Every product gets its own minimum and maximum to hold, not one number for the whole range. Both come from its own 12 months of orders, with the minimum adding its supplier's lead time, ready to apply in bulk.
Built by a WooCommerce operator who needed it themselves.
Decide what stock needs before you reorder. Cost, minimum, maximum, and run rate sit on every product record.
Pick the run rate a product should carry, and Inventory Alpha turns twelve months of that product's own orders into a maximum built around it. The figure draws only on that product's own sales. It stays a suggestion, and nothing on the product changes until you apply it.
One number per product tells you what belongs on the next order. The restock figure sits as its own column on the Stock list, the same list already open for everything else. Sort that column and every product needing stock moves to the top, the whole catalogue at once.
Update cost, stock levels, run rate, or supplier links for a whole selection in one pass. Tick the products on the Stock list, open Quick Edit, and one typed value in each field carries into every row you selected.
Set what a size or colour range should cost and hold in stock once, on the parent product. Any variation left blank inherits that figure as its own; set a variation apart with its own figure and that's what it carries from then on.
What needs attention is named in one place, at the top of a scheduled email. At 8am, it lists what is out of stock and what sits below its own minimum, up to 10 in each group, with SKU, stock, and minimum alongside. On a new purchase order, Low Stock Products lists that supplier's products below their minimum, ready to add.
Pick a checklist step to finish next, and the Stock list filters to those products.
Filter the Stock list, then tick every simple product to include. Click Quick Edit to open the selection on its own screen. Expand Bulk Edit, type Min Stock, Max Stock, Default Cost, or Run Rate once, and the value lands in every ticked row before you save.
Click View variations on a variable product's row. Set the parent's fallback settings in the Defaults card, then save separately. Tick a variation, type into a cell for its own value or leave it blank to inherit the parent's, then expand Bulk Edit to edit several at once.
While setup is in progress, pick a step on the Business Overview checklist. The Stock list opens filtered to the products missing that one setting, with a banner naming how many need it. Tick them, set the value, then click Back to setup to see how many steps are done.
Cost value, SKU count, low stock, and out of stock follow whatever filters the list carries.
How much is inbound for one product reads straight off the Stock list's Incoming column.
Every unit's cost is the price actually paid, drawn from the purchase order it was received against.
Edit freely, Undo takes a change back, and Redo brings it forward again.
Quick Edit refuses a clashing save and refreshes the row to your colleague's saved values.
Track each product's own distance from minimum, negative the moment stock drops below it.
A bestseller and a slow seller carry different suggested figures, each read from what that exact product, or that exact variation, has sold. Apply Suggested Min and Apply Suggested Max fill every row on the Bulk Edit screen in one pass, each with its own figure, instead of one figure guessed for the range. Accept a suggestion on a single product, or fill the whole screen at once. Nothing changes until it is saved.
Only real sales count: refunded units come off, and cancelled or unpaid orders are left out. The minimum adds the longest lead time among a product's suppliers to the shop's reorder buffer, then multiplies by average daily sales from those same 12 months. The maximum multiplies that monthly average by the run rate set on the product. Under six months of sales there is no figure yet, and a missing run rate or lead time is asked for by name.
Minimums, order quantities, and unit cost sit on the product itself, not in a spreadsheet you rebuild monthly.
| Capability | Default WooCommerce | ATUM Inventory | Shelf Planner | Inventory Alpha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Suggested max sized from 12 months of sales | ||||
| Units to order to reach your maximum | ||||
| Minimum and maximum levels on every product | ||||
| Suggested minimum from lead time and sales | ||||
| Parent settings every variation inherits | ||||
| Unit cost taken from what you actually paid | ||||
| Incoming units from open purchase orders | ||||
| Multiple suppliers per product, each a cost | ||||
| Daily or weekly low stock summary email |
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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No. WooCommerce keeps the product record, the SKU, and the stock quantity itself. Sales, purchase-order receipts, and Inventory Adjustments change it, and so can WooCommerce's own screens or other plugins, and every change is logged in the Movement Log. Inventory Alpha sits on top with five figures WooCommerce never tracked: default cost, minimum level, maximum level, run rate, and which suppliers sell it. Its reorder signals come from those five figures and WooCommerce's stock quantity.
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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
Sales & OrdersProfit per order, pick and pack
See how the whole catalogue stands, not one product at a time. Stock above the minimum, units to reach the maximum, and incoming stock, for every product.