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Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce | WooCommerce Waitlist Pro
Friendly support meets a restock notification system that often stays silent.
HealthyGrowing
78/100
Users appreciate the easy setup and support but the core notification feature often fails to fire.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
120 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+128%
Growing fast
92 → 210 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing fast · +128% in the last year
92/day a year ago→210/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayBack In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce is generally well-regarded as a lightweight, easy-to-set-up waitlist plugin with notably responsive support, but a recurring critical flaw — automatic restock notifications not firing — and a caching incompatibility undermine its core purpose for some users.
What people like
- +Easy to install and set up, works out of the box with minimal configuration×4
- +Support is fast, responsive, and helpful×7
- +Core waitlist functionality works as described — captures subscriber emails and tracks them per product×3
- +Available for free, with users noting the support quality exceeds many paid plugins×3
- +Developer has shown willingness to make compatibility fixes on request
Common complaints
- −Automatic restock email notifications do not send to subscribers when a product is restocked — the plugin's primary feature×2
- −Support is unresponsive for some users reporting the restock notification failure×2
- −Caching compatibility issue causes a persistent 'Something went wrong' error when users try to subscribe; the suggested workaround (switching to REST API route) does not resolve it
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.60★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 10%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-07-202025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 120 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-20★★★★★when the product is restocked, an automatic in-stock mail not workjoseborchardt10011-shot
- 2025-11-13★★★★★Very, very good pluginThomasCrw
- 2025-08-23★★★★★Brilliant plugin, even better support!Martin Freisinger
- 2025-07-29★★★★★I loved the supportaisinteg1-shot
- 2025-03-18★★★★★The automatic in stock notification not even work.mikeexx
- 2025-03-06★★★★★Awesomebwebs
- 2025-03-04★★★★★solve issuesjaneverts
- 2025-02-26★★★★★Great plugin, great supportthermash1-shot
- 2025-01-23★★★★★Great plugin with fair payment!ole_wilkenburg
- 2025-01-18★★★★★Great plug-in and awesome support!ryanmvickerman
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to Back In Stock Notifier for WooCommerce
Top WooCommerce plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
166
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
232
Prior 7-day baseline
150
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
611
Mean release-day peak (30d)
136
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
-28.4%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
13%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.18
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
88%
5★ share in analyzed sample
10%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-67%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.61 → 4.60★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered