Description
This plugin adds a simple “Notify me when back in stock” form to any out-of-stock WooCommerce product page. Shoppers enter their email, and the plugin automatically emails everyone on the list the moment you mark the product back in stock.
Also includes a Restock Waitlist page under WooCommerce in wp-admin, showing you exactly which out-of-stock products have the most people waiting — real demand data for deciding what to reorder first.
Features (v0.2.0):
- Automatic “Notify me” form on out-of-stock product pages, with a live count of how many other shoppers are already waiting
- Works with simple and variable products — each variation is tracked and notified separately
- One email per subscriber per product — no duplicate signups
- Admin waitlist view showing pending-subscriber counts per product, plus a “Mark back in stock” one-click action that flips stock status and triggers notifications immediately
- Admin settings page to customize the email subject/body/from-name — no code required
- “Send test email to yourself” button so you can preview the exact email a subscriber would receive
- Outgoing emails are wrapped in WooCommerce’s own branded email template (same look as order-confirmation emails)
- One-click, no-login unsubscribe link in every email (GDPR/CAN-SPAM friendly)
- One-click CSV export of your full waitlist
- Spam protection via an invisible honeypot field and a disposable-email-domain blocklist — no Google reCAPTCHA account or API key needed
- Fetches a fresh security nonce immediately before the subscribe form submits, so it keeps working correctly on sites using a page-caching plugin
- “My Account > Restock Waitlist” tab so logged-in customers can see and self-manage every product they’re waiting on, not just via a one-off emailed link
- Optional “notify on backorder” mode for stores that sell backordered items
- Admin “Notified” history tab showing exactly who was emailed and when, in addition to the live “Pending” view
- Opt-in “delete all data on uninstall” setting (off by default, so your waitlist survives an accidental delete)
- WPML/Polylang-ready
- Lightweight — one small database table, no external services required
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Installation
- Upload the plugin files to
/wp-content/plugins/joebucci-restock-alerts-for-woocommerce, or install directly through the WordPress plugins screen. - Activate the plugin.
- Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active.
- That’s it — the notify form appears automatically on any out-of-stock product page.
FAQ
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Does this work with variable products?
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Yes — each variation is tracked separately, so a shopper is notified only when the specific variation they wanted is back in stock.
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Does this send email through my own WordPress site?
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Yes, via the standard
wp_mail()function. For reliable delivery, we recommend using an SMTP plugin (e.g., WP Mail SMTP) rather than relying on your host’s default mail setup. -
Can customers manage their own subscriptions?
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Yes — logged-in customers get a “Restock Waitlist” tab under My Account where they can see everything they’re subscribed to and remove entries themselves. Guests (not logged in) still get a one-click unsubscribe link in every email.
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Contributors & Developers
“JoeBucci Restock Alerts for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
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Changelog
0.2.0
- Added admin settings page for email subject/body/from-name customization.
- Added one-click, no-login unsubscribe link to every restock email.
- Added CSV export of the full waitlist from the admin page.
- Added honeypot + disposable-email-domain spam protection (no API key required).
- Fixed a class of failures where page-caching plugins serve a stale AJAX nonce, causing subscribe requests to silently fail — the subscribe form now fetches a fresh nonce immediately before submitting.
- Added WPML/Polylang compatibility (wpml-config.xml, textdomain loading).
- Redesigned the frontend notify box with a clearer, branded look.
- Fixed a real bug where the notify form and variation-level notifications didn’t work correctly for variable products; subscriptions are now correctly tagged and matched per variation.
- Added a live pending-subscriber count to the frontend notify form.
- Added a “Send test email to yourself” button on the Settings page, using the currently saved template and sample data.
- Outgoing restock emails (real and test) are now wrapped in WooCommerce’s own branded email template.
- Added a “Mark back in stock” action on the admin waitlist page that flips stock status and triggers notifications with one click.
- Added uninstall.php with an opt-in “delete data on uninstall” setting (defaults to keeping data).
- Added a “My Account > Restock Waitlist” tab so logged-in customers can view and remove their own subscriptions without needing the emailed unsubscribe link.
- Added an optional “notify on backorder” setting for stores that sell backordered products.
- Added an admin “Notified” history tab (up to 200 most recent) alongside the existing “Pending” view.
0.1.0
- Initial release: notify form, stock-change email trigger, admin waitlist view.