WooCommerce: Bulk Edit Low Stock Threshold in a Spreadsheet

Let’s learn how to bulk edit low stock threshold for WooCommerce products by category, tag, stock status, etc.

Even though WooCommerce allows you to set a global low stock threshold, using WP Sheet Editor to assign specific low stock amounts to individual products or to specific groups of products offers several practical advantages.​

Why customize low stock thresholds?

Different products may have varying sales velocities, supplier lead times, or storage constraints. By customizing the low stock threshold for each product, you can:​

• ​Ensure timely restocking: Products that sell quickly can have higher thresholds to prompt earlier restocking.​
• ​Optimize inventory levels: Slow-selling items can have lower thresholds to avoid overstocking.​
• ​Manage supplier lead times: Products with longer restock times can have higher thresholds to account for restocking delays.​

The problem: Editing low stock thresholds individually can be time-consuming, since you have to open and edit one product at a time. Fortunately, WP Sheet Editor – WooCommerce Products provides a spreadsheet-like interface within your WordPress dashboard, allowing you to:​

• ​Quickly view and edit low stock thresholds in one place.​
• Bulk update thresholds for multiple products simultaneously.​
• Identify products that need threshold adjustments based on categories, stock levels, etc.​

WP Sheet Editor – WooCommerce Products allows you to efficiently manage your inventory, ensuring that each product has an appropriate low stock threshold tailored to its specific needs.

After installing the plugin and activating your license, follow the steps in the sections below to bulk customize low stock thresholds for your WooCommerce products.

Open the products spreadsheet

Go to WP Sheet Editor > Edit products to open the spreadsheet that allows you to view and manage your WooCommerce products in one place.

Edit low stock threshold in the spreadsheet

You can set the low stock threshold for individual products using the spreadsheet. This is useful if you want to have different low stock thresholds for different products.

You just need to locate the Low Stock Amount column in the spreadsheet and start adding the low stock threshold number. You can autofill cells below, just as you can do in Excel or Google Sheets.

Once you have edited the Low Stock Threshold number, you can click on Save to apply the changes.

Bulk edit WooCommerce low stock threshold

If you do not want to edit the low stock threshold individually for each product, you can edit all products or select specific groups of products that you want to modify in bulk.

For example, you can search for products by category, label, attribute (color, size), brand, supplier, etc. Any field can be used as a search filter to find the products for which you want to set a low stock threshold in bulk.

In this example, we will search for all the products in the Men category and bulk update low-stock threshold for the entire category.

Let’s start by opening the Search tool.

Once we’re in the Search tool, let’s select these values to search for products by category:

• Enter product categories: Add the category here.
• Click on Run search.

After running the search, all the products matching the search results will be displayed in the spreadsheet. You can see the active search filters displayed above the spreadsheet.

Now let’s open the Bulk Edit tool to bulk set a new low stock threshold for all the selected products.

Select these values in the Bulk Edit tool:

• Select the rows that you want to update: Edit all the rows from my current search
• What field do you want to edit: Low Stock Amount
• Select type of edit: Set value
• Replace existing value with this value: You need to add the new low stock number here.
• You can edit only the parent product or only the variations.
• Click on Execute Now.

As you can see, we have edited the low stock amount field in bulk, so all our selected products have 30 as the low stock threshold.

Bulk managing stock for your WooCommerce products is easy with WP Sheet Editor. You can bulk set low stock thresholds, bulk change stock status, stock, prices, categories, descriptions, etc. Your products’ management will be completely transformed.