---
title: Automate Your WooCommerce Inventory Management
description: Automate WooCommerce stock adjustments by choosing which order events decrease or increase product stock.
url: "https://wpfactory.com/docs/automate-inventory-management/"
updated: "2026-09-27"
category: Getting Started
tags:
  - "Stock & Inventory Updates Triggers"
---

# Automate Your WooCommerce Inventory Management

To automate stock adjustments in WooCommerce, install [Automated Stock Update Triggers for WooCommerce](https://wpfactory.com/item/stock-triggers-for-woocommerce/) and choose which order events decrease or increase your product stock. Instead of relying on WooCommerce's fixed built-in behavior, Stock Triggers lets you decide exactly which order statuses and events move stock, so your inventory reflects the real flow of your sales.

### What Stock Triggers does

- **Order status based adjustments:** decrease or increase stock when an order reaches statuses like Completed, Cancelled, Refunded, On hold, and more.
- **Event based adjustments:** also trigger on Payment complete, Checkout order processed, and Checkout update order meta.
- **Manual control kept:** you can still edit stock directly on the product screen at any time. The plugin only changes when automatic adjustments happen.
- **Admin order tools:** adjust stock when you create orders in the admin, and add Decrease stock / Increase stock bulk actions to the orders list.

### Install the plugin

#### From the WordPress plugin directory (free version)

1. In your WordPress dashboard, go to **Plugins > Add New**.
2. Search for **Automated Stock Update Triggers for WooCommerce**.
3. Click **Install Now**, then **Activate**.

#### By uploading the zip (used for the Pro version)

1. Get the Pro plugin from [the Stock Triggers product page](https://wpfactory.com/item/stock-triggers-for-woocommerce/) and download the zip.
2. Go to **Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin**.
3. Select the zip, click **Install Now**, then **Activate**. Uploading a zip is a standard WordPress step, not a Pro-only action.

### Open the settings

Go to **WPFactory > Stock Triggers** (also reachable at **WooCommerce > Settings > Stock Triggers**). The tab has two sub-sections, **General** (the Decrease Stock and Increase Stock triggers) and **Admin** (order-screen and advanced options).

**Note:** both the Decrease Stock and Increase Stock sections are disabled by default. On a fresh install the plugin changes nothing until you enable a section and save. See [Stock Triggers Options Explained](/docs/stock-trigger-options/) for the setup walkthrough.

### Get started

Automated stock updates are free in [Automated Stock Update Triggers for WooCommerce](https://wpfactory.com/item/stock-triggers-for-woocommerce/). The Pro version adds custom triggers and custom order statuses. [See what Pro unlocks](https://wpfactory.com/item/stock-triggers-for-woocommerce/).

Related articles

- [Troubleshooting Stock and Inventory Update Triggers](https://wpfactory.com/docs/troubleshooting-inventory-updates/)

 

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