With WooCommerce Waitlist customers can register for email notifications when out-of-stock products become available.
Key features
Allow customers to be notified when they can purchase an item that is currently out of stock
Easily identify ‘most wanted’ products to prioritise re-stocking
Allow customers to easily review and edit their waiting lists
Maintain a record of users that have been emailed an in-stock notification
Easily manage your waitlists from the WordPress admin
Add the waitlist elements for any product anywhere you choose using our shortcode
Plug-and-play functionality – just install, activate and go!
Keep customers happy with back-in-stock notifications
Automatically notify customers when a product becomes available for purchase. The WooCommerce Waitlist extension lets you track demand for out-of-stock items, making sure your customers feel informed, and therefore more likely to buy. Using a simple plugin, you can build up a waiting list of people wanting the unavailable item, then notify these customers automatically when products come back in stock.
Set up in seconds
It’s really easy to install and will instantly start turning missed opportunities into future sales. Customers register for an email alert to let them know when a product is back in stock, increasing the likelihood they’ll wait and shop with you instead of going to a competitor. It makes people feel valued by your business, and allows you to replenish stock intelligently based on demand.
How it works
It takes seconds for customers to join a waiting list via a button on the product listing of your WooCommerce store.
An out-of-stock product showing the option to join it’s waitlist
As soon as you update your stock numbers on the site, everyone on the list automatically gets an email with a link to the product, making it super-simple for them to buy.
WooCommerce Waitlist fully supports simple products, product variations and the children of grouped products.
See who’s waiting for what
With WooCommerce Waitlist, shop managers can sort products by number of customers on their waiting list. This allows them to quickly prioritize which products to re-stock.
An example of the added Waitlist column
Shop managers can also view, manage and contact those on the waiting list for each product directly from the Edit Product screen through a custom product tab.
Here, it is easy to add/remove users from the waiting list, see archived lists, export a CSV of users on a waiting list/archive and adjust the waiting list options for this product.
Allow users to manage their own waiting lists
Users can view any products they have joined the waiting list for on the “Your Waitlists” tab on their “My Account” page.  This allows users to conveniently manage all their waiting lists in one place
The default “Your Waitlists” tab shown on the “my account” page
Get it working your way
WooCommerce Waitlist comes with plenty of options for you to get the most from the plugin, including the following:
options to display opt-in elements when users sign up to a waitlist
options to also display waitlist buttons on archive pages (e.g. the shop page/product category pages)
options to add google analytic tracking codes to WooCommerce Waitlist emails
options to email a site administrator when a customer joins a waitlist
options to set a minimum stock before WooCommerce Waitlist in-stock notifications are sent out
and more…
Extend and customize
The default setup is ‘plug and play’, but WooCommerce Waitlist adds a large number of WordPress action and filter hooks allowing you to customize it to suit your exact needs (See documentation for more information). Customizations include:
Choosing the wording for notification emails
Tweaking the design of ‘join waiting list’ buttons
Hooking in extra functionality when users are added to/removed from a waiting list
Altering the design of the “Your Waitlists” page added to the “My Account” section
WooCommerce Waitlist is now compatible with the following extensions:
WooCommerce Subscriptions
WPML (The WordPress Multilingual Plugin)
The Events Calendar (from ModernTribe)
WooCommerce Product Bundles (please see the FAQs on the documentation page for more information)