<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<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>
</ul>
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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>
<p> </p>
<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>
<p> </p>
<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>
<p> </p>
<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>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<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>
</ul>
<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>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-secondary">
<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>
</ul>
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<p><em>Waitlist for WooCommerce</em> is now compatible with the following extensions:</p>
<ul>
<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>
</ul>
</div>

Waitlist

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

Waitlist vs AutomateWoo