The Analytics add-on gives WP Inventory Manager a WordPress inventory analytics dashboard: one screen under the WP Inventory menu that answers the questions you otherwise assemble by hand. How many items do we carry, how many are active, how much stock is on hand, what is out of stock, and what is about to run out? Summary cards at the top give the numbers; the tables below break them down by category and by status, list what changed in the last 30 days, and flag every item at five units or fewer.

WordPress inventory analytics that grow with your add-ons

The dashboard reads whatever else you have installed. With the Reserve Cart it adds a Reservation Overview: total reservations and their value, a reservations-per-week chart with the value line on a second axis, the most recent orders, the most reserved items, and a CSV export of every reservation with the checkout form fields flattened into columns, ready for a spreadsheet. With the Ledger it adds a Ledger Summary of entries, pending value and completed value. With the Locations Manager it breaks inventory down by location, and with Advanced User Control it lists the users who own the most items. Sections for add-ons you do not have simply do not appear.

A date filter at the top of the page applies to the reservation and ledger figures, so you can compare this month with last, or pull one quarter’s reservations into the export. The inventory tables always show the current state of your stock and are not date-filtered. The dashboard is read-only: it reports on your inventory and never changes an item.

Analytics requires WP Inventory Manager Pro with an active license; on the free plugin it shows an upgrade prompt instead of the dashboard. If your license lapses, the dashboard keeps working and renewal is only needed for updates and support. The documentation covers installation and each section of the dashboard.

(Note: This add-on requires a licensed copy of the WP Inventory Manager)

The Advanced Search add-on adds front-end inventory search filters, Amazon style, to WP Inventory Manager. Choose which fields your visitors can filter by, the order of those fields, and how many values to show before a “See More” link. All of this is done with a drag-and-drop interface in your WordPress dashboard, with instructions right on the page.

Inventory search filters where your visitors are

Put the inventory search filters on the front end either through a widget in any sidebar, or anywhere on a page through a shortcode with plenty of parameters to make it fit. Visitors can combine as many filters as you offer, and the available values update as they choose, so they never end up with an empty result. For example, if a visitor ticks the Lighting category and no lamps come from a particular make, that make drops out of the list. Only fields that actually hold values appear as filters, so an unused field never shows up empty.

Advanced Search works with the standard inventory fields and, if you use the Advanced Inventory Manager, with the custom fields you define per inventory type: the number of strings on a guitar, the seating of a sofa, the wattage of a lamp. A store with hundreds of items, a rental fleet, a library of props, or a school equipment catalog all get the same quick narrowing that visitors expect from any large shop. Nothing changes in how you manage stock: the filters read the fields and values you already maintain, and a field you stop using disappears from the filter on its own. Setup takes a few minutes; the documentation covers the widget, the shortcode and every option, and there is a short video walkthrough on YouTube.

(Note: This add-on requires a licensed copy of the WP Inventory Manager)

Have more than one store, warehouse, van or storeroom? The Locations Manager is the multi-location inventory add-on for WP Inventory Manager. Create any number of locations, each with its own name and address, and split every item’s quantity across them: eight in the showroom, twelve in the warehouse, two out on the delivery van. The item’s total stays the single number your visitors see, while you keep track of where each unit actually is.

How the multi-location inventory add-on works

Once your locations exist, every item’s edit form gains an “Assign to Locations” field where you enter the quantity held at each one. Moving stock between locations is a matter of changing two numbers, and an optional check on save confirms that the location quantities add up to the item total, so a typo cannot quietly lose a unit.

Every change is written to the Location Activity log: which item, which location, how many, when, and by whom. You can add manual entries too, for returns, breakages or a stock count, so the log doubles as a per-location audit trail. When a visitor reserves an item, the add-on takes the quantity from your locations in the priority order you set, moves to the next location when the first is empty, and can name the location in the confirmation email so the customer knows where to collect.

Locations Manager suits any inventory that lives in more than one place: a retailer with two shops and a stockroom, a rental company with depots, a school with equipment spread across buildings, a charity with several warehouses. It works with the Ledger add-on, so each ledger entry can record the location the stock moved from. For the wider picture, read our guide to multi-location inventory management in WordPress; the documentation covers every setting, and there is a short demo on YouTube.

(Note: This add-on requires a licensed copy of the WP Inventory Manager)

The Reserve Cart add-on turns WP Inventory Manager’s one-item reservation form into a multi-item reservation cart. Out of the box, a visitor can reserve a single item at a time; with Reserve Cart they add as many items as they like from your listing, adjust quantities, and send one request for all of them. You get a single reservation email listing every item, and your visitor gets a single confirmation.

How the multi-item reservation cart works

An “Add to Cart” button appears next to every item in your listing and on each detail page. Two shortcodes do the rest: [wpinventory_cart] shows the current cart anywhere on your site, and [wpinventory_checkout] builds the checkout page, with the cart contents, an optional running total, and the same reservation form you already use, so name, email, phone and message settings carry over. A cart widget is included for sidebars, and the add-to-cart and checkout templates can be overridden in your theme like any other WP Inventory Manager template.

Everything is configured from the Reserve tab in your WP Inventory settings: the button and checkout labels, which page holds the checkout form, whether to show a total, whether visitors can change quantities, and per-item minimum and maximum quantities for stock you need to ration. Reserve Cart is a natural fit for equipment rental, prop and costume libraries, school and church resource rooms, and any catalog where people usually want several things at once. Stock can be reduced automatically when a reservation comes in, exactly as with the standard form, and with the Ledger add-on each reservation is recorded as a ledger entry against every item in the cart. Reservations arrive by email and appear in your dashboard the same way single-item reservations always have, so nothing changes in how you process them. The documentation covers every setting, and there is a short demo on YouTube.

(Note: This add-on requires a licensed copy of the WP Inventory Manager)