Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

Description

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Back In Stock Notifier is a WooCommerce Waitlist Pro Plugin that displays the Email Subscription form on the frontend when a product is Out of Stock. When a Product comes Back in Stock, this plugin notifies the subscribers by email in the background process. Many of the existing plugins loop through the subscribers to send mail, so there is a high chance of failure or timeouts. This plugin is designed to overcome this problem by sending emails using a background process, ensuring it does not fail until the completion of the loop, thus converting your subscribers into customers.

Supported Product Types of WooCommerce

• Simple
• Variable
• Grouped
• Simple Subscription (From WooCommerce)
• Variable Subscription (From WooCommerce)
• Product Bundle (From WooCommerce)

We designed this product to manage subscribers in one place. What happens if we send instock mail to 10,000+ subscribers? The server will likely crash or encounter timeout issues, sometimes resulting in duplicate emails being sent to subscribers.

We designed this plugin to overcome this situation by sending emails in the background, ensuring emails are sent to the respective users without any issues.

Features

• Advanced Waitlist Plugin for WooCommerce.
• Shows the Email Subscription Form when a Product is Out of Stock.
• Automatically notify by email when a product comes Back In Stock.
• Works with Simple Product, Variable Product, Grouped Product, Simple Subscription, and Variable Subscription (Product Level and Variant Level).
• Google reCAPTCHA for Subscribe Field
• Turn the interested visitors into customers using the Back In Stock Notifier.
• Works for both Guests and Members.
• For Members, their Email Id is pre-filled in the Subscription Form.
• Duplicate Email Ids checked for each Product, ensuring the same Email Id will not be duplicated for the same Product Notify List.
• Option to Show Waitlist Subscribe Form on Back Orders
• Error Message customization options.
• Mail subject and message are customizable in Admin Settings.
• Translation Ready.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: WPML Compatible.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Subscription Mail with Unsubscribe Option.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Double Opt-In Support (Main Plugin v1.10.2 required)
• Subscribed Email Ids can be deleted from the backend.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Ban Email Ids and Domains.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Custom CSS to customize frontend Subscriber Form.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Export Waitlist as CSV file.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Mailchimp Sync.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Track Sales.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Polylang.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Edit Subscribers.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Import CSV.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Twilio.
• PREMIUM ADD-ON: Klaviyo.
• Notification Mails are highly customizable.
• Works out of the box.
• Simple and Easy to use.

Extensions

We continue to support this plugin based on our paid extensions. Anyone can afford to buy our extensions. Our Add-ons will add value to the core product.

Listed Extensions are not mandatory to use, but we recommend buying all these extensions.

1. WPML – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
2. Unsubscribe – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
3. Double Opt-In – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
4. Ban Emails – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
5. Export CSV – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
6. Custom CSS – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
7. Mailchimp – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
8. Track Sales – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
9. Polylang – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
10. Import CSV – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
11. Edit Subscribers – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
12. Twilio SMS – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
13. Klaviyo – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
14. Bundle Add-ons(All Add-ons with discounted price) – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
15. and more coming soon

WPML – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

This Addon is based on WPML, for sending an email to your subscribed users based on their language, which has more potential than sending it in the site language. If you are already using WPML, then you already know the advantages. After activation, this plugin will register admin_texts_cwginstocksettings for string translation. Then we pick the subscriber’s current language, check the translated text available for that language, and finally, we mail it to the corresponding user. This Addon is necessary when you want to make use of WPML.

Unsubscribe – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

If you subscribed wrongly to the product/someone wrongly subscribed to the product without your notice, using this addon, that user can unsubscribe from the list at any time. For all members (guests as well), the Success Subscriber email will have an unsubscribe link (using our shortcode). For members, they can unsubscribe from their my account at any time, which lists their subscribed lists.

Double Opt-In – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

If you subscribed wrongly to the product/someone wrongly subscribed to the product without your notice, using this addon, that user will receive an email to confirm the subscription. If they confirm, it will be considered as a confirmed subscription. If they ignore it, the pending list will be deleted automatically after X days. For all members (guests as well).

Ban Emails – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

This Add-on adds great value to the core and blocks disposable email domains/public email domains, as well as specific email addresses. Websites like mailinator, etc., allow the creation of email and subscription to the product, so this will give one more check with email addresses to avoid fake domains being subscribed.

Export CSV – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

Export your subscriber lists to CSV data, which can be used for your records or for promotional emails, newsletter subscriptions, etc. As soon as the plugin is active, an Export CSV button will appear above the list table of Subscribers, and clicking the button will export the CSV data.

Custom CSS – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

Everyone wants to customize their subscriber form, and they want an easy method to design it. Using this Addon, we designed the settings to customize the subscriber form with options like Color, Size, and Custom CSS. This Addon will be very helpful to others without having to customize CSS files.

Mailchimp – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

What if you want to sync your subscriber lists with Mailchimp? Using this add-on, you can configure it and rest assured, as we automatically fetch the subscribers (new/old) and sync them to Mailchimp in the background process.

Track Sales – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

Track Sales is an add-on for Back In Stock Notifier. Using this Addon, you can track the subscribers who purchase a product through our back in stock email.

Polylang – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

Polylang is an add-on for Back In Stock Notifier, which supports sending emails (both success subscription and back in stock email) based on the user’s chosen language.

Import CSV – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

The Import CSV add-on is for the Back In Stock Notifier plugin. Using this add-on, you can import subscribers via a CSV file. This add-on will be helpful when you want

to move/clone subscribers from other platforms to our platform. For a streamlined import, we highly suggest importing 500 entries at a time for a single CSV file.

Edit Subscribers – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

Edit Subscribers is an add-on for Back In Stock Notifier. Using this add-on, the admin can edit already subscribed user entries without any hassle. Let’s say you found that entries of subscriptions contain wrong information that you want to correct. With this add-on, you can easily achieve that.

Twilio SMS – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

The Twilio SMS Add-On for the Back in Stock Notifier for WooCommerce plugin enables you to send automated SMS alerts to customers when items they’re interested in return to stock. By integrating Twilio SMS functionality, this add-on helps you engage customers with timely updates and capture missed sales opportunities.

Klaviyo – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

The Klaviyo Add-on will helpful to sync subscribers from Back InStock Notifier to Klaviyo

Bundle Add-ons (All 13 Add-ons with a discounted price) + Future any New Add-ons – Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro

Some people need a few add-ons, and some people need all add-ons. For them, we created bundle add-ons with a discounted price for all thirteen add-ons + any new add-ons.

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Installation

Minimum Requirements

• PHP version 7.4 or greater
• MySQL 5.6 or greater
• WooCommerce 3.0+
• WordPress 4.7+

Automatic installation

Automatic installation is the easiest option, as WordPress handles the file transfers itself, and you don’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic install of Back In Stock Notifier, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu, and click Add New.

In the search field, type “Back In Stock Notifier” and click Search Plugins. Once you’ve found our plugin with author codewoogeek, you can view details about it, such as the point release, rating, and description. Most importantly, you can install it by simply clicking “Install Now.”

Manual installation

The manual installation method involves downloading our plugin and uploading it to your web server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.

FAQ

Difference between this plugin and other similar plugins?

Actually, we sync and send the email to your subscribers in a background process, so server crashes or timeouts are ignored when using our plugin. This ensures a 99.99% success rate for sent emails.

How to import subscribers’ data to my new site?

You can do this by using the native way of WordPress. Go to Admin Dashboard -> Tools -> Export -> Subscribers -> Download Export File (xml). Later, you can import that data into your new site by visiting Admin Dashboard -> Tools -> Import -> Upload Downloaded XML file and Finish Import. Now you’ve successfully migrated subscribers’ data.

Something went wrong error upon subscription and how to get rid of such error?

Actually,

We use one layer of security to our ajax request which is WP Nonce – but due to caching mechanism from third party plugins/hosting this security nonce also cached which cause this error “something went wrong, please try again after some time”, some cases by setting up cache timeout in plugin settings reduce this kind of issue.

How to get rid of this error?

We added new techniques in version 2.0 to avoid the Something Went Wrong Error –If your site has encountered such issues, we suggest you try the below steps to get rid of the Something Went Wrong Error.

1. Switch to the WordPress REST API Route: Go to Admin Dashboard -> Instock Notifier -> Settings -> Troubleshoot Settings Section -> Frontend Subscribe Form Submission via Oneis WordPress AJAX (default) and the other one is WordPress REST API Route. Try changing that option to “WordPress REST API Route” and checking it out (purge your cache and check it out).

2. Google reCAPTCHA: Consider using Google reCAPTCHA v2 or v3. You will need a Site Key and a Secret Key for this. (Go to Admin Dashboard -> Instock Notifier -> Settings -> Bot Protection -> Bot Protection through -> Google reCAPTCHA -> 1. Enable Google reCAPTCHA in Subscribe Form : Enable 2. Select Google reCAPTCHA version -> v2/v3. Enter the Site Key and Secret Key corresponding to the selected version for proper operation.)

3. Turnstile: Consider using Turnstile as an additional bot protection option. You will need a Site Key and a Secret Key for this. Go to Admin Dashboard -> Instock Notifier -> Settings -> Bot Protection -> Bot Protection through -> Turnstile -> Enable Turnstile in Subscribe Form (Enable) -> Turnstile Site Key -> Turnstile Secret Key. ?

How to override/create a custom template for the front-end subscribe form?

1. Create a folder inside your current theme with the name “back-in-stock-notifier-for-woocommerce.” For example: wordpress -> wp-content -> themes -> storefront/(your theme) -> back-in-stock-notifier-for-woocommerce.

2. Go to our plugin folder, then inside, find the “templates” folder. (wordpress -> wp-content -> plugins -> back-in-stock-notifier-for-woocommerce -> templates -> default-form.php)

3. Open the “templates” folder and copy the file with the name “default-form.php” from that folder.

4. Now, paste the copied file inside your theme under the folder with the name “back-in-stock-notifier-for-woocommerce” (step 1).

5. That’s all. Now, you’ve successfully loaded the template from your theme, and you can edit it however you want.

I manage stock inventory in thirdparty inventory management will your plugin handle this?

Not all site owners manage stock within the website; some of them manage their stock through third-party inventory management. The problem with our plugin is that Automatic Instock Email is not triggered/detected because some third-party software directly updates the stock in the database.

From v2.4, we methodologically implemented support for Third-party stock management to send our Automatic Instock Email. Do the following:

Go to Admin Dashboard -> Instock Notifier -> Settings -> Troubleshoot Section -> Enable this option if you have updated the stock from a third-party inventory plugin. Enable that checkbox option and save changes.

Now we check the product every five minutes to trigger our Automatic Instock Email when the stock status becomes “In Stock.”

How can I manually check for subscribers’ email?

Our plugin syncs with WordPress users who subscribe to our plugin. In some cases, an email id can be added without subscriptions (like cart abandonment, checkout page, etc.) by website owners. To check such emails, you can go to Admin Dashboard -> Users -> Add any data you want. For example, custom text.

What to do when a product is in stock but subscribers didn’t get emails?

If your product is in stock and your subscribers didn’t get emails, do the following:
1. Go to Admin Dashboard -> Instock Notifier -> Settings.
2. Go to the Troubleshoot Section.
3. Set “Enable to send Instock Email after ‘X’ time when stock becomes Instock” to something like 5 minutes.
4. Save Changes.

Does your plugin support REST API?

From Version 2.0, we added support for REST API, which allows you to create/update/get/delete subscribers. For this, you need Consumer Key and Consumer Secret.

How to generate Consumer key and Consumer Secret?

We designed our plugin to work on top of WooCommerce, so the credentials created from WooCommerce (consumer key and consumer secret) can also be used for our REST API Endpoint to perform different actions. Go to WooCommerce -> Advanced -> REST API -> Create Keys (with read/write permissions).

What endpoints are provided by your plugin?

We created documentation for the REST API, which you can check here https://documenter.getpostman.com/view/15423262/TzJrDfTe

How to contact your support?

You can contact us via the support Forum of WordPress or by creating a support ticket from our site https://codewoogeek.online/

Reviews

A plugin that does what it says, is easy to set up and excellent support

boxhamster November 21, 2024

Was trying a few of these waitlist plugins. Wish I had tried this one first. All the others gave me issues.This worked out of the box and I was able to set it up within minutes and I could move on with my business and get people on the waitlist.I had a consultation in their support forum and that was answered within minutes! Thank you so much.

Incredible support and highly usable plugin

bounceonline November 20, 2024

Thank you for this excellent plugin, it has made set out business apart from our competitors and the support is just exceptional for considering the plugin is free, you don’t see responsiveness from developers this quick and friendly from premium paid for ones, so thank you and thank you again for doing this.

very impressive plugin and support

v10supercharged3kcmc November 13, 2024

OK, so I installed this plugin, configured it a bit and wasn’t working. if it weren’t for the features in the config settings (you can tweak alot of settings) honestly i woul dhave just uninstalled it and try another one. So I did a quick screen recording showing the issue and opened a ticket with support. Literally, 13 minutes later my problem was solved (a misconfiguration of the captcha on my end). Thank you guys for an awesome plugin ans stellar support!

Something went wrong, please try after sometime

temporaryfailure August 9, 2024 5 replies

If cache is on, it’s always “Something went wrong, please try after sometime” error when trying tosubscribe. Are you going to do something to this? Your solution to change WordPress AJAX (default) to WordPress REST API Route doesn’t work. Totally useless plugin because developer doesn’t do anything to it. Could you really do something to it? I don’t want to clear cache every 12 hours. One star plugin because I cannot give zero star. Thank you very much.

MY FAVORITE PLUGIN

Mike June 11, 2024

As a growing apparel brand, we have products go of stock frequently. This plugin has been a god send for us. And highly effective in driving missed sales opportunities when products come back in stock. Also, amazing support from their technical team.

Perfect plugin

wanderleypassos May 17, 2024

Excellent plugin, does exactly what it promises

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

5.7.3 2024-11-20

• Fix : Code enhanced to display the button only on the JetProduct table

5.7.2 2024-11-19

• Fix : An error of type E_ERROR due to JetProductTables Plugin Compatibility

5.7.1 2024-11-18

• Fix : Duplicate emails to the variable product subscribers when restock variations

5.7.0 2024-11-18

• New : JetProductTables Compatibility
• Fix : Duplicate emails to the variable product subscribers when restock variations
• Fix : Create variations triggers instock email
• Fix : Added clear scheduled event “cwg_schedule_third_party_support” upon plugin deactivation
• Tweak : Tested with WooCommerce 9.4.1
• Tweak : Minimum version of PHP is 7.4

5.6.2 2024-11-12

• Tweak : Renamed the option “Enable Stop Sending Email from staging site environment” to “Disable sending emails on staging environments” in the “Troubleshoot Settings (Experimental)” settings section
• Tweak : Added a confirmation alert when clicking the “Send Instock Mail” in the “Subscribers” List table (Admin Dashboard > Instock Notifier > All Subscribers)
• Tweak : Enhanced email masking in the log file

5.6.1 2024-10-28

• New : Register Deactivation Hook to clear scheduled events
• Tweak : Code Enhanced
• Tweak : Tested with WordPress 6.7

5.6.0 2024-10-25

• New : Added a new setting “Estimate Stock Arrival”
• New : Added a new setting “Disable Prefilled Data for Logged-in Users”
• Tweak : Keep Subscribed Status option info in Status Page
• Tweak : Requires Plugins WooCommerce added
• Tweak : POT File Updated

5.5.3 2024-10-10

• New : Added a new setting “Enable Stop Sending Email from staging site environment”

5.5.2 2024-09-30

• Tweak : Added support for HTML/Markdown in the “Hide Subscribe Form for Guests message” option.
• Tweak : Tested with WooCommerce 9.3.3

5.5.1 2024-09-25

• New : Added a new setting “Hide Subscribe Form for Guests message”
• Tweak : Added dynamic class wrapper for subscriber form
• Tweak : POT File updated
• Tweak : Tested with WooCommerce 9.3.2
• Tweak: Tested with WordPress 6.6.2

5.5.0 2024-09-10

• Tweak : Updated Webhook payload (only_product_name, product_link , product_image)
• Tweak : Tested with WooCommerce 9.2.3

5.4.2 2024-08-22

• Tweak : Tested with WooCommerce 9.2.1

5.4.1 2024-08-21

• Fix: Fatal error – Cannot access offset of type string on string in the file “class-copy-mailer.php”
• Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce 9.1.4
• Tweak: Tested with WordPress 6.6.1

5.4.0 2024-06-03

• New: Added a new setting “Keep Subscription Entry to Subscribed Status even Instock Email Sent (Unless it is Unsubscribed)”.
• Tweak:Tested with WooCommerce 8.9.1

5.3.2 2024-05-03

• Fix: Vulnerability Unauthenticated Arbitrary Shortcode Execution reported by WordFence
• Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce 8.8.3

5.3.1 2024-04-04

• Fix: Critical error on access Bot Protection Section in Default UI Settings
• Tweak: POT file updated

5.3.0 2024-04-03

• New: Added New Bot Protection Settings and moved Google reCAPTCHA under Bot Protection
• New: Added Cloudflare Turnstile Captcha(Supported Visible Captcha)
• New: Added {subscriber_firstname} and {subscriber_lastname} shortcode in Mail Settings
• Tweak: POT file updated
• Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce 8.7.0
• Tweak: Tested with WordPress 6.5

5.2.2 2024-02-27

• New: Added new webhook topic “Subscriber upon Mailsent Status (Back In Stock)”
• Tweak: Enhanced subscriber name retrieval

5.2.1 2024-02-23

• New: Display “Current Stock Status” of the product in the Product column (Admin Dashboard > Instock Notifier > All Subscribers > Subscribers List Table > “Product” column > Current Stock Status)
• New: Display the “Available Quantity” of the product in the Product column if it is in stock and managed by quantity (Admin Dashboard > Instock Notifier > All Subscribers > Subscribers List Table > “Product” column > Available Quantity).
• New: Added Slovak translation files(Thanks to Vlado Laco)
• Tweak: Modified “Quantity” column to “Required Quantity”
• Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce 8.6.1

5.2.0 2024-02-15

• Fix: PHP Deprecated: str_contains(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($haystack) of type string is deprecated
• Fix: PHP Deprecated: Creation of dynamic property CWG_Instock_Mail::$get_message is deprecated
• Tweak: Updated REST API support for fields ‘subscriber_phone’ and ‘custom_quantity’ in subscriber endpoints
• Tweak: Updated Webhook support for fields ‘subscriber_phone’ and ‘quantity’
• Tweak: Updated minimum PHP version requirement to 7.0 or greater
• Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce 8.5.2 and WordPress 6.4.3

5.1.0 2023-11-30

• New: Show Subscribers Count for Product List Table option added in Troubleshoot Settings
• New: WooCommerce Composite Products Compatibility(From WooCommerce)
• Fix: In Log file email not masking properly when email contain .(dot)
• Fix: Instock Emails trigger in Ascending Order
• Tweak: Revoked display of subscribers count column in product list table(It can be enable it in Troubleshoot settings)
• Tweak: Code Enhanced
• Tweak: POT File Updated
• Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce 8.3.0

See changelog for all versions.