Woocommerce showing out of stock on products with variants.

Hi @greyville

when I try to change the stock so it doesn’t measure stock levels by variant – but just shows all variants as ‘in stock’, it never saves, so always is listed as ‘out of stock’ unless I put a quantity on the variant

Please be aware that for variable products, you can manage stock either at the product level (parent) or at the variation level. If you enable stock management at the variation level, then the product stock is ignored. Sales will lead to a reduction in the variation stock but not on the parent stock.

If you’d like to manage stock at the product level, I would suggest that you disable stock management at the variation level. For reference, here’s our documentation on inventory management in variable products: https://docs.woocommerce.com/document/variable-product/#inventory-management .

That said, there are plugins that offer a way of sharing inventory between variations. You may want to take a look at this plugin: https://woocommerce.com/products/variation-shared-inventory-for-woocommerce/. Feel free to explore further for more options.

Hey – thanks for the response.
The problem I have is the product itself isn’t updating, just showing as ‘out of stock’.
How do I get it to either blanket activate all as being ‘in stock’ or set the variants to be ‘in stock’? At the moment the only way to do this seems to be to update the stock qty.

Hi there,

If you enabled the Manage stock? in the Inventory settings, then you’ll be forced to enter the stock quantity for the variation products which I believe is what’s happening here.

Try disabling the Manage stock? from the Inventory side and product variation and you should see an option to keep all variations In Stock.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/QjLVKC5.png