<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>Tired of losing sales because a product went out of stock?</h2>
<p>What if your customers got <strong>instant alerts</strong> when their favorite item came back?</p>
<p>With the <strong>Smart Stock Notifications</strong> for WooCommerce extension, you don’t just recover lost opportunities —<br />
you <strong>turn them into loyal, repeat buyers</strong>.</p>
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<h2>Core features that drive results</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>
<h3>Back-in-stock alerts</h3>
<p>Let customers subscribe to products and get automatic email notifications when stock returns. <strong>No more lost sales from silent exits.</strong></p>
<p><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>
<p>Edit subject lines, body content to match your brand tone and style — no code required. <strong>Look professional and stay on-brand.</strong><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>
<p>Built-in bot protection keeps bots out of your notification list. <strong>No bots, no clutter — just high-intent shoppers.</strong></li>
<li>
<h3>No setup required</h3>
<p>Activate it and go — your shoppers can subscribe to stock alerts right away. Zero setup. Zero fuss. <strong>Turn stockouts into future sales — instantly.</strong></p>
<p><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><p>“We used to manually email customers when stock came back. Now it’s automatic. Our conversions are up, and our support time is down.”<br />
— <em>Feedback from early user testing</em></p></blockquote>
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<h2>The business impact</h2>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>More returning visitors</strong></li>
<li><strong>More checkouts from previously missed sales</strong></li>
<li><strong>Less time spent doing things manually</strong></li>
</ul>
<p>Stockouts are inevitable. <strong>Losing customers because of them doesn’t have to be.</strong></p>

Smart Stock Notifications

<p>Automate stock alerts, engage customers, and drive sales with Smart Stock Notifications for WooCommerce</p>

Back In Stock Notifications vs Smart Stock Notifications