Spot every order slipping below an acceptable margin. The filters set a from and to range on gross margin and gross profit.
Built by a WooCommerce operator who needed it themselves.
Every order carries its own cost, gross profit, and margin. The same list launches a four-step pick and pack run.
Compare gross margin from one order to the next, order by order. Channel, quantity, order total, gross profit, and gross margin show for every order. That comparison reaches back to orders taken long before you installed Inventory Alpha, right through to the ones placed last week.
Pick the orders for this run, then work the pick list. Packing sheets follow, one card per order: open one to see its items and shipping address, and tick each line as it's packed. Finished orders get a green Packed badge, and a bar counts how many are left.
Work out which line in a mixed order made money and which barely covered its cost. Cost, Gross Profit, and Gross Margin appear against every product listed on the order. Order COGS, Gross Profit, and Gross Margin total the same figures across every line combined.
Set any order's channel to whatever fits, from Amazon and eBay to POS and Website. Every order already carries the channel it came through, tagged automatically as soon as it's placed.
See which lines a colleague has already ticked, straight from the shared list. Every Picked or Packed mark saves on its own and appears for everyone working that list, picker and packer alike. If two people tick the same line, the first save stands and the other is refused, with the line marked orange.
Combine every open order into one continuous run for the day. Many orders become one list, then many sheets.
Read the order list to see which orders are open and where they came from. Check the Ready to Ship count in the banner for how many orders sit in Processing. Click Generate Pick List to launch the picking run.
Tick each order to add it to the run. Filter by shipping method to batch orders by how customers chose to ship; ticks stay as the filter changes. Orders already sitting in another pick list stay off this one, keeping each order on one open list at a time.
Open the Consolidated Pick List to one row per product, quantity summed across every order in the run. Narrow by SKU, product name, or quantity when the run is large. Export CSV or print the list, then advance with Packing Sheets.
Work through the order cards on Packing Sheets, then open one for its items alongside the customer and shipping address. Tick each line's Packed checkbox as each item is packed. The pager arrows carry the run to the next order, with position saved as it goes.
Revenue, Ready to Ship, Gross Margin, and Return Rate line up with whatever is filtered.
Warehouse staff handle picking; COGS, Gross Profit, and Gross Margin remain a separate grant for the owner.
What to collect for a product, every variation gathered from every order at once.
Print the pick list for the run, or every packing sheet at once with Print All.
Stages run from Not started through Picking, Packing, and Ready to complete, shown per list.
A refund never slips past the packer: the line unticks and shows the new quantity.
A product bought in several deliveries, each at a different price, still gets its own cost on the order that sells it. A merchant reading gross profit sees the cost of the delivery selling down right then, rather than a figure smoothed across every delivery ever made. Two orders for the same product, weeks apart, can carry two different costs, each matching the stock that shipped.
Each delivery is recorded as a batch at the price paid, VAT included, to match revenue that also carries VAT. A sale draws on the oldest recorded price first, pairing the cost to the batch being sold down. Switching on Include delivery in cost of goods adds each unit's share of the supplier's delivery charge from that point forward; earlier sales keep the basis they were costed on. Stock held before the first purchase order carries the product's default cost.
What the orders screen gives you out of the box versus what you piece together in a spreadsheet.
| Capability | Default WooCommerce | ATUM Inventory | Shelf Planner | Inventory Alpha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cost, profit, and margin on every order | ||||
| FIFO cost per line, fixed at the sale | ||||
| Filter orders by margin and profit range | ||||
| Sales channel recorded per order | ||||
| Live KPI bar over the filtered orders | ||||
| One pick list across selected orders | ||||
| Packing sheets ticked off as you pack | ||||
| Cost figures hidden from picking staff | ||||
| Several packers working one pick list |
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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A product with no entered cost shows a dash, not £0.00, in Cost, Gross Profit, and Gross Margin, never a false 100% margin. On an order where other lines are costed, those lines still show their own figures, matching WooCommerce's order screen to the penny. Set a Default Cost, or receive it on a purchase order, and every sale from then on is costed.
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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
AdjustmentsCorrect stock by hand, logged
Roles & PermissionsNone, View, or Full per feature
ReportsDrag-and-drop report builder
Each order carries its own cost, profit, and margin, worked out per line. Open orders turn into one pick list, then a packing sheet per order.