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The first thing you have to do is set up your suppliers. Go to the supplier tab and add all your suppliers.
Assign the newly created suppliers to your products. Do this in the product edit page under the order and inventory manager tab or if it is a variant in the variant tab for that variant.
While you are here you also fill out all other information for your products.
If you have many products we highly recommend that you export all your products and import all new data for them. Further down you find more information about this topic under “How do I export and import OIMWC data?”.
You also want to take a look at the settings page to configure the plugin to work as you want it to.
At this stage, we assume you have already installed the plugin and have created all your suppliers. We recommend that you do a backup on the database before making any changes this way. The first thing we need to do open up the edit page for any random product and press the update button. This will update the database so that all the new custom meta will be visible when we export the products.
Next, in the left admin menu, we go to “Products” and then “All products”. In the top-left region, we find the buttons Import and Export. To make changes to the database we first need to export all products. We recommend only using the default import tool to get the most out of our plugin.
It’s important that you check the “Export custom meta?”. The custom meta is what we are going to change. Next, you click on Generate CSV.
WooCommerce has now generated and downloaded all your products in a single file to your computer. To open up this spreadsheet file you need a program such as Open Office or Excel. Open Office and free and that is what we will use in this tutorial.
Open up the file. The first thing you will see is an option window with a preview of how the document will look once it is fully open. If the spreadsheet looks ok, click Ok-button. Else you might have to change some options to have it display correctly.
The top row explains what each column does. For each row, you have a product.
To make it easier to see what we are doing, we are going to freeze the top row and some important columns to the left. Click on the E2 cell (to the right of “Name” and below “Published”) and then go to Window and Freeze (only for Open Office). This will lock all the rows above and to the left of this cell so that they are always visible. You can also delete all rows that you do not want to update. Doing so will make the document easier to navigate.
Inside this spreadsheet, you can change everything for all products such as price, featured product, description, name, and so on. What we will look for are the headers that start with “Meta: oimwc_”, those are the columns related to the Order and Inventory Manager plugin. If this plugin is the latest plugin you did install then all these columns will be to the far right.
The only type of product you want to pay attention to is Simple and Variation. To remove all other types of products from this document you select the whole “Type”-column “B” by clicking on the “B”. Next, you click the “Sort Ascending” or “Sort Descending” button from the toolbar. It will ask you if you want to expand your selection and yes you want that so click on expand selection.
All your product is now sorted by type. You can now go ahead and simply just select all rows that are not simple or variation and just delete those rows. Don’t worry this will not affect those products in the e-commerce store.
Now the document is fully prepared to make some changes to it.
The columns we want to edit are these:
Meta: oimwc_supplier_id – Here we enter the supplier ID number you want to assign to this product. To find the supplier ID you go WooCommerce > Order & Inventory Manager and click on the supplier tab. To the left of the supplier name, is the supplier ID.
Meta: oimwc_low_stock_threshold_level – Enter the value you want the product to be considered as low in stock. All products that have reached this stock level will be listed inside the Inventory Overview Tab in the OIMWC plugin.
Meta: oimwc_supplier_art_id – Here you enter what the supplier uses as product ID for this product. When purchase orders are created this ID will be visible to the suppliers so they know what you want to buy.
Meta: oimwc_supplier_product_url – If the supplier has a product page for this product then enter the URL to that address here.
Meta: oimwc_supplier_note – Sometimes the product ID is not enough to fully describe the product you want to buy. It might have some special size, print or color. Add that special note here.
Meta: oimwc_supplier_purchase_price – Enter the purchase price of this product. This value is used to quickly calculate PO estimated cost and is also there for your reference to check so the price is correct for the product you buy.
Meta: oimwc_supplier_pack_size – Only available in the Gold and Platinum version. If your supplier has a larger pack size than “1” of this product then enter that value here.
Meta: oimwc_our_pack_size – Only available in the Gold and Platinum version. If this product has a larger pack size the “1” then enter that value here.
Meta: oimwc_physical_stock – This changes the physical units in stock
Meta: oimwc_physical_units_stock – This changes the units in stock.
(only from version 1.2.8) Please note! Only import JUST ONE stock-related data like the WooCommerce stock, Physical stock, or Physical Units in stock. After the import is done a script will be run to update the related stock data to match the newly imported data.
Example: You import 10x physical stock and have a pack size set to 3. The script automatically runs and is changing your physical units in stock to 30 (10*3) and sets your WooCommerce stock to Physical stock minus reserved products for orders. The same script will also be run when importing new pack-size data.
From version 1.2.9 we also support importing with the WP all import plugin. If you use this plugin and import pack size data then you must also include any stock-related data as well even if it is the same as the database already have. If the stock-related data is not included then the automatic stock script will not be run to fix related data.
If any cell converts what you write to a date, then select that whole column, right-click on it to bring up the menu, and select format cells. Under category, you select text and then hit OK. You have to enter the value again but this time it will not change to a date.
When you are done, save the file!
Go to Products > All products and this time click the import button in the top-left region.
Click the “Choose File” button. Select your file we did just edit and click the “Open”-button.
IMPORTANT Check the box “Update existing products” and click on Continue.
Click on the “Run the importer”-button at the bottom of the page.
Done! All your changes have now been applied.
IMPORTANT Check the box “Update existing products” and click on Continue.
Click on the “Run the importer”-button at the bottom of the page.
Done! All your changes have now been applied.
At this stage, we assume you have already activated at least your free version of the plugin.
Go to WooCommerce > Order & Inventory Manager. Next, go to the Pricing tab in the plugin top menu.
Select the version you want to upgrade to.
You can choose to pay Monthly, Annually, or a one-time “Lifetime” fee. You also have the option to use the plugin on 1, 3, or 10 sites.
After selecting a price plan, you will be sent to the payment section. Choose your preferred payment option and fill out all necessary fields followed by clicking the “Review Order” button. A summary of your order will be visible. Check all necessary checkboxes and hit the “Pay & Subscribe” button.
Your license is now upgraded but your plugin might still need to be upgraded as well. Download the new plugin from the link at the top or from the account page and install it the same way you installed the free version. The free version of the plugin will be deactivated automatically when you activate the new plugin.
There are a few requirements a product must fulfill to be listed as a product with low stock.
- Product type needs to be set to simple or variation (variation of variable product type). Variable, grouped, and external type is not listed.
- It needs to have the setting “stock management” enabled.
- The setting “Low stock threshold” (located in the “In Order & Inventory Manager” tab, not in “Inventory”) needs to have a lower value than the current stock.
- It needs to have the setting “Enable warning for low stock” checked. This option is located in the “Order & Inventory Manager” or “Variations”-tab on the product edit page.
- The meta “Meta: oimwc_supplier_show_in_low_stock” have to be set to “yes”. This is only accessible when importing product data.
Updating the plugin can be done in two ways.
The first option is to go to your account page in OIMWC. In there you will find an update button if a new version exists. It will say “Install Update Now [version number]”
The next option to update the plugin is the normal way all other plugins are normally updated.
In the left admin side menu, you will find “Plugins” and then “Installed plugins”.
Search for “Order and Inventory Manager for WooCommerce”. Under the title, you will find the text “Update Now” with a light yellow background color. Click on that link to upgrade the plugin.
We offer 4 different versions of the Order & Inventory manager plugin for WooCommerce.
First up we have the Free version “Copper”
In Copper, you only get the most basic functions with a small taste of what the full version has to give. We give you the supplier feature so you can assign suppliers to your products as well as add a custom low stock threshold level for all your products. With these two new parameters, you can now sort all your products with low stock by a supplier on the inventory overview page.
Next, we have the “Silver” version
You can all from copper and can now also add additional supplier product info to your products such as product ID, product URL, product PO notes, and purchase price.
You also get access to the purchase order tools where you now can create purchase orders directly inside WooCommerce. All your new and old purchase orders are stored so you can access them when you need to. All Purchase orders can be downloaded and modified after they are created.
On top of this, you get full support for this plugin.
Then we have the “Gold” version
Same as silver but with a lot more extra features.
Discontinued product feature. With this feature, you can set products as discontinued. The customer will get notified about this when browsing such a product. When a discontinued product stock runs out then the product will no longer be possible to buy and removed from all categories and search results on the homepage. The direct link to the product will still work to maintain good SEO traffic.
Quick search bar. A brand new search bar will appear at the top of the admin pages. From here you can search for anything from any page.
Pack size for products is another handy feature that allows you to set the pack size for your products. By doing so the customer also gets informed of what they buy.
Order management tools help you fast and easily see what orders have all products in stock. You can also filter these orders for a very fast bulk action process.
And finally the “Platinum” version
With the platinum version, you get everything this plugin has to offer including all future features and improvements. To start off you get everything from gold.
Inventory stock Value – This records your complete inventory value each month in all currencies. You can keep perfect track of how much your complete stock is worth.
Access limiter – Limits the access to thins plugin to only selected rolls and/or selected users. Perfect in larger companies where you don’t want everybody to see your supplier information.
Order overview page – List all active orders with all products on one page. Great for problem-solving!
You can use the form below but please note that we are only answering pre-sale questions and no support-related questions about the plugin.
We do not answer questions like these
- How do I install this plugin?
- How can I make it so this work with that?
- How do I change this?
- This does not work, how do I fix it?
We do however answer questions that are related to a pre-sale matter like
- Do you know if OIMWC is compatible with plugin X?
- I don’t understand how this feature works, please tell me more about it.
- Can I use Paypal as a payment option?
- I want to report a bug in your plugin.
We offer product support only to users with an active premium license. If you are in need of product support, please use the contact form inside the plugin help pages!
1.4.6
*Fix: Resolved an issue of all products not showing up in the purchase orders.
*Fix: Fixed product notes on the purchase order page.
*Fix: Fixed the issue of pack size on the low stock page.
*Fix: The remove button wasn’t working on the purchase order page.
*Fix: Fixed warning on the purchase orders page.
*Tweak: Stopped reloading the page while adding product to the existing order in the low stock page.
1.4.5
*Fix: Resolved database query issue on the product low stock page.
1.4.4
* Fix: Resolved pagination and ajax request issue while moving products to the purchase preview table.
1.4.3
* Fix: Resolved an error when filtering the supplier-wise products on the low-stock products page.
* Fix: Resolved an issue of products that were not able to be added to existing purchase orders.
* Fix: Resolved an issue with the product image on the purchase order page.
* Fix: Resolved stock issue on the Inventory Stock values page.
* Fix: Resolved the pack size changes issue when the customer placed an order.
* Fix: Resolved an issue of “Add to list”-products that did not move to the Purchases Order Preview table.
* Fix: Resolved the stock issue when admin completes the order even if the ordered product has negative stock values.
* Tweak: Allow to set negative values in the low stock field on the product edit page.
1.4.2
* Fix: Added and modified some of the fields of the supplier info column on the low-stock products page.
* Fix: Removed duplicate temporary products on the view purchase order page.
* Fix: Enabled pagination on the supplier page.
1.4.1
* Fix: Temporary products are now saved until removed or placed in an order.
1.4.0
* Fix: Changed Product ID in the purchase order file to the Supplier Product ID.
1.3.9
* Fix: Resolved low stock page product listing issue for the individual supplier.
* Fix: Made changes in the query to remove discontinued products from the low-stock products page.
1.3.8
* Fix: Resolved temporary product & purchase order creation issue.
* Fix: Resolved blank product thumbnail image on the low-stock products page.
1.3.7
* New Feature: It’s now possible to add a temporary product to a purchase order that is not registered in your store.
* Upgrade: A product can now be added to multiple purchase orders.
* Change: The way a product is calculated as low in stock has been modified. For it to be considered low in stock it needs to have a stock value less than or equal to the low stock threshold level plus any amount in any active purchase order.
* Change: Discontinued variant will no longer be disabled when it is set as discontinued and run out of stock.
* Fix: Resolved PDF error when downloading PDF purchase order file.
1.3.6
* Change: Shows a message to select a supplier instead of showing all products on the low-stock products table.
* Change: Modified the code for listing products in the low-stock products when changing the supplier.
* Fix: Resolved JS issue of sending e-mails to a supplier.
* Fix: Resolved a CSS issue getting overwritten by other plugins’ CSS.
1.3.5
* Upgrade: An additional table is added on the low stock page named “Purchase Order Preview. You can see the products in the purchase order preview table when you enter the qty in the box and then press the “Update PO preview”-button.
* Fix: Updated library files to the latest version for PDF, XLS, and, DOC file format.
* Fix: Updated correct values of physical stock and units in stock when a new order is created.
1.3.4
* Fix: Sometimes old values were replaced back when updating values through the custom OIMWC update button and then pressing the WooCommerce update button.
* Fix: Corrected the stock value when filling the stock from the arrived stock section on the purchase orders page. This issue was caused when the product was out of stock.
* Fix: Adjusted so all new duplicated products’ stock value will be based on the source’s physical stock value.
* Fix: Corrected total count of the low-stock products on the Inventory Overview page.
1.3.3
* Fix: Purchase order notes were not written in the PO.
* Fix: Some image types were not visible when selected as the PO logotype.
1.3.2
* Important information: Purchase order file and options have got a major overhaul in this patch. Many new settings have been added so be sure to update your information on the settings page and enter your supplier’s e-mail address for orders.
* New Feature: Order Overview Page Filters. It’s now possible to filter all orders on the Order Overview page by orders that have products Out of stock, In stock, or discontinued.
* New Feature: Send a purchase order directly to the supplier’s email address for ordering. You can set the default subject, default reply-to, and default message on the settings page.
* New Feature: Purchase order files now have many new data options to include such as product image, purchase price, business office address, and much more.
* Upgrade: Purchase Order File Improvements. With this upgrade, we have done major improvements in the purchase order file structure. It’s now possible to download purchase files in 3 formats such as PDF, DOC, and XLS (Note: PDF and DOC formats are only included in the Gold & Platinum versions). You can add your own business logo and change the color scheme of the PO from the settings page.
* Upgrade: The order overview page table is now more compact and adjustable with the browser size. You don’t have to scroll the whole page to see the last orders.
* Upgrade: The products on the order overview page now include SKU.
* Fix: Product stock history was never intended to be higher than a few rows of text, this has now been fixed.
1.3.1
* Fix: A discontinued product was in some cases disabled even if it had products still in stock.
* Fix: Discontinued product texts have been corrected.
* Fix: Corrected an error where all stock-related data for all product variants were locked if just one product variant was changed.
1.3.0
* New Feature: Added function to enter a replacement product for a discontinued product. The replacement product will be shown on the product page in form of a link.
1.2.9
* New Feature: Added save buttons to simple and variable product pages. It saves all supplier information and OIMWC-related data without reloading the page.
* New Feature: Added new filter options for orders on the orders page.
* Upgrade: Added support to automatically adjust and update the stock-related data using WP All Import Pro plugin.
* Upgrade: If an order contains a product set as discontinued and is out of stock then a warning notification will be displayed on the OIMWC pages.
* Change: Added product SKU beside the product name in the order overview table.
1.2.8
* New Feature (All users): To prevent stock mismatch errors we have created a background script that checks if the product’s WooCommerce stock, Physical stock, Units in stock, and Pack size are matching. If any mismatching data is found, it will be displayed as a notification message on the OIMWC pages. If there are more than 10 products detected with incorrect stock values, you get the option to download the whole product list with mismatching data. If this is the case we recommend you check your inventory and update only the physical stock you have, the plugin will then calculate and change all other stock values based on your new physical stock and pack size.
* New Feature (All users): Product stock history. This info is available on the product page under the inventory tab. Product stock history includes all stock-related changes made to WooCommerce stock, Physical stock, Units in stock, and Pack size.
* Upgrade (All users): Added setting to disable/enable the OIMWC GTIN field on the product page if a known installed and active third-party plugin is already managing GTIN on the site.
* Upgrade – Importing stock-related data with the default WordPress import tool will now automatically adjust the remaining stock data. For example, if importing Physical stock values the WooCommerce stock and Units in stock will be updated to match the imported value. This will always be done when WooCommerce stock, Physical stock, Units in stock, or Pack size are imported.
* Change – Setting a product with unmanaged stock to discontinued will now also set it as out of stock to prevent orders of that product.
* Change – Renaming Meta: oimwc_supplier_total_pieces in the database to Meta: oimwc_physical_units_stock.
* Change: Inventory stock value is now estimated on values from the supplier with the lowest purchase price.
* Change: Restrict users to change only one stock-related field at a time while updating the product. Restricted fields are WooCommerce stock, Physical Stock, Units in Stock, and Pack Size. This tweak is made to prevent wrong stock value calculations.
* Change: Removed unnecessary fields from the OIMWC tab for the variable products such as GTIN number, Physical stock, Units in stock, and supplier info.
* Change: Added a warning message when the user changes the pack size of a product that is currently included in the active order.
* Fix: Stock data were not always synchronized when changes in products were made.
* Fix: Fixed the low stock product count issues while importing. Also added support to calculate and update the values of units in stock, physical stock based on the WooCommerce stock added in the product import file.
* Fix: Fixed popup design while adding the products to a purchase order. Added error message if there are no possible purchase orders available to add the product to.
* Fix: Fixed notification visual bug on the inventory overview page.
* Fix: Fixed quick search bar product search issue on the ‘All Pages’ page.
* Fix: Changed the stock value from decimal to integer while saving it to the database.
* Fix: Fixed minor layout issue on the orders page.
* Fix: Fixed the physical stock value issue while updating products as fully arrived on the purchase orders page.
* Fix: Fixed the negative physical stock visual error on the Inventory Overview page.
* Fix: Fixed the special character that appears in the product name while adding the product to a purchase order.
* Fix: Fixed the visual error of the order meta of supplier product id on the order detail page.
1.2.7
* Fix: It was not possible to add new suppliers to the product edit page.
* Fix: User roles access was not working properly in the user restriction feature.
* Fix: Javascript template was missing in the Free version.
1.2.6
* New Feature (Gold and above): Added support for multiple suppliers. The user is now able to add more than one supplier for simple and variable products.
* Upgrade: It’s now possible to create purchase orders for suppliers that do not have products that have reached their low stock threshold level.
* Upgrade: Categorized all the suppliers in the dropdown based on their low-stock products on the low-stock page.
* Upgrade: Added supplier product ID and supplier URL in the order quick view and order detail page for the products that do not manage stocks.
* Change: Changed the text of total ordered items based on the pack size in the ‘Products awaiting delivery’ and ‘View Purchase Order’ pages in the ‘Order Info’ column.
* Change: Displayed warning popup when the user tries to create a purchase order without choosing any supplier. Added a tooltip message to the disabled QTY field.
* Change: Added ‘Admin login page URL’ in the support contact form.
* Fix: Missing supplier link.
1.2.5
* Fix: Issue in the units in the stock field.
1.2.4
* Fix: Table prefix in the wp queries.
* Fix: CSS issue of the page design.
1.2.3
* Change: Deactivate the free version plugin if the premium version is active.
* Fix: Fatal error of redeclaration of the function.
* Fix: Stock issue while updating the product in the silver version plugin.
1.2.2
* New Feature: Added sub-total at the bottom of the low-stock products table when a user creates a purchase order.
* New Feature: Implemented autoload product functionality for the Receiving, Pending, and Completed purchase orders.
* Upgrade: The user is now able to add the same product to different orders from the same supplier.
* Upgrade: Display a confirmation pop-up with the product name in it when the user tries to add a product to the purchase order.
* Design Changes: Removed sticky header for mobile devices.
* Fix: Responsive design issue in mobile devices.
* Fix: The missing plugin icon in the plugin update listing table.
* Fix: An issue of showing error messages of the paid plans to the trial plan users.
1.2.1
* New feature: Add ‘Add to list’ functionality to the Purchase Order detail page. It allows users to manually add products to any pending purchase order.
* Upgrade: Modified ‘Add to order’ functionality using ajax. No need to reload the page when working with different suppliers.
* Upgrade: Modified low stock supplier counter functionality to reduce the page load times.
* Design: A dark overlay is applied to information when new data loads.
* Fix: When filtered by a supplier on the Inventory Overview page, all products were not listed.
* Fix: Manually adding products to existing orders was not working as intended.
* Fix: Table separator issue in Awaiting delivery table.
1.2.0
* New feature: Enable user to add multiple shipping addresses in the settings page. Any saved shipping address can be used when creating PO file.
* New feature: Added low stock threshold level field on the supplier page.
* New feature: Implemented searching for the supplier using ajax on the supplier’s page.
* New feature: Possibility to sort all the columns on the supplier page table using ajax.
* New feature: Possibility to sort all columns of the purchase orders tables using ajax.
* New feature: Possibility to filter the purchase orders by suppliers in the Purchase Orders page tables using ajax.
* New feature: Added a search box to search the products in the table as well as supplier-wise in the Inventory Overview page tables.
* Upgrade: All pages have been speed optimized.
* Upgrade: Removed default pagination of the tables. And added the possibility to ‘Auto Load’ products while scrolling down the page in the Inventory Overview page tables.
* Upgrade: Possibility to filter the products by the supplier in the Inventory Overview page tables using ajax.
* Upgrade: Orders in the Purchase Order pages will ‘Auto Load’ while scrolling down the page.
* Upgrade: Loaded order overview page data using ajax.
* Upgrade: Minimized the time of the page load of the Inventory Stock Values page. Get the current value of the stock using ajax.
* Upgrade: Load scripts and styles of the plugin on the necessary pages only.
* Design change: Made header sticky so that the user can easily access all the functions wherever the user is on the page. Sticky header on Inventory Overview pages, Purchase Order pages, and Suppliers page.
* Design change: Implemented compact and clear new design for all the pages.
* Design change: Implemented a new design of the settings page.
* Design change: All admin pages are now responsive.
* Removed: Removed ‘Estimate Arrival Date’ column from the completed purchase orders table.
* Removed: Removed search button from the admin search bar to enable users to search by pressing the enter key.
* Change: Made 1st topic open when the user land on the help page.
* Bug: Bug in units in the stock calculation.
* Bug: Fix OIMWC Inquiry email template format.
* Bug: Estimated arrival date on the front product page.
* Bug: Tool-tip content when change status by lock/unlocking the order.
1.1.9
* Upgrade: Now order overview page includes all orders with custom order statuses.
* Upgrade: Missing stock qty functionality that shows in the order preview and the order details page now works with custom order status also.
* Fix: Bug when downloading PO file in a different language while there is another language selected in the user profile.
* Fix: Bug in the calculation of the physical stock when the user tries to change stock directly from the product edit page.
* Fix: Select all checkbox missing on the orders listing page.
* Fix: Javascript error while selecting variations in a variable product if there is any filter removed from the variable product page.
1.1.8
* Minor bug fixes.
1.1.7
* Upgrade: Added Supplier on the WooCommerce product page with the possibility to sort and filter by a supplier.
* Upgrade: New supplier info – Tax/VAT number and contact person.
* Upgrade: Added purchase order buttons directly to the purchase order page.
* Upgrade: GTIN numbers (EAN, UPC, and so on) can now be added to each product. The GTIN number is displayed on the product font-page.
* Upgrade: Purchase Order Status is now changed from Active/Finalized to Pending, Ordered, Receiving, and Completed.
* Upgrade: Added low stock threshold level for suppliers. When X number of different product types from the same supplier has reached low stock value a notification in the admin menu will appear. The supplier name will be marked red in the supplier filter list.
* Upgrade: Added settings to change purchase order language.
* Upgrade: Added settings to select what data to include in purchase orders.
* Upgrade: Physical stock can now be directly changed.
* Fix: Some orders had the wrong order status icon.
* Fix: OIMWC e-mail template removed.
* Fix: Select lists are now alphabetically sorted.
* Fix: Physical stock qty was not calculated correctly for custom order statuses. If you are using custom order statuses, please update your settings.
* Fix: RankMath was not showing correct URLs.
* Other: After a purchase order is created the user is sent to the purchase order page.
1.1.6
* Removed credit card requirement to start trials.
1.1.5
* Fix: Bug in the missing quantity status on the order details page and order preview.
1.1.4
* Fix: Bug in the fulfilled orders list filter.
1.1.3
* Minor bug fixes.
1.1.2
* Bugg fixes
* Moved the premium feature ‘Admin Quick Search Bar’ to the free version of the plugin.