A 15-minute inventory sweep — not another catalog scan.
This is stock and orders, not missing images. Export once. Reorder what is about to run out. Stop reordering what has not sold.
- Minutes 0–5
WooCommerce → Products → Export (keep Stock). Drop it on low-stock.html. Threshold 3. Reorder or hide the SKUs that will sell air. - Minutes 5–12
Export orders (SKU, date, status). Drop products + orders on dead-stock.html. 90 days. Paid statuses only. - Minutes 12–15
For each dead SKU: do not reorder. Discount, bundle, or write it off later. We do not invent a dollar amount without a cost column. A written chapter is the Store Audit ($149) if you email both files.
Catalog images and SKUs are a different Monday: 20-minute catalog sweep. Shopify idle stock: Shopify dead stock. Woo low stock how-to: woocommerce-low-stock.html. Owner Telegram pings are a later plugin: Telegram stock alerts.