<h2>Offer Shoppers Alternative Products</h2>
When a product is out of stock or no longer available, clients may leave your store without making a purchase. The Alternate Product Recommendations for WooCommerce plugin offers a solution. When products are not available, the plugin offers your customers alternate products to consider. When products are in stock, the plugin offers customers additional products to purchase.
<h2>Benefits</h2>
Customer satisfaction
Offering an alternative product lets your customers know that you care about their shopping experience.
Keep customers shopping and buying
A customer offered an alternative may be interested in that product and may buy it. Hopefully, they will continue to shop on your site instead of leaving in frustration when an item is out of stock.
Reduce cart abandonment
If a customer already has items in their cart and discovers that something they intended to buy is out of stock, they might leave your site. Offering an alternative to keep them on your site will hopefully also lead to them buying the items in their carts and/or the recommended alternate item.
<h2>Features</h2>
1. Alternate Product Recommendation Types
<ul>
<li>No Longer Available – If you choose this option, then you can display only the message saying the product is no longer available/recommend single/multiple alternate products.</li>
<li>Recommend Alternate Product – If you choose this option, then you can recommend single/multiple alternate products.</li>
</ul>
2. Alternate products can be shown in two different designs.
3. Recommended Products can shown in either Carousel/Slider type.
4. Option to display the SKU on Recommended Products.
5. SKU can be displayed Before/After the Product Price.
6. Site admin can track the products viewed & purchases made by this plugin.
7. You can set the threshold to update the visit count if the user views the same product multiple times.
<h2>How does it work?</h2>
<h3>Product no longer available</h3>
<ul>
<li>A user will normally see a notice saying an item is “No longer available for purchase” when they visit the product page of an out-of-stock item.</li>
<li>With the Alternate Product Recommendations for WooCommerce plugin, users will see the same notification with an alternate single item, or multiple items, to consider in its place.</li>
</ul>
<figure id="attachment_18734003894331" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894331" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894331 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/1.alternate-product-message.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894331" class="wp-caption-text">Product Availability Notice on Simple Product</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_18734003894338" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894338" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894338 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2.alternate-var-no-longer.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894338" class="wp-caption-text">Product Availability Notice on Variable Product</figcaption></figure>
Single alternate product
When a user visits a single product page that is no longer available for purchase, an alternate product is displayed for the user’s consideration.
<figure id="attachment_18734003894344" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894344" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894344 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/3.alternate-product-no-longer-single.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894344" class="wp-caption-text">Alternate Product Recommendation on Simple Product</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_18734003894348" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894348" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894348 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/4.alternate-var-single.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894348" class="wp-caption-text">Alternate Product Recommendation on Variable Product</figcaption></figure>
Multiple alternate products
When a user visits a single product page that is no longer available for purchase, multiple alternate products are displayed for the user’s consideration.
<figure id="attachment_18734003894352" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894352" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894352 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/5.alternate-product-no-longer-multiple.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894352" class="wp-caption-text">Multiple Alternate Products on Simple Product</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_18734003894354" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894354" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894354 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/6.alternate-var-no-multiple.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894354" class="wp-caption-text">Multiple Alternate Products on Variable Product</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Products are available</h3>
When products are available, an alternate recommended product or products are displayed.
Single recommended alternate product
When a user visits a single product page that is available for purchase, an alternate product will be displayed to the user for their consideration.
<figure id="attachment_18734003894359" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894359" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894359 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/7.alternate-var-no-multiple.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894359" class="wp-caption-text">Product Available with Alternate Product for Simple Product</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_18734003894360" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894360" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894360 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/8.alternate-var-no-multiple.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894360" class="wp-caption-text">Product Available with Alternate Product for Simple Product</figcaption></figure>
Multiple recommended alternate products
When a user visits a single product page that is available for purchase, multiple alternate products will be displayed to the user for their consideration.
<figure id="attachment_18734003894363" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894363" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894363 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/9.alternate-product-alternate-multiple.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894363" class="wp-caption-text">Product Available with Multiple Alternate Product for Simple Product</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_18734003894365" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734003894365" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734003894365 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/10.alternate-product-message.png" alt="" width="980" height="552" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734003894365" class="wp-caption-text">Product Available with Multiple Alternate Product for Variable Product</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Alternate Product Recommendations

Offer your customers alternate product choices or substitute items when items are out of stock with the Alternate Product Recommendations for WooCommerce plugin.

<h2>Tired of losing sales because a product went out of stock?</h2>
What if your customers got instant alerts when their favorite item came back?
With the Smart Stock Notifications for WooCommerce extension, you don’t just recover lost opportunities — 
you turn them into loyal, repeat buyers.
<hr />
<h2>Core features that drive results</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>
<h3>Back-in-stock alerts</h3>
Let customers subscribe to products and get automatic email notifications when stock returns. No more lost sales from silent exits.
<img class="alignnone wp-image-18734005299210 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/smart-stock-notifications-woocommerce-product-page-demo-cut.png?w=896" alt="WooCommerce product page with an out-of-stock item and back-in-stock alert form powered by Smart Stock Notifications plugin." width="896" height="371" /></li>
<li>
<h3>Customizable templates and messaging</h3>
Edit subject lines, body content to match your brand tone and style — no code required. Look professional and stay on-brand.<img class="alignnone wp-image-18734005299635 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/smart-stock-notifications-customizable-email-template.png?w=896" alt="Custom stock alert email editor in the Smart Stock Notifications plugin for WooCommerce" width="896" height="538" /></li>
<li>
<h3>Shield your store from spam signups</h3>
<figure id="attachment_18734005299755" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734005299755" style="width: 896px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img class="wp-image-18734005299755 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/woocommerce-stock-alert-recaptcha-setup.png?w=896" alt="reCAPTCHA settings screen in Smart Stock Notifications WooCommerce plugin to block spam signups" width="896" height="317" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734005299755" class="wp-caption-text">Activate reCAPTCHA with Smart Stock Notifications to stop spam and ensure only real shoppers sign up.</figcaption></figure>
Built-in bot protection keeps bots out of your notification list. No bots, no clutter — just high-intent shoppers.</li>
<li>
<h3>No setup required</h3>
Activate it and go — your shoppers can subscribe to stock alerts right away. Zero setup. Zero fuss. Turn stockouts into future sales — instantly.
<img class="alignnone wp-image-18734005300059 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/smart-stock-notifications-woocommerce-plugin-general-settings.png?w=896" alt="Smart Stock Notifications plugin settings page for WooCommerce showing stock notifications enabled with daily stock check and 90-day log retention" width="896" height="415" /></li>
</ul>
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<h2>Real store owner insight</h2>
<blockquote>“We used to manually email customers when stock came back. Now it’s automatic. Our conversions are up, and our support time is down.” 
— Feedback from early user testing</blockquote>
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<h2>The business impact</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>More returning visitors</li>
<li>More checkouts from previously missed sales</li>
<li>Less time spent doing things manually</li>
</ul>
Stockouts are inevitable. Losing customers because of them doesn’t have to be.

Smart Stock Notifications

Automate stock alerts, engage customers, and drive sales with Smart Stock Notifications for WooCommerce

Alternate Product Recommendations vs Smart Stock Notifications