🔍 Plugin Overview:

Share Product and Variation Stock is a powerful WooCommerce plugin designed to link stock quantities across multiple products or variations. Ideal for scenarios where multiple listings share the same physical inventory (e.g., phone cases fitting multiple models), this plugin ensures accurate stock management by deducting from a centralized pool.

🌟 Key Features:

• ✅ Create Unlimited Stock Rules
  Define custom rules to share stock between multiple products or variations.

• 📦 Shared Inventory Logic
  Link two or more products to a single stock source. Deduct stock on purchase of any linked item.

• 🔁 Supports Products, Categories, and SKUs
  Apply stock rules based on products, categories, or SKU values.

• ⚙️ Conditional Stock Deduction
  Choose specific WooCommerce order statuses (e.g., Pending Payment, Processing) on which stock should be deducted.

• 🚨 Stock Threshold Management

  • Set Low Stock Quantity

  • Set Out of Stock Threshold

  • Show custom error messages for each condition

• ✏️ Customizable Error Messages
  Show customer-friendly messages when stock is out or order exceeds available quantity.

• 🕹️ Toggle Stock Management Per Rule
  Enable or disable WooCommerce’s stock tracking on a rule-by-rule basis.

• 📋 Priority Sorting
  Manage which rule applies first using a priority number.

• 🔐 Safe and Scalable
  Fully compatible with latest WordPress and WooCommerce versions. Follows WP coding standards.

🖼️ Admin Rule Panel Highlights:

(Admin can define each rule with the following settings)

• Product Selection

• Category Selection

• Order Status trigger

• Custom Slug and SKU

• Low/Out of Stock Threshold

• Manage Stock checkbox

• Custom Error Messages

• Stock Notes & Priority

🎯 Use Cases:

• A single backcover is compatible with multiple phone models.

• Limited edition product variants sharing the same base item.

• Multiple products utilizing one shared inventory pool.

📦 Requirements:

• WordPress 5.6 or higher

• WooCommerce 5.0 or higher

• PHP 7.4 or higher

🧩 Plugin Compatibility:

• ✅ Compatible with variable & simple products

• ✅ Compatible with popular WooCommerce themes

• ✅ Compatible with caching plugins

• ✅ Compatible with multi-language (WPML, Polylang)

🔄 Future Enhancements (Planned):

• REST API support

• Cron-based sync for external stock pools

• Email notifications on threshold triggers

• Export/Import rules in CSV

❓FAQs

Q: Can I share stock between more than two products?
Yes! You can link unlimited products in one rule.

Q: Will this override WooCommerce’s default stock management?
Only for the products assigned to your custom rules. WooCommerce’s native stock will continue to work for others.

Q: Does it work with product variations?
Yes, it works seamlessly with product variations.

Q: Will it affect performance?
No, the plugin is optimized to run efficiently and doesn’t impact your store speed.

Q: Can I see the remaining stock in the backend?
Yes, the remaining shared quantity is visible and manageable under each rule.