Smart Stock Notifications

Smart Stock Notifications for WooCommerce helps you recover otherwise lost sales by letting shoppers subscribe to back-in-stock and price-drop alerts on WooCommerce products and variations. When an item is restocked — or the price falls to a shopper’s target — the extension automatically emails interested customers, bringing them back to buy.

It works out of the box on themes that implement standard WooCommerce single-product hooks (see “Theme compatibility” below). Activate the extension to start collecting subscriptions. Store admins can customize emails, manage customer subscriptions, and control notification behavior directly from the WooCommerce dashboard.

Overview

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• Notification types
  • Back-in-Stock alerts: notify shoppers when an item is back in stock.
  • Price-Drop alerts: notify shoppers when the current price falls to or below a shopper’s target price, or on any price drop if no target is set.
• Placement modes
  • Auto-injection (hooks): woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button, woocommerce_single_product_summary (+ grouped handler).
  • Shortcode (builder-safe): [smart_stock_notification_form] for Elementor/Avada templates and custom layouts.
• Product coverage
  • Works on simple and variable products (variation-level tracking).
  • Grouped products supported via the grouped handler.
• Admin controls
  • A central Requests table with search, filters, bulk actions, logs, pagination, and manual resend tools when applicable.
  • Per-product or variation-level controls to enable or disable Back-in-Stock and Price-Drop behavior.
  • Public form presentation settings with live preview.
• Customization, deliverability and protection
  • Email templates for Back-in-Stock and Price-Drop notifications. (subject/body/footer).
  • Built-in and custom placeholders for reusable email content.
  • Optional Google reCAPTCHA v3 support to help reduce spam signups.
• Automation
  • Configurable Stock Check Frequency for evaluating conditions.
  • Log Retention Period to keep activity history for audits/support.
• What’s new in 1.1.2:
  • Price-Drop alerts, and shortcode support for page builders.

Requirements

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Make sure your store meets the following minimum requirements:

• WordPress 6.0 or newer
• WooCommerce 8.0 or newer
• PHP 7.4 or higher
• Outgoing email delivery configured (via your host or a third-party service like SendGrid, Mailgun, etc.)

Extension usage

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Customer experience

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Back-in-stock

When a product is out of stock, the product page will display a “Notify me” form.

Customers simply enter their email and click Notify Me. Once subscribed, the UI confirms:

This confirms that Smart Stock Notifications has recorded the alert request.

Price-Drop

When Price-Drop signup is enabled, the product page will displays a notification form for shoppers who want to track a lower price..

Shoppers enter their email address if shopping as a guest, (email address field is not shown to logged-in shoppers). Shoppers can optionally enter a target price. If they do, they will be notified when your store price falls to or below that amount. If they leave the field blank, they can still be notified on any qualifying price drop.

Once subscribed, the success state confirms that Smart Stock Notifications has recorded the alert request.

This confirms that Smart Stock Notifications has recorded the price-drop alert request.

Admin experience

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Admins can manage customer notification requests directly from WooCommerce > Notifications.

From the requests table, you can:

• Search requests
• Filter by product, email address, email domain, status, and related fields
• Review request records and lifecycle timestamps
• Edit or delete requests
• View notification history logs
• Send or resend eligible notifications manually
• Use bulk actions for delete, send, force send, and status updates
• Work through large request lists with pagination and items-per-page controls

This makes the extension easier to operate at scale, especially when you are handling a high volume of subscriptions across multiple products and variations.

Setup and configuration

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While the extension requires no mandatory setup, you can fine-tune its functionality from WooCommerce > Settings > Stock Notifications in your store’s WP Admin dashboard.

General settings

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Enable the extension

Check Enable Smart Stock Notifications functionality to turn on the extension. The extension is enabled by default.

Presentation

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Use the Presentation tab to customize the default look and feel of the public signup form without editing code. The live preview updates as you change values, so you can see how the form will appear on the frontend before saving.

You can configure settings such as:

• Default variant
• Default layout
• Form max width
• Form background, text color, and border color
• Border radius
• Title and help text colors
• Input border and focus colors
• Active option background and text colors

These settings control the default styling used by the public signup form for Back-in-Stock and Price-Drop notifications.

Email templates

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Customize your WooCommerce back-in-stock email notifications from the Email Templates tab.

Switch between the two subtabs at the top: Back-in-Stock Notification and Price Drop Notification.

• Edit the subject line, email body, and footer content.
• Use dynamic placeholders like {user_name}, {product_name}, {product_url} to personalize the email.

For each notification type you can edit:

Subject

• Keep it short and action-oriented. Examples:
  • Back-in-Stock: “Your product is back in stock!”
  • Price Drop: “The Price Dropped — Your Deal Is Here!”

Email body

• Compose your message using placeholders (see the Placeholders tab below).
• Example (from your screenshot style):

Hi {user_name},

Great news! The product “{product_name}” is now back in stock and available for purchase.

Click below to order:
{product_url}

Need help? Contact us at {support_email}.

• Add your store signature, support line, or legal copy.

Example:

Thank you for shopping with {store_name}!

{store_name} | {store_url}

Click Save changes on this tab when done.

Placeholders

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Use this tab to define custom placeholders you can reuse in your Email Body or Footer.

• Key – the code you’ll place in the template, e.g. {store_phone}.
• Value – what should appear in the email, e.g. 404-444-4567.

Actions

• Click Add Placeholder, enter Key and Value, then Save changes.
• Use your new placeholder in templates (e.g. “Call us at {store_phone}”).

Common examples

• {support_email} – your support inbox
• {store_phone} – your phone line
• {store_name} / {store_url} – brand signature

Click Save changes on this tab when done.

reCAPTCHA (strongly recommended)

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To protect the notifications subscription form from spam, you can enable Google reCAPTCHA v3:

1. Go to the reCAPTCHA tab in the extension settings.
2. Enable reCAPTCHA.
3. Paste your reCAPTCHA Site Key and Secret Key.
4. Click Save changes and test a form submission on a product page.

Get your reCAPTCHA v3 keys

Visit https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create and:

• Choose reCAPTCHA v3.
• Enter your domain name (e.g. example.com).
• Accept the terms of service.
• Generate and copy your Site Key and Secret Key.

Paste these into the extension settings to enable invisible spam protection.

Theme compatibility and automatic form injection

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Automatic form placement relies on WooCommerce’s single-product hooks. The extension injects the signup form in these locations:

Automatic form placement relies on WooCommerce’s single-product hooks. The extension injects the signup form in these locations:

Hook	Placement	When it’s used
woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button	Above/before the Add to Cart button	For product types that support Add to Cart and when the extension is enabled.
woocommerce_single_product_summary	In the summary area	When a product does not support Add to Cart (e.g., certain external/unsupported types) and the extension is enabled.
Grouped products handler	Near grouped add-to-cart	Only for grouped products and when the extension is enabled.

Implementation (for reference):

add_action('woocommerce_single_product_summary', [$this, 'addSignupFormInSingleProductSummary'], 20);
add_action('woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_button', [$this, 'addSignupFormBeforeCartButton'], 20);

If your theme or page builder does not honor these hooks, the form may not appear automatically. Use the shortcode instead.

Shortcode (builder-safe):

[smart_stock_notification_form]

Page builders

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Elementor (theme builder)

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1. Go to Templates > Theme Builder > Single Product (create or edit).
2. Add a Shortcode widget where you want the form.
3. Paste: [smart_stock_notification_form].
4. Update the template and view a product page.
5. If you see duplicates, keep the shortcode instance and remove the auto-injected one (or vice-versa).

Avada (layout builder)

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1. Go to Avada > Layouts > Single Product (create or edit).
2. In the Content area, add a Code Block or Text Block.
3. Paste: [smart_stock_notification_form] and save.
4. Clear Avada/page cache and check a product page.
5. If duplicates appear, leave only one instance (shortcode or auto-injected).

Data & Privacy

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The extension stores each signup (email, product/variation, type, status) and essential metadata (IP, user agent, referrer, UTM, signup location, timezone) to improve deliverability, diagnostics, and analytics.

Troubleshooting

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Form not showing

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• Use the shortcode on the product page; clear caches/minifiers.
• Ensure your single-product template uses the standard WooCommerce hooks listed above.

Avada/Elementor duplicates

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Remove one instance (either the shortcode or the auto-injected form). Keep only one.

This section will be updated as we identify common problems or edge cases reported by users. If you encounter unexpected behavior, please reach out via the support channel listed below.

Getting support

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If you need help using Smart Stock Notifications, encounter a bug, or want to suggest a feature, please contact us.

We aim to respond to all inquiries within 1–2 business days.

FAQs

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