Smart Manager

Item: Smart Manager
Rating: 4.6
Author: Fast WordPress

by StoreApps

A spreadsheet-style editor for WooCommerce products, orders and stock with inline bulk edits.

4.4288 WordPress.org reviewsInventoryFreemium

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What Smart Manager does

A spreadsheet-style editor for WooCommerce products, orders and stock with inline bulk edits.

It sits in the inventory part of a WordPress stack and is sold by StoreApps on a freemium basis. We recommend it in our inventory guides because it does that one job well without asking you to rebuild the rest of the site around it.

Every plugin adds work to a page request, so treat this as a decision with a cost. Record a speed test before you install it and run the same test afterwards, on the same page, so you know exactly what it charged you.

Real user ratings

Score

4.4/5

Reviews

288

Active installs

10,000+

Downloads

1.5M

Latest version

8.96.0

Last updated

2026-08-24

These figures come straight from the public WordPress.org plugin directory API for version 8.96.0, not from us. Check them yourself on the WordPress.org listing. Our own editorial score is 4.6/5.

Where Smart Manager ranks elsewhere

Smart Manager does not appear in the published "best of" lists we track from WPBeginner, TechRadar, Kinsta, Themeisle and similar sites. That is not a mark against it - those roundups are short and skew towards the biggest names.

What changed in the latest version

v8.96.0Latest release

New: WordPress 7.1 compatible
New: WooCommerce 11.0.1 compatible
Fix: Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Smart Manager grid due to improper escaping of column names [Thanks to Patchstack team]
Fix: Link and color options not working in the Text Editor modal when editing Rich Text fields such as 'Description' and 'Additional Description' from Smart Manager grid
Update: UI/UX improvements in the footer
Update: POT file

v8.95.0

Fix: Smart Manager dashboard not loading due to conflicts with other third-party plugin scripts loaded on the dashboard
Fix: Deselected dashboard values remaining visible in Select2 dropdown when adding a new privilege in Access Privilege Settings (Pro)
Update: POT file

v8.94.0

New: WordPress 7.0.2 compatible
Fix: Taxonomy fields (e.g. Categories, Brands) displaying IDs in the grid before saving Inline Edit changes
Fix: Child taxonomy terms not visible in some cases in the Smart Manager grid
Fix: Updating taxonomy fields (e.g. Categories, Brands) using Bulk Edit not working in some setups where term IDs and term taxonomy IDs differ (Pro)
Fix: PHP fatal error in some cases when updating prices for WooCommerce Subscription Products using Bulk Edit (Pro)
Update: Pricing page related changes
Update: Allow admins to manage Custom Views created by other admins and non-admin users (Pro)
Update: Support for deleting Saved Advanced Searches (Pro)

Release notes are the developer's own words, published on WordPress.org. Read the full changelog

Pros and cons

Bulk editing that feels like a spreadsheet
A free tier you can trial before paying
Actively maintained and used on production sites we test

Bulk actions are hard to undo
The features most sites need sit in the paid tier

How to use it

1Install on a staging copy first if the site takes money.
2Work through the setup wizard and connect any external accounts it needs.
3Configure the one feature you installed it for, and leave the rest off.
4Test the result as a logged-out visitor on both mobile and desktop.
5Re-run our speed test to confirm the plugin has not cost you load time.

How it compares

Other inventory plugins we recommend, with their rating and pricing model.

Plugin	Our rating	WordPress.org	Pricing	Best for
Smart Manager	4.6	4.4 (288)	Freemium	Bulk editing that feels like a spreadsheet
ATUM	4.5	4.7 (128)	Freemium	Purchase orders and supplier records free
Stock Sync	4.2	4.4 (7)	Premium	Automated supplier stock feeds