User Guide - Magento 2 Out of Stock Notification Extension

1. Overview

Magento 2 Out of Stock Extension Notification informs customers about the status of the product back in stock, changes in price help the relationship between the store and the customer better, the store will keep a large number of customers.

• Guest customers can also sign up for product alerts for stock and price changes
• Send email to registered customers as soon as the product restock
• Support sending notifications by SMS
• Setup sending email and SMS back in stock notifications
• View the products that customers are interested in and their subscription status
• Manage your subscriber list easily

Extension link: Magento 2 Out of Stock Notification extension

2. How Does It Work?

2.1  Settings

Please go to Stores ⇒ Configuration ⇒ MAGEHQ EXTENSIONS ⇒ Out Of Stock.

To display the Add to Cart button for out of stock products on Magento, you need to follow these steps:

1. Navigate to System > Configuration > Catalog > Inventory, and set Backorders to Allow Qty Below 0.
2. Navigate to System > Configuration > Catalog > Inventory > Stock Options, and set Display Out of Stock Products to Yes.

 

In Enable: Choose Yes to enable the module or choose No to disable it.

In Notification Type: Choose Email or Sms or both to receive notifications

2.2. Sms  Settings

In Type Sms: select type sms

In Account SID: enter account

In Token: enter token

In Admin Mobile Number: enter number phone send

In Price Alert Sms Template: enter Price Alert Sms Template

In Stock Alert Sms Template: enter Stock Alert Sms Template

In New Product Alert Sms Template: enter New Product Alert Sms Template

2.3 Product Alerts

In Alert Email Sender: select email sender

In Allow Alert When Product Price Changes: select Yes or No

In Sent Email After Price Update: select Yes or No

In Price Alert Email Template: Email template chosen based on theme fallback when "Default" option is selected.

In Sent Email After Edit in Stock: select Yes or No

In Stock Alert Email Template: Email template chosen based on theme fallback when "Default" option is selected.

In Allow Alert When Create New Product: select Yes or No

In Enabled Send Email One Time: select Yes or No

2.4 Product Alerts Run Settings

Follow these steps to manage the product alerts run settings:

1. Set the Frequency you want the Magento 2 product alerts to be sent with.

2. Choose the Start Time for the product alerts sending process.

Note: the product alerts sending should start after all product prices and inventory updates. Otherwise, there might appear some issues.

3. Set the Error Email Recipient to mark the person to be notified if any problem appears during the product alerts sending process.

4. Set the Error Email Sender and the Error Email Template to be used for the product alert error notifications

Important Notes

• Please make sure cron is enable to check it you can run

 crontab -l

• Also run cron manually you can goto root of magento installation and run

php bin/magento cron:run

• Cron schedule enabled for sending notification emails on a daily basis.

2.5 Stock Notifications

2.6 Price Notifications

2.7. Display on frontend