A product can carry a different price from every supplier who sells it, each with its own cost and tax rate. That same supplier's own record holds every order you've raised with them, from PO number to status.
Built by a WooCommerce operator who needed it themselves.
However a supplier joins, every order treats them the same. Their price fills the line; email is the recipient.
A grey Defaults pill on the supplier page marks every variation still priced from the main product. Update the main product's price and every variation still carrying the pill moves with it. A variation that has its own price stays put. The pill drops off its row. Reset to default brings that pill, and the main product's prices, back.
One column is all a file needs to carry to start a batch: the store SKU already used on the product. Cost and tax rate are optional additions, matched against products already in the store. A downloadable template shows that exact format before a single row is typed.
Total spend with this supplier sits as one running column, order by order. Grand Total runs down the Purchase Order History card for every purchase order raised with this supplier. Narrow it by range and the spend for any slice of orders stands on its own.
Supplier Email becomes the To address when a purchase order goes out, pulled straight from the supplier record. Its CC Emails list adds further recipients from the same record, each address checked when it is saved. Notes sits on the same card, a free text box for details like who to ask for on a call.
Columns carry the five facts a supplier list needs: name, the date of the last completed purchase order, how many SKUs it supplies, total purchase order value, and status. Sorting on any column reorders the list. A filter panel narrows it by the same five, from a value range to a date range.
Only the ordering step repeats, while setting up the supplier happens just the once.
Press Add Supplier and enter a name and an email, the only two fields required. Contact person, phone, website, and CC emails stay optional at this stage. Saving it opens the new supplier's page, with the Products and Purchase Order History cards ready to use.
Search Add Products by name or SKU and tick every row needed. Leave a row's tax empty and it uses the default rate in Settings, even when that rate changes later. Tick a linked row to unlock its price, type the new figures, and press Save.
Raise a purchase order and pick this supplier from the list. Every line on that order arrives already priced at the cost set on the supplier's Products card, and it goes out to the contact already on file.
Each save on a supplier's page writes only the fields and prices someone changed.
Days from order to stock, kept on the supplier, set the suggested minimum on the Stock page.
Purchase orders already past pending keep their own record when a supplier is deleted.
Product and variation-level supplier costs stay reachable from the product editor, not just the supplier page.
Disabling stops new purchase orders and emails to it, while its prices stay linked.
Spend, supplier, and SKU totals update to match the filter applied to the list.
Three suppliers on one product means three different prices, each one exactly what that supplier actually charges. The cheapest supplier and the priciest one each keep their own figure. The gap between them sits right there on the page, a number instead of a guess. That gap holds even if a fourth or fifth supplier joins the same product.
On the product editor's Inventory Alpha tab, every enabled supplier linked to a product sits in one list, cost and tax entered against their name. Each row edits on its own, so raising one supplier's price by a pound leaves the others untouched. That list is where the difference actually lives.
What a supplier record holds here, versus the contact list and price sheet you keep separately today.
| Capability | Default WooCommerce | ATUM Inventory | Shelf Planner | Inventory Alpha |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Supplier record with contact and address | ||||
| Per-supplier cost and tax on each product | ||||
| One product priced by several suppliers | ||||
| Variation-level supplier price override | ||||
| Supplier cost prefills purchase-order lines | ||||
| Order history on the supplier record | ||||
| Spend and last order date per supplier | ||||
| Bulk-link products to a supplier by CSV |
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. A purchase order keeps the line cost it was added at, whether it has already been received or is still pending. Purchase orders raised after the edit prefill their Purchase Cost and Tax from the new figure. Only the current price is kept against the supplier, with no record of what it was before or when it changed.
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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
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
Add the suppliers you buy from and link their products to the prices you pay. Every purchase order you raise arrives priced, addressed, and with the right people copied in.