Product Nofications updates

[steph07]

I have noticed customers starting an account with my store but not purchasing anything. Then I realized it must be for signing up to product notifications. Is there any where I can tell what products customers are watching? A report or something?

[michael_s]

That feature is not included by default.

See this mod:
osCommerce: Stats Products Notifications

[steph07]

thanks micheal! I just installed it and it works perfectly. although would it list any product notifications requested prior to the installation -or does it just start tracking from the time of install?

[michael_s]

Looks like it lists all of them, as all it does is pull the info from the db and create a stats report. If there are already notifications in the db, it will show them.

[JohnW]

This thread got me thinking about the product notification aspect of OSC in general. It's clunky at best and I don't like the way it states "notify me of updates" because unless it would automatically do the notifications then it's a pain. Now that I have done the following modifications I really like this product notifications report.

So, I modified my product_info page to only show up when an item is out of stock with a message "notify me when product name is back in stock". I had previously changed my buy now button to show a red "out" button when an item is out of stock. You can see the setup here
Dried Flowers R Us : Eucalyptus - Preserved - Washed - Orange - $4.65

I also use the red button on my product listing pages so they cannot add it to the cart. My goal is to make things as idiot proof as possible, but that can be a challenge.

If anyone thinks this would be useful I can upload this to the project page.