<p>Running out of stock is always frustrating. Can’t avoid it? Then turn it into something positive! Stop worrying about all the sales you are missing, and think about the customers you can bring back.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>Turn your sold-out products into waitlists</strong> that anyone can join.</li>
<li><strong>Send automated emails</strong> to your customers when their favorite products are restocked.</li>
<li><strong>Recover lost sales</strong>, build customer loyalty, and gain deeper insights into your inventory.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Bring customers back to your store</h2>
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<figure id="attachment_6884861" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6884861" style="width: 796px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-6884861" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bis-signup-bowtie.png?w=896" alt="Build waitlists and notify your customers when their favorite products are back in stock." width="796" height="375" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6884861" class="wp-caption-text">Build waitlists and notify your customers when their favorite products are restocked.</figcaption></figure>
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<p><strong>Back In Stock Notifications</strong> gives your customers an effortless way to know when your products are restocked, and brings them back to your store. Here’s how it works:</p>
<ol>
<li>Customers who land on a sold-out product page are invited to sign up with their email and get notified when the product becomes available.</li>
<li>When the product is back in stock, all customers who joined the waitlist receive an automated notification.</li>
<li>Customers return to your store and complete their purchase!</li>
</ol>
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<figure id="attachment_6884865" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6884865" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-6884865" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bis-notification.png" alt="Did you know that up to 20% of the customers who sign up for stock alerts eventually return and complete their purchase?" width="980" height="1128" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6884865" class="wp-caption-text">Did you know that up to 20% of the customers who sign up for stock alerts eventually return and complete their purchase?</figcaption></figure>
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<h2>Measure demand for out-of-stock products</h2>
<p>Stop hiding sold-out products in your catalog! With <strong>Back In Stock Notifications</strong>, you can:</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>Measure purchase intent</strong> for out-of-stock products.</li>
<li><strong>View your most wanted sold-out products</strong>, and restock them first.</li>
<li><strong>Gain deeper insights into your inventory</strong>, and make more accurate demand forecasts.</li>
</ul>
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<figure id="attachment_6895991" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6895991" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-6895991" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bis-dashboard.png" alt="" width="980" height="896" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6895991" class="wp-caption-text">Use the Stock Notifications Dashboard to check customer activity and view key product insights.</figcaption></figure>
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<h2>Stay connected with your most loyal customers</h2>
<p>Customers who sign up for back-in-stock notifications send you a strong buying signal with high purchase intent. So why not take the opportunity to stay connected with them?</p>
<p><strong>Back In Stock Notifications</strong> stores your waitlist contact details even after all notifications have been sent, making it easy to export and use them in your favorite email marketing platform.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_6885695" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-6885695" style="width: 980px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="size-full wp-image-6885695" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bis-admin-notifications-list-table.png" alt="Turn stock-outs into an opportunity to grow your audience and build customer loyalty." width="980" height="872" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-6885695" class="wp-caption-text">Turn stock-outs into an opportunity to grow your audience and build customer loyalty.</figcaption></figure>
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<h2>Let your customers manage their preferences</h2>
<p>Concerned about your customers’ privacy? The plugin <strong>supports double opt-in</strong>, and handles opt-ins and opt-outs gracefully, giving customers with or without an account the freedom to manage their own preferences:</p>
<ol>
<li>Logged in customers can sign up without entering their email and can manage active notifications from their Account page.</li>
<li>Confirmation and notification emails include a handy “unsubscribe” link that gives your customers a frictionless way to opt-out of all alerts they have signed up for.</li>
</ol>
<figure id="attachment_8869723" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-8869723" style="width: 1946px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-8869723 size-full" style="margin-bottom: 0.5em" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/bis-my-account-view.png" alt="Enable your customers to manage their notifications directly from their My Account page." width="1946" height="1149" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-8869723" class="wp-caption-text">Enable your customers to manage their notifications directly from their <strong>My Account</strong> page.</figcaption></figure>
<h2>Experience WooCommerce at its finest</h2>
<p><strong>Back In Stock Notifications</strong> has been optimized to leverage the latest technologies built into WooCommerce, while making the most of the features you love.</p>
<ul class=""wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Running a high-traffic store?</strong> Thanks to its integration with Action Scheduler, the extension can send thousands of back-in-stock alerts without breaking a sweat.</li>
<li><strong>Need full support for Variable products?</strong> The plugin stores the current variation selections when customers sign up, and restores their selections when they return.</li>
<li><strong>Using <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/product-bundles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Product Bundles</a></strong>? With <strong>Back In Stock Notifications</strong>, your customers can sign up and get notified when bundles with insufficient stock become available.</li>
</ul>
<p>Settle for nothing but blazing-fast, battle-tested WooCommerce software, backed by a support team you can trust.</p>
<h2>Customize and extend it</h2>
<p>Looking for a way to limit notification sign-ups to logged in customers? Don’t want to create a new account for guests who sign up for stock alerts? No problem! <strong>Back In Stock Notifications</strong> comes with everything you need to make it work just how you want.</p>
<h2>How to get started</h2>
<ol>
<li>Buy <strong>Back In Stock Notifications</strong>.</li>
<li>Download and install it.</li>
<li>Make sure that <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/store-owners-guide/#requirements" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">out-of-stock products are visible</a> in your catalog.</li>
<li>Sit back and start recovering lost sales!</li>
</ol>

Back In Stock Notifications

<p>Notify customers when your products are restocked.</p>

<h2><strong>Offer Shoppers Alternative Products</strong></h2>
<p>When a product is out of stock or no longer available, clients may leave your store without making a purchase. The <strong>Alternate Product Recommendations for WooCommerce</strong> 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.</p>
<h2><strong>Benefits</strong></h2>
<p><strong>Customer satisfaction</strong></p>
<p>Offering an alternative product lets your customers know that you care about their shopping experience.</p>
<p><strong>Keep customers shopping and buying</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong>Reduce cart abandonment</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<h2><strong>Features</strong></h2>
<p>1.<strong> Alternate Product Recommendation Types</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><strong>No Longer Available</strong> – 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><strong>Recommend Alternate Product</strong> – If you choose this option, then you can recommend single/multiple alternate products.</li>
</ul>
<p>2. Alternate products can be shown in two different designs.</p>
<p>3. Recommended Products can shown in either Carousel/Slider type.</p>
<p>4. Option to display the SKU on Recommended Products.</p>
<p>5. SKU can be displayed Before/After the Product Price.</p>
<p>6. Site admin can track the products viewed & purchases made by this plugin.</p>
<p>7. You can set the threshold to update the visit count if the user views the same product multiple times.</p>
<h2><strong>How does it work?</strong></h2>
<h3><strong>Product no longer available</strong></h3>
<ul>
<li>A user will normally see a notice saying an item is <strong>“No longer available for purchase”</strong> when they visit the product page of an out-of-stock item.</li>
<li>With the <strong>Alternate Product Recommendations for WooCommerce </strong>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"><strong>Product Availability Notice on Simple Product</strong></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"><strong>Product Availability Notice on Variable Product</strong></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Single alternate product</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<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"><strong>Alternate Product Recommendation on Simple Product</strong></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"><strong>Alternate Product Recommendation on Variable Product</strong></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Multiple alternate products</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<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"><strong>Multiple Alternate Products on Simple Product</strong></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"><strong>Multiple Alternate Products on Variable Product</strong></figcaption></figure>
<h3><strong>Products are available</strong></h3>
<p>When products are available, an alternate recommended product or products are displayed.</p>
<p><strong>Single recommended alternate product</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<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"><strong>Product Available with Alternate Product for Simple Product</strong></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"><strong>Product Available with Alternate Product for Simple Product</strong></figcaption></figure>
<p><strong>Multiple recommended alternate products</strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<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"><strong>Product Available with Multiple Alternate Product for Simple Product</strong></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"><strong>Product Available with Multiple Alternate Product for Variable Product</strong></figcaption></figure>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<p>Minimum PHP version: 5.6</p>

Alternate Product Recommendations

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

Back In Stock Notifications vs Alternate Product Recommendations