Count 45 on the shelf and type 45, or bin three and type minus three. The line shows both the change and the new total either way.
Built by a WooCommerce operator who needed it themselves.
Nothing is committed while you work, and nothing shifts once you are done.
Three quantity columns sit on every line: Current Qty, Adjust Qty, and New Qty. Current Qty is what the product holds today. The other two are the two ways of describing the same correction, and filling in one fills in the other as you type.
Every product line added to an adjustment moves with the rest of that batch. Saving, applying, cancelling, or deleting the record acts on every line at once, not one product at a time. A stock check spanning several products stays one action, not a string of separate WooCommerce edits.
Two people can work on the same draft adjustment. Each save writes only your own changes, keeping a colleague's edits to other lines intact. A clashing save is refused, and the message names what changed, down to the product and the new quantity. That line gets an orange edge.
Applying is the commitment, and a committed record stays as it was written. Edits, removals, and deletions are all refused after that point. Correcting something means raising a second adjustment against the same product, with its own lines and its own quantities. The first record stays exactly where it is.
A correction takes a quantity and works the cost out on its own. An increase is costed at the most recent price paid for the product. A decrease takes units away in the order they were received, oldest stock first, the same order a sale uses. Cost of goods on later sales moves with it.
How big the count is stops changing how it gets done. Two products or forty run the same way.
Press Add Products to open the picker over the page. Search by name, SKU, or current stock to find the ones drifting from the shelf count. Tick each product and press Add Selected Products to build the list.
Type the new count into New Qty, or the change into Adjust Qty, for each line. Add a note in Notes if the correction needs a reason on record. Press Save and the batch stores as Pending, its own detail page open, with no stock moved yet.
Choose Complete Adjustment from the More menu and confirm on the dialog that opens. WooCommerce's own stock figures move at that moment, every product on the batch together. The finished record reads Adjustment Applied, and every line shows what it was, what changed, and what it is now.
Created By and Completed By sit on the finished record, naming real WordPress users, not display names.
An adjustment across six products becomes six separate rows in the movement log.
Old and New quantities stay fixed at cancellation, showing what would have happened rather than what did.
For a view-only user, edit controls never appear on the adjustment screen.
The More menu prints, exports, cancels, or deletes several ticked adjustments at once.
Put the reason in the note, and it stays with the adjustment.
Walking the shelves and fixing the numbers are usually two jobs, hours apart. Inventory Alpha closes the gap: the adjustment is open on the device that goes round with the operator, and each figure is entered where it is found. Some products give a final count, others give what was lost. Both go onto the same record while the walk is still happening.
Each line takes whichever figure it is given and works out the other against what the product currently holds. A count typed in produces the change; a change typed in produces the count. Nothing moves in WooCommerce while the walk is on. The batch stays pending until someone completes it, and completion reads stock fresh at that moment, applying the correction from there.
One record for the whole count, costed against what you paid, and locked the moment it is applied.
| Capability | Default WooCommerce | ATUM Inventory | Shelf Planner | Inventory Alpha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Correct many products in one record | ||||
| Type the new count or the change | ||||
| Draft a correction without moving stock | ||||
| Corrections cost out against FIFO layers | ||||
| Applied adjustments can never be edited | ||||
| Every corrected line hits the stock ledger | ||||
| Cancel a draft, keep the record for audit | ||||
| Two people, one draft, no overwrites |
No data migration, no separate dashboard. Inventory Alpha installs as a standard plugin and reads your existing WooCommerce orders and products.
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Yes. A product with no stock number in WooCommerce shows up in the Add Products picker exactly like any tracked product. Type the count actually held into New Qty and complete the adjustment. WooCommerce's Manage stock switches on and that count becomes the product's opening quantity.
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Stock ManagementReorder levels, costs, bulk edit
Purchase OrdersLow stock → ordered → received
Customer AnalyticsSpend, AOV, and churn risk
DashboardThe whole business on one screen
SuppliersWho you buy from, at what cost
Movement LogWhy a stock number changed
Roles & PermissionsNone, View, or Full per feature
ReportsDrag-and-drop report builder
Sales & OrdersProfit per order, pick and pack
Stock stops being an estimate the first time an adjustment is applied. Every one after that keeps it that way.