Know the exact landed cost for every product from every supplier, without opening a single product page. Each supplier record carries a products table where cost and tax percentage are edited inline and consumed automatically by purchase orders and the stock list.
Pricing, order history, status, and book-level totals sit in one place, so every buying decision starts from the same ground truth.
Every product linked to a supplier sits in one table on the supplier record, with per-row checkboxes controlling which costs become editable. A single page-level Save writes every selected update at once. The same stored costs then prefill line costs on new Purchase Orders and populate the supplier column in the Stock list, so a change made once carries through automatically.
Know which supplier relationships are active and which have stalled, directly from the supplier list. Purchase Order Value covers all pending, processing, and completed orders, excluding cancelled ones. Total SKU count and last order date sit alongside it, giving three grounding facts per supplier without leaving the list.
Every purchase order placed with this supplier sits in a single table on the supplier record, each row showing its current status: Pending, Processing, Completed, or Cancelled. The Grand Total column makes spend-per-order immediate. Sort by Purchase On date to read the buying cadence across months. No digging through order lists or export files to piece the picture together.
Four figures sit at the top of the Suppliers page every time it loads: total PO value across all non-cancelled orders, the count of supplier records, how many are flagged Active and therefore available when creating a new PO, and how many products are linked across the whole book. The operator reads the state of their supplier base without opening a filter or summing a column.
Set a supplier's status to Inactive when the relationship ends. They disappear from the PO Create dropdown, so operators raising new orders never see stale options. Past purchase orders are untouched and still visible on the supplier detail. Reactivation is reversible, one toggle, no data lost.
Inventory Alpha structures order fulfillment as a deliberate three-phase process. Everything you select in Phase 1 flows through Phases 2 and 3 — a single batch from click to shipped box.
Fill in the supplier name and email on the new supplier form, then click Create Supplier. The new supplier detail loads ready for products and orders, and becomes available in the purchase order supplier dropdown straight away.
Five stackable filters cover name, status, SKU range, order value, and last order date.
Choose which contact details to store at setup, and add the rest later. Required fields are name and email; telephone, address, and website are optional extras.
The guard covers the three most common accidental exits: closing the tab, pressing the browser back button, and clicking to another page. Unsaved state is never lost quietly.
Every product gets the store's tax rate automatically on adding. Override it with a custom rate when needed.
The supplier's email field is the delivery address for every PO sent to that supplier, with no manual addressing required.
When a supplier stops stocking a product, operators can remove it from that supplier without affecting WooCommerce records or purchase order history.
Updating a product's cost used to mean editing the product itself, then finding the open PO, then fixing the Stock list separately. Three places, three chances to miss one. The Products card on each supplier record collapses that into one table. Tick a row, type the new cost and tax rate, save. The next Purchase Order for that supplier prefills with the updated figure. The Stock list shows the same number. One edit, three places updated.
The Products card lists every product tied to that supplier in one view, with filters and saved views so large catalogues stay manageable. Tick a row's checkbox and the Cost and Tax fields open for typing. Tick as many rows as needed and edit each in the same session; a single Save commits them all at once. The cost and tax rate stored on the supplier-product link then travels automatically to Purchase Order line prefill and the Stock list supplier column, without any extra steps.
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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If the cost to get ERP-grade supplier records is a five-figure licence, most WooCommerce stores skip it entirely. Inventory Alpha delivers per-supplier product pricing, full PO history, and lifecycle management on a 30-day free trial.