Australcode Back In Stock for WooCommerce
| 开发者 | australcode |
|---|---|
| 更新时间 | 2026年7月25日 07:31 |
| PHP版本: | 8.2 及以上 |
| WordPress版本: | 7.0 |
| 版权: | GPL-2.0-or-later |
| 版权网址: | 版权信息 |
详情介绍:
Australcode Back In Stock is a back in stock notifier and waitlist for WooCommerce that turns out-of-stock products into recovered sales. It is privacy-first (double opt-in and explicit consent built in), sends through Action Scheduler so big waiting lists never time out, and keeps every core feature free (Pro adds restock coupons, recovered-revenue tracking, SMS/WhatsApp alerts, Klaviyo & Mailchimp sync and webhooks). When a product is sold out, a "Notify me when available" form appears on the product page. Customers leave their email, and the moment you restock they get an automatic email with a link straight to it.
No more lost sales because a customer couldn't be bothered to check back.
How it works
- A product runs out of stock.
- A subscribe form appears on the product page (simple, variable, grouped and subscription products).
- Customers enter their email — optionally confirming it first (double opt-in).
- You restock the product.
- Everyone on the waiting list gets an automatic email with a link to buy it.
- Customers can unsubscribe with one click from any email.
- "Notify me when available" form on out-of-stock products — simple, variable, grouped and subscription products (a per-item form on grouped products).
- Shortcode and Gutenberg block to place the form anywhere — works with any page builder; add
mode="product"for popups and modals (Elementor, Divi). - Automatic restock email with the product's photo, price and a direct link — a card built to win the sale back, not just notify.
- Per-product subscriber list in the admin, with KPIs, a "Top demand" panel, status filters and email search.
- Optional double opt-in (email confirmation before subscribing).
- Optional consent checkbox (privacy-law friendly).
- One-click unsubscribe from every email.
- Reliable background sending via Action Scheduler — works for products with hundreds of subscribers without timing out.
- Cache and CDN proof — the form fetches a fresh security token at submit time, so it keeps working behind full-page edge caches like Cloudflare and Kinsta.
- Developer hooks — PHP actions and filters (
acbis_after_subscribe,acbis_email_args) plus anacbis:subscribedJavaScript event, to wire signups into your CRM, analytics or email tool. - Customizable button label and email subject/heading text.
- Restock coupons — include a unique, single-use discount in each restock email. It is applied automatically at checkout (no copy-pasting), is restricted to the product and the customer's email, and expires after the window you choose, so the urgency is real.
- Recovered-revenue tracking — a dashboard that attributes paid orders back to your restock coupons, so you see exactly how many sales and how much revenue the waiting list brings back.
- SMS & WhatsApp alerts — reach customers on their phone too, through your own Twilio account. Opt-in only: the customer adds their number and ticks a separate consent box, and the alert goes out by SMS and/or WhatsApp alongside the email.
- Email-marketing sync — every subscriber is automatically added to your Klaviyo list or Mailchimp audience (bring your own API key), so you can build flows and segments around real back-in-stock demand.
- Webhooks & demand alerts — fire a signed JSON webhook on every signup and restock (wire it to Zapier, Make, n8n or your own endpoint), and get a Slack or Discord ping the moment a product passes a demand threshold you set. Turn the waiting list into an inventory signal for your team.
- Export the subscriber list to CSV (per product, with status and dates).
wp_mail / your SMTP). The free plugin never sends your subscribers' data to any third-party service: emails are stored in your own database, and the IP used for anti-abuse rate limiting is stored hashed, never in clear text. Two optional integrations are off by default: the Pro SMS/WhatsApp feature sends the phone number you collect — with the customer's separate consent — to Twilio to deliver the message, and Freemius handles licensing and updates. Both are described under "External services" below.
安装:
- Upload the plugin to
/wp-content/plugins/, or install it from the Plugins screen. - Activate it. WooCommerce must be installed and active.
- Go to Back in Stock → Settings to review the options (double opt-in, button label, email texts).
- That's it — the subscribe form shows automatically on any out-of-stock product.
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常见问题:
How does "notify me when back in stock" work?
When a product (or a specific variation) is out of stock, the form appears in place of the add-to-cart area. Customers leave their email — optionally confirming it first (double opt-in) — and when you restock, everyone on that product's waiting list automatically receives the back-in-stock email with a direct link to buy.
Does it work with variable products?
Yes. For variable products the form appears when the customer selects an out-of-stock variation, and notifies only the people waiting for that specific variation.
Does it support grouped products and WooCommerce Subscriptions?
Yes. On a grouped product, a separate "notify me" form appears for each out-of-stock item in the group, so customers can wait for exactly the ones they want. WooCommerce Subscriptions products are supported too — both simple and variable subscriptions — using the same restock detection as regular products.
Will it send hundreds of emails at once and time out?
No. Sending runs in the background through Action Scheduler (bundled with WooCommerce), in batches, so it scales to large waiting lists.
Do customers need an account?
No. They only leave an email. Confirmation and unsubscribe work through secure tokenized links, no login required.
Does it send my customers' data anywhere?
By default, no. Restock emails are sent from your site's own email (wp_mail / your SMTP) and your subscribers' data stays in your database. Two optional integrations can send data, both off by default: the Pro SMS/WhatsApp feature sends a customer's phone number (with their consent) to Twilio to deliver the message, and Freemius handles license validation and updates if you opt in. See "External services".
Does the form work with page caching?
Yes. The form is rendered with the product page and submissions go through AJAX, so cached pages keep working. If a cached page is very old (most caches expire within hours), the security token can expire — the customer simply gets a "please refresh and try again" message instead of a silent failure.
What makes this plugin a good fit?
It is built for real stores: reliable background sending, double opt-in and explicit consent built in, and a clean admin list to see exactly who is waiting for what. The Pro version adds restock coupons that recover sales automatically, a recovered-revenue dashboard, and one-click CSV export of your subscriber list.
更新日志:
1.7.3
- Fixed: the block editor now shows the "Back in Stock form" block in your language — its title, description and keywords were always in English, and so was the plugin description on the Plugins screen.
- Improved: the admin save bar no longer squeezes its hint text into a narrow column on phones and small screens.
- Changed: refreshed the screenshots on WordPress.org so they show what the free download actually includes.
- Fixed: with the free version installed, an active Pro licence no longer reports Pro as unlocked. The Pro features are not part of the free download, so the plugin now tells you to install the Pro version instead of showing your licence as fully active.
- Improved: refreshed the bundled admin design kit to its latest version.
- Fixed: the "Contact Us" screen is available again in the plugin menu, so you can reach email support without leaving your admin. The privacy section now describes what the support form sends.
- Improved: the License screen now shows what your Pro plan includes instead of an empty page, and the licence box no longer overflows on narrow phones.
- Improved: the Upgrade and License screens are now fully translated into Spanish.
- Fixed: the admin menu entry reads "License" once Pro is active, instead of still inviting you to upgrade.
- Added: the "Notify me when available" form now supports grouped products and WooCommerce Subscriptions. On a grouped product a separate form appears for each out-of-stock item in the group, so customers can wait for exactly the ones they want; simple and variable subscription products are covered too.
- Improved: refreshed the bundled admin design kit — clearer keyboard focus rings and minor visual polish across the admin screens.
- Maintenance: removed the "More by Australcode" cross-promotion section from the Upgrade screen.
- Improved: small visual refinements across the admin screens — clearer button hover and focus states, and section headers that wrap neatly on narrow screens.
- Fixed (Pro): the Email marketing settings screen (Klaviyo / Mailchimp) could not be saved — its connection-test forms broke the Save form. Saving now works as expected.
- Fixed: the settings save bar no longer floats over your content on long screens, and now sits at the very end of each screen (after the connection-test panel) instead of in the middle.
- Fixed (Pro): the connection-test rows on the SMS/WhatsApp and Email-marketing screens are now properly laid out, and a missing icon on the Recovered-revenue screen is restored.
- Improved (Pro): clearer guidance on where to find your Twilio, Klaviyo and Mailchimp API keys, and the in-app Upgrade screen now lists every Pro tool, including webhooks.
- Fixed (Pro): uninstalling with "delete all data" enabled now also removes the Pro feature data it created, including stored (encrypted) API credentials.
- Added (Pro): Webhooks & demand alerts. Fire a signed JSON webhook on every signup and restock (wire it to Zapier, Make, n8n or any endpoint), and get a Slack/Discord ping when a product passes a demand threshold you set. The free plugin is unchanged.
- Added (Pro): Email-marketing sync. Every back-in-stock subscriber is automatically added to your Klaviyo list or Mailchimp audience (bring your own API key), so you can build flows and segments around real demand. The free plugin is unchanged.
- Added (Pro): SMS & WhatsApp restock alerts via Twilio. Customers opt in with their phone number and a separate consent checkbox; the alert then goes out by SMS and/or WhatsApp alongside the email. Bring your own Twilio account. The free plugin is unchanged.
- Added (Pro): Restock coupons — each restock email can carry a unique, single-use discount that is applied automatically at checkout and expires after the window you choose, turning waitlist demand into recovered sales. The free plugin is unchanged.
- Added (Pro): Recovered-revenue dashboard — attributes paid orders back to your restock coupons, so you see how many sales and how much revenue the waiting list brings back.
- Improved: the admin menu is tidier — the separate "Family" page is now folded into a single "Upgrade" screen that shows your license status, what Pro unlocks, and the rest of the Australcode family.
- Improved: restock and confirmation emails now show a preview line in the inbox (preheader) and lead with the product name, so they read well before being opened.
- Improved: the email call-to-action now renders as a solid button in Outlook desktop, not just a text link.
- Improved: the subscriber list filter bar wraps neatly on narrow screens instead of crowding the edge.
- Improved: restock emails now show the product image and price, so customers can go from inbox to checkout in one tap.
- Improved: the subscriber list is now fully usable on phones and tablets — tap any row to reveal its product, status and date.
- Improved: a clearer first-run screen with a next step, and a refined admin menu icon that matches the Australcode family.
- Added: the "Notify me" form now works reliably inside popups and page builders (Elementor, Divi) — a new shortcode mode
[acbis_back_in_stock_form mode="product"]plus an automatic product-level fallback when the form is placed away from the product page. - Added: developer hooks to connect your own tools —
acbis_after_subscribe,acbis_form_htmlandacbis_email_argsactions/filters, theacbis_should_load_assetsfilter, and a JavaScriptacbis:subscribedevent (for analytics, CRM or email-marketing integrations). See docs/hooks.md. - Fixed: on stores with full-page (edge) caching, the form could silently stop working once a cached page got old. It now fetches a fresh security token at submit time, so it keeps working behind Cloudflare, Kinsta and similar caches.
- Fixed: customers who subscribed at the product level on a variable product are now notified when any variation comes back in stock.
- Improved: the form now sizes consistently across themes, including themes that change the root font size.
- Improved: after subscribing, the form collapses into a clean confirmation.
- Improved: a new "Top demand" panel in the admin highlights the products with the most customers waiting — your restock priority.
- Initial public release.
- "Notify me when available" form on out-of-stock products (simple and variable) — automatic, plus shortcode and Gutenberg block for page builders.
- Automatic restock email with a direct link to the product, sent in the background via Action Scheduler.
- Per-product subscriber list with KPIs, status filters and email search.
- Optional double opt-in and explicit-consent checkbox.
- One-click unsubscribe from every email.
- Pro: export the subscriber list to CSV.