changing all Enable stock management at product level

Hey @andy3000

Is there a way to uncheck this box on all products at once. I want to manage all of them at the variation level?

Depending on how many products/product variations you have, this is possible with a CSV file.

* Go to Products, then click on Export up the top
* Select these columns: ID, Type, Name, In stock?, Stock, Parent
* Choose variable product and product variations in the product types
* Export

Then you’ll have a CSV file you can edit. Remove the Stock quantity from the parent and add a number under Stock for a variation. This will mean that stock management is enabled at a variation level.

Save as a new CSV, then go back to Import on your site.

* Upload new saved CSV file
* Check Update existing products
* Continue
* Make sure all fields are mapped
* Import

You will then have all products updated with the stock now being managed at a variation level.

Let me know how you get on!

Thanks,

Hey @andy3000

That is an odd one for sure!

I did something similar using _manage_stock yes|no
for skus whose parent =0

I’m not familiar with that format, it doesn’t look like you’re using the core CSV importer/exporter.

However there were a number that had positive values that show as out of stock.

Hmm, I wonder if something made the stock_status change to 0 for some reason. The context is that a product can have stock but be out of stock.

Did you export a product CSV at that point to see if that was the case?

Thanks,