About this plugin
Stock Scout – Back in Stock Alerts for WooCommerce lets visitors request a one-time email when a simple product or a selected variation becomes available again.
Core features:
- Simple and variable product support.
- Alerts become active immediately; no confirmation click is required.
- Immediate receipt email for each alert with a secure unsubscribe link.
- One-time back-in-stock notification.
- A completed or cancelled alert is deleted rather than retained as customer history.
- WooCommerce email templates and email settings.
- Action Scheduler queueing when available through WooCommerce, with a WP-Cron fallback.
- Stock Alerts screen under the WooCommerce menu showing current alerts only.
- Watcher count per product, and a running total of alerts and products watched.
- Search by email or product name.
- Sort by product, watcher count, email, creation date, or status.
- Per-row deletion protected by capability checks and WordPress nonces.
- WordPress personal-data exporter and eraser integration.
- No telemetry, remote marketplace feed, advertising, or external API calls.
The plugin uses a dedicated WordPress database table. It does not modify WooCommerce order storage.
Privacy
The plugin stores the email address, product or variation identifiers, alert status, an unsubscribe-token hash, and timestamps needed to provide the requested stock alert.
The alert becomes active immediately. The visitor receives a receipt email with a link to cancel the alert. Cancelling the alert deletes that alert record.
When the item becomes available and the stock notification is sent successfully, that alert record is also deleted. If the same email address has other active alerts, only those separate active records remain.
For abuse resistance, the plugin can keep a short-lived one-way hash derived from the connecting IP address in a WordPress transient for up to one hour. The raw IP address is not stored by this plugin.
The plugin does not contact external services. Email is sent through the WordPress/WooCommerce mail system configured by the site owner.
The plugin integrates with WordPress Tools > Export Personal Data and Tools > Erase Personal Data.