Description
StockNotify adds a “Notify me when this product is back in stock” form to WooCommerce product pages whenever a product, or a selected variation, is out of stock.
Core flow
- A product (or variation) goes out of stock.
- A customer enters their email address on the product page.
- The product comes back in stock.
- The customer receives an email notification.
- Store owners can track who subscribed and who was notified. (planned for a future release)
This release (1.0.0) includes:
- A back-in-stock subscription form on the single product page.
- Support for simple products.
- Support for variable products, with the form appearing automatically for the selected out-of-stock variation.
- AJAX submission with no page reload.
- Duplicate-subscription protection.
- Automatic “back in stock” email sent to every pending subscriber as soon as a product or variation returns to stock.
- The notification email is a standard WooCommerce email, editable under WooCommerce > Settings > Emails (subject, heading, extra text, HTML/plain format) and themeable by copying its template into
yourtheme/stocknotify/.
Requirements
- WooCommerce must be installed and active. StockNotify will show an admin notice if it is not.
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Installation
- Upload the
stocknotifyfolder to/wp-content/plugins/, or install the zip via Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin. - Activate the plugin through the “Plugins” screen in WordPress.
- Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active.
- Visit any out-of-stock product to see the subscription form.
FAQ
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Does this work with variable products?
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Yes. When a shopper selects a variation that is out of stock, the subscription form appears automatically for that specific variation. If a different, in-stock variation is selected, the form is hidden again.
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Does this plugin send the “back in stock” email yet?
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Yes. As soon as WooCommerce marks a product or variation as back in stock, every subscriber who is still waiting for it is emailed automatically. Sending happens a short time after the stock change (via WP-Cron) so that saving a product or processing an order is never slowed down by the outgoing emails. Each subscriber is only notified once per subscription.
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Can I customize the notification email?
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Yes. It’s a normal WooCommerce email, so it appears under WooCommerce > Settings > Emails, where you can change the subject, heading, additional text, and switch between HTML and plain text. To change the layout itself, copy
templates/email/back-in-stock.php(and, for plain text,templates/email/plain/back-in-stock.php) from the plugin intoyourtheme/stocknotify/email/. -
Where are subscriptions stored?
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In a dedicated database table (
{prefix}stocknotify_subscribers) created on activation, separate from WooCommerce’s own tables. An admin screen to browse subscribers is planned for a future release.
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Changelog
1.0.0
- Initial release: back-in-stock subscription form for simple, variable, and individual variation products.
- Automatic email notification, sent to subscribers when a product or variation comes back in stock.