Inventory
Search, filter and sort your stock, read the Velocity and Days Left columns, and update quantities or thresholds in bulk.
SimplifyStock → Inventory is the working screen: every tracked product in one table, with the columns that tell you which ones are in trouble and the bulk actions to fix them without opening each product in turn.
Finding a product
Three controls narrow the table, and all of them apply instantly:
- Search — live search by product title or SKU.
- Filters — Stock Status (All Statuses, In Stock, On Backorder), Category, and Sort By (Name A–Z, Name Z–A, Newest First, Highest Price).
- Reset filters — clears all of them at once.
If a product you expect is missing, it is almost always because Manage stock is not enabled on it in WooCommerce. SimplifyStock only tracks products WooCommerce is tracking.
Reading the columns
| Column | What it tells you |
|---|---|
| Product | Title and SKU |
| Status | In stock, low, out of stock or on backorder |
| Stock | Current quantity |
| Velocity | How fast it is selling |
| Days Left | How long the current stock lasts at that velocity |
| Price | Unit price |
| Stock Value | Price × quantity — capital sitting in this product |
Days Left is the column to sort your day by. Stock on its own says nothing: 40 units is comfortable for a slow mover and a crisis for something selling twenty a week. Days Left already accounts for that.
Stock Value answers the opposite question — not what is about to run out, but where your money is. A high Stock Value with a high Days Left is capital doing nothing, which is what Dead stock is about.
Updating stock in bulk
Bulk actions run on selected rows only, so the order matters:
- Filter the table down to the products you mean.
- Tick the rows — the bulk panel stays disabled until you do, and says Select rows first.
- Choose an Action: Update Stock or Set Thresholds.
- Click Run Action.
Every change is written to the stock history, so a bulk edit is as traceable as a single one.
Update Stock or Set Thresholds?
Update Stock changes the quantity you hold. Use it after a delivery, a stocktake, or a correction.
Set Thresholds changes the point at which a product counts as low. Use it when a product keeps raising alerts you do not care about, or when it runs out before you are warned. Raising a threshold is almost always a better answer than dismissing repeated alerts, because the alert is doing its job — the number it is measured against is wrong.
Per-product thresholds override the global one you set under Settings.
Stock history
Every change to a stock level is logged with four fields:
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Date | When the change happened |
| Change | The delta, in and out |
| Source | What caused it — an order, a manual edit, a bulk action |
| User | Who made it, for manual changes |
Source is what makes the log worth keeping. “Stock went down by six” is not useful on its own; “stock went down by six because of an order” and “stock went down by six because someone edited it” are two entirely different situations, and only one of them needs investigating.
How long the log is kept is configurable — the default is 90 days. See Settings.
Where to go next
- Alerts — what happens when a product crosses its threshold.
- Forecasting — where Velocity and Days Left come from.