Enable Notify me when this product is in stock in Magento 2

By Lars Roettig — 10.12.2018 — 1 min

As Merchant, you can enable this feature for registered customers. It allowed subscribing to two types of alerts, first is price change alert, and the sound is in-stock alert. For each alert example, you can choose a different email template.

Allow show Display Out of Stock Products

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Display Out of Stock Products Option

Magento backend display out of stock products option

Enable Allow alert when product comes back in stock

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Allow Alert When Product Comes Back in Stock

Enable Allow alert when product comes back in stock

Optional Step

With the Frequency settings, it possible to change how often Magento checks for changes that require alerts sent to the subscribers.

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The in-stock alert setting creates a link called “Notify me when this product is in stock” for every product that is out of stock. Customers can click the link to subscribe to the alert. When the product is back in stock, customers receive an email notification that the product is available.

Products with alerts have a Product Alerts sections in the Product Information panel that lists the customers who have subscribed to an alarm. mail_backend

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Lars Roettig

Software Engineer at TechDivision GmbH and Maintainer of the Community Engineering Team at Magento. He has 8 years of professional SoftwareEngineering experience. Lars is passionate about Magento and Open Source.