 Yes. Good. Excellent. Okay. So the reason I'm running my talk today on stock management is because I'm not sure if he's here today, but I actually had an email from a gentleman saying help because he runs an agency and he's been setting up stores running WooCommerce and he couldn't get his stock controlling to work. It all just took a little tick in the box to actually make it work. But what we've actually found is clients, we've got many, many clients around Australia. At the moment, we don't necessarily do a lot of stuff overseas anymore. And one of the things that they actually find is that stock managing, looking after their inventory is really boring. And they hate counting, just like the count does. He loves counting. And they think that it's really, really boring. In fact, they think counting stock can be as boring as bat. And I can't say that word here because I think there's some kids in here. So we've got these pretty little droppings going down. So how many people do you like keeping their inventory up to date with their WooCommerce shops? Do you find it easy? No? Yes? Okay. So a lot of people do find it very difficult to do. They find it boring. And they hate doing it. But WooCommerce does it all for you. So when you're doing stock management, stock management for your online shops, and I am nervous today, so I do apologize, is really important. And it just takes just adding in the quantity for each of your products. But for some people, that's very, very difficult. But WooCommerce makes it easy if you run your online shop properly and you put a tick in the box to control your stock. So I'm just going to see if this works. No, wrong way. And once again, counting stock can be as boring as counting sheep, makes you go to sleep. Who does stock management benefit? It benefits you. If you're a business owner, it benefits you. It benefits you because you are keeping the stock up to date. Your products aren't going to run out of stock without you knowing. And it benefits your customer because they know where the product is either out of stock or they can keep ordering. If you don't keep those stock levels up, then you must not be in business because if your products are suddenly out of stock and no one can buy anything, you're not making any money. Sorry. Now, when you're doing stock control, it can be any sort of shop. We've got some family members who run various different businesses. They run businesses from doing fruit boxes, fruit and veggie boxes every week to people selling costumes. You can have a lolly shop. You can have a fashion place. So regardless of the type of business that you're running, you need to have your stock control up today. And it just means as you add a product into WooCommerce, you maintain that product quantity. It's really quite easy. So stock management can be very boring, as I said, but for every business it's also very extremely important. So you have inventory plus stock control because your stock management. Nearly every business should have some form of stock management in place. We know lots of people who keep their inventory in a spreadsheet. But if you're running WooCommerce, you can have that as a product quantity. You can also do it as your variance. So for every type of product that you have, if you're running t-shirts and you've got different sizes, you can put the quantity in. If you have different colors in those t-shirts, you can also put your quantity in. So whenever something runs out of stock, you'll get a notification to say that that's coming up. It's running out of stock. You've got to order some more in. Now it's going to dry. So it does benefit you and it benefits your clients. And it can work with any sort of product. It can also work with your services, people who are doing bookings and reservations. We have other clients who sell tickets online for events. We also do have some who are doing tourism events in the Indigenous community. So they keep track of their tickets that they're selling for those tourists, for the tours that they do. Yeah, just trying to think what they do. Yeah, so that's what they do. So it makes your job easy. So as I said at the start, we got a screen for help in the form of an email. And it's the reason that I'm here today and doing this talk, because his question was, how do I get stock control to show so I can manage stock in my online shop? Because he went to put products in, but he couldn't add any stock control. Because there was just one little tick in the box when you go into your products and inventory, and you set it to global. And it's really quite easy. Once you set that to global, you can add all your stock control in. So it can be as a simple product, as a variant, as a downloadable product. And in work commerce, you can even do drop shipping products now as well. The other ways that you can manage inventory in your stock or your stock control is through pointer sales, through Vendon Square. And you can also use your accounting system zero or QuickBooks, because you can also set up inventories through there as well. So you can actually integrate those into your WooCommerce store. We have done Vendon before. Vendon is really quite interesting, because we have various clients who use Vendon. They have all their products in there and use a Vendon plugin that integrates all your products that you have in Vendon over to your WooCommerce store. But then you work on your stock over here, and you can keep your quantities up to date as well. And you can do that all from from WooCommerce. And then it goes back to Vendon. So you can update everything in WooCommerce and not even go back to Vendon if you don't want to. Excuse me. So to get to that spot where I was telling you about, you need to log into your admin area. So has anyone ever worked with WooCommerce where you have to manage your stock control? You have? Yeah, great. Okay, so you click on WooCommerce, and you go into Settings, and then you go for products, and then you click on Inventory. Now, this is the question. This was so easy for him to fix once we worked it out for him. And there is a section there that says Manage Stock. And once you put that ticket in the box for an able stock management, you can start working within your shop and controlling your stock management and your inventory. But always remember to save, because if you don't save, it's not going to work for you. So this will actually enable your stock management globally. So it's not just for one product. So if you just want to manage stock just for one product and not the rest, unfortunately, you just can't do that. You've got to work with it. And if you don't want to worry about your quantities for all the other products, you still need to put a ticket in that box. Now, when we're also working with stock, you've also got to remember about the products that you buy, or a customer comes along and buys, because it's going to take away that product from your quantity. And what I found is you can do this two ways. If you want a product to or in order to be cancelled out after a certain period of time, because they haven't paid, so it goes back to stock, allow them time, because if you've got a direct deposit section on there, some payments take three days to show up. So if you put about 4,320 minutes in there, you should be right. And if not, leave it at nought. But then you have to make sure that you've checked to see whether that person is going to go through that order or not, because you want it back in stock, you don't want that out of stock. You can also do your notifications for your stock notifications. So for example, we run online shops as well. I want to make sure I get those low stock notifications. So I usually have it set to two and also enable out of stock notifications. So if a product is completely out of stock, you want to know about it as well, you need to be up on top of it. And I generally hide out of stock items from the catalogue. However, we have some clients who prefer to leave that unticked so that they can continue ordering so they can back order those products. And then that way they're still getting paid for it. You can also set up your stock to display format. So always show quantity remaining in stock. So if it is becoming low in stock, the customer who comes along next time will see how many is in stock. I mean, they might want to buy 20, but you've only got 12. So at least they know. So you can handle lots of things from within word commerce. You can have another section there that says only show quantity remaining in stock when it's low. So if there's only two left, you can show that as well. You don't have to show that at all. You just mark it as out of stock. Enabling stock management allows you to manage your stock, your products, event tickets, and so much more in various ways. So it depends on what you are selling, what services you are selling. You may be selling partial portions of your time. So it just depends on what you're selling. You can actually set your stock management up. So if we went into a simple product, so for those who are only just starting out in word commerce and you don't know what a simple product is, it's just it's a product that doesn't have any attributes or variants. So it may be just a white t-shirt. There's only one size. There's no different colors. It's just white. So you set up your inventory and your SKU because you need to have that. And there's a tick in the box there that you can actually manage your stock management as well. So if you've got no other products, no sizes or anything else, you can just manage it straight from your product. So when you're in simple product, you still need that box tick to have that in there so that you can manage because you might have 20 white t-shirts, all one size. There's no varying colors, but just do want to manage your stock. You can have it in stock so you can show it's in stock, or you can also allow them to just buy one off. So if you don't want them to have more than one white t-shirt in size large, that's all you do. You have to just tick that because you only get allowed them to buy one. And that's where it is there as well. So we've got our SKU. We've got Enable Stock Management. I've got four. We're not going to allow back orders. And the low threshold is two. So once I once I've sold two, it's going to notify me that I've got two left. And they can buy more than one if they want to unless it's out of stock. You can also do it as a variable product. Does anyone know what a variable product is? Yep. So you can have different colors. You can have different sizes, different shapes. You can have a t-shirt that's got three sleeves for Pete's sake. You can do whatever you like as long as you set it as a variable product. So you would you can give it an SKU as you like, if you like, because you can add to that. Enable the stock product if you want to. So if you just want to say, for example, I have 100 pieces and you put it in your stock quantity, you can just leave it as that. But it's not going to manage your quantities properly. But if you go through and set up your attributes so that you can do your variations, you can then manage stock. So you once you've got your variations set up, you can actually, I'm pointing to this and you can't see what I'm pointing to, you put a tick in the box for manage a stock once you're in your variations and it allows you to put in how many pieces you have of that stock. So if it's a size-large white t-shirt, you can actually put it in there. And then if you've got a blue one, you can have the same thing. So you can have 15 pieces of the white t-shirt and you could have 20 pieces of the blue. And then you can even do it in the different sizes as well. As you can see, the stock, the managed stock button is ticked and then you can put your quantities in there and then you can also say, do I want to allow back orders a lot? And I've just kept going through so you can see I can do various different things. And for example, we've got a steampunk choker, which one my sister sells. We've got two in stock. We can set the quantity. And because she's got several different colors, we've got to drop down there. And each time, if I was to buy one of each color, it would actually just take the stock off my quantity. If you're managing your stock and you think, I don't have time, you can use QuickEdit. So you can actually choose numerous different products at one time if you want to update them all very quickly. In this case, I've just done the one. So you can QuickEdit stock just by hovering over instead of going Edit, just go QuickEdit. It'll allow you to update your stock quantity. And then just remember to update. That's just the follow-on for that one. And that's it. I have no more to say. That was quick. I must have been very nervous. Fortunately, thank you very much. Any questions? Any questions on this? Is there any easy way when you've got like two sister sites selling exactly the same product from the same place so that one talks to the other? I haven't seen a plug-in that will do that yet. I wish we did. I'll have to ask. Might have to get one custom made. Interesting one. We've got a client who's actually got three warehouses around the world and we're building a WooCommerce shopping cart with drop shipping. So it can work at the postage and everything based on where the warehouse is. They only list each product once. How is it possible for the stock management to reflect what's actually at the warehouse end, not just at the product level? Not just at the product level. Are they using the same system? Same website for all three. So that would be the same as using a POS system. For example, Vend will allow you to set up different locations and you've got your quantities here so your inventory is sitting in your POS and once you update that, as long as you have your other locations set up, it will update them. Okay, cool. So I would have a look at that and just see if the system is set like that because you can set up different locations and it's the same as Square. If you're running a POS system and you have all your products in there with your inventory set up in there, it should update your loc, the quantities as someone buys something. Based from the location it's coming from. That's right. Even though it's listed once on the website. That's right. Perfect. Thank you. Hi, so when you manage the stock, do you export it out to a spreadsheet and back in or do you just go onto the site and manage it that way? So what were you, sorry, what was that you were saying? When you manage the stock levels, do you export it out onto a spreadsheet and then import it back in? It depends on how you're doing it. If you've only got a few products you can do it within your website itself by going, you can even do a bulk edit for your quantities or you can actually export your products. If you're doing a major upload, change all the quantities and then re-upload it. And you can do that from within your product area now. So you can export all those in a bulk download and then just bulk upload them. If you've got thousands of products, hundreds of products. If not, just do it on your website and do it as a bulk edit. You can actually tick what products you want to update and then go edit, bulk edit. If you want me to show you later, I can. Hi, Tony. Is there a way to manage or integrate WooCommerce into eBay and Amazon so that you manage all your stock levels through WooCommerce and all the product information? WooCommerce has a plug-in called it's for Amazon and eBay. So if you go to WooCommerce.com they actually have a plug-in there for eBay and Amazon. So I'd have a look at that. My question is what reporting tools do you use for your clients? What reporting tools? At any time you want to take a snapshot of the inventory or... Generally our clients work with their own products so we show them how to update their own quantities so they know what products they have. So they only have to look within their WordPress website to have a look to see what products they have or they can download it as a spreadsheet and have a look at it that way. It's entirely up to them. They can run their own reports through WooCommerce but we don't tend to look after their reports because they do it themselves. Sorry. I'll get him first. Thank you. Have you ever experienced like integration between the stock management in WooCommerce and the accounting system like a MyOB inventory stem? I haven't come across the MyOB one but I have certainly seen the zero one and Vend and QuickBooks. Do you have any solution or just plug-in that I can use? Usually there's a plug-in for most things so I would have a look online to see if there's one for MyOB because I have never had to look for one. Zapier I think actually does a lot of those sorts of things as well. So have a look on there. Oh my gosh. All the way out in the back corner. I hope it's worth it. Hi Tony, how are you? Good, how are you? What's your recommendation for advanced stock plug-ins? Advanced stock plug-ins? So for really large stores where they want to say see the stock all in one view or manage the stock without actually having to go to for example Christmas sales the company might want to actually just be able to change the stock in one view rather than having to go in and out of time and if you had any experience with sort of besides your sort of default were you stock management? Any other plug-in recommendations that are worth looking into? I really haven't had to use any other except for I did buy one to do all my bulk uploading and then found out that WooCommerce will allow me to do everything anyway after we bought the license for it so I haven't used any advanced WooCommerce seems to be able to do a lot of things and if you're working with bigger systems like Vend and Square and you have your inventory already set up in those usually that's where you would manage it anyway and that updates it all. Hi Tony, Dave I've been kind of racking my brain over the last 20-30 minutes how this would work I do use the WooCommerce inventory component but it's only for items I have 220-odd items but I don't always stock them so I sell products that I don't have in stock and I use my inventory through zero which works beautifully with WooCommerce so I'm just wondering how there's adjustments made if you're doing a stock take you find you're down a couple of items I guess the financial transaction needs to be done through your accounting package to make that adjustment That's right, yeah we did have a question about zero and a lot of the things for example had to be done within zero I don't like zero either but there are other systems that I prefer to use zero seems to be the hardest and you do have to use your account assignment. Yeah I'm a lover of zero it works beautifully for me I can understand applications where people have that stock in their shop and they're selling it and that would probably work quite well for them and I'm just trying to work out how I phrase question to you that's what I was just racking through my brain so my reliance is very much on the zero side of things for inventory I can't put that order across to zero unless I've got that stock item in there so I can't complete that order until it's in there because it's reliant on that but anyway thanks for the presentation Not a problem, sorry I couldn't help you