Clover counts your shop. Your website counts itself.
Clover's inventory tools are good at the register: items, prices, stock counts, low-stock warnings. But they only know about sales made on Clover. Your WooCommerce store keeps its own count, and nothing tells it when something sells at the counter.
So the two drift. A shirt sells in the shop, the website still says it is in stock, and someone buys one you no longer have. Or you keep a safety buffer online and turn away sales you could have made. Keeping both counts by hand works until the first busy Saturday.
CloverWoo joins the two: each Clover item is linked to its WooCommerce product, and a sale in either place takes stock off both.
How the sync works
Sales in both places add up
Most sync tools copy one side's number over the other, which loses a sale whenever both sides change close together. CloverWoo adds changes up against the count both sides last agreed on. Sell one online and one at the counter in the same few minutes and you end up two down, not one. Saving a product on the website does not reset Clover's count either.
How fast
Changes you make on the website, including online orders, go to Clover straight away. Changes made on Clover arrive within seconds on stores connected through the CloverWoo app, and every 5 minutes on stores connected with their own Clover API token, because Clover only sends instant updates to installed apps.
Till sales on your website
You can bring in-store orders into WooCommerce so your reports cover both channels. They never take stock off the website a second time, since Clover already counted them.
Setting it up
- Install and connect. Install the plugin, then connect your Clover account.
- Link what you already have. Clover → Link Products matches Clover items to website products by SKU, barcode or name. You tick the right matches.
- Pick the starting count. Each row shows the website count and the Clover count. Click the right one or type the real number, and both sides are set to it. Linking never changes stock on its own, so a Clover count of 0 can never quietly empty your shop.
- Switch stock sync on under Clover → Settings → Sync.
The full walkthrough is in Link your products and How stock stays in step.
Sizes, colours and barcodes
Clover counts stock per item, so “4 small, 6 medium” needs one Clover item per size. For a product that only exists on your website, Send to Clover creates a Clover item group with one item per size, each with its own price and count, and links every size to its variation.
Barcodes travel both ways: a WooCommerce GTIN or barcode becomes the Clover Product Code, so staff can scan online-only products at the register, and Link Products matches items by barcode too.
Low-stock alerts
Set a threshold under Clover → Settings → Sync → Low Stock Alerts and you get one email when an item drops to it, whether the last sale happened online or in the shop. You get one more only after it has been restocked and dropped again.
Common questions
Can Clover's own inventory app update my WooCommerce store?
No. Clover's inventory tools count stock for the register only; they do not know your website exists. CloverWoo links each Clover item to its WooCommerce product so a sale in either place takes stock off both.
How quickly does stock update between Clover and WooCommerce?
Changes made on the website go to Clover straight away. Changes made on Clover arrive within seconds on stores connected through the CloverWoo app, and every 5 minutes on stores connected with their own Clover API token, because Clover only sends instant updates to installed apps.
What happens if the same item sells in the shop and online at the same time?
Both sales count. CloverWoo adds changes up against the count both sides last agreed on instead of copying one count over the other, so one sale online and one at the counter leaves you two down, not one.
Does it work with sizes and colours?
Yes. Clover counts stock per item, so each size is its own Clover item inside an item group, linked to its size on the website. Send to Clover creates those items for you from a WooCommerce product.
Will linking my products overwrite my stock counts?
No. Linking never changes stock on its own. You see the website count and the Clover count side by side and pick the right one, or type the real number, and both sides are set to it.
Stock looks wrong on one product? See fixing a Clover WooCommerce inventory mismatch.
One stock count, shop and online
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