Waitlist – Back in Stock for WooCommerce
Back-in-stock waitlist for WooCommerce. Shoppers leave their email, you email them on restock. Accessible, no layout shift.
5.0
(2 ratings)Will this break my store?
What the WordPress.org registry says about keeping Waitlist – Back in Stock for WooCommerce running.
Tested to 7.1
Tested against the WordPress branch in use today.6 days ago
8.1
Your host must be running at least this version.6.4
woocommerce
These must be installed and active first.1
A single maintainer. Worth knowing if the plugin is load-bearing for your store.Maintenance & trust
Scored on how Waitlist – Back in Stock for WooCommerce is looked after — not on how many stores run it.
Maintenance
35 / 35WordPress compatibility
20 / 20Support responsiveness
Not enough dataMerchant satisfaction
11 / 15Listing transparency
10 / 10Ratings
5.0
2 ratingsPlogins Waitlist adds a waitlist form to out-of-stock WooCommerce products. A shopper enters their email, and when you set the product back to “In stock”, Plogins Waitlist emails everyone waiting through your site’s own WordPress mailer. There is no external service, no account to sign up for, and nothing leaves your database.
The form is rendered in PHP on the single-product summary, where it sits in the normal page flow rather than being injected after load, so it does not shift surrounding content. Submitting it runs a small vanilla-JavaScript fetch request loaded with defer in the footer; the plugin adds no jQuery of its own. On variable products it hooks into WooCommerce’s existing variation script so the form only appears once an unavailable variation is selected.
Accessibility was a first-class concern rather than an afterthought. The email field carries a visually hidden label, consent is a real required checkbox, and the success/error message is announced through an aria-live region while the form reports aria-busy during submission.
Subscriber data lives in a single {prefix}_restock_waitlist table that the plugin creates and version-tracks. A restock queues the mailing and sends it in batches on WordPress’s own cron, so the request that changed the stock is not held open while the emails go out. Uninstalling drops the table, removes the plugin’s options and unschedules any batch still waiting, leaving nothing behind.
Source and issues: github.com/wppoland/plogins-waitlist . Patches and bug reports are welcome there.
Features
- Waitlist form shown automatically on out-of-stock and backorder (“on backorder”) product pages
- Variable products: form appears after the shopper selects an unavailable variation
- WooCommerce My Account > Waitlists tab for logged-in customers (review lists, leave waitlist)
- Asynchronous submit with a vanilla-JavaScript fetch call, so the page does not reload
- Email field pre-filled for logged-in customers
- Required consent checkbox for every signup
- Automatic plain-text email notification on restock, sent via
wp_mail - Optional heading and intro text shown above the form
- Customisable form labels, button text, on-screen submit messages, and notification email subject/intro/closing text
- Place the form with the
[restock_waitlist]shortcode or the Elementor “Back-in-Stock Waitlist” widget - Toggle guest (not-logged-in) subscriptions on or off
- Social-proof “N shoppers are already waiting” line above the form (optional, customisable, singular/plural aware)
- Admin subscriber list with per-product filter, CSV export, and one-click remove
- Theme-overridable form template (
yourtheme/restock/single-product/waitlist-form.php) - Compatible with WooCommerce HPOS (Custom Order Tables) and Cart/Checkout Blocks
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Browse the full catalogue at plogins.com/ .
Reporting a security issue: email hello@wppoland.com, and under our coordinated disclosure policy we confirm within two business days, assess within five, and patch a critical issue within seven days of confirming it.
Plogins Waitlist PRO
The free edition is the complete back-in-stock waitlist. Plogins Waitlist PRO adds demand insight and automation:
- Demand analytics – see what shoppers are waiting for and prioritise restocks
- Double opt-in – confirmed, consent-friendly signups
- Scheduled and batched sends – stagger notifications by batch size and interval
- Category segmentation – include and exclude rules per product category
Everything in the free edition stays free and open. Plogins Waitlist PRO starts at 29 EUR per year, billed in EUR.
Compare editions and pricing: plogins.com/plogins-waitlist-pro/pricing/
External Services
Plogins Waitlist does not connect to any external services. Back-in-stock notification emails are sent through your own site’s WordPress mailer (wp_mail); subscriber data stays in your WordPress database.
Translations
Plogins Waitlist is fully translatable and ships the plogins-waitlist.pot template. Translations are delivered by WordPress.org language packs from translate.wordpress.org, which is where Polish, German and Spanish are being contributed; the package itself carries no compiled translation files.
- Documentation – plogins.com/plogins-waitlist/docs/
- Plugin page – plogins.com/plogins-waitlist/
- Source code – github.com/wppoland/plogins-waitlist
- Bug reports and feature requests – github.com/wppoland/plogins-waitlist/issues
Yes. Plogins Waitlist is a WooCommerce extension and requires WooCommerce 8.0 or later. It will show an admin notice and stay inactive if WooCommerce is missing or out of date.
When WooCommerce sets a product’s stock status to instock, Plogins Waitlist queues the mailing rather than sending it inside that request. WordPress cron then walks the pending subscribers for that product (and its parent, for variations) in batches of 50, oldest signup first, emailing each one with your site’s own WordPress mailer (wp_mail). Subscribers who are emailed successfully are marked as notified so they are not contacted twice. Filter plogins_waitlist_notify_batch_size to change the batch size.
Yes. Choose options in the standard WooCommerce variation form first. When the selected variation is out of stock or on backorder, the waitlist form appears and the subscription is stored for that specific variation.
Yes by default. You can restrict signups to logged-in customers by unchecking Allow guest subscriptions in WooCommerce > Plogins Waitlist.
Yes. Logged-in customers see a Waitlists tab under My Account with active subscriptions, current stock status, and a button to leave each list.
Every signup requires the shopper to tick an explicit consent checkbox before they can join the waitlist; the form will not submit without it. Subscriber emails are stored only in a custom table in your own WordPress database and are never sent to any external service. You are responsible for the wording of your consent label and your site’s privacy policy.
Yes. From WooCommerce > Plogins Waitlist > Subscribers you can view subscribers, filter by product, and export the list as CSV.
No. The form is submitted with a vanilla-JavaScript fetch call and the result is announced in an aria-live region, so the page stays put. Plogins Waitlist loads no jQuery for this; on variable products it does rely on WooCommerce’s own variation script to know which variation is selected.
Yes. This plugin is compatible with WordPress Multisite. Network activate it or activate it on individual sites; each site keeps its own settings and data.
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