Restockly Documentation

Overview

Add a “Notify me” form to sold-out WooCommerce products and variations, and automatically email every subscriber the moment the stock comes back.

• Turn sold-out products into future sales
• Automatic email when the product is back
• See which products customers wait for

Best for: Stores with limited stock or popular items

Installation

1. Download restockly-back-in-stock.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Adjust texts and the email in WooCommerce › Back in stock › Settings, and send yourself a test email.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+, WooCommerce 7.0+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Automatic form on sold-out products and on sold-out variations (shown when the shopper picks the variation)
• Automatic email when the stock status goes back to "In stock", in batches, using your WooCommerce email design
• Email with product photo, price and a "Shop now" button; {product}, {price} and {link} placeholders
• Admin: subscribers list, search, filters, delete, CSV export, "Most wanted products" ranking, "Send now" button, test email
• GDPR-friendly: optional consent checkbox, data stored on your site only, WordPress personal data export and erase tools supported
• Spam protection: honeypot and rate limiting; works on cached pages
• Shortcode `[restockly id="123"]`
• Compatible with HPOS; uses WooCommerce's Action Scheduler
• Translation-ready (French included)

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [restockly]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• restockly_eligible

add_filter( 'restockly_eligible', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• restockly_sent
• restockly_subscribed

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions