Decide exactly when an order moves your stock.
Pre-orders shouldn't deduct on Processing. Bank transfers shouldn't deduct until Completed. Refunds should restore. The plugin gives every order status, every custom status, and the payment-complete event their own stock action. $49.99/yr or $149 once.
2026-06-24 14:02 · order 42182026-06-24 14:08 · order 42172026-06-24 14:15 · order 4220Native WooCommerce decrements stock on Processing or Completed and restores it on Cancelled. That is it. The moment your shop sells pre-orders, wires-pending B2B, or anything with a custom workflow status, your stock count and your warehouse stop agreeing.
Native WooCommerce deducts at Processing, the same status BACS uses while waiting on a wire. Three "hold" orders later your stock count is 3 below what is on the shelf, and your fast-mover shows out of stock.
You added "Awaiting Pickup" with a custom-status plugin. Native WooCommerce has no idea what to do with it, so orders sit there decremented (or not) based on what status they came from, not what you actually want.
Native WooCommerce restores stock only on Cancelled. Refunded, Failed, and partial refunds leave the deduction in place. Multiply by a busy month and you are running phantom out-of-stocks while units sit on the shelf.
The plugin does four things: pair a stock action to each order status (built-in or custom), fire on payment-complete and checkout-processing events too, scope rules by product or category, and audit every change in a debug log so you can prove what fired and when.
Every status registered in WooCommerce shows up as a row. Custom statuses too, including ones added by Order Status Manager.
"Skip" is the underrated one. It tells WooCommerce not to apply its own default for that status, so your rule wins cleanly.
Card-only stores prefer payment-complete so a failed charge never deducts. High-trust gateways use checkout-processed for instant reservation.
Found out today the triggers were off all last week? Filter orders by date, bulk-apply, done. The log captures every retroactive change.
WooCommerce > Status > Logs. Every trigger fire is a row: order ID, SKU, delta, source status, resulting level. End-of-month audits stop being archaeology.
The plugin hooks into the order's line items and follows whatever stock-managed products are attached. No hardcoded product-type list.
Upload the .zip from Plugins → Add New, then activate.
Settings → Stock Triggers. Each status (built-in + custom) gets a dropdown: Decrement, Restore, Hold, Skip. Save.
Optional. Override a rule for a single SKU (e.g. pre-orders) or a whole category (e.g. wires-only B2B kit).
WooCommerce → Status → Logs → stock-triggers. Every fire is a row with order ID, product, delta, and source status.
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| core: per-status stock action | ||||
| Decrement on Processing & Completed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Restore on Cancelled | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Restore on Refunded | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Restore on Failed | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Custom action per status (decrement / restore / hold / skip) | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Custom order statuses auto-detected | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| event hooks | ||||
| Fires on woocommerce_payment_complete | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Fires on woocommerce_checkout_order_processed | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Per-product override | ✕ | ✕ | not specified | ✓ |
| Per-category override | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| admin tooling | ||||
| Bulk action: reduce stock for selected orders | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Bulk action: restore stock for selected orders | ✕ | ✕ | not specified | ✓ |
| Per-order manual trigger from edit screen | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| Debug log of every stock change | ✕ | stock log only | ✓ | ✓ |
| platform | ||||
| HPOS-ready | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Variable + grouped products | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Single-purpose plugin (no warehouse bloat) | - | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ |
| pricing & ownership | ||||
| Free version on .org | - | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Lifetime tier | - | ✓ $499 (lifetime) | ✕ | ✓ $149 unlimited sites |
| Multi-store licensing | - | per-site tier | per add-on | ✓ unlimited sites |
| 10-year cost | $0 | $499 | ~$800 | $149 |
| 50+ plugins (All Access) | - | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ $499 |
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A streetwear brand sells limited-drop tees that ship 6 weeks after order. Native WooCommerce was decrementing them on Processing, so the same SKU showed sold-out before the run was even printed. The plugin holds stock on Processing for the "pre-order" category and decrements on Completed (when shipping label prints).
Pre-order sell-out signals are accurate again. No more "we sold out" emails on day 1 when the second batch hasn't even been printed.
A UK wholesaler invoices B2B clients via BACS. Wires take 2-7 days to clear. They added a custom "Awaiting Wire" status with Order Status Manager. The plugin paired Awaiting Wire → hold, and Completed → decrement, so phantom out-of-stocks from never-arriving wires stopped.
Phantom out-of-stocks dropped from 6-8/week to 0. The bookkeeper's weekly "what actually shipped?" reconciliation went from 40 minutes to 5.
A boutique cosmetics shop has a 5% refund rate (post-purchase patch tests fail). Native WooCommerce never restores on Refunded, so the warehouse staff was manually adjusting once a week. With the plugin, Refunded → restore for everything in the "physical" category, while digital downloads stay decremented.
Weekly manual restocking eliminated. Stock counts match the physical shelf at end-of-week, every week.
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Every WPFactory plugin ships with the same eight guarantees. Here's what running this one looks like in practice.
Hooks into WooCommerce's order-status registry instead of hardcoding the list. Custom statuses from any third-party plugin appear automatically. No extra database tables, no cron jobs.
Every trigger, action, and scope option is documented at wpfactory.com/docs. Filters exposed for custom decrement logic.
See George's request 5 years ago: category-specific stock triggers, shipped in v1.6.0. Real bug reports become releases within days, not quarters.
14-day refund on yearly and lifetime, 30 days on All Access, no questions asked. If a custom status doesn't trigger the way you'd hoped, support helps; if it still doesn't fit, you walk away whole.
All Access is $499 once for all 50+ plugins, lifetime, unlimited sites, and it includes every plugin we release later. Three lifetime licenses at $199 already cost $597, so the bundle usually wins by your third plugin.
v1.8.3 shipped recently. Tested against the latest WooCommerce within days of every release. HPOS-ready, PHP 8.3 compatible.
Compatible with WC Subscriptions, Order Status Manager, Order Status Rules, WPML, Polylang. Filters exposed for every trigger so custom logic slots in cleanly.
You don't need to write a hook to fix WooCommerce's stock behaviour. Open the settings, pick an action per status, save. The plugin does the rest.
This is what you see inside WordPress once the plugin is activated.
14-day refund on yearly and lifetime, 30 days on All Access. Lifetime pays for itself by year 3. All Access pays for itself with any 2nd plugin you'd ever use. Yearly auto-renew can be turned off in your account.
Buy once. Owns itself by year 3. Use on every site you own.
This plugin + 49 others, lifetime updates, unlimited sites - for $300 more than Lifetime alone.
wc_register_order_status or added by another plugin (Order Status Manager, Order Status Rules, Sequential Order Numbers Pro custom statuses) shows up in the trigger settings automatically. No hardcoded status list.woocommerce_payment_complete (so cards-only orders only deduct after the charge clears), or at woocommerce_checkout_order_processed for high-trust gateways like bank transfer.Decrement on Processing, hold on Awaiting Wire, restore on Refunded, ignore on Failed. Every built-in status, every custom status, every payment event. Per product, per category. Logged. 250+ stores already running it. 14-day refund if it's not for you.
250+ stores · 5.0★ across 12 reviews · WordPress.org plugin · 14-day refund