Back In Stock Notifications

[conor]

Hi,

It gives us great pleasure to release a new Zen Cart module - one which we feel many of you will find very useful!


Back In Stock Notifications

The Back In Stock Notifications is an extremely handy module which lets customers subscribe to a notification list for a product that has gone out of stock.

The subscription process is completely automated, customers don't have to have an account to subscribe themselves, but if they do the subscription is automatically associated with their account.

Once a product is back in stock, an e-mail can be sent to all those subscribed to the notification list for that product, using the convenient admin utility.

Read on to check out all of the features... we're sure you'll find them very comprehensive!


Features

Fully-automated, dynamic subscription display

• As soon as a product goes out of stock, a message asking customers if they want to “be notified when this product is back in stock...” is shown where the Buy Now button would have been.
  
  
  
• A form is also displayed directly on the Product Info page to encourage a quick and easy subscription! It is pre-filled if the customer is logged in!
• If a customer is already subscribed to the Back In Stock Notification List for this product, a message “You have requested to be notified when this product is back in stock” is displayed instead of the subscribe message. The form also isn't added to the page.
• If a customer is not logged in when they subscribe to a notification list, the subscription is automatically associated with their account.

Fully-automated unsubscriptions

• If a customer has an existing account with the store, they can manage their Back In Stock Notification subscriptions directly in their “My Account” section.
• Customers who have subscribed to a notification list, but don't have an account with the store, can click on a link in their subscription e-mail to unsubscribe, or browse to the unsubscription page on the website and enter the code they were sent in this e-mail.

Intuitive, comprehensive admin utility

The admin utility allows a store owner to view existing subscriptions, send subscription notification e-mails and delete old subscriptions. The options it provides are as follows:

• The current list of products with subscriptions can be viewed. This allows the store owner to quickly and easily see which products customers are interested in as well as the current stock level for each of these products.
• The current list of products with subscriptions can also be viewed with additional information about the customers subscribed and when they subscribed.
• A “Test Run” of the subscription notification mailing can be run. This will let the store owner see who would have been e-mailed, and about which product(s). The first e-mail that would have been sent is sent to the store owner so that they check if the e-mail is formatted correctly before the actual run!
• The actual, real run of the subscription notification mailing can be run. The subscriptions for the completed notifications will then be automatically removed from the database.
• Subscriptions for products which no longer exist can be expunged from the database.

Intelligent notifications

• If a customer is subscribed to several notification lists and a mailing is going out which includes more than one of these products, the notifications for that customer will be combined so they will only receive one e-mail. This looks more professional and minimises any irritation or thoughts of spamming!

Download here



We hope you like this module - feedback is greatly appreciated (As are donations)!




All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[NickJRE]

Looking forward to trying this !

[conor]

Hi,

A new version of this essential module is out now - don't lose out on sales, let people know when a product they want is back in stock! :)

From the changelog:

[ADDED] E-mail confirmation field added to prevent automated scripts spamming the notification form and therefore avoid useless subscriptions and needless bounced confirmation/notification e-mails.

Download 2.2.0 Now!


All the best...

Conor
Ceon

[chalfontgifts]

Hi

I have installed this, but for some reason the form does not work when I clicl on it.

See on my test site here.

http://www.lozer.co.uk/shop/index.ph...oducts_id=6897

Regards
Laurie

[conor]

Hi Laurie,

I have installed this, but for some reason the form does not work when I clicl on it.

You've either:

messed up when modifying tpl_product_info_display.php.

or

A PHP error is occurring within the added code from that template. Are you sure you've uploaded class.CeonXHTMLHiTemplate.php? If that file was missing the PHP code would fail and break the page as it has on your site.

I've released a new version of the software as I found a very minor bug when looking at this for you... please download the new version and use the tpl_product_info_display.php from within it and make sure you've uploaded all the files.

All the best...

Conor

[dhanesh]

I have installed the back in stock notification in my cart 1.38.All installations went fine until when i click on an out of stock product,
Suddenly the page goes out of order.I mean i am using a 3 column layout, it all collapses and only this one shows up beneath the product sold out button.

To be notified when this product is back in stock please click here.

The link is also not working.

After hours of digging i finally find out that this section

<!--bof Form close-->
<?php // BEGIN BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATIONS 2 of 2
if (isset($back_in_stock_notification_build_form) && $back_in_stock_notification_build_form) {
// Build the notification request form

has some problem.When i disable this code,the page get backs to normal.i am desperate.Please help. I Have re installed the application.But no way



Please help me out

[Ruth1970]

DISSAPPEARING WEBSHOP!..

Hi,

Im very pleased that you took the time to make this very useful add-on. I have installed it according to instructions (I have yet to install the database) and hope someone can help me out?
After I installed it my webshop dissappeared... Not good.. I do have a Norwegian override template on it, could that be the problem? I have not yet installed the database, could this explain why my entire webshop have disapperaed? I dont get any errormessages, just a white page. (www.fjellanger.net/webshop).
Im a newbie with too little knowledge of php, html etc, so its hard for me to figure out what could have gone wrong. Looking at the names of the files that I have installed (uploaded), it doesnt seem to be any that should warrant my entire site to not show?

Also - I see the add-on comes with pictures, but it doesnt say anywhere in the installation instruction to put them on the server? Should they simply just be put in the image folder in the zen-cart installation?

Thanks a million in advance for any help that can make my website show up again!

Ruth ;)

[Ruth1970]

By the way..
I installed the mysql database now, and it didnt make a difference.


Ruth :)

[conor]

Hi,

Looking at the names of the files that I have installed (uploaded), it doesnt seem to be any that should warrant my entire site to not show?

If some of the global files hadn't uploaded properly then errors in them could stop your shop showing.

You'll have to try re-uploading all the files.

After that if you are still having trouble you should enable the display of errors on your site so you can see what is failing.

I'm afraid I can't help you with that, please search the forum and you'll find out how to fix problems with "blank pages".

Good luck!

All the best..

Conor
Ceon

[conor]

Hi,

As promised previously, a new version of the module has been created with a few small updates and a bugfix. It isn't an essential release but it is still advisable to upgrade.

From the Release History:

[UPDATED] Subscription form now displays for stock levels of zero or less (not just products which have a stock level of exactly zero!).
[BUGFIX] Subscription management link is now always displayed in the the account section, when the module is enabled, regardless of whether or not “Product Notifications” are enabled/disabled for the site.
[UPDATED] Installation documentation updated with information on adding the subscription pages to the index of pages which should not be indexed by search engines (web robots).
[UPDATED] Other minor documentation updates.

You can download the new version from our website:

Download Now!

It will also be available from the downloads area in a few days.

All the best...

Conor
Ceon