="background-color: #beecba">This Plugin is fully compatible with HPOS(High-Performance Order Storage) and Multisite.</div>
<h3><strong>Display closure message in popup or bar</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce close store lets you inform your customers with a personalized message about store closure. You can choose between a popup or a bar to display the message and set an automatic time for the disappearance or let the users manually close the pop-up. </span></p>
<h4><strong>Notification Popup:</strong></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663048 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_14-53-11.png" alt="Display closure message in popup" width="917" height="539" /></p>
<h4><strong>Notification Bar:</strong></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663044 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_14-55-58.png" alt="Display closure message in a bar" width="1341" height="544" /></p>
<h3><strong>Temporary close the store for Upcoming Events</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce temporarily close shop plugin allows the store owners to select the date of closure and specify custom opening and closing hours along with a personalized message. This feature enables you to set your holiday times and display customized notifications.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663040 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_14-56-51.png" alt="Temporary close the store for Upcoming Events" width="958" height="573" /></p>
<h3><b>Let Customers know that you are coming soon or on maintenance mode</b></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The WooCommerce maintenance mode plugin enables you to display a full-screen banner for maintenance mode or coming soon with a custom message. You can also display a countdown timer so the customers can know when the store will open again. You can use this functionality in the following cases:</span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<h4><b>Maintenance mode</b></h4>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Display a full-screen banner with the WooCommerce maintenance mode plugin when your store is in maintenance mode. Enter a custom heading, message, and countdown timer to let customers know that your WooCommerce store is under maintenance and when will it re-open.</span></p>
<ul>
<li>
<h4><b>Display a custom message for coming soon</b></h4>
</li>
</ul>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The WooCommerce coming soon plugin enables you to display a custom screen-wide banner for coming soon. In case of store closure, you can let customers know with custom messages along with a countdown timer. This also allows users to get email notifications for the opening of the store by entering their email addresses.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734001178047 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/banner.png" alt="Let Customers know that you are coming soon or on maintenance mode" width="1307" height="751" /></p>
<h3><strong>Disable Add to Cart </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">You can prevent orders by disabling the ‘Add to Cart’ option during store closure hours. Specific pages or products can be excluded.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8291843 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Disable-Add-to-Cart.png" alt="WooCommerce open close store - Disable Add to Cart" width="673" height="506" /></p>
<h3><strong>Set opening/closing hours & display schedule using a shortcode</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Automate your store’s opening and closing with the Close WooCommerce Store plugin. Set working hours and breaks for each day of the week, and schedule lunch breaks.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">For customers to be aware of the business hours, a shortcode can be used to display the schedule on the front end.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8536999 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Set-opening-closing-hours-1-1.png" alt="WooCommerce open close store - Set opening/closing hours & display schedule using a shortcode" width="841" height="1048" /><br />
<img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734001205451 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Widget.webp" alt="Set opening/closing hours & display schedule using a shortcode" width="1092" height="541" /></p>
<h3><strong>Display Countdown Timer</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">The WooCommerce Opening Hours & Chosen Times plugin lets you display a countdown timer on your website to let customers know your store’s opening or closing time. Set the time in minutes or hours to show before opening or closing. You can choose to display the timer in the notification bar or pop-up, with a squared or round layout.</span></p>
<h4><strong>Popup Timer</strong></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663059 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_15-27-00.png" alt="Display Countdown Timer in a popup" width="778" height="499" /></p>
<h4><strong>Bar Timer</strong></h4>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663036 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_15-17-45.png" alt="Display Countdown Timer in a bar" width="1341" height="438" /></p>
<h3><strong>Remind Customers when your Store is Open</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce opening hours plugin allows the admin to send customized notifications to customers through email when the store opens. Admin can set the sender name, email subject, and email body.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663035 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_15-19-37.png" alt="Remind Customers when your Store is Open" width="1334" height="290" /></p>
<h3><strong>Exclude products or categories</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Allow certain products or categories to bypass the store closure with an exclusion option. Customers will continue buying such products and categories despite the store shutdown.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-18734002663030 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2023-10-04_15-21-39.png" alt="woocommerce open close store - Exclude products or categories" width="1332" height="569" /></p>
<h3><strong>Manually close your store</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">WooCommerce close store plugin provides you with a “one-click close” feature giving the admin the freedom to manually close down the store whenever needed. Your store will stay closed until you open it back manually. </span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8425875 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Manually-close-your-store-2.png" alt="WooCommerce open close store - Manually close your store" width="752" height="395" /></p>
<h3><strong>Display popup on various pages </strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Inform your customers about your store closure with the pop-up feature. Ensure the store closure is conveyed to maximum users by displaying the popup on all or specific pages such as the shop, checkout, product, and cart. </span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8291798 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Display-popup-on-various-pages.png" alt="Display popup on various pages" width="681" height="351" /></p>
<h3><strong>Customized notifications</strong></h3>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Modify the look and appearance of the notifications communicating the opening or closure of your WooCommerce store. You can create different messages for different parts of the day or week according to your schedule.</span></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-8506698 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Personalize-notifications-2.png" alt="Customized notifications of opening and closing of store" width="681" height="941" /></p>
<p> </p>
<h3><strong>Use Cases:</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Any business can benefit from professional and polite communication of store closure through pop-ups.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">The food and restaurant industry can effectively communicate working hours and closures.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Online meat shops can ensure an even supply of products by closing on specific days.</span></li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Benefits</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Easily manage business schedule</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Create a daily or weekly schedule for your store</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Let customers know the store timings</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Take orders only when ready to serve</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Exclude products or pages that you want to keep selling</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Display customized notifications</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Inform customers when your store reopens</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Manually close your store with one click</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400"><span style="font-weight: 400">Run your store like a brick-and-mortar shop</span></li>
</ul>
<p> </p>
<h2>Compatibility</h2>
<p>Our plugins are designed to be highly versatile and also compatible with the most commonly used themes, browsers, builders, and mobile views. We understand the importance of flexibility and integration when it comes to enhancing your website’s functionality. Our plugins can effortlessly integrate with the following:</p>
<h3>Themes Compatibility</h3>
<ul>
<li>Store Front</li>
<li>Avada</li>
<li>Flatsome</li>
<li>Porto</li>
<li>Woodmart</li>
<li>WooCommerce default theme</li>
<li>Divi</li>
</ul>
<h3>Builders</h3>
<ul>
<li>Elementor</li>
<li>Bakery</li>
<li>Divi</li>
</ul>
<h3>Also Compatible with</h3>
<ul>
<li>Multi-Site</li>
<li>PHP 8</li>
<li>Mobile Layouts</li>
<li>WPML-Static Content</li>
</ul>
<h3><strong>Get started</strong></h3>
<ol>
<li>Purchase <strong>Open Close Store Hours for WooCommerce</strong> from WooCommerce.com.</li>
<li>Download and install the extension.</li>
<li>Activate the extension.</li>
<li>Go to <strong>WooCommerce > Settings > Close Store</strong> to configure the settings.</li>
<li>Read the full installation guide <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/open-close-store-hours/">here</a></li>
</ol>
<p>Automatically open and close your store just like a brick-and-mortar shop with the<strong> Open Close Store Hours for WooCommerce </strong>plugin.</p>
<h3><strong>Requirements</strong></h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.2</p>

Open/Close Store Hours & Maintenance mode

<p>Set a daily schedule to allow customers to shop during specific hours with open and close store functionality. Display holidays, coming soon & maintenance mode banners.</p>

Variation Shared Inventory vs Open/Close Store Hours & Maintenance mode