Woo-commerce inventory management?

[The_Kiwi_Man]

Does anyone have ideas on how to manage inventory of an e-commerce furniture dropship store made from woo-commerce?

I work with 10 drop shippers who all upload an excel sheet once of month with inventory and discontinued product information.

Right no inventory is not being tracked. I simply tell the customer the item is out of stock which is NOT GOOD in the long term.

I believe I have 2 options:

1. Program some automation
2. Indicated estimated shipping time of 1-6 weeks since an out of stock item takes about 4 weeks to be put back in stock. Remember I am selling furniture.

[CandymanKen]

Hi

Maybe young should look into some of the woocommerce inventory plugins. I did a quick search and came up with several.

Good luck

Ken

[Everett]

Did you find what you needed Kiwi Man?

I can't vouch for any specific plug-in, but these two might be worth looking into:WooCommerce Drop Ship Manager Pro: Costs $200 and specifically mentions inventory updates via spreadsheet.

Spark Shipping offers "Dropship eCommerce Automation" services and they work with WooCommerce stores, among others: "Spark Shipping will process feeds from your suppliers and automatically update your inventory. Automated Inventory Management keeps your inventory in sync with all of your vendors."

One thing you need to be sure of is that you aren't publishing the manufacturer/vendor supplied product descriptions on your site. You should be overwriting the ones that come in via the feed and using your own custom product descriptions instead.