Set low stock notification threshold per product (rather than globally)
Right now it seems like the qty at which to send a low stock notification is set globally (once for all products). This creates problems if you have different lead times with suppliers. For instance, if you have a product that sells once per day and reorders have a two week leadtime, you need to set the notification to trigger at qty 20 or so to be safe. If you have an item that hardly ever sells, and you can restock it within a few days, maybe a low-stock notification of qty 1 will work.
I think it is vital for successful inventory control to have different low stock notification thresholds for different products.
Jordan Applewhite
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Amanda
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Also need thresholds per variant. some of my sizes sell a lot faster than others and so "low stock" threshold is higher than slower selling items
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Pavel Minarik
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Hey guys, not sure how interested you are, but you can use the ATUM Inventory plugin to activate per product threshold.
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Anonymous
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Anonymous
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global setting only useful if you sell one product!
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Anonymous
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Has this low stock notification per product option been developed yet?
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johanna75
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waiting for this option in woo !
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Plexus
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We now have two different plugins that provide low inventory notifications (by email and/or mobile push) with independent thresholds per product (or variation for variable products). Check out WooCommerce Inventory Notifier and WooCommerce Inventory Manager on our site: http://store.plexusllc.com
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Anonymous
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Is there already a solution or a plugin for this?
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David Harney
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I have also been searching for this type of feature.
If I make a plugin to handle this function, will you show your support? -
Plexus
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A plugin adding this functionality to WooCommerce for both simple products and variable products is now available at: http://store.plexusllc.com/product/woocommerce-inventory-notifier/
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Kay Grant
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I have also searched high and low for a plugin to do this, no luck, truly amazing. Many retailers have varied products which require different restock times, and certain popular products which sell more quickly. A global threshold is definitely insufficient. Please add this!
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Anonymous
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I would love to have this capability as well. It's amazing there isn't a plugin already, at least one that I've been able to find.
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Joel Eade
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Hopefully this can get voted up. A global "Low Stock Threshold" isn't sufficient in my opinion. There should be a per-product threshold.
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Anonymous
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I need this for my website... is anyone working on this?
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Radek Ratomski
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That would be most useful. Looking forward for developing this idea.