Plugin info

Total downloads: 104,013
Active installs: 4,000
Total reviews: 113
Average rating: 4.6
Support threads opened: 1
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 3 language(s)
Contributors: 1
Last updated: 7/21/2025 (163 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 10/4/2016 (9 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 3.0.1
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: f

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Maintained • Last updated 163 days ago • Support resolved 0% • 113 reviews

49/100

Is Waitlist Woocommerce ( Back in stock notifier ) abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 163 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 3.0.1
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: f

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Description

Live Demo

Waitlist for woocommerce lets you track demand for out-of-stock items, ensuring your customers feel informed, and therefore more likely to buy.

How to translate?

Features And Options:

  • Notify customers via email when an out-of-stock item becomes available for purchase.
  • Track users list and quantity.
  • Two templates design – Popup & Inline form
  • Email Log
  • Enable/Disable guest users.
  • Customizable Waitlist Form fields
  • Shortcode to generate waitlist button/form anywhere

Add-ons:

  • Custom Form Fields – Add extra fields to the waitlist form to collect additional data from users. Customize these fields and change the form’s appearance from the ‘Fields’ page

  • Email Booster — Send a notification email to the customer and the admin (or a specified email address) when someone joins the waitlist.

  • Auto send “back in stock email” when stock status is updated to “in stock”

  • Export/Import Waitlist – Easily export and import waitlist users and their data into a CSV or Excel file

  • Notify on Phone – Send a text message to users whenever a product arrives back in stock.

Installation

  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Click on Waitlist menu on the dashboard.

Frequently Asked Questions

How to setup?

Everything is already setup.Just activate the plugin & you are done.

How to translate?

  1. Download PoEdit.
  2. Open the watilist-woocommerce.pot file in PoEdit. (/plugins/waitlist-woocommerce/languages/
    watlist-woocommerce.pot)
  3. Create new translation & translate the text.
  4. Save the translated file with name “waitlist-woocommerce-Language_code”. For eg: German(waitlist-woocommerce-de_DE)
    , French(waitlist-woocommerce-fr_FR). — Language code list
  5. Save Location: Your wordpress directory/wp-content/languages/

Working

  1. Waitlist button shows when product is out of stock.
  2. As soon as the product is in stock again , it sends email to all the users in waitlist.

Review feed

MCI Desarrollo
6/17/2022

Good support in premium version

Good support in premium version We have purchased the premium version and everything is working great. We have had to adapt several things in our functions.php and have received fast and efficient support. Very good at the moment

Screenshots

  1. The waitlist modal.

    The waitlist modal.

  2. Back in stock email.

    Back in stock email.

  3. The Waitlist admin settings page.

    The Waitlist admin settings page.

  4. The Waitlist admin settings page.

    The Waitlist admin settings page.

Changelog

2.8.4

  • Fix – “Auto send back in stock emails” triggering for empty waitlist.

= 2.8.3=
* New – Added widget for elementor
* Fix – Shortcode text not working
* Fix – Force check stock status not working

= 2.8.2=
* Settings UI Update
* New fields support
* Settings UI Update
* Store manager can now access waitlist

= 2.8.1=
* Translatepress compatibility

= 2.8.0=
* Fix – Plugin works now with server cron

2.7.9

  • Fix – PHP 8.2 deprecated warning

2.7.8

  • Fix – WP rocket recent update fix
  • Auto send back in stock email add-on fix

2.7.7

  • WPML Compatiblity email

2.7.6

  • Fix – URL escape

2.7.5

  • Fix – email validation

2.7.4

  • Fix – deprecated warning for PHP 8.2
  • Fix – Not showing for block themes

2.7.3

  • New – Clear email log button
  • Update – Select2 library optional under field settings

2.7.2

  • New – added option to show waitlist button irrespective of stock status

2.7.1

  • Fix – Cron Warning notice

2.7

  • New – Email Styling options
  • New – Keep waiting list after sending the emails
  • New – Email Footer content
  • New – Form field styling options
  • New – Improved UI

2.6.1

  • Fix – nonce missing

2.6

  • New – Added shortcode [xoo_wl_form] for showing waitlist button
  • New – Export/Import settings

2.5.3

  • Security update

2.5.1

  • Security update

2.5.1

  • Fix – “Do not show waitlist button option under inventory”

2.5

  • Readme update

2.4

  • Tweak – Changed capability to shop manager

2.3

  • Fix – Site Favicon goes missing
  • Fix – Popup quick flash on page load
  • Fix – Other minor bugs.

2.0

**** MAJOR UPDATE ****

Almost everything is changed, from design to settings.
It is coded all over again.

  • New – Customizable Form fields
  • New – Sent email history page
  • New – Inline form option
  • New – Customize email texts from the settings
  • New – Show button on backorders
  • New – More styling options
  • Tweak – Highly optimized
  • Tweak – Popup design changes

1.5

  • Notification for 2.0 update

1.4

  • New – Improved “View Waitlist” design
  • New – Delete user from waitlist.
  • Fixed – Translation Bug (Thanks to Jerome)

1.3

  • New – Added Custom “SEND EMAIL” button.
  • New – Option to disable auto email.
  • New – Premium release.

1.2

  • Fixed Bugs

1.1

  • Fixed Bugs
  • Fixed – Missing product name in Email.
  • Fixed – Now works in quick edit too.

1.0

  • Initial Public Release