Back in stock notifications for WooCommerce - Documentation

Overview

Back in stock notifications for WooCommerce it’s WordPress plugin which extends WooCommerce by adding a Subscribe button to out of stock products.
The button opens a modal form which can be used to subscribe for Back In stock email notifications.
When the product is back in stock the plugin sends a personalized email to subscribers.
 
It also comes with a settings panel for shop administrator which allows them to fully customize the plugin, for example:
  • Manage the button colors
  • Personalize the modal/form
  • Personalize the emails body
  • Set up the mode: automatically / manually – each one has his advantages.

 

Besides that Back in stock notifications for WooCommerce comes with some usefully tools, like:

  • Filter, generate and export subscribers in CSV format
  • View subscribers by product
  • Check each notification status
  • Pause specific products for sending notifications

Install

  1. Login into your https://themeforest.net account
  2. Go to https://themeforest.net/downloads, identify the plugin, click on “Download” and then “Installable WordPress file only
  3. This action should download into your computer a file named “woo-stock-notify-me.zip
  4. Go to yourstore.com/wp-admin/plugin-install.php (replace yourstore.com with your domain).
  5. Upload the previously downloaded ZIP file. OR – Unzip the file and upload the folder ‘woo-stock-notify-me‘ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/‘ directory using an FTP client.
  6. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins‘ menu in WordPress
  7. Visit the setting page and follow the instructions

Subscriptions

A subscription contains:

  • First Name
  • Last Name
  • Email
  • Status (Sent, Waiting, Paused)
  • Product (Simple or Variable)

 

A subscription can not be duplicated. If someone with the same email tries to subscribe to the same products, then the tool shows an warning message.

Tools:

  • The subscriptions can be filtered by product
  • The subscriptions can be exported in CSV format.

Settings

Email Templates

Confirmation Email:

The confirmation email is sent when a new subscription is successfully added. It can be enabled or disabled, by default is enabled. It accepts merge tags.

Back in stock notification Email:

This email is sent when the product is back in stock to let the subscriber know about new stock availability. It accepts merge tags.

Merge Tags:

  • [wsnm-first-name] – The subscription’s first name.
  • [wsnm-last-name] – The subscription’s last name.
  • [wsnm-email] – The subscription’s email address.
  • [wsnm-product-title] – The product title. If it’s a variation, then it also contains the variation name.
  • [wsnm-product-price] – The product price, it also contains the currency.
  • [wsnm-product-quantity] – The available quantity in stock. If the quantity is not managed, then it returns the string “unlimited“.
  • [wsnm-product-url] – The product’s URL. If it’s a variation, the variation is automatically selected.

Filters

apply_filters('wsnm-modal-form-button', __('Subscribe', 'wsnm'));

Can be used to change the Modal's Subscribe button text.


apply_filters('wsnm-modal-title', __('Subscribe', 'wsnm'));

Can be used to change the Modal's header text.


apply_filters('wsnm-text-cta', __('Subscribe', 'wsnm'));

Can be used to change the subscribe button text.