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Advanced Stock Management

Full inventory dashboard — view all tracked products, variant stock, combination stock, sold & returned quantities in one place. Quick inline editing.

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Category: Inventory · Min plan: Free · Slug: stock-management

Full inventory dashboard — view all tracked products, variant stock, combination stock, sold & returned quantities in one place. Quick inline editing.

Features

  • Full inventory overview dashboard

  • Product-level, variant, and combination stock views

  • Sold & returned quantity tracking

  • Quick inline stock editing

  • Inline SKU editing with duplicate detection

  • Filter by stock status

  • Search by name or SKU

What it does

Activates a dedicated stock dashboard at /dashboard/stock-management listing your products with their current stock plus the running totals of sold and returned units, 30 per page.

Only products that have stock tracking enabled — at product, variant-option or combination level — appear here. Products with tracking off never show up, and archived products are excluded.

The page covers all three of DZBuild's stock modes:

  1. Combination stock — each variant combination (e.g. Red×Large) has its own stock pool.

  2. Option stock — stock tracked at the variant-option level (one pool per "Red", regardless of size).

  3. Product stock — a single number on the product itself.

Combination and option stock are per-product toggles you switch on in the product editor — they don't turn themselves on when a product gets a second variant group. The dashboard reads those toggles to decide which view to render, and combination mode wins when both are on.

How the headline stock number is calculated

  • Product stock — the product's own stock quantity.

  • Option stock — the sum of all active variant-option pools.

  • Combination stock — the sum of all active combination pools.

⚠️ Warning

Options or combinations left with no stock value ("unlimited") count as 0 in that sum. A product can therefore look out-of-stock on this page while it is still perfectly sellable on the storefront. If a total looks wrong, check for unset stock values first.

How to activate

  1. Open Dashboard → Add-ons at /dashboard/addons.

  2. Find Advanced Stock Management under Inventory.

  3. Click Activate (Free plan).

  4. A new Stock management entry appears in the dashboard sidebar.

Using the dashboard

  • Search by product name or SKU.

  • Filter by stock status — All / In stock / Low stock / Out of stock, each chip showing its count. There is no "not tracked" filter: untracked products don't appear on this page at all.

  • Sort — Stock ascending (the default), Stock descending, Name, or Most sold.

  • Inline edit stock — click a stock cell, type a new value, press Enter. The change saves instantly.

  • Inline edit SKU — SKU cells are editable the same way, at product, variant-option and combination level. Duplicate SKUs are flagged with a badge so you can spot collisions.

  • Stock and SKU changes appear on your storefront immediately — no cache wait, no manual refresh.

  • Sold / returned columns show running totals — handy for spotting product-market fit (high sold, low returned) vs. a problem product (high returned). Sold is the product's running sales total; Returned counts the items of orders you have set to returned. Neither number is editable from this page.

A product counts as low stock when its total falls to or below its own low stock alert value, set on the product. If you never set one, the dashboard falls back to 5 units.

Tips

  • Start with product-level stock for simple SKUs. Move to option stock when one dimension matters (e.g. only the size matters, not color). Move to combination stock only when both dimensions track separately.

  • Combinations explode quickly: 4 colors × 5 sizes = 20 SKUs. Don't enable per-combination unless you actually need that granularity.

  • The Returned column is read from order status changes — mark returns by setting an order to returned so the count flows through correctly.

  • For high-velocity stores, set each product's low stock alert value so the dashboard highlights what to reorder first, instead of relying on the default of 5.

Compatibility

  • Paused on the digital theme. Stores running the digital theme sell products with no physical stock, so the add-on stays paused: the card shows a paused state and the sidebar link is hidden. Nothing is uninstalled — switching back to a physical-goods theme restores it untouched.

  • Works alongside Cascading Variants, Custom Product Shipping, and Offer Variant Popup.

  • Stock values feed the storefront in real time — sold-out variants are disabled in the picker automatically.

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