<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>
<div class="aligncenter" style="max-width: 540px;font-size: 95%;font-weight: normal;font-style: italic;margin-bottom: 40px">
<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>
<div class="aligncenter" style="max-width: 720px;font-size: 95%;font-weight: normal;font-style: italic;margin-bottom: 40px">
<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>Grow your store and make more money with AutomateWoo</strong></h2>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400">Using the powerful, feature-rich automation available within AutomateWoo, you can create a near-endless range of automated workflows to help you grow your store with a fraction of the effort! </span>AutomateWoo allows you to create Workflows – made up of different combinations of Triggers, Rules, and Actions within WooCommerce.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>Triggers</strong> determine the circumstances in which the workflow will run. An example trigger would be doing something when an order is made.</li>
<li><strong>Rules</strong> allow you to perform more advanced logic on your workflows so they only trigger in certain situations. An example rule would be only trigger the workflow for orders with a total above $100.</li>
<li><strong>Actions</strong> define what happens when a workflow is triggered. With AutomateWoo there are a range of customisable actions available to you such as sending an email, changing order statuses or if you are a developer you can define a custom function.</li>
</ul>
<p>Once you’ve created your Workflow you can schedule your workflow to run at virtually any time. Whether immediately, after a set time, or even at a particular hour or day of the week.</p>
<hr />
<h2><strong>Convert and retain customers with marketing that does the hard work for you</strong></h2>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/hero-dashboard.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-4870905 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/hero-dashboard.png" alt="" width="1050" height="500" /></a></p>
<p>Automate and optimize customer communication by sending beautiful <strong>follow-up emails</strong>.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/incentive-fresh.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-4873970 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/incentive-fresh.png" alt="" width="1050" height="500" /></a></p>
<p>Set up <strong>abandoned cart emails</strong> for WooCommerce – with a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-retailers-can-reduce-shopping-cart-abandonment-and-recoup-billions-of-dollars-in-lost-sales-2014-4?r=US&IR=T">63% chance</a> of recovering a lost sale, sending abandoned cart emails is one of the best ways to grow your store.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/beautiful-emails-2.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-4873973 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/beautiful-emails-2.png" alt="" width="1050" height="500" /></a></p>
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<h2>AutomateWoo Features</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>Follow-Up Emails</strong> – Automatically email customers who buy specific products and ask for a review or suggest other products they might like.</li>
<li><strong>Abandoned Cart</strong> – Remind customers who left items in their cart using emails at set intervals.</li>
<li><strong>Win Back Inactive Customers</strong> – Target inactive customers with email marketing campaigns. Include special offers and recommendations.</li>
<li><strong>SMS Notifications</strong> – Send SMS notifications to customers or admins for any of AutomateWoo’s wide range of triggers. (Requires a paid Twilio account).</li>
<li><strong>Review Rewards</strong> – Encourage more product reviews by offering discounts. Limit the discount based on number of reviews posted and the rating given.</li>
<li><strong>Wishlist Marketing</strong> – Send timed wishlist reminder emails and notify when a wished product goes on sale. Integrates with WooCommerce Wishlists or YITH Wishlists.</li>
<li><strong>Birthday Emails</strong> – Delight customers with a special WooCommerce birthday email and coupon using the AutomateWoo Birthdays Add-on (separate purchase).</li>
<li><strong>Card Expiry Notifications</strong> – Notify customers before a saved credit or debit card expires. This can reduce failed payments and churn when selling subscriptions.</li>
<li><strong>Personalized Coupons</strong> – Generate dynamic customized coupons for customers to raise purchase rate.</li>
<li><strong>Subscriptions Automation</strong> – Action WooCommerce Subscription events such as status changes, failed payments and renewal reminders.</li>
<li><strong>Bookings Automations</strong> – Send emails on WooCommerce Bookings events such as booking confirmation or completion.</li>
<li><strong>Refer A Friend</strong> – Boost word-of-mouth sales with the AutomateWoo Refer A Friend Add-on (separate purchase).</li>
<li><strong>Automatic VIP</strong> – Reward your best customers with VIP status based on different spend requirements.</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Why Use AutomateWoo?</h2>
<h3>Effortless setup and management, right from your WordPress backend</h3>
<p>Start sending emails immediately using the template already set up for WooCommerce transactional emails. Design emails in the familiar WordPress editor enhanced by variables that let you insert products using a variety of display options and insert dynamic content.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/send-email.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-4871092 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/send-email.jpg" alt="" width="1100" height="736" /></a></p>
<h3>Send targeted, multi-step campaigns and offer customer incentives</h3>
<p>AutomateWoo gives you complete control over campaigns. Schedule different emails to be sent at intervals or after specific customer interactions and offer incentives using the personalized coupon system.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/email-simple.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-4874051 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/email-simple.png" alt="" width="1100" height="736" /></a></p>
<h3>Track opens, clicks and conversions</h3>
<p>AutomateWoo extends WooCommerce reporting – measure success of your campaigns with the many reports included with AutomateWoo. You can also see a detailed log of every email sent and conversion recorded.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/track-opens.jpg"><img class="alignnone wp-image-4870819 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/track-opens.jpg" alt="" width="1240" height="830" /></a></p>
<h3>Intelligent session tracking and pre-submit email capture</h3>
<p>AutomateWoo’s session tracking technology can detect registered users even before sign-in and can capture guest emails during checkout using the common pre-submit technique. Guest emails can also be captured from any form on your website, such as the newsletter signup.</p>
<p><a href="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/intelligent-session-tracking.png"><img class="alignnone wp-image-4870872 size-full" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/intelligent-session-tracking.png" alt="" width="1060" height="609" /></a></p>
<h3>Unlimited Email Sending</h3>
<p>Many services charge based on email volume, and with AutomateWoo you need not worry about exceeding your plan.</p>
<h3>Developer Friendly</h3>
<p>AutomateWoo is 100% extendable, and we have code examples in our documentation to get developers started.</p>
<h3>WPML Support</h3>
<p>Need to send multilingual emails? AutomateWoo has support for the popular WPML plugin.</p>
<hr />
<h2>Integrations</h2>
<p>AutomateWoo integrates with your favorite plugins and services, giving you the marketing edge you need.</p>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><strong>WooCommerce Subscriptions:</strong> Make managing subscriptions in <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-subscriptions/">WooCommerce Subscriptions</a> almost effortless. Using AutomateWoo, you can create workflows based on subscription events, such as a status change or a renewal payment failure.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Memberships:</strong> Take <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-memberships/">WooCommerce Memberships</a> to the next level with AutomateWoo. Create workflows that automatically send follow-up emails, reward loyal customers with VIP status, and keep an eye on membership cancellations.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Bookings:</strong> Integrate <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-bookings/">WooCommerce Bookings</a> with AutomateWoo to help improve your customers experience, decrease cancellations, or even upsell customers after they make bookings with automated booking confirmation or completion emails.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Points and Rewards:</strong> Set up automated workflows with AutomateWoo to reward specific customer actions and easily create complex reward scenarios for <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-points-and-rewards/">WooCommerce Points and Rewards</a>. Giving points is a great way to build loyalty.</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Wishlists:</strong> Supercharge <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-wishlists/">WooCommerce Wishlists</a>. Use custom triggers in AutomateWoo to notify customers when products on their wishlist go on sale and/or send reminders for unpurchased items at different intervals to bring them back to your site.</li>
</ul>
<h3>And Many More…</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li>Active Campaign</li>
<li>AgileCRM</li>
<li>Campaign Monitor</li>
<li>MadMimi</li>
<li>Mailchimp</li>
<li>Twilio SMS</li>
<li>YITH Wishlist</li>
</ul>
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<h2>AutomateWoo Add-ons</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/automatewoo-refer-a-friend/"><strong>Refer A Friend</strong></a> – Boost your word-of-mouth sales with the AutomateWoo Refer A Friend Add-on.</li>
<li><a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/automatewoo-birthdays/"><strong>Birthdays</strong></a> – Delight customers and boost organic sales with a special WooCommerce birthday email and coupon on their special day.</li>
</ul>
<div class="woo-sc-box normal">AutomateWoo is compatible with the new <a href="https://woocommerce.com/checkout-blocks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cart and Checkout blocks</a> — a customizable, conversion-optimized checkout experience coming soon to WooCommerce.</div>

AutomateWoo

<p>Powerful marketing automation for WooCommerce. AutomateWoo has the tools you need to grow your store and make more money.</p>

Back In Stock Notifications vs AutomateWoo