WooCommerce Inventory Management FAQ
Craftybase works alongside WooCommerce as your manufacturing hub. It tracks raw materials and components that WooCommerce can't see, calculates your real cost per unit using recipes and bills of materials, imports your WooCommerce orders automatically, and syncs finished product stock back to your store via Stock Push. You get full visibility from raw materials through to sale — not just what's listed in your shop.
Yes — WooCommerce includes basic stock tracking for finished products. You can set stock quantities, get low-stock email alerts, enable backorders, and control out-of-stock visibility. For resellers, this is often enough. But for makers who manufacture products from raw materials, there's a gap: WooCommerce has no concept of materials, recipes, or production processes. It only sees the finished product, not what went into it. Learn more in our WooCommerce inventory management guide.
WooCommerce inventory plugins like ATUM and Stock Manager extend product-level tracking — more columns, bulk editing, better reporting. They're useful if you're buying and reselling finished goods. But if you manufacture products from raw materials, you need a fundamentally different kind of system: one that tracks materials, manages recipes and bills of materials, calculates per-unit costs automatically, and handles multi-stage production. That's what Craftybase is built for.
Connecting takes about two minutes. In Craftybase, go to your integrations settings and click Connect WooCommerce. You'll authorize the connection through WooCommerce's API, and Craftybase will start importing your products and orders automatically. No plugins to install, no code to write — just a secure API connection between the two systems.
Yes. Craftybase's Stock Push feature syncs your inventory quantities from Craftybase to WooCommerce. When your stock changes — whether from manufacturing, adjustments, or orders — you can push those updates directly to your WooCommerce store. On Indie+ plans, you review and approve updates before they're sent. On Business and Growth plans, Auto-Push sends updates automatically on a schedule, so your WooCommerce stock is always accurate without manual work.
Yes. Craftybase connects simultaneously with WooCommerce, Etsy, Shopify, Amazon, Square, Faire, Wix, and more — all from one account. Orders from every channel flow into a single inventory system. Stock Push keeps your WooCommerce, Shopify, and Etsy quantities in sync automatically, so you never oversell across channels.
Yes — they're independent integrations that work in parallel. Craftybase imports your WooCommerce orders, calculates your true COGS from actual material costs and labor, then syncs those valuations directly to QuickBooks Online. No manual journal entries or spreadsheet exports — the numbers flow automatically from your WooCommerce sales through to your books.
