Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce

With Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce, you can make the products and variations in your WooCommerce store dependent on the inventory of your other products or variations. Customers will be able to select and purchase the product without seeing the products on which it depends in their cart, during their checkout, or on their receipt. Inventory management in Woo Commerce is greatly simplified since you only have to manage inventory levels for the item(s) on which your product or variation is dependent. Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce works for Simple and Variable product types in WooCommerce and you can make a product or variation dependent on a combination of other products and variations. Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce lets you create dependencies on quantities of one or more of the other products. Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce is ideal for:

• Selling products in multiple quantities. For an product you already have in your inventory, you can use Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce to sell, for example, a package of six items and and package of 12 items. With Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce you do not need to maintain inventory levels for each quantity of the product as the product inventory is managed for only the single quantity item.
• Selling bundled products. You can create a bundle of multiple items and sell them as a single item. With Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce your customers will only see the bundle product in their cart, during the checkout process, and on their order receipt.

When a product with stock dependencies is displayed in your store, Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce will check the inventory of the products on which it depends and will only show the product as being available if all the dependent stock items are available. When a product with stock dependencies is added to a shopping cart and eventually purchased, the customer will only see the single product in their cart and order, and will not see the products on which it is dependent. When the product is purchased, Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce will reduce the inventory of the items on which it is dependent by the appropriate amount. Configuring Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce is easy to configure for any simple or variable product in your WooCommerce store. A single checkbox is added to each simple product or variation in your WordPress admin that allows you to enable stock dependencies for that product or variation. Once checked, two fields are added for the SKU and the quantity of the dependency. Additional dependencies can be easily added. Shopping When a customer views a product with dependencies in your WooCommerce store, they will see the product as you have configured it, but the available quantity and in-stock status will be determined by Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce from the available quantities of each of the products and variations on which it is dependent. Cart, Checkout, and Receipt Customers will only see the product they selected, and not the products upon which it is dependent, in their shopping cart, during the checkout process, and on their receipt. Restocking Refunds and Cancelled Orders When you issue a refund or cancel an order that has stock dependencies, the plugin will restock the dependency products.

Install the WooCommerce Stock Dependencies plugin

1. Download and install the plugin from the release page or install directly from the WordPress plugin directory.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. In your WordPress admin, navigate to the Products listing page and select a product to configure.
4. Enable stock dependencies.
5. For simple products, edit the product and navigate to the Inventory tab and check the "Add stock dependency" checkbox. Add the SKU and the quantity for each product or variation on which this product is dependent.
6. For variable products, edit the product and navigate to the Variations tab and check the "Add stock dependency" checkbox for each variation. Add the SKU and the quantity for each product or variation on which this product variation is dependent.

1.6.1

• Verified with Wordpress 6.5
• Verified with WooCommerce 8.7
• Added a plugin tools page and a feature to clear Stock Dependency database transients

1.6

• Confirmed compatibility with WooCommerce High Performance Order Tables
• Confirmed compatibility with WordPress 6.4
• Plugin will now update the inventory quantity in admin to match the quantity determined by the stock depedencies after each purchase, refund, or order cancellation. Note that this only affects the behaviour of the plugin in admin as the actual inventory is calculated every time a product page is loaded in the shop

1.5

• Stores product IDs for stock dependencies in WordPress transients to speed up lookups
• Cancelling an order restocks dependencies

1.4

• Enforces SKU validity during dependency configuration
• Reduces the need to lookup product IDs from SKUs by storing the ID in the dependency metadata

1.3.1

• Verified with Wordpress 5.7
• Verified with WooCommerce 5.3

1.3

• Verified with Wordpress 5.6
• Verified with WooCommerce 4.9
• Display stock dependencies on order line items in admin
• Support for allowing backorders

1.2.1

• Verified with WooCommerce 4.4

1.2

• Stock dependencies are restocked during a refund

1.1.2

• Tested with WordPress 5.5 and WooCommerce 4.3

1.1.1

• Fixes an issue where orders created in WooCommerce admin have their stock depedencies reduced twice

1.1

• Adds support for stock dependencies in orders created from within WooCommerce admin
• Fixes an issue where product inventory status was not displayed correctly in WooCommerce admin

1.0

• Initial release of Stock Dependencies for WooCommerce