JoeBucci Restock Alerts for WooCommerce

This plugin adds a simple “Notify me when back in stock” form to any out-of-stock WooCommerce product page. Shoppers enter their email, and the plugin automatically emails everyone on the list the moment you mark the product back in stock.

Also includes a Restock Waitlist page under WooCommerce in wp-admin, showing you exactly which out-of-stock products have the most people waiting — real demand data for deciding what to reorder first.

Features (v0.2.0):

• Automatic “Notify me” form on out-of-stock product pages, with a live count of how many other shoppers are already waiting
• Works with simple and variable products — each variation is tracked and notified separately
• One email per subscriber per product — no duplicate signups
• Admin waitlist view showing pending-subscriber counts per product, plus a “Mark back in stock” one-click action that flips stock status and triggers notifications immediately
• Admin settings page to customize the email subject/body/from-name — no code required
• “Send test email to yourself” button so you can preview the exact email a subscriber would receive
• Outgoing emails are wrapped in WooCommerce’s own branded email template (same look as order-confirmation emails)
• One-click, no-login unsubscribe link in every email (GDPR/CAN-SPAM friendly)
• One-click CSV export of your full waitlist
• Spam protection via an invisible honeypot field and a disposable-email-domain blocklist — no Google reCAPTCHA account or API key needed
• Fetches a fresh security nonce immediately before the subscribe form submits, so it keeps working correctly on sites using a page-caching plugin
• “My Account > Restock Waitlist” tab so logged-in customers can see and self-manage every product they’re waiting on, not just via a one-off emailed link
• Optional “notify on backorder” mode for stores that sell backordered items
• Admin “Notified” history tab showing exactly who was emailed and when, in addition to the live “Pending” view
• Opt-in “delete all data on uninstall” setting (off by default, so your waitlist survives an accidental delete)
• WPML/Polylang-ready
• Lightweight — one small database table, no external services required

1. Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/joebucci-restock-alerts-for-woocommerce, or install directly through the WordPress plugins screen.
2. Activate the plugin.
3. Make sure WooCommerce is installed and active.
4. That’s it — the notify form appears automatically on any out-of-stock product page.

0.2.0

• Added admin settings page for email subject/body/from-name customization.
• Added one-click, no-login unsubscribe link to every restock email.
• Added CSV export of the full waitlist from the admin page.
• Added honeypot + disposable-email-domain spam protection (no API key required).
• Fixed a class of failures where page-caching plugins serve a stale AJAX nonce, causing subscribe requests to silently fail — the subscribe form now fetches a fresh nonce immediately before submitting.
• Added WPML/Polylang compatibility (wpml-config.xml, textdomain loading).
• Redesigned the frontend notify box with a clearer, branded look.
• Fixed a real bug where the notify form and variation-level notifications didn’t work correctly for variable products; subscriptions are now correctly tagged and matched per variation.
• Added a live pending-subscriber count to the frontend notify form.
• Added a “Send test email to yourself” button on the Settings page, using the currently saved template and sample data.
• Outgoing restock emails (real and test) are now wrapped in WooCommerce’s own branded email template.
• Added a “Mark back in stock” action on the admin waitlist page that flips stock status and triggers notifications with one click.
• Added uninstall.php with an opt-in “delete data on uninstall” setting (defaults to keeping data).
• Added a “My Account > Restock Waitlist” tab so logged-in customers can view and remove their own subscriptions without needing the emailed unsubscribe link.
• Added an optional “notify on backorder” setting for stores that sell backordered products.
• Added an admin “Notified” history tab (up to 200 most recent) alongside the existing “Pending” view.

0.1.0

• Initial release: notify form, stock-change email trigger, admin waitlist view.