<p>Never lose another sale to out-of-stock products! <strong>Instock Notifier</strong> automatically captures customer emails when items are unavailable, displays eye-catching countdown timers for upcoming products, and sends instant notifications when products are back — converting waiting customers into guaranteed sales with powerful automation features.</p>
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<h2>Features</h2>
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<li><em>Coming Soon</em> mode for regular and variable products.</li>
<li><em>Coming Soon</em> arrival time countdown.</li>
<li>Fully customized <em>Coming Soon</em> ended email.</li>
<li>Subscription email form to collect interested customers.</li>
<li>Auto-enable the product after reaching the arrival time.</li>
<li>Auto-sending emails in the background to subscribed customers after reaching the arrival time.</li>
<li>Fully customized <em>Coming Soon</em> badge on top of the coming soon products.</li>
<li>Bulk setting products to the coming soon mode.</li>
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<h3>Turn stockouts into sales opportunities</h3>
<p>Stop watching customers leave when products are out of stock or still coming soon. Instock Notifier for WooCommerce is the ultimate solution for managing product availability, building anticipation for new arrivals, and automatically converting interested visitors into buyers.</p>
<p>With advanced automation features and seamless WooCommerce integration, you’ll capture every sales opportunity — even when products aren’t immediately available.</p>
<h3>Convert lost visitors</h3>
<p>When products are unavailable, visitors typically leave forever. Our subscription forms capture their interest immediately, and automated notifications bring them back to purchase – with conversion rates up to 35% higher than standard email campaigns.</p>
<h3>Build hype with smart countdowns</h3>
<p>Create urgency and anticipation with beautiful countdown timers. Watch engagement soar as customers mark their calendars and return exactly when products launch.</p>
<h3>Enterprise-level features, small business friendly</h3>
<p>From bulk editing and WPML support to custom email templates and variation-specific notifications — get features typically found in enterprise solutions at a fraction of the cost.</p>
<h3>Stock management automation</h3>
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<li>Auto-switch to <em>Coming Soon</em> when stock hits zero.</li>
<li>Automatically restock when coming soon period ends.</li>
<li>Bulk edit coming soon status for multiple products.</li>
<li>Quick edit directly from product list.</li>
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<h3>Perfect for every WooCommerce store</h3>
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<li><strong>Fashion retailers</strong>: build buzz for new collections.</li>
<li><strong>Electronics</strong>: manage high-demand product launches.</li>
<li><strong>Seasonal businesses</strong>: never lose customers during restock periods.</li>
<li><strong>Limited-edition products</strong>: create exclusivity and urgency.</li>
<li><strong>Any store</strong> wanting to maximize every visitor.</li>
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Instock Notifier

<p>Capture customer emails for unavailable items, display countdown timers for upcoming products, and send instant back-in-stock notifications.</p>

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<li>Allow customers to be notified when they can purchase an item that is currently out of stock</li>
<li>Easily identify ‘most wanted’ products to prioritise re-stocking</li>
<li>Allow customers to easily review and edit their waiting lists</li>
<li>Maintain a record of users that have been emailed an in-stock notification</li>
<li>Easily manage your waitlists from the WordPress admin</li>
<li>Add the waitlist elements for any product anywhere you choose using our shortcode</li>
<li>Plug-and-play functionality – just install, activate and go!</li>
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<h2>Keep customers happy with back-in-stock notifications</h2>
<p>Automatically notify customers when a product becomes available for purchase. The Waitlist for WooCommerce extension lets you track demand for out-of-stock items, making sure your customers feel informed, and therefore more likely to buy. Using a simple plugin, you can build up a waiting list of people wanting the unavailable item, then notify these customers automatically when products come back in stock.</p>
<h2>Set up in seconds</h2>
<p>It’s really easy to install and will instantly start turning missed opportunities into future sales. Customers register for an email alert to let them know when a product is back in stock, increasing the likelihood they’ll wait and shop with you instead of going to a competitor. It makes people feel valued by your business, and allows you to replenish stock intelligently based on demand.</p>
<h2>How it works</h2>
<p>It takes seconds for customers to join a waiting list via a button on the product listing of your WooCommerce store.</p>
<figure id="attachment_18734005296225" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734005296225" style="width: 796px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-18734005296225 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Screenshot_20250514_162030.png?w=796" alt="An example of a single product showing the "Join Waitlist" option" width="796" height="738" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734005296225" class="wp-caption-text">An out-of-stock product showing the option to join it’s waitlist</figcaption></figure>
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<p>As soon as you update your stock numbers on the site, everyone on the list automatically gets an email with a link to the product, making it super-simple for them to buy.</p>
<p>Waitlist for WooCommerce fully supports simple products, product variations and the children of grouped products.</p>
<h2>See who’s waiting for what</h2>
<p>With Waitlist for WooCommerce, shop managers can sort products by number of customers on their waiting list. This allows them to quickly prioritize which products to re-stock.</p>
<figure id="attachment_18734005296236" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734005296236" style="width: 896px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-18734005296236 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Screenshot_20250514_162513.png?w=896" alt="The product listing screen showing the additional column for displaying waitlist counts" width="896" height="369" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734005296236" class="wp-caption-text">An example of the added Waitlist column</figcaption></figure>
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<p>Shop managers can also view, manage and contact those on the waiting list for each product directly from the Edit Product screen through a custom product tab.</p>
<p><img class="wp-image-18734005296242 size-medium aligncenter" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Screenshot_20250514_162551.png?w=896" alt="" width="896" height="313" /></p>
<p>Here, it is easy to add/remove users from the waiting list, see archived lists, export a CSV of users on a waiting list/archive and adjust the waiting list options for this product.</p>
<h2>Allow users to manage their own waiting lists</h2>
<p>Users can view any products they have joined the waiting list for on the “Your Waitlists” tab on their “My Account” page.  This allows users to conveniently manage all their waiting lists in one place</p>
<figure id="attachment_18734005296248" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-18734005296248" style="width: 812px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-18734005296248 size-medium" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Screenshot_20250514_162633.png?w=812" alt="waitlist tab shown on the WooCommerce my account page" width="812" height="606" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-18734005296248" class="wp-caption-text">The default “Your Waitlists” tab shown on the “my account” page</figcaption></figure>
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<h2>Get it working your way</h2>
<p>Waitlist for WooCommerce comes with plenty of options for you to get the most from the plugin, including the following:</p>
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<li>options to display opt-in elements when users sign up to a waitlist</li>
<li>options to also display waitlist buttons on archive pages (e.g. the shop page/product category pages)</li>
<li>options to add google analytic tracking codes to Waitlist for WooCommerce emails</li>
<li>options to email a site administrator when a customer joins a waitlist</li>
<li>options to set a minimum stock before Waitlist for WooCommerce in-stock notifications are sent out</li>
<li>and more…</li>
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<h2>Extend and customize</h2>
<p>The default setup is ‘plug and play’, but Waitlist for WooCommerce adds a large number of WordPress action and filter hooks allowing you to customize it to suit your exact needs (See <a href="https://woocommerce.com/document/woocommerce-waitlist/#section-12">documentation</a> for more information). Customizations include:</p>
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<li>Choosing the wording for notification emails</li>
<li>Tweaking the design of ‘join waiting list’ buttons</li>
<li>Hooking in extra functionality when users are added to/removed from a waiting list</li>
<li>Altering the design of the “Your Waitlists” page added to the “My Account” section</li>
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<p><em>Waitlist for WooCommerce</em> is now compatible with the following extensions:</p>
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<li>WooCommerce Subscriptions</li>
<li>WPML (The WordPress Multilingual Plugin)</li>
<li>The Events Calendar (from ModernTribe)</li>
<li>Product Bundles for WooCommerce (please see the FAQs on the documentation page for more information)</li>
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Waitlist

<p>With Waitlist for WooCommerce customers can register for email notifications when out-of-stock products become available.</p>

Instock Notifier vs Waitlist