The Reserved Stock Pro plugin is the perfect solution to prevent overselling in WooCommerce, better customer happiness and experience when selling limited quantity with website high traffic.

Our plugin is for WooCommerce stores that operate with small amounts of stock and high demand.

Why You Need Reserved Stock Pro

The problem is WooCommerce will only reduce stock once an order is created. Therefore multiple customers could have the same product in their cart at them same time. This causes customers to potentially miss out on products while they filling out the checkout and even some cases negative stock when orders are placed at the same time.

Learn more about how WooCommerce handles stock reservations.

Reserved Stock Pro provides the customer with a better experience, by reserving the products stock in their cart for a limited time.

A Better Customer Experience

Show customers how popular your products are! When customers can see how many of your products are currently reserved, they know they better get theirs quickly so they don’t miss out!

Let customers know when popular products may be coming back into stock: If one product’s stock is completely reserved in other carts, customers might want to hang around to try to reserve one as soon as it expires or is removed from another customer’s cart.

The features of Reserved Stock Pro include

• Stock decreases when products are added to the cart.
• Stock increases when products are removed from the cart.
• Stock levels update to match cart changes.
• Set product expiry time.
• Updated expiry times when product quantity is changed in the cart.
• Stock is removed from the cart after your set time, whether customers are on the site or not.
• Customizable add to cart notice on the product page.
• Customizable automatically removed from cart notification.
• A customizable real countdown for reservations.
• Dedicated database table and optimized queries for speed.

We recommend you read the technical explanation to see learn how reservations work on the server.

The main features of Reserved Stock Pro

Stock decreases when products are added to cart

When a customer adds a product to their cart, the stock numbers are decreased on the product page and instead marked as reserved.

Example: Product A has 10 in stock. A customer adds 4 x Product A to their cart. The stock levels on Product A will now show 6 in stock.

Stock increases when products are removed from cart

When a customer removes a product from their cart, its stock numbers are increased on the product page.

Example: You have 6 Product A in stock and 4 Product A held in a customer’s cart. The customer removes the 4 Product As from their cart. The stock levels of Product A will now show 10 in stock.

Stock levels update to match cart changes

When a customer updates the product quantity in their cart, the stock quantity is also updated on the product page.

Example: Product A has 6 in stock and 4 are in a customer’s cart. The customer decides to add 4 more of Product A to their cart. Now the customer has 8 x Product A in their cart. Product A shows 2 left in stock.

Set product expiry time

Set the amount of time you will allow customers to reserve the product in their cart. After this time, the product will be removed from their cart and released back into stock for other customers.

Example: You want customers to only hold products in the cart for 60 minutes. A customer adds 5 x Product A into their cart. Five product As will be reserved for 60 minutes (you can change this amount of time to whatever you like). At the end of 60 minutes, the 5 Product As will be removed from the customer’s cart and Product A’s stock numbers will increase by 5.

If the customer goes through checkout and finishes their order before 60 minutes, then the product quantity stays the same. The product stock has already been decreased by 5 when they added it to the cart.

Updated expiry times when product quantity is changed in cart

If customers decide to add more of a certain product from their cart, the expiry time will also refresh in their cart. The expiry time does not reset when customers decrease the quantity of a product in their cart.

It’s important to give customers extra time when shopping on your site. Let them add as many products as they like without time pressure.

Stock expires from the cart whether customers are on the site or not

Stock reservations are tracked in the database using a custom database table. This means that stock will expire correctly whether customers are actively on the site or not. Stock will be restored and available for the next customer automatically.

Customizable add to cart notice on product page

Easily add a notification message that will be shown on each product page telling customers that the product has limited stock and how long they can hold a product in cart before it expires. The notification message is fully customizable via the settings.

Note: This is one message that applies to all products. Developer filters are available for further customization.

Customizable automatically removed from cart notification

Customers are notified using the WooCommerce notifications when a product under stock control has been automatically removed from their cart. This notification won’t be shown to customers who remove the product themselves. You can customize this message via the settings.

Note: This is one message that applies to all products when expired from the cart. Developer filters are available for further customization.

Keep customers informed with a sticky countdown

Customers need to know what is going on, that way nothing is unexpected and they will continue to have a great shopping experience. This is where the built-in countdown for reservations comes in. Your customers will be able to see exactly how long they have to purchase their products. The countdown will automatically display at the bottom of each page while the customer has reserved stock in their cart. There are no unexpected surprises.

The countdown automatically refreshes and reflects any changes to the customer’s cart.

Reserved Stock Pro is Made for Performance

Reserved Stock Pro uses a custom database table (rsp_reserved_stock.) Using a custom database table allows for the best performance without making any changes to your data or products.

Product reservations are made for each guest customer or signed-in customer. A customer visits your store and adds a few products to their cart, then those are products are reserved using their guest session ID (automatically generated by WooCommerce). If the customer logs in to their account, then their “guest” reservations will automatically be transferred to their customer id.

Read more details about In our technical explanation.

Caching compatibility

Reserved Stock Pro supports a few caching plugins out of the box. The product page cache will automatically be cleared when the reserved stock level changes, so customer will always see the current stock status.

• LiteSpeed Cache
• WP Rocket Cache
• WP Fastest Cache
• W3 Total Cache
• Redis Cache
• Kinsta Cache

All stock reservation database queries are optimized for performance with use of object caching to reduce the about of database requests.

Need more information on caching? Read the cache documentation.

How does RSP compare to Cart Stock Reducer?

We’ve written a comparison post between our Reserved Stock Pro and the WooCommerce Cart Stock Reducer plugin.

Requirements for Reserved Stock Pro

Our plugin is designed specifically to use with products with inventory. Therefore the reservation features will only apply to products and variations with the “managed stock” setting enabled.

This plugin requires products to have “Managed Stock” Enabled in the product settings. Reservations are only applied to stock managed products and will not affect non-stock managed products. Customers can have both normal and stock managed products in their cart.

Note: Bookable products using WooCommerce Bookings are not affected. WC Bookings has its own management “in-cart” system. If you would like to change the WooCommerce Bookings “in-cart” expiry time, then have a look at our Clear Cart & Sessions plugin.

FAQs

What product types are supported?

RSP supports reserving the stock for the following product types:

• Simple Products
• Variation Products – Each variation will be reserved separately.
• Grouped Products – Any product with stock within a grouped product will be reserved.
• Subscription Products – WooCommerce Subscriptions (Use with code snippet)
• WooCommerce Product Bundles

See our list of compatible product types and plugins.

What happens if customers abandon their cart?

The timer starts as soon as a customer adds a product to their cart or changes the quantity in their cart. The product stock will be removed from the cart at your set expiry time, even if the customer leaves your site.

For example: you allow customers to hold products in a cart for 60 minutes. If a customer adds 5 x Product A to the cart, they will have 60 minutes to complete the purchase. The customer then abandons the cart 20 minutes later, which means the 5 Product As will be reserved for the remaining 40 minutes. After the set expiry time, the stock levels will increase by 5 on Product A’s page.

How can I limit the product quantity in each cart?

You can make sure that a single person can only reserve a limited amount of each product per order with our Minimum & Maximum Quantities for WooCommerce plugin.

Can robots reserve inventory?

No, we’ve added additional protection by blocking reservation attempts made by common bots.

Previously bots could reserve products in their cart depending on if they can crawl your add to cart buttons.

How can I customize RSP? Do you have developer hooks?

Yes, we’ve made our Reserved Stock Pro plugin flexible with many WordPress filter and action hooks. See our prepared example code snippets in the developer hooks to help you get started.

Feature Requests

Got a feature request or an awesome idea? Let us know via support!