Bulk update stock and inventory with AI

Apply a supplier's price and stock CSV to WooCommerce in bulk, matched by SKU, with a dry-run diff you approve and a rollback list saved before anything changes.

Difficulty Intermediate

Time ~10 min

Tools rest_api

Prerequisites

A connected site with WooCommerce active, a supplier file with SKUs, and a recent backup before the bulk run.

The prompt

Here is my supplier's stock and price file: [attach the CSV, or paste the rows]. Match each row to a product in my WooCommerce store by [SKU].

The columns are: [SKU, new regular price, new stock quantity]. Before you change anything, show me a dry-run table: product name, SKU, current price and stock, new price and stock, and flag any rows where the SKU did not match a product. Do not write anything yet.

Also save the current price and stock for every product you are about to change, so we have a rollback list. After I approve the dry-run, apply the updates in bulk over the REST API, then tell me how many products you updated and how many rows did not match. I have a recent backup.

Already connected to WPVibe?

Skip the copy-paste. Just ask your AI for the “Bulk update stock and inventory with AI” recipe, or describe the task, and WPVibe runs these steps on your own site.

Your supplier sends a CSV every week with new prices and stock counts, and getting those numbers into WooCommerce means matching hundreds of rows to products by SKU and editing each one by hand. Miss a decimal or overwrite the wrong column and you have mispriced the whole catalog, so the file sits in your inbox and your stock levels drift out of date.

Hand WPVibe the supplier file and it matches each row to a product by SKU, then updates the price and stock in bulk over the REST API. Before it writes anything it shows you a dry-run of every change, and it records the current values first, so there is a clean rollback list to restore from if a number looks wrong after the run.

Attach the CSV and say which columns are price and stock. Ask for the dry-run diff, approve it, and keep the before-values it captures so you can restore in one step. Take a backup before the run, since a bad bulk update touches every matched product at once and there is no single undo button in WooCommerce.

Outcome

Your catalog's prices and stock levels updated in bulk to match the supplier file, with a dry-run you approved and a saved list of the old values to roll back to.