Stock Manager for WooCommerce is a focused inventory editor that reads and writes the WooCommerce postmeta WooCommerce itself uses: _stock_status, _stock, _regular_price, _sale_price, _sku. The plugin's dashboard renders a paginated table where each row carries one product or variation and a few inline editors. That works well for cell edits, but for the question merchandising asks first thing in the morning, how does the catalog split by stock status, the table is a thousand-row scroll exercise.

SleekView Kanban reads the same postmeta rows and groups them by _stock_status. WooCommerce canonicalizes stock status to three values, instock, outofstock, onbackorder, and the board renders one column per value. Each card shows the SKU joined from _sku, the product title joined from wp_posts, the stock quantity from _stock, and the active price (sale if set, otherwise regular). A fourth column for Low Stock surfaces SKUs whose _stock is at or below the WooCommerce notification threshold.

Drag a card from Out of Stock to In Stock and SleekView updates the _stock_status postmeta row directly. WooCommerce's storefront cache, the cart's add-to-cart eligibility check, the catalog-visibility filter for out-of-stock products, and the low-stock email trigger all keep working because SleekView only reads and writes the same postmeta the Stock Manager and WooCommerce core both already use.

WooCommerce stores stock status as a meta value with three canonical values, and that schema is already a kanban waiting to be drawn. Stock Manager makes the rows editable but does not redraw the catalog as a board, which is the read surface merchandising actually needs. The kanban view turns a paginated table into four columns with counts on top, and the question 'how much of the catalog is healthy right now' answers in one glance instead of a pagination scroll.

The Low Stock virtual column adds the urgent restocking queue without inventing a new field, it just compares _stock to _low_stock_amount and highlights what is already in the WooCommerce data model. Drag-and-drop replaces the dropdown plus save click that every status change demands today, and the savings compound across a busy week. Stock Manager's editing flow, the WooCommerce storefront, the cart's add-to-cart logic, the catalog visibility filter, and the low-stock email trigger all keep working without changes because the kanban writes the exact same _stock_status postmeta row that Stock Manager itself does.

The table is for editing, the board is for reading and reacting, and both surfaces share a single source of truth.