Looking for an app to provide an estimated in stock date on the product variant

[tlh1719]

Hi,

We are looking for an app that will be able to put an estimated in stock date next to a product variant so that out customers can see when we estimate that variant will be back in stock.

Is this possible? We would like it to link to our Purchase Orders if at all possible?

Thanks

Crafty

[binal_identix]

Hello @tlh1719,

Hope you are doing well.

Here are some apps available on the Shopify app store to fulfill your requirement, please check here: https://apps.shopify.com/search?q=back%20in%20stock

[Mac]

Hi, @tlh1719!

Thanks for reaching out in our Community forums. I’m happy to help.

There are many approaches you can take to alert your customers when a product or variant will be back in stock. Firstly, you can use an app like the Back In Stock Date which will simply display the back in stock date for your variant. You can also browse our App Store for apps that offer a similar functionality. Secondly, you can look to add an alert that will allow you to notify your customers when products are restocked through Email and text messages. Check out the Back In Stock: Customer Alerts app if this interests you. 

Alternatively, you can introduce a newsletter to your store and let your customers know when a group of products are back in stock that way. You can also let them know of any up and coming promotions or products. If this interests you, feel free to check out our guide on adding a newsletter signup form and how to implement an email marketing strategy.

I’d love to know more about your marketing initiatives! How are you currently advertising your products and brand?

[PaulNewton]

You may not need an app,

Also see this thread https://community.shopify.com/c/shopify-discussions/how-to-show-expected-arrival-date-in-transfers-t... 

You can quickly leverage the variant.next_incoming_date if :

• it is a single variant product, otherwise you may need a javascript customization.
• using a theme that is online-store 2.0 compatible
  • the theme has text blocks with dynamic sources , or custom-liquid sections or blocks
• using metafield definitions,  or transfers, to create incoming dates

Either set a text dynamic source to the metafield definition holding the estimate restock date 

Or add a custom-liquid block with {{ variant.next_incoming_date }} .

Otherwise with a vintage theme(non OS2.0) , you will need a theme customization to insert the line of liquid and style it, and update javascript when more than 1 variant.

An alternative is to show all variants next_incoming_date in a custom-liquid block to bypass needing javascript support:

<ul>
  {%- for variant in product.variants -%}
    {%- if variant.incoming -%}
      <li>{{ variant.sku }} arrives: {{ variant.next_incoming_date }}</li>
    {%- endif -%}
  {%- endfor -%}
</ul>

https://shopify.dev/api/liquid/objects/variant#variant-next_incoming_date 

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/products/inventory/transfers/receive-inventory 

https://help.shopify.com/en/manual/online-store/themes/os20/theme-structure/sections/#using-metafiel...