Back In Stock Notifications

[conor]

Hi,

is there a way of getting this to work with attributes?

No, sorry, not until Zen Cart officially supports stock for attributes/product variants.

When 1.4 is released a new version of this module will probably follow which supports it.

All the best...

Conor

[amazeme]

awesome mod....really great work.

I thought this mod would automatically send the notification once a products stock level was changed to a positive number. only when I found the entry under catalog that I saw you had to manually send the emails via the drop down selection list.

be a great addition to have the email notifications automatically send once the item was back in stock.

[conor]

Hi,

awesome mod....really great work.

Thanks, that's always nice to hear! :)

be a great addition to have the email notifications automatically send once the item was back in stock

If people have subscribed to notification lists for several products and you are updating the stock levels for your store then that would result in them getting several e-mails.

That might not be a big issue for most stores but it was one of a few factors which resulted in us choosing to design the module in such a way that notifications aren't sent automatically when a product's stock level is updated.

However, there's nothing to stop you from writing a simple script to automatically run the notification sending routine on a daily/hourly cron job. That's a good compromise for what you need I think.

All the best...

Conor
ceon.net

[brushwoodnursery]

Hey, Conor! I'm finally building my zen store! Just wondering if you had looked at the code in phplist to see about modulating the email blast to avoid getting flagged as spam at the receiving end.

I've downloaded the most recent release and just looked through it but haven't found the code yet. Not sure I'd know enough to do anything with it in your mod anyway.

[conor]

Hi,

How are you?

Hey, Conor! I'm finally building my zen store!

That's good to hear.. just the right time of year to have it up! :)

Just wondering if you had looked at the code in phplist to see about modulating the email blast to avoid getting flagged as spam at the receiving end.

I haven't looked at the code, no, but the idea is pretty simple and wouldn't be something I'd find difficult to write - from scratch if necessary (if the PHPList code was too dependant on other code). However it is too much work for me to take on at the minute I'm afraid, so I doubt this functionality will be added to the module anytime in the next four months.

Sorry if that's bad news! Hopefully the lack of anti-spam-flagging measures won't hurt your usage of the module too much. :|

All the best..

Conor

[MB1]

well i can't wait to upgrade to 1.4 when it comes do you know what part of the code i could play with so back in notification pops up all the time. for the mean time

[conor]

Hi,

well i can't wait to upgrade to 1.4 when it comes do you know what part of the code i could play with so back in notification pops up all the time. for the mean time

If you want the form to always be displayed then you'll have to remove the followiung code:

$products_quantity <= 0 && 

from

\includes\classes\observers\class.back_in_stock_notificationsProductInfo.php

You'll also have to be careful how often you run the notifications routine as it's likely that all notifications will be sent out each time you run it, as you are't actually matching up whether something's in stock or not.

I can't really recommned running things that way (but it is of course up to you).

All the best...

Conor

[100asa]

I've imported the whole database from old website to new website.
In admin when I click on catalog-->back in stock notification I've a blank page. In old website all works fine!

[conor]

Hi,

I've imported the whole database from old website to new website.
In admin when I click on catalog-->back in stock notification I've a blank page. In old website all works fine!

Try copying all the files across again. If that doesn't work then turn on error reporting in includes/application_top.php and you should see what error is being produced.

Search the forum for "blank page" if you would like to know more.

All the best...

Conor

[100asa]

in latest version of firefox I see a blank page; instead in ie 7 I can see error 500