Stock Notification Package

$850.00

Do you offer products that go out of stock periodically?

Do your customers email or call you asking when these products may be available again?

Do you use the "orderable" field to mark items in or out of stock?

If you answered yes to these questions, then we have an automated solution^* for you that can increase your conversion on these products significantly.

Our "Out of Stock Notify" add-on can be installed on any Yahoo store. When you mark an item out of stock by setting the "orderable" field to "No", regular add to cart button on that item changes into a "Notify me when in stock" button. When the customer clicks the button, a form comes up asking for the customer's email address. The customer submits the email address, and next time when you set the "orderable" field of the product to Yes and publish the store, the customer will receive an email telling them that the item is now available, with a link pointing back to the item.

Questions & Answers about Stock Notification Package

What does this add-on require?

The Out of Stock Notify tool can be set up on any yahoo store, but it does require PHP and MySQL. If your store is a legacy store, then you'll need to have access to such a hosting environment outside of your Yahoo Store. If your store is not a legacy store, then you already have these as part of your Merchant Solutions package.

Is it completely automatic?

It can be. If you are going to host the scripts on Yahoo's web hosting (Merchant Solutions), then each time you publish the store (and after the publish completes), you will have to run another script (basically, open it up in your browser). Or, if you want to, you can run that script once a day, or twice a day. This script is responsible for figuring out which items became available and sending out the notifications. Most other conventional web hosting environments (other than Yahoo Web Hosting), however, offer scheduled jobs (called CRON jobs) which can be set up to run this special script automatically at predefined intervals. In such a setup, the entire process is automatic.

Is there an ongoing fee associated with this?

No. There is a one time setup fee, that's all.

Product Reviews

  Must have tool, August 17, 2011

Posted By: Perry

You need to have this tool, it will pay for itself many times over. Conversion rates on the notify emails are a whopping 35%. Our site, www.razorama.com, was one of the early adopters of this tool and we've earned 3000% return on it's cost. It's one of my favorite tools by far.

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  Sales 48% increase in one month and growing, June 22, 2011

Posted By: S. E. "Sandy" Miranda

Our sales went up 48% the first month after Y-times completed several site modifications and enhancements. Our sales have been at this new level for the past 3 months and growing..

We are glad that the people "who wrote the book" are part of our team.....

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  Great tool!, May 13, 2011

Posted By: Larry

The notification tool is great! It really fits for us because our items are hard-to-get and come in and out of stock a bunch. We are getting a bunch of people sign-up for it.

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