WooCommerce: Out of stock notification issue for a product with low stock

Question

I have set stock for a product to 1. But when I test this setting on front office, trying to buy it, I have this error message:

'Sorry, we do not have enough "product name" in stock to fulfill your order right now. Please try again in 60 minutes or edit your cart and try again. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.'

I don't understand why I have this error, because there is 1 item in stock for this product.

How to get rid of this issue?

Answer 1

The solution is to leave blank "Hold Stock (minutes)"

Answer 2

I had the same issue and after some digging found that one paypal payment for the product in question is 'pending' that means the person did not have sufficient funds in her paypal account and paypal is waiting to get verification from the bank. The seat will not be released for purchase or show out of stock until paypal secures the funds. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

This is not a perfect solution, but see:

WooCommerce > Settings > Products > Inventory

And clear this settings like this:

Like i said, this is not a perfect solution, since it disables one of the many functions of this plugin, but it helps till the wooteam fix this problem.

Answer 4

For Stock / Inventory product purposes in WooCommerce:

1) Woocommerce settings > Products (tab) > Inventory (sub-tab):

Normally your stock management is enable.

You need to set the Out Of Stock Threshold to 0
You can disable Low Stock Thresold notifications too, if needed.

2) At individual product level (on product pages) > Product data meta box > inventory (tab):

You can "Enable stock management at product level" and have individual settings for a specific product. So you will have to check there too.