Request Restock Mod Thread

[yellow1912]

Replace:
includes/templates/EB/buttons/english/button_request_restock.gif
with a bigger image of your choice.


to place it right under the sold-out button, you may want to place the code inside the div "cartAdd".

[vivaraquel]

Thank you, thats all good.

I have been trying to edit the email as it is coming up like this (see below) so I have no idea what product has been requested unless I log into admin.

VIEW CART | YOUR ACCOUNT | HELP
$EMAIL_GREETING

$EMAIL_WELCOME

Restock Summary:
Have any question? Please contact us
$PRODUCTS_DETAIL


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This email address was given to us by you or by one of our customers. If you feel that you have received this email in error, please send an email to [email protected]
This email is sent in accordance with the US CAN-SPAM Law in effect 01/01/2004. Removal requests can be sent to this address and will be honored and respected.

Also once the prodcut is back in stock and I send the customer a notification of it from the Restock requests tab, this is the email the customer receives"

We have restocked the products your requested. Check them out before they are out of stock again! EMAIL_GREETING

We have restocked the products your requested. Check them out before they are out of stock again! EMAIL_WELCOME

Restock Summary:
Have any question? Please contact us
We have restocked the products your requested. Check them out before they are out of stock again! PRODUCTS_DETAIL


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We have restocked the products your requested. Check them out before they are out of stock again! EMAIL_FOOTER_COPYRIGHT
We have restocked the products your requested. Check them out before they are out of stock again! EMAIL_DISCLAIMER
We have restocked the products your requested. Check them out before they are out of stock again! EMAIL_SPAM_DISCLAIMER
We have restocked the products your requested. Check them out before they are out of stock again! EXTRA_INFO

And which file do I add code to to have the request restock button under the ...more info sold out image on the products list page?

Thank you again.

[yellow1912]

Your ZC version?

[vivaraquel]

1.3.7.1

[Alex Clarke]

Hi yellow1912,

Great contribution - I've been looking for something like this to add to my site for a while now.

After installing the latest release everything works fine. However, I'm wondering if it's possible to automatically send out the 'back in stock' emails (instead of going to admin>catalog>request restock).

Thanks again for creating this contribution. :)

[yellow1912]

I think I wrote somewhere in the readme file that this is very possible to do so, and I even prepared a lock for that purpose.

Let me check.
Ok here it is:

While it's necessary to send out notices to customers once the products get restocked, we don't want to send 10 emails on the same day to just 1 customer if 10 of his requests are fulfilled on that day, do we? Normally, you can just update all your products quantity, then choose "Send notices to customers" (see Section II for more details), all the fulfilled requests of each customer will be combined into 1 email and sent to him/her.
However, if your site is hosted on a server that limit the number of emails can be sent per hour/day, you would have to repeat the action "Send notices to customers" several times, which is really irritating. This is when cronjob comes to save the day(I'm not gonna cover what cronjob is and how to use it in this document). However, what if you are in the middle of updating the products and cronjob kicks in and start sending out emails, it wouldn't be what we expect right? So this is the case when you need to turn off "Enable notification", then turn it on when you finish updating all your products.

You would need a php file with a few lines like this:

<?php
require('admin/includes/application_top.php'); 
require('admin/includes/functions/extra_functions/request_restock.php'); 
// depend on where you put this file, you need to change the pathsabove

process_notices(); // this function will process and send out emails
?>

Try it and let me know if it works.

[yellow1912]

@vivaraquel: sorry for the late reply, holidays *_*. Can you PM me with your site info?

[supersnow]

Hi great mod!

I did a test on our test site and because most of our products have attributes (t-shirts and other clothing) and we use stock by attributes the module to keep stock take, this module really doesn't work the way we want it to as customers who need a large t-shirt cannot request a restock if all the other sizes are still in stock. Is there a way to integrate it into this module?

[supersnow]

Can anyone help with making this mod compatible with stock by attributes so that a customer can request a restock of a certain attribute. This is very important for stores that use stock in accordance with attributes such as size and color. At the moment all of the products has to go out of stock thus the request for restock is not available until all stock is depleted, but it would be good if a customer could request a restock on a certain size or color when that stock level is available with the mod of stock by attributes.

Anyone???

[landshark]

Are there any plans to be able to export the restock request information to CSV?