About this plugin
StockChime is a back in stock notifier for WooCommerce. It adds a “Notify me” form to
out-of-stock products, so shoppers can join a waitlist instead of leaving the store. When
the product is back in stock, StockChime sends each waiting shopper an email alert.
Most back-in-stock plugins listen only to WooCommerce hooks. ERP syncs, CSV importers and
inventory tools frequently write stock straight to the database, so the hook never fires
and the notification is never sent. StockChime instead keeps a snapshot of the products
people are waiting on and reconciles it on a schedule, so it detects a restock regardless
of how the stock was written.
What it does
- A “Notify me when available” form on out-of-stock products, including per-variation
forms on variable products.
- Back in stock email alerts when a watched product returns to stock.
- No shortcode and no setup: the waitlist form appears on every out-of-stock product.
- Scheduled reconciliation, so restocks written directly to the database are still caught.
- Editable email subject and body, with placeholders for product name, URL, image, price,
stock quantity, store name and the unsubscribe link.
- A one-click unsubscribe link in every message.
- An admin screen listing subscribers, with filtering and bulk delete.
- A compose screen for sending a manual message to selected subscribers.
- Duplicate-proof dispatch: concurrent workers cannot send the same shopper the same
restock twice.
- Full uninstall cleanup – deleting the plugin removes its tables, options and scheduled
jobs. Deactivating it removes nothing.
Requirements
0 or newer. Your site must be able to send email. By default StockChime uses
the mailer WordPress is already configured with. You can also give StockChime its own SMTP
server in StockChime > Settings.
Roadmap
These are planned and not in this release: price drop alerts, WhatsApp, SMS and web
push channels, double opt-in confirmation, and CSV export.
Privacy
StockChime stores the email address a shopper submits, the product they are waiting on, the
time they subscribed, and the IP address the subscription came from. This data is kept in
your own database and is never sent anywhere else. Every message includes an unsubscribe
link, and a store administrator can delete any subscriber from the Subscribers screen.
Deleting the plugin deletes all of it.