Shelf Planner

I’m glad to hear you like the extension ??

We’re currently designing the logic of how the PO entry can work in a simple and effective way for users not using the purchase order function that comes in the extension. It’s one of the top priorities, as incoming stock is a main kpi in the calculations.

In the current design you can manually enter this, or use the Purchase Order function (see image below) that is built in the extension. (I have added some more information here) That might be the easiest and quickest way as a workaround.

With regards to the variations – yes, we do all calculations on a variation level, up to 5 levels (for example product / colour / size would be 3 levels and we generate the order proposals on the lowest level, in the example above on size)

Hope I understood your question, please let us know if there’s anything else ??

Hi,

Our plugin works without any problem with Bulky Product editor. Any ‘standard’ WooCommerce measure or value that you update in Bulky will also be updated in our extension, as in the example below, when changing of updating product stock values:

We do however have some unique parameters you can only manage in our extension, such as supplier, lead times, weeks of stock and for example cost prices;

To answer your second question; we create order proposals using current stock, incoming stock and your store’s sales forecast.

At the moment, we do not integrate incoming PO’s, but you can create these in the Purchase Order pages in the extension. Alternatively, you can update incoming stock manually in the ‘Manage Inventory’ page (see image below) We do have integrations to import PO’s in our roadmap and plan to release this shortly.

(you’ll find more information about all features on our support site)

I hope this helps – please let us know if you have any other questions.-

• This reply was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by Shelf Planner.

Hi,

yes, it’s been tested up to WooCommerce 7.5 and WordPress 6.2

Thanks again for using our plugin.-

Just wanted to follow up – these issues have now been resolved. We have done some serious refactoring on the plugin in the past few weeks.

Thanks again for pointing this out to us.

Hi,

just wanted to follow up on your questions couple of weeks ago – we have now updated to a new version, with new UX and more powerful reports:

You will find the new version integrated in the WooCommerce menu, under Inventory Management.

Let us know if you have any other questions.-

Hi,

thanks for your interest in our. product.

Our latest version with updated UX, improved algorithms and functionality is currently submitted to WooCommerce.

We expect to launch this new version within the next 4-5 weeks.

As soon as we have the update ready, we will also inform all users of the current version.

Hi,

I could see the forecast has been update now, hope it is more in line.

please let us know if you have any further questions or thoughts, we’re happy to help.-

Hi

thanks for your comment and you’re right, these numbers seem a bit off. But I think there might be an explaination for this;

We use different algorithms depending on the age or lifecycle of the products. The choice for which algorithm to use is mainly driven by the date that is set for what we call ‘product launch date’.

Initially, we use the WooCommerce ‘publish date’ (see screenshot above) to determine the Product Launch Date, but you can overwrite these dates in the Product management pages:

It can happen that these dates are set to 1970.01.01, for example if you have uploaded products into WooCommerce tables from one database to another.

In that case, the engine picks these items up as products with an extremely long lifecycle and the forecast will be too low. Updating the Product Launch Date should in this case do the trick.

On out merchant support site, you can find some more information on how the forecast is calculated and what parameters you can change to impact the results: https://merchants.shelfplanner.com/faq/

I hope this answers your question. Please let us know if you have any other thoughts ??

Hi,

thanks for testing our plugin, and thanks for your patience while our engine was processing the data to generate a forecast.

If no data is shown in the stock performance report, it is most likely because the Cost Price for products is not entered yet.

The idea is to show all order proposals are shown in both units and cost price, and by supplier.

You can easily bypass this step by ticking the box ‘Include all items w/o Cost Price, in the Setting/Forecast Settings page. This should populate all tables and reports.

Please also find some more information on the user guide;

https://merchants.shelfplanner.com/knowledge-base/stock-performance-report/

Initially we did calculate the sales forecast and ideal stock on the plugin side, but due to performance challenges, we have moved this to our backend. Especially with larger volumes, we want to make sure not to affect the performance of your store.

Please let us know if you have any further thoughts or questions.
BR.

Hi,

I will close this ticket, hope we answered your question.

Hi Elkin,

this is fixed in the last release (2 days ago)

Please let us know if there is anything else we can do to help you.

Kind regards

Hi Elkin,

we have added this to our roadmap and will be possible to do in the next release.

Kind regards

Hi,

technically, you can get a negative margin, if for example the shipping cost and tax / vat values are deducted.
Are you applying vat on the retail price, or are there any shipping costs applied on the orders?

Thanks for your feedback.-

Hi
thanks for your feedback

This issue has been resolved with the latest update.

Please let us know if you have any other thoughts or comments.

BR

Hi,

sad to hear you leave Ahmed.
Of course we’ll make sure this issue is fixed asap as well.
Thank you for informing us.

Kind regards