<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<h3>It Works Well With</h3>
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<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>
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<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 7.0</p>
<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/variation-shared-inventory-for-woocommerce/">documentation</a> for any additional information</li>
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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>

<p>Role Based Analytics for WooCommerce brings User Role reporting into WooCommerce Analytics so you can compare customer groups, review guest checkout performance, view the customers behind each role, and reduce manual spreadsheet work.</p>
<p>Bring User Role reporting into WooCommerce Analytics so you can compare customer groups, review guest checkout performance, view the customers behind each role, and reduce manual spreadsheet work. It works with any User Role already available on your store, including roles from plugins or custom code that you use to group customers, such as wholesale, B2B, B2C, membership, VIP, retail, or other customer groups.</p>
<h2>What you’ll get</h2>
<p>With Role Based Analytics for WooCommerce, you gain access to role-based reporting tools inside WooCommerce Analytics:</p>
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<li><strong>Dedicated User Roles report:</strong> Review role-level performance in one place with cards, charts, tables, comparisons, and export support.</li>
<li><strong>Customer drilldown:</strong> Click a role to view the customers behind that customer group on the same screen.</li>
<li><strong>User Role filters across WooCommerce Analytics:</strong> Filter WooCommerce Analytics reports, including the Customers page, by User Role, guest customer, custom role, or role alias.</li>
<li><strong>Role comparison:</strong> Compare customer groups across orders, customers, sales, returns, and average order value.</li>
<li><strong>Guest checkout reporting:</strong> Analyze non-registered customer activity as its own reporting group.</li>
<li><strong>User Role table data:</strong> View User Role data directly in WooCommerce Analytics report tables.</li>
<li><strong>User Role Aliases:</strong> Group related roles under one reporting label for cleaner grouped reporting.</li>
<li><strong>Role-based CSV exports:</strong> Export filtered User Role data to CSV when you need deeper analysis.</li>
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<h2>Scale your business</h2>
<p>Use User Role reporting to make faster decisions about customer groups, reduce manual spreadsheet work, and see which roles are driving orders, revenue, and guest checkout activity. Use these insights to:</p>
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<li><strong>Improve customer targeting:</strong> Better understand which customer groups drive the most orders and revenue so you can focus outreach and promotions where they matter most.</li>
<li><strong>Maximize reporting ROI:</strong> Use role-based analytics to replace manual spreadsheet work and spend more time acting on the results.</li>
<li><strong>Review customer behavior:</strong> See how registered customers and guest checkout customers perform so you can tailor your reporting and follow-up strategy.</li>
<li><strong>Make informed decisions:</strong> Compare customer groups with confidence instead of relying on blended totals or guesswork.</li>
<li><strong>Spot growth opportunities:</strong> Identify which User Roles, products, and categories are performing best and where attention is needed.</li>
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<blockquote><p>“We were looking for a solution to get analytics of the different user roles we have in WooCommerce (b2c and different b2b-roles). I tested different plugins of which “Role Based Analytics” was the best integrated one in the WooCommerce environment. You still use the same reports as before but get the opportunity to show the stats by <strong>user-role</strong>. Also it creates dashboard widgets with the most important stats which helps a lot! At the beginning we had some functionalities that we were missing but the support-team integrated them within days and the <strong>support</strong> in generel is phenomenal! So thank you so much for that <strong>beautiful solution and the great support!</strong> This is how it should be done by all plugin-developers!”</p></blockquote>
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<h2>Identify top-performing customer groups</h2>
<p>Get a quick overview of your top-performing User Roles and how they contribute to orders, revenue, returns, and average order value. Use these insights to:</p>
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<li><strong>Spot high-revenue groups:</strong> See which customer groups drive the most revenue and orders.</li>
<li><strong>Compare sales performance:</strong> Review how each User Role performs across different reporting periods.</li>
<li><strong>Track average order value:</strong> Identify customer groups with stronger order value.</li>
<li><strong>Review guest checkout performance:</strong> Compare guest checkout activity with registered customer groups.</li>
<li><strong>Find follow-up opportunities:</strong> See which customer groups may need retention, outreach, or account review.</li>
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<h2>Dig deeper using comparisons across metrics</h2>
<p>This plugin is built for total flexibility and automatically detects every User Role active on your store—no manual setup required. It works instantly with roles created by third-party membership, B2B, or wholesale plugins.</p>
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<li><strong>Wholesale & B2B segments:</strong> For instance, if you use a wholesale plugin, you can instantly see exactly how much your high-volume buyers contribute to your net sales.</li>
<li><strong>Custom segments:</strong> Whether you have a role for “B2B,” “B2C,” or “Affiliates,” the data is automatically available for custom user role reporting.</li>
<li><strong>Gross sales:</strong> Compare gross sales across customer groups.</li>
<li><strong>Returns:</strong> Track returns by User Role.</li>
<li><strong>Net sales:</strong> Understand net sales performance by customer group.</li>
<li><strong>Total sales:</strong> Compare total sales across customer group.</li>
<li><strong>Average order value:</strong> Identify customer group with stronger average order value.</li>
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<h2>View customers behind each customer segment</h2>
<p>Role-level totals show performance. Customer drilldown shows who is behind the performance.</p>
<p>From the User Roles report, click a role to view the customers associated with that customer group on the same screen. This helps you move from role-level totals to customer-level context without leaving the report.</p>
<h2>Compare registered and guest checkout customers</h2>
<p>Guest checkout customers are included as their own reporting group, making it easier to compare registered and non-registered customer performance.</p>
<p>Use Guest reporting to understand:</p>
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<li><strong>Guest revenue:</strong> See how much revenue comes from guest checkout customers.</li>
<li><strong>Guest buying behavior:</strong> Review which products and categories guest checkout customers buy.</li>
<li><strong>Registered vs guest comparison:</strong> Compare guest activity with logged-in customer groups.</li>
<li><strong>Alias planning:</strong> Decide whether guest checkout activity should be grouped with another reporting segment using User Role Aliases.</li>
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<h2>Simplify complex reporting with Role Aliases</h2>
<p>Running a complex store shouldn’t mean looking at messy reports. If your backend is cluttered with multiple custom roles, use Role Aliases to bundle them into logical business segments. This simplifies your charts and exports without touching your actual store permissions, pricing, or checkout behavior.</p>
<h2>Export Customer Group reports</h2>
<p>When you need deeper analysis, export role-based reports with selected role context included.</p>
<p>Role-based exports reduce cleanup before sharing data with a team, client, or spreadsheet workflow.</p>
<h2>How to Get Started</h2>
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<li><strong>Purchase and download</strong> the Role Based Analytics for WooCommerce extension.</li>
<li><strong>Install and activate</strong> the .zip file in your WooCommerce store.</li>
<li><strong>Customize to your needs</strong> in the Analytics > Settings panel (optional).</li>
<li><strong>Open WooCommerce Analytics -> User Roles</strong> to view the User Roles report. You can also use the User Role filter on supported WooCommerce Analytics pages.</li>
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<p>That’s it! Instantly start analyzing your WooCommerce data by user role for smarter insights.</p>
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<h2>Documentation</h2>
<p>Need guidance? Check out the comprehensive documentation to learn everything you need to know about the Role Based Analytics for WooCommerce extension.</p>
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<div>Role Based Analytics for WooCommerce adds User Role Analytics to WooCommerce, providing clear insights into which customer groups drive orders, revenue, and guest checkout activity.</div>
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