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Back-in-stock alerts

Turn a sold-out disappointment into a sale — notify the exact people who wanted an item the moment it returns.

Goal

Convert sold-out demand when stock returns

Trigger

Restock event for a watched product

Channels

Email · SMS

Setup

30 minutes

Someone who tried to buy a sold-out item is a buyer with proven intent and no product to give them — the easiest sale you're not making. A back-in-stock alert closes that gap: capture interest while the item is out, then notify exactly those people the moment it returns.

Because the demand is pre-qualified, these alerts convert far above a normal promo, and speed matters — the first hour after restock is where limited inventory sells out again.

Build it in WeZend

  1. 1

    Capture interest while out of stock

    A "notify me" form or button records the contact and the product they want as an event — consent captured.

  2. 2

    Trigger on the restock event

    When your store signals the product is back, trigger a journey scoped to the contacts who asked about that product.

  3. 3

    Notify immediately, both channels

    Send email and SMS right away — for scarce restocks, SMS's speed is the difference between a sale and a second sell-out miss.

Or draft it in one prompt

Paste this into AI Studio (or your own Claude/ChatGPT via Connect AI) and review the draft it builds:

"Build a back-in-stock journey: when a watched product restocks, immediately email and SMS the contacts who asked to be notified, deep-linked to the product."
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Tips that make the difference

Speed beats polish. A plain, fast alert outsells a beautiful, slow one when stock is limited.

Deep-link to the product, not the homepage — every extra click loses buyers.

Send once. These are high-intent; a single timely alert is enough, and repeats annoy.

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