Store Operations
Stocktaking Software: What Actually Counts, and What It Costs
Most stocktaking tools edit stock; few can count it. Eight options compared on workflow, write-back, undo and price, with every figure sourced.
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How to Count Stock by Variation in WooCommerce: Sizes and Colours
Six sizes in four colours is 24 lines to count, not one product. Where WooCommerce keeps each number, how to spot mixed…
Store Operations
WooCommerce Stock Quantity Not Saving: One Rejection, Five Silent Skips
Stock not saving? WooCommerce either refuses the edit — ‘the value has changed since editing’ — or saves nothing and says nothing.…
Store Operations
How to Undo a WooCommerce Stock Update: Bad Count, Import or Bulk Edit
A count, import or bulk edit overwrote your stock. Four routes back, only the first a true undo — ordered by what…
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Store Operations
Count stock, investigate differences, then keep quantities accurate while your store stays open.
- WooCommerce Stocktake: How to Run a Physical Stock Count
- WooCommerce Stock Levels Wrong: 9 Causes and How to Reconcile Them
Product Catalog
Build your variation structure, resolve missing options and organise products into useful categories.
- WooCommerce Attributes vs Variations (and Global vs Custom)
- How to Create a WooCommerce Variable Product (and Where It Quietly Stalls)
- WooCommerce Category Rules: Four Ways to Automate Membership
Pricing and Quotes
Choose a catalog or quote workflow, then check where WooCommerce exposes prices and purchase controls.
- WooCommerce Catalog Mode Without a Plugin: Where the Snippets Leak
- WooCommerce Hide Price Until Login: The Snippet and the Leaks It Misses
- How to Add a Request a Quote Flow to WooCommerce — and Get Paid
AI Workflow
Save useful AI conversations, find them again and move the knowledge into your own notes.
- How to Find an Old ChatGPT Chat When Search Comes Up Empty
- How to Search ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini Chat History in One Place
- How to Get Your ChatGPT Chats into Obsidian (and What to Keep)
Email Follow-up
Track unanswered conversations and compare follow-up workflows before granting an extension access to your inbox.
- How to Track Email Follow-ups in Gmail: Four Searches, Two Habits
- Gmail Follow-up Reminders vs Finding What You Already Forgot
- Are Gmail Extensions Safe? What OAuth Actually Grants
Engineering
See how we test WooCommerce plugins across APIs, structured data and other public surfaces.
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Orders During a WooCommerce Stock Count: What Apply Writes
Sales during a WooCommerce stock count look after themselves — the snapshot sees to that. Goods arriving do not. What an apply writes, and when to close.
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WooCommerce Hide Price Range on Variable Products: All Three Surfaces
WooCommerce hide price range: variable products print the number three times - parent HTML, variation JSON, Store API. Filter all three, then verify.
Pricing and Quotes
WooCommerce Price on Request: Hide the Price for a Specific Category
Hide the price for a specific WooCommerce category: the filter that shows Price on request, and the eight surfaces that still give the number away.
Pricing and Quotes
Hide or Remove the WooCommerce Add to Cart Button: Four Doors, Not One
Remove the WooCommerce Add to Cart button, with code or without — and close what the snippet misses: variations, block themes, the URL, the Store API.
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How to Add a Request a Quote Flow to WooCommerce — and Get Paid
The whole WooCommerce request a quote flow: show Price on request, capture the enquiry as a real order, and get paid when the customer accepts.
Pricing and Quotes
WooCommerce Catalog Mode Without a Plugin: Where the Snippets Leak
WooCommerce has no catalog mode setting. Here is the whole snippet in one block, and where code-only leaks: block themes, variations and the Store API.