Back In Stock Notifications

I have the same message displayed for custom items and out of stock items such as http://www.thecablestation.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=88_917&products_id=3403. So, I would like to have the BISN subscription form button appear near that message.

I would also like to figure out a way to have different messages for items that are BTO and simply out of stock. Any ideas?

Thanks
Ted

Hi,

micmed:

I would also like to figure out a way to have different messages for items that are BTO and simply out of stock. Any ideas?

That would definitely require custom coding. You'd probably have to add a flag to the product admin pages to mark particular products as BTO.

You could then modify the BISN module to display the form even if a product is in stock if it is BTO.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

just installed it on 1.3.8a and works fine.

only 1 thing i want to change. by default it uses the owner's email address to send the email. can i specify a different email address to send the notification from?

Hi,

ams30gts:

just installed it on 1.3.8a and works fine.

only 1 thing i want to change. by default it uses the owner's email address to send the email. can i specify a different email address to send the notification from?

You'll have to modify the file

includes\modules\pages\back_in_stock_notification_subscribe\header_php.php

changing the EMAIL_FROM to something else in the e-mail commands.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Hi everybody,

Great mod.

I'm looking for a combination of Back in stock with Product Notification:

I want to email clients when I change the PRICE of the item they have subscribed.

For example, when selling computers, the price changes very often, and I've added a "subscribe to be notified when price have changed".
But this is based on product notification, and there isn't an option to send email automatically.

Back in stock have all functionality, but will need to check the price not the stock.

Thx.
Marius

Hi Conor, I have been following this tread for a while and so far it has been good. Excellent module. I use Zencart 1.3.8 and will be launching my website soon. But I have a small problem. I am a bookseller and so I have a book add-on. The back-in-stock-notification worked until I installed your latest download -- ver 2.4.0. Actually, it still works except that the "click here" links (on both the listing and item pages) that are supposed to open the BISN subscription form do not work.

I remember an earlier modification you suggested for 'product books' in includes/classes/observers/class.back_in_stock_notificationsProductInfo.php: 'NOTIFY_MAIN_TEMPLATE_VARS_EXTRA_PRODUCT_BOOK_INFO', and that worked (although I had to delete the original event for the module to work -- otherwise I got a blank page). Do I need to do something similar for the current links to work?

BTW, I am new around here. How do I send you a donation?

Raman

conor:

Hi,

I'm very pleased to release a new version of the module!

A great new feature is that it now adds links to the Back In Stock Notification subscription form for a product on every product listing page (categories listing, featured products listing etc.).

This should significantly increase the number of subscriptions/sign ups and therefore sales when the product is back in stock!

Instructions on how to modify the look of this link are included in the configuration documentation.

Another change is that the template file can now be overridden by placing it in the templates folder for the template being used by the site.

From the Revision History:

[ADDED] Back In Stock Notification subscription form links are now displayed for sold out products on Product Listing pages (category listings, featured product listings etc). This should encourage a lot more customers to sign up to notification lists as it doesn't require them to click through to the product's page to see the subscription information!
[UPDATED] The template file can now be overridden by creating a copy and placing this copy in the templates folder for the template the store is using.
[BUGFIX] Only ISO-8859-1 characters were being correctly encoded for display. Module updated to use the current character set (UTF-8 etc.) when generating HTML entities.
[ADDED] Documentation added to the configuration about copying the template file to the store's template directory so that it can be modified.

Download the new version now!

(The new version of the module should also be available in the downloads area soon, just have to get a few seconds to repackage it).

Don't forget to read the upgrading documentation, it's easy enough to do but you must follow the upgrading documentation as this version requires a change to a core file (previous versions did not). Any questions about the link not appearing in product listing pages will be ignored.

Enjoy your increased sales!

All the best...

Conor
Ceon

Unfortunately, this isn't displaying correctly in the product listing page. All I see next to the sold out button is the message 'BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_TEXT_PRODUCT_LISTING_FORM_LINK'

Any ideas?

Hi,

chabbu:

Unfortunately, this isn't displaying correctly in the product listing page. All I see next to the sold out button is the message 'BACK_IN_STOCK_NOTIFICATION_TEXT_PRODUCT_LISTING_FORM_LINK'

Any ideas?

You didn't need to quote the whole post to ask a question!

You have forgotten to upload the file:

includes\languages\english\extra_definitions\back_in_stock_notifications.php

Upload it and you should be fine.

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Sorry about that. The files is there, I copied across the whole lot as opposed to file by file. I'm running v1.3.7, i installed v2.2.4 of this mod before updating to v2.4.0

Hi,

chabbu:

Sorry about that. The files is there, I copied across the whole lot as opposed to file by file. I'm running v1.3.7, i installed v2.2.4 of this mod before updating to v2.4.0

Sorry, your english is very confusing. I don't know what you are trying to say here?

Are you saying that you have checked that the file is there and it is?

If so, please upload it again, you must be using the old verison.

All the best...

Conor

Yes, I have checked and the file is there. I've uploaded it again, and I am still seeing the same message.

Hi,

chabbu:

Yes, I have checked and the file is there. I've uploaded it again, and I am still seeing the same message.

In that case, I'm afraid there's no other reason I can think of to explain that error, sorry!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

chabbu:

Yes, I have checked and the file is there. I've uploaded it again, and I am still seeing the same message.
I would delete everything that deals with back in stock on your sever and re-upload it again
Just make sure your custom file structure is correct when installing. This should solve your problem.

Hi chabbu,

The only other thing that could be wrong is you have a language file override in place.

Check if the following file exists:

includes\languages\english\extra_definitions\YOUR_TEMPLATE\back_in_stock_notifications.php

If it does then delete it or merge it with the new version of the file!

All the best...

Conor
ceon

Thank you, Conor. I don't know what the problem was, but I copied across all the files one by one as opposed to dragging the whole folder across and that seems to have worked.

Faz

countrycharm:

I would delete everything that deals with back in stock on your sever and re-upload it again
Just make sure your custom file structure is correct when installing. This should solve your problem.

Thanks for the advice, it's working now.

Hi Faz,

chabbu:

Thank you, Conor. I don't know what the problem was, but I copied across all the files one by one as opposed to dragging the whole folder across and that seems to have worked.

I knew it had to be something like that.. bizarre mess-up by your FTP client! It might be worthwhile looking at alternatives. FireFTP for FireFox is decent (and free! :) ).

All the best...

Conor
ceon

conor:

FireFox is decent (and free! :) ).

Great stuff, I've installed it and it is so much better than what I was originally using. I've donated a little something via paypal (hope it went through as i received a 'page cannot be found' after completing the payment).

Thanks for this module, and for your help.

Faz (hubooks)

Hi,

chabbu:

Great stuff, I've installed it and it is so much better than what I was originally using.

I'm glad to hear that! :)

chabbu:

I've donated a little something via paypal (hope it went through as i received a 'page cannot be found' after completing the payment).

Thanks very much indeed, that was very good of you! :thumbsup:

I don't know why a page not found would come up, it's just PayPal's standard donations page. Maybe they were having a temporary problem. Either way, thanks once again!

chabbu:

Thanks for this module, and for your help.

I'm glad you like it and hope it gets you some extra sales (all reports seem to indicate that it does indeed! ;) ).

All the best...

Conor
ceon

I was planning on installing this module, but had a question. How does this work if the product goes inactive when it's out of stock? When inactive, it doesn't display, so customers won't know it's there.