tymok Presale Waitlist for WooCommerce

Some products should not simply go to whoever refreshes the page fastest: a limited drop, a hand-made batch, an advent calendar. This plugin turns those products into a managed queue. Switch the waitlist on for a product and nobody can order it any more. The add-to-cart button is replaced by a sign-up form. When you are ready, you invite people from the list, one by one or in batches. Each invitation unlocks the product for exactly one customer account, for a limited quantity and a limited time. After the purchase, or after the deadline, the right to buy is gone and the next person can move up. What it does

• Blocks the product for everyone while the waitlist is running
• Quota of places per product; the list closes itself when it is full
• Shows the remaining places, the full ratio, or nothing at all
• Customers sign up with their shop account (created on the spot if your shop allows registration)
• Single-use invitation links: one account, a limited quantity, a deadline
• Expired invitations are released automatically by a scheduled task
• Admin overview with bulk invitations and CSV export
• A "My waitlists" section in the customer account
• Templates and hooks for your own adjustments

Templates and hooks Copy the templates into your theme under yourtheme/tymok-presale-waitlist-for-woocommerce/ to change the markup. Among the available hooks are wcwl_is_waitlist_product, wcwl_validate_signup, wcwl_after_signup, wcwl_form_extra_fields, wcwl_invite_sent, wcwl_invite_redeemed, wcwl_invites_expired and wcwl_settings_fields.

1.2.2

• The product selection for inviting the next in line showed the number of waiting customers as a hard-coded German text. It is translatable now.
• Translatable column headers and yes/no values in the CSV export.
• Translatable notice when WooCommerce is not active.
• The invitation column no longer shows "valid until" for purchased or cancelled entries.

1.2.1

• Declares WooCommerce as a required plugin (Requires Plugins header, WordPress 6.5+).
• Removed the option to log customers in through the invitation link. Invited customers always log in through the regular WooCommerce login.
• The sign-up form reads and sanitizes each field individually; extension hooks only receive the sanitized form fields, never the nonce or the password.
• Removed the unused AJAX sign-up endpoint.
• Guests only get a customer account through the waitlist form if the shop allows account creation on the My account page (WooCommerce setting). Otherwise the form asks them to log in first. Filter: wcwl_guests_can_register.

1.2.0

• Renamed the plugin to tymok Presale Waitlist for WooCommerce.
• The shortcode is now [tymok_waitlist].

1.1.0

• Sign-ups are now matched against the normalised mailbox, so plus tags and Gmail dots count as one and the same address.
• Removed helper methods that were not called anywhere in this plugin.

1.0.2

• First public release.