BranchLex – Multi Location for WooCommerce

Description

BranchLex – Multi Location for WooCommerce lets a single store manage many physical locations – shops, warehouses or pickup counters – while keeping WooCommerce’s own products, customers, cart, checkout, payments and orders. Products are never duplicated: each product and variation simply has stock at each branch.

Branches

• Address, map coordinates, opening hours (including overnight), timezone, phone, email and manager
• Activate or deactivate branches, set a priority, and choose whether each branch offers pickup and/or delivery
• Delivery service areas by postcode (wildcards and ranges) or city

Inventory and stock

• Stock per branch for simple products and every variation
• Adjust stock (increase, decrease or set) with a required reason and movement type: purchase, return, damaged, expired, adjustment or manual
• A full audit trail of every stock movement: sales, returns, transfers and adjustments
• Low-stock thresholds per branch, “not sold at this branch” per item, optional negative stock
• WooCommerce’s stock quantity is kept equal to the total of all active branches

Stock transfers

• Pending → Approved → In transit → Received, or Cancelled
• Stock is reserved at the source when the transfer is created and moves when it is dispatched
• Partial receipt, cancellation (stock returns to the source) and approval by the source branch manager

Storefront

• Branch selector as a dropdown, list or modal, via shortcode, block or widget, with optional “Find the nearest branch”
• “Available at” list on product pages; stock status and quantity limits follow the customer’s branch
• Optionally hide products that are unavailable at the chosen branch
• Cart and checkout validation for both the classic and the block checkout

Fulfillment

• Branch Pickup shipping method: one pickup option per branch, shown in the block checkout’s pickup tab
• Branch Delivery shipping method: delivery fee and free-delivery threshold per branch, limited to the branch’s service area

Orders

• Orders are assigned to the pickup branch, manually, or by rules you order: customer-selected branch, postcode, city, sufficient stock, nearest branch, priority
• Optional split fulfillment across branches
• Branch stock is reduced when an order is paid, restored when it is cancelled or fails, restocked on refunds, and moved when an order is reassigned
• Branch column, filter and assignment box on the WooCommerce orders screen (HPOS and legacy storage)

Staff and reports

• Branch Manager and Branch Staff roles that only see their own branches, with a configurable capability matrix
• Dashboard with today’s orders and revenue, low stock and pending transfers
• Sales, order, inventory (including stock valuation) and staff reports with date filters and CSV export
• Activity log of who changed what

Also included

• Optional branch-specific pricing
• Six notifications through WooCommerce emails: new branch order, order assigned, low stock, out of stock, transfer update, transfer received
• REST API (/wp-json/branchlex/v1), actions and filters, WP-CLI commands
• Compatible with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) and the cart/checkout blocks
• Translation ready

This plugin does not connect to any external service.

BranchLex is an independent extension. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by WooCommerce or Automattic. WooCommerce is a trademark of Automattic Inc.

Source code

The admin interface is built with React. The compiled files in build/ are generated from the human-readable source in src/ (included in the plugin) using @wordpress/scripts:

npm install && npm run build

Privacy

The plugin stores the customer’s chosen branch in the WooCommerce session, in a cookie named branchlex_branch and, for logged-in customers, in their account. If a customer uses “Find the nearest branch”, the browser asks for permission and approximate coordinates are kept in the session and stored with the order. Staff actions are recorded in an activity log with the user and, optionally, the IP address. Nothing is sent to third parties. Suggested privacy policy text is added under Settings → Privacy, and the data is included in WordPress’ personal data export and erasure tools.