<p>Did you know that 72% of customers experience frustration when they are unable to purchase a desired product? In the fast-paced world of e-commerce and retail, timing is crucial. That’s why we are excited to introduce our Product Availability Scheduler for WooCommerce, the ultimate tool for managing limited-time product availability.</p>
<p>Koala’s Product Availability Scheduler for WooCommerce features a real-time countdown timer and dynamic availability status, allowing you to create a sense of urgency, increase conversions, and keep customers informed. Whether you are launching a flash sale, managing event tickets, or restocking high-demand items, our scheduler ensures transparency, engagement, and ultimately, increased sales. Say goodbye to customer frustration and missed opportunities – never let uncertainty cost you a sale again.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Display a real-time availability timer showing the product’s available date and time</li>
<li>Add global product scheduling rules</li>
<li>Add product availability schedule on product level</li>
<li>Hide price and replace it with custom text</li>
<li>Add custom availability text for product availability and unavailability</li>
<li>Add availability schedules based on:
<ul>
<li>Product level</li>
<li>Categories and tags</li>
<li>User roles</li>
<li>Specific countries</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Show the timer on both the single product and listing pages</li>
<li>Enable email notifications to inform customers about product availability</li>
<li>Customize the timer by adjusting:
<ul>
<li>Text and number color, font size, and weight</li>
<li>Set the background colors of the counter and the digit</li>
<li>Set the label format and template</li>
<li>Schedule cron jobs by days, hours, or minutes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Maintain comprehensive email logs for product availability emails sent</li>
</ul>
<h2>Keep Customers Updated with Product Availability Status</h2>
<p>Merchants often struggle with selling limited-time-only products in their e-commerce stores. The majority of the struggle comes from adding availability and unavailability schedules. Now, with a product availability scheduler for WooCommerce, merchants can easily schedule product availability and unavailability statuses, show an availability timer on product and listing pages, and let customers add their emails to get notified on product availability.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147324" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-1-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="792" /></p>
<h2>Show Availability Status & Timer on Product and Listing Pages</h2>
<p>Apart from displaying the availability scheduler on product pages, merchants can also display all the availability information like availability status, countdown timer, and messages on listing pages. This ensures that customers can see the availability status without visiting the product page.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147330" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-2-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="766" /></p>
<h2>Create Global Product Availability Scheduling Rules</h2>
<p>Easily apply the product availability scheduler to multiple products and categories at once using global product rules. Choose whether to create a product availability or unavailability schedule and add the days, start & end date/time for the availability schedule. Hide the price and add availability and unavailability messages.<br />
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<h3>Restrict Availability Status by Product, Category, and Tag</h3>
<p>Merchants can apply and restrict the availability scheduler to all or specific products, categories, and product tags. This ensures that limited-time-only products have availability scheduling only.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147333" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-6-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="630" /></p>
<h3>Offer Availability Scheduling to Specific User Roles</h3>
<p>Merchants can hide or show product availability scheduling for specific user roles or users only. This ensures that only customers or customer types that are needed to be targetted for limited-time-only products, are targetted.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147380" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-7-2.png" alt="" width="980" height="630" /></p>
<h2>Add Availability Scheduling at Product Level</h2>
<p>While the rules are helpful in adding an availability scheduler to multiple products and categories at once, product-level settings enable merchants to add scheduling for specific products. All the rule-level settings are easily applicable to each product.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147256" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-4.png" alt="" width="980" height="817" /></p>
<h2>Detailed Log for Emails Collected</h2>
<p>Merchants are provided with a complete log of all the customer emails collected for availability notifications. The product availability emails are sent automatically, and merchants can customize these email templates easily.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147346" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-5-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="693" /></p>

Product Availability Scheduler

<p>Keep customers in the loop with real-time product availability countdown timers and notify them instantly via email when they’re available.</p>

<p><strong>Stachethemes Seat Planner</strong> is a WooCommerce extension for selling <strong>assigned seats</strong> from interactive floor plans – built for theaters, cinemas, event spaces, and venues that want professional seat booking without enterprise stadium ticketing complexity.</p>
<p>Customers pick seats on a live map; WooCommerce handles cart, checkout, coupons, and orders. You manage layouts, pricing, multiple show dates, box-office sales, check-in, and reporting from one plugin.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<h3>Core booking & seat management</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Drag-and-drop <strong>seat planner </strong>– design your venue with seats, screens, labels, and static objects.</li>
<li>Customers select seats in real time on an interactive map (zoom, pan, seat details).</li>
<li><strong>Cart reservation timer</strong> holds seats while customers checkout, helping prevent double bookings.</li>
<li>Run <strong>multiple event dates</strong> on one product – one seat map, many performances.</li>
<li>Mark <strong>handicap / accessible seats</strong> so they stand out on the map for customers who need them.</li>
<li><strong>Best Available</strong> (optional) – auto-select the best contiguous seats; filter by price when seats have different rates.</li>
<li><strong>Auto-fill</strong> and pattern tools to place rows or sections quickly when building your layout.</li>
<li>Optional rules: stop sales before the event, prevent isolated empty seats, and restrict certain seats to on-site purchase.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Pricing, discounts & upsells</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Set <strong>per-seat prices</strong> by location, section, or individual seat.</li>
<li>Seat-level <strong>discounts </strong>– percentage or fixed amount on selected seats or groups.</li>
<li><strong>Custom fields</strong> per seat-free or paid add-ons, upgrades, meal choices, and more (with conditional display).</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce coupon seat limits</strong>-require a minimum or maximum number of auditorium seats in the cart before a coupon applies.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Checkout & customer experience</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Works with standard <strong>WooCommerce cart and checkout</strong>-no separate ticketing checkout to learn.</li>
<li>Configurable redirect after adding seats: cart, checkout, custom URL, plus optional cart timer on the storefront.</li>
<li><strong>PDF tickets</strong> in order emails and My Account downloads, with a unique <strong>QR code</strong> per seat (optional).</li>
<li>Auto-complete paid auditorium orders when appropriate (configurable, including mixed-cart behavior).</li>
<li>Front-end <strong>dark mode</strong> and accent color options for a branded seat-selection experience.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Manager & day-of operations</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>Manager dashboard</strong>-view seat availability by date, block seats, and override status without a customer order.</li>
<li><strong>Manually create or bulk-create orders</strong> from the admin – phone sales, comps, and box office in a few clicks.</li>
<li><strong>Edit bookings</strong>-change seat, date, discounts, and custom fields on existing orders.</li>
<li><strong>Move bookings to another date</strong> for multi-date products (bulk action supported).</li>
<li>Filter by scan status; <strong>unscan</strong> tickets when you need to reset check-in.</li>
<li><strong>Booking Integrity</strong> tools-scan for double bookings, ghost seats (meta out of sync), and stalled orders holding inventory.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Check-in & ticket validation</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Validate tickets with the built-in <strong>web scanner</strong> (camera QR) in your WordPress dashboard.</li>
<li>Use the <strong>free Android app</strong> for door check-in (pairs with your site via integration settings).</li>
<li>Each scan records ticket status; invalid or already-scanned tickets are shown clearly at the door.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Integrations & layout tools</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>Import and export seat layouts</strong> via CSV in the seat planner editor.</li>
<li><strong>Export bookings</strong> to CSV from the product or Manager (filter by date, choose columns).</li>
<li><strong>Shortcodes</strong>-embed a “Select seat” button or live seat counts on any page.</li>
<li><strong>Elementor widgets</strong>-Select Seat Button and Seat Count widgets for page builders.</li>
<li><strong>Script embed</strong> (optional) – run seat selection on external sites with an allowed-origins whitelist.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Statistics, reports & analytics</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>Manager Statistics </strong>– summary cards for seats sold, occupancy, revenue, and orders.</li>
<li>Sales and revenue over time (by event date or order date).</li>
<li>Detailed tables by order or by date, with <strong>CSV export</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Velocity projection</strong> to help forecast sell-through for upcoming dates.</li>
<li><strong>Automated email reports</strong> (optional) – scheduled occupancy and sales summaries, with CSV and optional color-coded seat-map snapshot.</li>
</ul>

Stachethemes Seat Planner

<p>Allow customers to easily select and purchase seat-based products. Customizable seating layouts, dynamic pricing, and real-time seat availability.</p>

Product Availability Scheduler vs Stachethemes Seat Planner