Forms - Add a back in stock notification form

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Caution

This is an advanced tutorial and is not supported by Shopify. Knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Liquid is required. Consider hiring a Shopify Expert if you aren't comfortable doing the steps in the tutorial.

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With a back in stock notification form, customers can let you know if they want to be informed when a sold out product becomes available again. When a customer uses the form to submit their email address, you will be sent information about the product that they are interested in. When more stock becomes available, you can let the customer know.

Note: If a product has variants, then each variant must be sold out for the form to appear on the product page. To use a form that appears for sold out variants, even when other variants for the same product are available, you will need to install a free or paid back in stock app from the Shopify App Store.

Sectioned and non-sectioned themes

The steps for this tutorial differ depending on whether you are using a sectioned or a non-sectioned theme. A sectioned theme is a newer theme that lets you drag and drop to arrange the layout of your store's pages.

To figure out whether your theme supports sections, go to the theme's Edit code page. If there are files in the Sections directory, you are using a sectioned theme. Non-sectioned themes were released before October 2016, and do not have files in the Sections directory.

If you are using a sectioned theme, then click the Sectioned themes link and follow the instructions. If you are using an older, non-sectioned theme, then click the Non-sectioned themes link and follow the instructions.

• Sectioned themes
• Non-sectioned themes

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Sectioned themes

Viewing or changing where notifications are sent

When a customer submits the back in stock notification form for a sold out product, you will receive an email to the email address you have specified in the admin in the Customer email field.

To view or change your Customer email, from your Shopify admin, click Settings, then click General.

Adding the notification form code to your theme

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
2. Find the theme you want to edit, and then click Actions > Edit code.
3. In the Sections directory, click product-template.liquid.
4. Find the opening HTML <form> tag. It will look similar to this:
   
   

   <form action="/cart/add" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

   Wrap the opening <form> tag in conditional Liquid tags, so that on a new line above it is {% if product.available %}, and on a new line below it is {% endif %}. Your code should look like this:
   
   

   {% if product.available %}
   <form action="/cart/add" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
   {% endif %}

5. Find the closing HTML </form> tag. Wrap it in conditional Liquid tags, so that on a new line above it is {% if product.available %}, and on a new line below it is {% endif %}. Your code should look like this:
   
   

   {% if product.available %}
   </form>
   {% endif %}

6. Find the product title in the code by looking for {{ product.title }}. On a new line below the line of code that contains the product title, paste the following code:
   
   

   {% unless product.available %}
   <div id="sold-out">
     {% form 'contact' %}
       {% if form.posted_successfully? %}
       <p class="accent-text">Thanks! We will notify you when this product becomes available!</p>
       {% else %}
       <p>Click <a id="notify-me" href="#"><strong>here</strong></a> to be notified by email when {{ product.title }} becomes available.</p>
       {% endif %}
       {% if form.errors %}
       <div class="error feedback accent-text">
         <p>Please provide a valid email address.</p>
       </div>
       {% endif %}
       {% unless form.posted_successfully? %}
       <div id="notify-me-wrapper" class="clearfix" style="display:none">
         {% if customer %}
         <input type="hidden" name="contact[email]" value="{{ customer.email }}" />
         {% else %}
         <input style="float:left; width:180px;" required="required" type="email" name="contact[email]" placeholder="your@email.com" class="styled-input{% if form.errors contains 'email' %} error{% endif %}" value="{{ contact.fields.email }}" />
         {% endif %}
         <input type="hidden" name="contact[body]" value="Please notify me when {{ product.title | escape }} becomes available." />
         <input style="float:left; margin-left:5px;" class="btn styled-submit" type="submit" value="Send" />
       </div>
       {% endunless %}
     {% endform %}
   </div>
   {% endunless %}

   You can experiment with placing the code in different areas of the file to have the notification form display in a different position on the product page.
7. Click Save.
8. In the Assets directory, click theme.js, or theme.js.liquid.
9. At the very bottom of the file, paste the following code:
   
   

   jQuery('#notify-me').click(function() {
   
   jQuery('#notify-me-wrapper').fadeIn();
   
   return false;
   } );

10. Click Save.

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Non-sectioned themes 

Viewing or changing where notifications are sent

When a customer submits the back in stock notification form for a sold out product, you will receive an email to the email address you have specified in the admin in the Customer email field.

To view or change your Customer email, from your Shopify admin, click Settings, then click General.

Adding the notification form code to your theme

1. From your Shopify admin, go to Online Store > Themes.
2. Find the theme you want to edit, and then click Actions > Edit code.
3. In the Sections directory, click product-template.liquid.
4. Find the opening HTML <form> tag. It will look similar to this:
   
   

   <form action="/cart/add" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">

   Wrap the opening <form> tag in conditional Liquid tags, so that on a new line above it is {% if product.available %}, and on a new line below it is {% endif %}. Your code should look like this:
   
   

   {% if product.available %}
   <form action="/cart/add" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
   {% endif %}

5. Find the closing HTML </form> tag. Wrap it in conditional Liquid tags, so that on a new line above it is {% if product.available %}, and on a new line below it is {% endif %}. Your code should look like this:
   
   

   {% if product.available %}
   </form>
   {% endif %}

6. Find the product title in the code by looking for {{ product.title }}. On a new line below the line of code that contains the product title, paste the following code:
   
   

   {% unless product.available %}
   <div id="sold-out">
     {% form 'contact' %}
       {% if form.posted_successfully? %}
       <p class="accent-text">Thanks! We will notify you when this product becomes available!</p>
       {% else %}
       <p>Click <a id="notify-me" href="#"><strong>here</strong></a> to be notified by email when {{ product.title }} becomes available.</p>
       {% endif %}
       {% if form.errors %}
       <div class="error feedback accent-text">
         <p>Please provide a valid email address.</p>
       </div>
       {% endif %}
       {% unless form.posted_successfully? %}
       <div id="notify-me-wrapper" class="clearfix" style="display:none">
         {% if customer %}
         <input type="hidden" name="contact[email]" value="{{ customer.email }}" />
         {% else %}
         <input style="float:left; width:180px;" required="required" type="email" name="contact[email]" placeholder="your@email.com" class="styled-input{% if form.errors contains 'email' %} error{% endif %}" value="{{ contact.fields.email }}" />
         {% endif %}
         <input type="hidden" name="contact[body]" value="Please notify me when {{ product.title | escape }} becomes available." />
         <input style="float:left; margin-left:5px;" class="btn styled-submit" type="submit" value="Send" />
       </div>
       {% endunless %}
     {% endform %}
   </div>
   {% endunless %}

   You can experiment with placing the code in different areas of the file to have the notification form display in a different position on the product page.
7. Click Save.
8. In the Assets directory, click theme.js, or theme.js.liquid.
9. At the very bottom of the file, paste the following code:
   
   

   jQuery('#notify-me').click(function() {
   
   jQuery('#notify-me-wrapper').fadeIn();
   
   return false;
   } );

10. Click Save.

[piroc_media]

to be clear, this does not automatically notify customers (who filled out the form) once the product is back in stock. 

in fact, out of hundreds of contact emails that a store might receive, it'll be cumbersome to pick the ones that relate to a specific product.

[facesandplaces]

I am not able to find the <FORM> tag in my product-template.liquid page

Can anyone help?

[oost]

@facesandplaces you may need to look for a liquid style tag rather than the HTML tag mentioned in the tutorial. It will look something like this:

 {% form 'product', product, class:form_classes, novalidate: 'novalidate', data-product-form: '' %}

[RafVR]

I have the same question, how would you adapt your solution with this kind of code ? How do you wrap it with the conditional Liquid tags 

{% if product.available %}
<form action="/cart/add" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">
{% endif %}

And

{% if product.available %}
</form>
{% endif %}

Thank you tremendously for the valuable help, you would make my day!

[ch81]

Did you find a solution?

I did the following and getting an error when saving the file.

{% if product.available %}
            {% form 'product', product, class:form_classes, id:form_id %}
            {% endif %}

Liquid syntax error: 'endif' is not a valid delimiter for form tags. use endform

[Orlandocastilla]

Did you found a solution? I have the same problem, I can’t find the <form> In my Code, and currently I’m using the debit template too :(

[ch81]

Unfortunately no. I'll post here if I do.