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How to bulk edit WooCommerce product stock settings at the same time?

To bulk edit WooCommerce product stock settings of your products at the same time you need to install and use Woocommerce bulk product plugin.

Although bulk editing WooCommerce stock settings by our plugin is really easy, however we provide you a tutorial to make it even easier.

To better monitor the changes we are going to make on WooCommerce product stock settings in this plugin, we recommend you to add the columns related to the stock settings to your product table.

As we described before, “adding new columns to the product table” is possible via “Column Profiles”

By clicking on the “Column Profiles” button in the main page, you have full access to the product fields including:

  • Manage Stock
  • Stock quantity
  • Stock status
  • Allow backorders
display the stock columns of products in bulk table

By marking those options and click on “Apply to Table”, you can see that those columns are displayed in the product table:

stock fields in WooCommerce product bulk editing plugin
stock fields in WooCommerce product bulk editing plugin

Now, by clicking on “Bulk Edit” you are able to change multi product stock settings at the same time by opening the “Stock” tab.

In the “Stock” tab you can bulk edit WooCommerce stock settings according to your requirements by making changes in those fields that we have already added to our product table.

Manage WooCommerce stock

As shown below, to bulk edit “Manage Stock” you have to select “Yes” or “No” from the drop down list:

manage multi product stock settings

Bulk edit stock status of multi products

In the “Stock Status” field, we provide you three different options in a combo box including:

  • In stock
  • Out of stock
  • On backorder

So, you can choose one of the WooCommerce stock status that suit your products.

change stock status in WooCommerce bulk product editing

WooCommerce Stock quantity

To specify the stock quantity of your WooCommerce products, you can choose one of the below actions:

  • Set New: All current stock quantities will be replaced by the value you enter in the text box.
  • Clear Value: All current stock quantities will be removed.
  • Formula: All current stock quantities (X) will be changed according to the formula you entered in the textbox.
  • Increase / Decrease by value: All current stock quantities will be decreased / increase by the value you enter in the text box.
  • Increase / Decrease by %: All current stock quantities will be decreased / increase by the value% you enter in the text box.

Note: We explained completely using all of these options in “How to bulk edit sale price of products in Woocommerce bulk product editing plugin”. So, you can get more help by referring to that tutorial for changing the stock quantity by using these actions.

change stock settings in WooCommerce bulk product editing

Allow backorders

You can select one the below options for “Allow backorders” field:

  • Do not allow
  • Allow, but notify customer
  • Allow
Allow backorders for multi product

Example for bulk edit WooCommerce product stock settings

To change multi product stock settings, you can select the products you need to bulk edit their product status by:

Filter form

To use filter form, you can refer to “How to filter products in Woocommerce bulk editing products”.

In this example, we are selecting products that have “Shirt” in their titles, as you can see below:

display stock fields on the table

Then to change multi product stock settings we selected below options:

  • Manage stock: yes
  • Stock status: In stock
  • Stock quantity: Set New as 10
  • Allow backorders: Allow, but notify customer
managing stock by for some products

Now, by clicking on “Do Bulk Edit” all the changes we have made on stock settings will be applied to the table as below:

Bulk change stock quantity, stock status and stock backorders
Bulk change stock quantity, stock status and stock backorders

How to change stock status in WooCommerce?

It’s so easy. you must edit your product. Scroll down and click on inventory tab. then you can access stock fields. in WooCommerce bulk product edit plugin it is so easier than you can change multi product stock value at the same time.

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