Whether your product is super popular or you’re dealing with stressed supply chains, stockouts are inevitable. It’s common practice for DTC brands to have back-in-stock alerts or notifications to inform customers that their favorite item is back in stock.
In this article we’ll be covering:
Let’s get those customers back!
Back-in-stock alerts are notifications customers receive when an item they are interested in gets restocked in your store. It’s a way to increase revenue, retain customers, and boost customer lifetime value.
When a customer opts in to receive back-in-stock alerts, they normally enter their email, phone number, or both. This means back-in-stock alerts can come in a number of ways, such as:
Sometimes companies use browser cookies to retarget prospects with a product they were interested in as a way to re-engage with potential customers. No matter the method you choose, back-in-stock notifications are an important way to try and recoup lost revenue.
So how effective exactly are back-in-stock alerts? Unless your product is strictly unique to your store, the reality is that roughly 21-41% of customers will have likely already purchased a similar product elsewhere by the time yours is back in stock.
Does that mean you should abandon back back-in-stock alerts for your Shopify store? Absolutely not, as some stores achieve a conversion rate of around 22% from back-in-stock alerts.
It’s hard to measure how effective stock alerts will be for your store because it depends on several factors, primarily:
So are back-in-stock alerts and notifications worth having? Absolutely, since they can increase revenue and best of all, allow you to gather valuable customer details.
We mentioned how customers have to sign up for back-in-stock alerts. That’s a great sign that they trust your brand and is also a way to grow your email or contact list.
How you contact your buyers and the messaging of your alert will play a key role in determining your conversion rates. If your buyer submitted their phone number, you can send the alert by SMS, WhatsApp, Telegram, or other messaging apps. The key is knowing which platform they are most likely on and maximizing its advantages.
So without further ado, here are some best practices to help make the most out of your back-in-stock alerts.
By keeping the products that are out of stock still available to be seen by customers you can expect more sign-ups for back-in-stock alerts. However, it’s best to make sure it’s clear these items are out of stock before shoppers open them as it can be disappointing to click on a product listed for sale only to find it out of stock.
If you’re sending alerts by email you can get creative with your subject lines. A few things to consider are:
If you were selling a special set of candles, for example, you can have some like “{{Name}}, your favorite holiday candles are back just in time!” This will catch their attention and boost your open rates.
Let customers know that the item is back for a limited time only and there’s a risk it will be sold out once again soon. You can also encourage customers through bonus offers, past customer reviews, or free shipping. These are all great tactics to help convince customers to make a purchase.
Usually, the button that links to your product in your notification will be the CTA to drive customer action. From “Shop Now” to “Get it now” to “Grab it quick!”, make sure it flows with your overall message and inspires action.
Looking for the best back-in-stock alert apps for your Shopify store? Here are our top 5 picks.
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CartBite’s app for restock alerts is one of the best in the Shopify market. It allows users to automatically send email and SMS back-in-stock alerts as soon as a product inventory status gets updated.
The subscribe button allows customers to sign up for restock alerts and can be implemented with zero coding involved. The free version allows for unlimited subscribers but has email limitations. Paid options start at $5/month with an additional $0.02 per SMS in the US.
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Zooomy’s Back in Stock app is compatible with most Shopify themes and allows users to send both manual and automated emails upon restocking. Customers can also choose to receive stock updates through newsletters and their contact details can easily be imported and exported in a CSV file.
The free plan allows up to 10 subscribed items per month and 10 manual emails. Users can unlock a range of extra features starting at $5.99/month.
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Restock Rocket’s app is a highly rated Shopify app that lets users send email and SMS restock alerts to subscribers. The app includes a ‘Email me when available’ button that customers can sign-up with to receive notifications. The app also provides 24/7 customer support and has years of experience optimizing its product for Shopify.
The free plan covers basic features such as a ‘Notify me’ button and allows up to 50 email alerts per month. Paid options start at $15/month with limits reaching 500 email and SMS alerts per month to unlimited with their full package.
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In addition to email and SMS alerts, this restock app by Eastside Co also includes push notifications to further engage with customers. Notifications are automatically sent when items are restocked and SMS messages can be sent to most countries on the map. The widget can also be customized to match your store’s theme and style.
The free plan includes 50 email alerts and unlimited product subscriptions. The email-only paid version starts at $10/month with unlimited emails while SMS packages are $20/month plus an additional fee per SMS.
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SpurIT is a smart restock alerts app that automatically checks for restocks every two hours. Once an item is back in stock, it sends out email alerts to customers that have signed up for restock alerts. Shoppers can submit their contact details in a pop-up window when they click on the ‘Notify me’ or ‘In Stock Reminder’ badge next to an item.
The free plan includes up to 10 subscriptions, CSV data export, and customizable widget design. The paid plan starts at $19.95/month for 500 subscriptions and notifications per month.
Back-in-stock alerts are a great way to recoup some revenue and build brand loyalty. It’s also a great indicator of customer interest in a product as well as customer loyalty overall. When implementing back-in-stock alerts, be sure to:
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Back in stock notifications, Restock Waitlist for Out of Stock
Free plan available. 7-day free trial.
Learn MoreYour customers are just a “notify me” button away from purchase. let customers subscribe to your out of stock product’s waiting list and receive notifications when the product is restocked.
No matter what your Shopify theme is or how many visitors you have, you can get started easily and avoid losing potential customers for free.
Make the most of limited stock with Restock Alert's advanced features:
Send SMS, push notifications and Email alerts automatically/manually
customize the “Notify me when Available" Button, sign-up form & Email template
All themes are supported out of the box–No coding is required
Klaviyo integration is supported
Edit Email template
Resend notifications
Show button on pre-order and home page
Hide button with a tag
Import and export data
Set minimum inventory
Get insightful reports
Multi-lingual widgets
GDPR compliance
Feature Request and Customize Service
Professional live support
Restock Alerts is the best solution for products with different variants! The "Notify Me" button is only displayed for unavailable variants.
You can customize the color, size, and content of the Subscription Form & Notify Me Button to match your brand identity.
Shoppers usually browse product collection pages to compare products, but they may not notice the "Notify Me" button on sold-out products until they open the product page. This feature lets customers subscribe to your product waiting list easier.
With CSV import and export option, grow your contacts list, sell more products, and use the email list for further campaigns.
When users fill out your out-of-stock product notifications form, they will immediately receive a text/email asking them to confirm their consent to receive future notifications
You can rely on our proactive customer support team to ensure your success with Back in stock. Our support team will respond immediately and resolve any issues related to theme integrations, app functionality, feature requests, etc.
Besides everything, It is a great app for inventory management and demand forecasting, especially during flash sales. Restock can also be used to create Wish List, Waiting List, and a Lead Generation tool.
Preorder, Back in Stock, Low Stock, and Out of Stock Alerts
Free plan available
Learn MoreSending back in stock notifications instantly for your customers via web push notifications, which increases the conversion rate to open product links.
With Facebook Messenger, your customers can receive notifications via Facebook Messenger easily when your products are back in stock.
We support almost all of the themes on Shopify. If your theme isn’t compatible with our app, you can contact us and we will help to choose the right format and integrate with the best way for your theme.
Ordersify will send emails to your customers automatically and immediately when your products are restocked, you don’t need to send them manually and contact each other. It will save a lot of time for you.
Ordersify allows you to customize content, layout, and appearance both email and back in the stock widget. You can easily fully customize it by drag and drop to suit your store.
You can limit your inventory policy for limitations and send a notification when listening to Shopify orders updates from Shopify.
Notifications are alerts that your customers want to backorder or preorder when your products are restocked from an online store. You can manage your notifications, send an email manually or view all demand products that your customers took before.
We will help you to collect emails from the back in the stock widget. From the contact listing, you can manage, export customer information, and send emails manually.
Ordersify sends you emails when your products are low stock or out of stock instantly or daily. You can customize the email template.
Analytics helps you to analyze and summarize data for displaying revenue, total sales, total subscribers. Besides them, you can use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel.
Ordesify supports 10+ popular languages including English, Chinese, German, Japanese, Italian, French, etc. If Ordersify doesn’t support your language, you still can update your translation from the translation page or get contact us.
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Low inventory alerts and low stock alerts made easy
Free plan available. 14-day free trial.
Learn MoreWe want to help merchants easily track the low stock products in their store with our automated and highly-configurable low stock notifications. Ensuring that products in your store are restocked on time is critical for your customers online shopping experience. If a product is out of stock, you will lose sales and worse, even damage your stores reputation.
Stockie Low Stock Notifier is a quick and simple solution to help you always restock your products on time. You can setup low stock notifications to alert you and your team when a products inventory is below a chosen threshold. That way, you can always have enough time to restock your products before they are out of stock.
Back in stock, out of stock, pre order & restock alerts
Free plan available. 30-day free trial.
Learn MoreShoppers love this feature and you’ll love it even more. With increased click-through rates on alerts and improved conversion on alert traffic, what’s not to love?
Just email us and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Re-Stock, Back in Stock, Abandoned Cart Push,Email & SMS Alert
Free plan available. 14-day free trial. Additional charges may apply.
Learn MoreCartBite is an all-in-one marketing automation tool for a back in stock, abandoned cart, and price drop notifications through Push, Emails, SMS Notifications. Engage with your customers based on actions taken by them when they visited your store. Our powerful automation techniques help you make more sales by sending out abandoned carts, back-in-stock, and price drop notifications.
Customers can subscribe for being notified for out of stock or when there is a price drop on their favorite product by simply clicking on subscribe button.
Sends custom notifications to customers who left the cart abandoned in the store. Edit notification message or add a coupon code to nudge them to complete the purchase
Allows your customer to subscribe for items that are currently out of stock. Automatically send notifications to subscribed users once the product becomes available again.
Allows your customers to be subscribed for receiving notifications when there is a price drop on a certain product. Increases conversion as they have already shown interest on the product.
Send notification to subscribers when the order is shipped and share the tracking URL for easy tracking of their orders.
Send tailored messages to drive first-time customer sales, build strong relationships, and announce sales and discounts to all or custom segmented audiences.
Segment audience based on how they interacted with your store, geo-locations, or their purchase history.
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Auto-email; popup alerts; restocked notification; SMS
Free plan available. Additional charges may apply.
Learn MoreBack in Stock - Restock Alerts will help you notify your customers when your products are back in stock. We know how important your customers are to you just as how important you are to us. If you have any feedback, you can feel free to contact us!
Think of this: Your customers are very excited about one of the products in your store, but unfortunately it just sold out. What will happen next? Your customers may wait for the product to be back in stock, but they do not have time to check every single day. This is why we show up! We want to help you get these empty-handed but loyal customers back and recover those lost sales. Believe us, we value our customers as our customers value theirs.
Once your customers finish subscribing out of stock products, our app will send them email automatically based on the email address they register. And the email templates can be fully customized which means you can edit the content into different languages to support your business all over the world.
We leave a place for you in email templates to add coupons code for your customers who subscribed the restocked email, according to experience this will highly improve the probability for customers to come back.
A one-click setup to help you get started our amazing APP. Just click the ‘Activate the button’ and out app will automatically work for your Shopify store! It will automatically add the ‘EMAIL ME WHEN AVAILABLE’ button to your out-of-stock products.
We integrate with Shopify Online Store 2.0! You can easily set up our app and then edit it in your theme editor. And for special store themes we also provide fast customer service to make the app work well on your store.
Don’t worry! We hate spams as much as you do. The app will send them a one-time email to your customers who subscribed, so it won’t bother your customers and make them feel less aggressive.
Send Back In Stock Email and SMS Alerts automatically
Free plan available. 14-day free trial. Additional charges may apply.
Learn MoreWith Restock Rocket, allow your customers to subscribe for back in stock + restock alerts to any out-of-stock product. When you restock, they will instantly receive an email or SMS alert informing them to make a purchase before stock runs out!
Let us help you convert stock-outs into opportunities for future sales -
Sit back & relax while Restock Rocket identifies when an out of stock product or variant is restocked and sends back in stock Emails and SMS alerts to all subscribed customers auto-magically.
Simply enable Restock Rocket and the ‘Email me when available’ or 'Notify me' button automatically appears on all out-of-stock products and variants.
Design the "Email me when available" or "Notify me" button, sign-up form, and Email + SMS templates to match your brand. Include your shop logo & preview your changes live in the app.
Automatically sync/add customer details to your store admin/Shopify Customers when they subscribe for alerts!
Turn visitors into subscribers by letting them sign up to receive news, offers, discounts & other marketing content from your store!
No waiting! Your customers receive back in stock Email and SMS alerts with a link to purchase the product as soon as you restock it.
Restock Rocket supports all themes out of the box, with beautiful default designs that seamlessly integrate with your theme & don't look out of place. Absolutely no coding required.
24x7 support from a dedicated team with years of experience in supporting merchants like you around the world.
Get started now, and ensure that you never lose another sale due to out of stock products!
Notify: back in stock, abandoned cart, price drop, preorders
Free plan available. 14-day free trial. Additional charges may apply.
Learn MoreFeatured on a blog OR generated some serious social media traction? You want to maximize that exposure and send a surge of visitors to your store in moments. But what if your inventory sells out? The last thing you want is to lose out on sales. With Back in Stock, you won’t need to.
Back in Stock makes it easy for customers to sign up for an alert via push notification, email, or SMS text message. When you restock products, waiting customers are alerted instantly to bring them back to your store and complete the purchase.
Back in Stock is simple to set up and runs automatically. Here is all that you get: * Web Push Notifications * Email Notifications * SMS Notifications * Notifications campaign feature * Multi-Language Support * Multi-Location Support * Back in Stock Reminder Notifications * Product Restock Alerts * Email & Form Customization * Custom Theme Support
Back in Stock works on the product variant level: customers are notified when the specific size or color they want is restocked.
Back in Stock brings customers back to your store and helps you convert those sales you otherwise miss with in-stock notifications. Want to create a notifications campaign on multiple platforms? It's also possible!
When you use web push notifications with our templates - which are easy to use & stay on-brand with your store - you’ll increase web traffic, improve engagement and opt-in rates, and boost sales and profit.
Installation is simple and takes less than 30 seconds. Hit Get App, and a button saying ‘notify me when available’ will immediately appear on all relevant product pages. We support a wide variety of themes out of the box. Optionally add Web Push Notification and SMS Text Message capability to your store, and your customers can choose to be notified via notification, email, or SMS - whichever they prefer.
This button automatically connects to a back-in-stock pop-up form with a field for contact information and a drop-down menu for product variants.
Want to build something custom?
Back in Stock has been helping Shopify stores owner for the past few years. We’ve grown with Shopify and support large & well-known Shopify stores. We regularly release updates and improvements to our app.
Get Back in Stock setup for your next flash sales or coming soon collection, and start collecting customer sign-ups today. Measure demand to assist your forecasting with our in-stock alerts app.
Email, SMS and push notifications for back in stock products
Free plan available. 7-day free trial.
Learn MoreNo matter how much you spend on marketing, what discounts you offer or how your store’s interface looks, when your customers face an out of stock product they get disappointed. What happens then? You may lose them to your competitor. Customers can sign up to get back in stock alerts via email as soon as you restock! By adding the "Notify me when available" button make sure you capture sales even on sold-out product pages.
Notify your customers automatically or manually. When an out-of-stock product or variant is restocked, you can send back-in-stock email or SMS to all subscribed customers.
Since Back in stock alerts’ app panel looks just like Shopify admin it will be a simple and excellent experience to use it. The panel will give you all the control you need from personalization to detailed settings. You can customize the "Notify me" button, subscription form, email template, and web push content on your website.
Restockify supports all themes on the Shopify theme store. If your shop’s theme has a different structure or coding, our support team will customize and install the code for you.
Add the “Notify me” button for out of stock product variants (color, size, etc.)
Add the “Notify Me” button on collection and home page
Customize the button to match your Shopify theme ( Custom themes )
Show button on Pre-Order Products
Re-send restock reminders to follow-up
“Notify me” button and sign-up form in multiple languages
Send GDPR-compliant emails
Multiple locations are supported
Notify customers only if there is enough stock
Send back-in-stock notifications with your own email address and domain
A dashboard that provides a comprehensive view of all inventory metrics for your decision-making
This app is perfect for inventory management and demand forecasting especially during flash sales.
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Pre-Order Now/Restock Alert/Coming Soon/Backorder/Out of Stock
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Learn MoreAfter installing the Globo Pre Order app, it is easy for you to configure pre-orders and product stock, including whether or not any products are sold-out on Shopify store. You only need to select a product and enable the pre-order option on it.
The default "Add to cart" button will be replaced with a "Pre-Order" button on Product page and also Collection page.
When your customers click on "Pre-Order" button, they will be redirected to a regular order page. You can sell the product even when it is out of stock.
The app also allows you to set the date and time your products will be in stock with a countdown timer. Your stock will become automatically updated when the countdown timer on your product’s details page expires.
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