WC Inventory Overview 1.42.0

WC Inventory Overview 1.42.0 — Replenishment Planning & Bulk Draft PO Creation

Release Date: August 2026
Plugin Version: 1.42.0
Database Version: 11 (unchanged from v1.40.0)

Overview

This release completes the replenishment workflow started in v1.40.0. You can now review every item that currently needs reordering in one Planning screen, then create supplier-grouped Draft Purchase Orders from the lines you select — with quantities you control.

You stay in control. Nothing is ordered automatically. Drafts are created only when you explicitly confirm. Existing Purchase Order screens and the full place/receive workflow are unchanged.

Note: Development version 1.41.0 (Planning screen alone) was never published. This train ships once as v1.42.0.

What's new

Replenishment Planning (M24)

• Planning tab under Purchasing — a catalog-wide (or selection-scoped) read-only plan of current needs-reorder items.
• Grouped by supplier with each supplier’s currency shown separately (never blended).
• Suggested quantities from your configured default replenishment quantity when set; otherwise shown as zero for you to decide.
• Unresolved section when no single eligible supplier can be determined (no history, or multiple possible suppliers).
• Scoped planning from Inventory Overview via a bulk action that opens Planning for the selected items only.

Bulk Draft PO Creation (M25)

• On the same Planning tab, users who can edit Purchase Orders see checkboxes (default unchecked) and editable quantities.
• Create Draft Purchase Orders builds one Draft PO per resolved supplier group from your selection.
• The server always re-checks needs-reorder status, supplier, and product identity at confirm time — the browser only submits which lines you selected and the quantities you entered.
• Duplicate / concurrent protection for this workflow: same-form replay is blocked; overlapping commits on the same item are serialized; items that already have a draft/placed/partially-received PO line are skipped rather than duplicated.
• Partial success: if one supplier group cannot be created, other groups in the same confirm can still succeed. You see a clear created / failed / skipped summary.
• Drafts keep unit cost 0 and no invented expected date; currency comes from the supplier; each PO notes it was created from Replenishment Planning.

Why this matters to you

• See the full replenishment picture before creating any PO.
• Turn a reviewed plan into real Draft POs without re-typing lines per supplier.
• Keep the existing PO review / place / receive process as the path to stock.

Visibility

• Viewing Planning requires Purchase Order view access.
• Creating Draft POs from Planning requires Purchase Order edit access. View-only users still see the read-only plan.

What to expect after upgrading

• No database change — DB_VERSION stays at 11. No migration runs.
• No automatic ordering and no background jobs for purchasing.
• Existing Purchase Orders, suppliers, and Inventory Overview behavior remain as in v1.40.0; Planning and bulk draft creation are additive.

Compatibility

• Requires PHP 7.4+
• Requires WordPress 6.0+
• Compatible with WooCommerce 6.0–8.5+
• HPOS-compatible (High-Performance Order Storage)

Upgrade notes

Back up as you normally would, then upgrade. Because there is no schema change, this is a plain code update. Intermediate development version 1.41.0 was never tagged or published.

Known limitations

• Advisory locks used during bulk commit serialize other bulk commits on the same catalog items; they do not lock out unrelated stock or PO edits made outside this workflow.
• A deliberate later reorder after a prior draft has been received/cancelled/closed_short remains allowed when the item again needs reordering — that is intentional.