WooCommerce Inventory Pro tracks stock across products, but its admin screens still funnel through per-product edit pages for anything beyond the bulk-edit basics. Movement history, warehouse breakdowns, last-restock date, and supplier-id meta all live in wp_postmeta (and sometimes a plugin custom table) but never surface as columns in the default list.

SleekView reads the product and product_variation post types joined with wp_postmeta for the standard stock keys (_stock, _stock_status, _backorders, _low_stock_amount, _sku) and exposes any custom inventory meta the plugin or your team adds. Build views for receiving, picking, transfers, and supplier reorders, each with the columns and filters that team actually uses.

Inline edits route through WooCommerce's product CRUD where supported, so woocommerce_product_set_stock still fires, and any movement-logging listener the inventory plugin registered captures the change exactly as it would for a manual edit. Direct table writes are a fallback only for plugin-specific keys with no CRUD wrapper, with conflict-detection to prevent stale overwrites.

Inventory is a row-level operation: every SKU, every warehouse, every supplier wants different columns in front of the person doing the work. A receiving clerk needs PO-number and supplier-id; a purchasing manager needs lead time and reorder-window; a multi-warehouse ops lead needs per-location stock side by side. WooCommerce Inventory Pro stores most of this in wp_postmeta alongside the rest of the product fields, which is fine for storage and frustrating for ops because the default list shows a fixed column set.

SleekView lets each role define its own column set, saves it per team, and pipes inline edits through WooCommerce's product CRUD so movement-log listeners fire. The plugin keeps owning the writes and the business logic; SleekView owns the workspace each team sees. Same database, same hooks, none of the per-product click-through.