Changelog

January 2025

  • Collect visitor name when they sign up for restock alerts‍
  • Charge remaining payment on preorders from STOQ
  • Way faster bulk addition of preorder products
  • UX revamp

November 2024

  • Bug fixes
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    - STOQ can now better handle adding hundreds or thousands of preorder products to offers.
    - Fixed a bug with identifying preorder products on collection, home and search pages.
    - Fixed a bug with Shopify admin extension to remove Preorder purchase option from a product.
    - Fixed a bug with saving tags for integrations with Klaviyo & Mailchimp.
    - Fixed bugs with saving payment and fulfillment options when setting up preorder offers.
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  • Platform updates

    - Completed significant improvements our database performance, making reports load and analytics load super fast.
    - Introduced a new mechanism to identify preorder products no matter where they are added from on your store. This ensures that the Preorder offer is applied correctly in all cases.
    - Added HTML support for the "Confirmation success" page when GDPR compliance is enabled for signup.
    - Updated reports to show "All time" data by default.
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  • ‍Maintenance

    - Switched to GraphQL API for retrieving product and variant data to support 2k variants limit.
    - Updated API versions and added new permissions for upcoming REST API deprecation.

October 2024

  • Embedded 'Notify me' form
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    Make it easier and faster for your customers to sign up for back in stock alerts with Embedded 'Notify me' form! Instead of a popup, your customers will see the 'Notify me' form right on the page soon as they click on any out of stock product or variant. Available on Standard & above plans
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  • Shopify Markets (beta)
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    If you sell across multiple Markets, Market-based alerts ensures that customers are notified to purchase your products only when inventory in their specific Market (region) are restocked. Available on Standard & above plans

    - Enable Market-based alerts, and configure your settings
    - Track signups for specific Markets in Reports
    - Restock inventory in a location
    - STOQ will automatically identify the Markets it serves and notify customers in those Markets.
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  • Auto-prefill for logged in customers
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    Signing up for back in stock alerts is now super fast for customers that are logged in to their account on your store. STOQ will automatically pick up their email and phone, and pre-fill the Notify me signup form. The only step left is hitting the button.‍
  • Add preorder products from collection or admin
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    Setting up your first preorder offer on specific products is easier with new ways to add products!
    - From collection: Select a collection and add specific products or all of them to your offer.
    - From admin: Search, sort and filter products in Shopify admin. Then, click More Actions > Add to preorder offer‍

September 2024

  • Back in stock email alerts through Klaviyo
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    Connect STOQ to Klaviyo and use Klaviyo to send back in stock email alerts. STOQ will collect your restock alert signups, use your settings to identify the right opportunity to notify everyone and Klaviyo will send out the emails based on your design preferences!The integration gives you

    - Unlimited flexibility and customizability: Design your email to match your brand guidelines and look in Klaviyo.
    - Analytics: Track your email analytics for back in stock emails in Klaviyo, making it easy to see your overall email campaign performance.

    Setting it up involves a few simple steps, and our team will walk you through it all. Available on Pro plan
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  • Manage preorder inventory in Shopify
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    Now, you can sell any in-stock product as a preorder - to create hype around drops, presales for your most loyal customers or excitement around upcoming launches. Setting it is up is super simple

    - Add inventory to the product in Shopify admin.
    - Create a preorder offer in STOQ.
    - In the offer's settings, set it to "Sell preorders for in-stock products"

    That's it! STOQ will add a Preorder flow and automatically stop it when inventory runs out. Not only is this easier, it is also the best way to sell preorders that make use of Shopify's features like multiple locations, Shopify Markets and integrations with fulfillment solutions.
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  • Multi-language support for preorders
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    Sell preorders worldwide with multi-language support for all offer content. After setting up your offer, go to Settings > Languages > Preorder offers and hit 'Edit translations'.

    Add content for each language supported by your store, and give customers precise information on their preorders - no matter where they are located. Available on Lite plan and above

  • Integrations with Omnisend & Mailchimp
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    With native integrations for Omnisend&Mailchimp, re-engaging your signups for back in stock alerts is now easier than ever before.

    Enable STOQ's feature to collect marketing consent from customers, then turn on any of our marketing platform integrations and convert visitors into customers fast. Head to Back in stock alerts > Settings > Integrations to set it up.
  • Other updates
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    - Capture your customer's interest fast in-person by signing them up for multiple products at once with STOQ's Point of Sale extension.
    - STOQ's dashboard is now available in German. Head to Settings > Language > 'Use STOQ in'
    - Quantity limits and shipping texts for preorder offers are easier to customize, with a new variables based customization flow.

August 2024

  • Shopify Point of Sale Extension
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    Now, sign up your customers for back in stock alerts in-person with Stoq's new Point of Sale app tile. It's easy to use and fast -

    - Sign up your customers using their email or phone
    - Add multiple products & variants to their waitlist easily
    - Collect their consent to notify them about offers & newsletters too.

    Add the Stoq tile to your POS device by tapping Add tile > Apps > Stoq > Register for back in stock alert.
  • Preorder badges
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    Make it easier to help customers identify your offers with Preorder badges. Add a badge to your product, collection or home page and customize it's look to match your brand.
  • Better tooling for preorder products
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    Managing preorder products for an offer has been simplified. Instead of selecting all the products you want to have in an offer, you can now add and remove products through 2 separate actions. Click 'Add variants' to add, and hit the checkboxes to remove.
  • Other improvements

    - Click 'Edit columns' in the top right to see your product SKUs and when the product was added to the offer.
    - Turn off back in stock alerts without losing the ability to sell preorders. We should've fixed this a while back, thanks everyone for your patience!
    - Change the color of your Notify me button on collection/home pages in Settings > Integrations.

July 2024

  • Preorder Confirmation & Shipping Update emails

    Keeping your customers informed about preorders is essential to reducing cancellations & refunds. Send a Preorder Confirmation email to customers immediately after they place their orders. Customize the email to match your brand, and share important details about shipping & payment.

    If your shipping timeline changes, easily send a Shipping Update email from Reports > Preorders for affected orders.
  • Customer portal for Preorders
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    Let your customers easily access their preorder information and cancel preorders easily with the new Preorder portal. Customers can visit the portal from the Preorder confirmation email. Your customers are now less likely to reach out to you for refunds or raise disputes/chargebacks.
  • Refer and earn!
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    Stoq is one of Shopify's best apps for preorders & back in stock alerts. With more than $20 million+ in sales recovered for merchants, we are just getting started and we'd love to have you join us on the journey! Sign up for our affiliate program and start earning right away.

    Earn 20% commission for 12 months when your referral signs up for any paid plan. Get your first payout soon as you hit $100 in earnings!
  • New Integrations page
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    Add a 'Preorder' or 'Notify me' button to any page or flow on your store from the new Integrations page on Stoq. Integrations support Quick Buy, collections, search and home page. And it's as easy as turning it on or requesting our team to set it up for you. Go to Settings > Integrations to get started!
  • Blazing fast reports
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    In June, we mentioned that Reports on Stoq got new filters. While that improved accessibility, there was more to do. Our engineering team rolled out a major technical update in July that should make Reports and analytics super fast to load! Give it a try - Head to Stoq > Reports and apply a date filter.
  • Quantity limit
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    Stoq will disable the 'Preorder' button if a customer tries to add more than the quantity limit configured to their cart.
  • Preorder offer disclaimer supports HTML
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    Use HTML to format your preorder offer's description in the way you'd like!
  • Improved onboarding
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    Merchants setting up Stoq for the first time can now select an onboarding flow based on the features they want to set up.

June 2024

  • Preorder payment widget

    Add a payment widget above the Preorder button that shows your customers exactly how much they need to pay (and how much they save) by preordering their favorite product. Enable the widget in Preorders > Edit > Payment > Show payment options.

    The payment widget supports multi-currency, and it can be fully customized with variables.
  • Delete offer
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    You can now delete or disable a preorder offer. When you do so, make sure to either let the app automatically turn off 'Continue selling' for all linked products or do it yourself in Shopify admin.
  • Preorder plan limits
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    Preorders are now available to all merchants on Stoq. Thanks everyone for your feedback and kind words in building this product! We're really excited for everyone to try preorders, and you'll continue to see updates

    The following preorder limits are in effect from June 30, 2024
    Free plan: 10 preorders
    Lite plan: 100 preorders, $0.25 per order above plan limit
    Standard plan: 400 preorders, $0.1 per order above plan limit
    ‍Pro plan: 1,000 preorders, $0.08 per order above plan limit
  • Search page integration for Preorder and Notify me button
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    Stoq now supports showing 'Preorder' or 'Notify me' on Search pages of your store. Get in touch with us to set it up!
  • Restock Rocket is now Stoq
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    Starting June 30, 2024, Restock Rocket will be known as Stoq. This represents the start of a new chapter - we're now a platform built to help you earn sales from out of stock products.
  • Filters and performance improvements for Reports
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    Reports are faster to load than ever before. Through a combination of performance improvements and new filters, these pages should be snappier and quick to pull up your data. You'll also find new quick date filters on most of the reports.
  • Fixes for setting up preorders in bulk

    We've improved how Stoq handles setting up or selecting products for a preorder offer in bulk. The app will also guide you with clear instructions on next steps if your offer isn't set up correctly.
  • Block SMS signups for all countries except one

    Enable 'Restrict SMS registration to default country' in Back in stock alerts > Customize signup form to only let customers with the default country code you've set up to sign up for alerts. This helps you sell only to the region you ship products to, and reduce SMS related costs.

May 2024

  • Released Auto Resend in beta
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    Auto Resend automatically resends back in stock alerts to customers from previous waitlists if they haven't placed an order yet. Set up time and engagement based filters to target customers, and increase conversion to orders when you restock products. Chat with us, or learn more on our Help Centre.
  • Improved bulk notification processing and tracking

    When you send notifications in bulk from the dashboard, Restock Rocket will process the request in background instead of blocking any further actions in complete. You can also track all such bulk notifications, whether it's sent automatically or manually, in a dedicated section. Head to Reports > More > Track sending progress to see your processed requests.

    We've also improved navigation between search results in the Reports page with this update.
  • See available inventory in Reports

    You can now see the product's or variant's available inventory in Reports > Products in Demand. This helps you better estimate the right number of back in stock alerts to send.
  • Improved navigation

    Restock Rocket is now easier to navigate than ever before. All your back in stock alerts are in one tab titled 'Back in stock alerts', and switching between the available settings is faster too.

    In addition, you can now get to our Merchant Success team faster too by clicking the 'Support' tab. Set up a call with our team, chat with us or browse the latest tutorials on setting up the app for maximum RoI.
  • Quick view integration for Notify me and Preorder button

    Restock Rocket now supports showing 'Notify me' and 'Preorder' button on Quick View/Quick Buy sections. Chat with our team to set it up for your store.
  • Shipping and payment information for preorders

    Customize the disclaimer underneath 'Preorder' button with additional information like the number of units available for purchase, and the exact shipping date. You can also set a shipping timeline for each product in the offer, instead of one shipping range for all products.

    We've also simplified the offer setup flow and separated settings across different tabs, making it more simple to set up your first offer.
  • TikTok account link in back in stock email alerts

    Add your TikTok account link in back in stock email alerts in Back in stock alerts > Notifications > Customize email.

April 2024

  • More back in stock alerts for all plans

    We increased the number of back in stock alerts you can send across all paid plans. Check your Settings tab to see the updated limits. Thanks for using Restock Rocket!
  • Web push back in stock alerts deprecated‍
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    As of April 27, Restock Rocket will no longer send back in stock alerts through browser web push notifications. The channel has been deprecated. For merchants on plan that had a push notification specific limit, your email and SMS limits have been increased to compensate for the change.
  • Released Preorders in beta
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    Convert out of stock products into orders faster with Preorders! Available now in beta, sell unlimited preorders until June 30, 2024.

    With Restock Rocket, preorders is easy and simple. Configure your first preorder offer, adjust settings like discounts and payment options, and let us set up your Preorder button! That's all it takes for you to earn revenue well ahead of a restock.

    We're rolling out new features for Preorders every week. Join the beta and share your feedback to help us build the best preorders experience you'll find on Shopify.

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