Monday 23 June 2014

Magento Low Stock Notification Extension

A study found that significant cost penalty is incurred by both manufacturers and retailers when a stock out occurs on the shelf. The potential loss of business for both manufacturers and retailers are mostly caused by out-of-stock situations. If you are facing this situation in your Magento online store, this article will help you a lot to overcome that. Let see how to provide good services to the customers even when the product is in out-of-stock.


 Magento Stock Notification Extension

Why Magento?

According to an October 2012 eCommerce survey, February 2013 eCommerce survey, and April 2014 eCommerce Survey – Magento is a leading eCommerce software in the online business world.

Over 200,000 online store merchants trust that Magento is a perfect platform for the eCommerce store. Magento is an open source eCommerce software which has many rich features and functionalities that helps the merchant to run a successful online business. Magento offers many advantages to both merchants and customers such as:
  • Thousands of attractive themes are used to make the website look very professional and rich.
  • Supports multiple languages and multiple currencies to extend the online store services from national to international level.
  • Integrated with many payment gateways to provide the secure payment services in the online store.
  • Combined with shipping carriers to make the shipping process most safe and fast.
  • Helps merchant to increase the visibility of the website by integrating it with popular social media sites.
  • Magento has more than thousands of extensions to meet all the business requirements of the merchants.
Millions of people visit the eCommerce websites every day for different purposes. Most of the potential customers visit the online store websites to purchase some particular products in the store. Imagine, that a customer wants to buy an Apple iPhone 5s from your Magento online store website. He spends his time for searching that product in your store and finally he found that. But the particular is out-of-stock in your store. Just imagine, what your customer will think about your store. Definitely he will move to another website and he will not purchase any product from your store in the future. How to avoid this situation in your online store?

The Magento Stock Notification Extension is a great extension, which will allow your users to enter their Email Id for products that are out of stock and notifies them once the stock is replenished. That means, when the product is in out-of-stock this module collects the Email id from the user to send notification. The admin can view the Notification List and has an option to delete the items from the list. When the product is in stock, the merchant can send the information using the email address which was given by the customers.

Benefits:
  • Notify users once stock is added.
  • Maintain the status of notifications in Notification List.
  • Increases the product sales and customer retention.
  • Attract more number of customers.
Enhance your online business by implementing this extension in Magento eCommerce store without investing more money. With the help of this module, you can easily satisfy your customers and increase the productivity of your store.