Backly Documentation

Overview

Show when a sold-out product is back: “Back in stock on 24 November” on the product, in the shop and in the cart, and let customers order it in advance.

• Turn sold out into pre-orders
• Restock date on products and shop
• Ships-from date in the cart

Best for: Stores with seasonal or limited stock

Installation

1. Download backly-restock-date.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.

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

Features

• Restock date per product and per variation
• Text on the product page with the date
• Badge in the shop and category pages
• Optional: order now, ships from the date
• Ships-from date in the cart, checkout and order
• Hidden automatically once the date has passed
• Your texts and color

Shortcodes

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

• [backly_preview]

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

• backly_sanitize
• backly_show

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

Actions

• backly_admin_after_form
• backly_admin_before_form
• backly_admin_form_end

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