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Home has a four-step setup guide. Follow it in order and, at the end, sold-out products on your storefront collect sign-ups and alert shoppers when stock returns.
1

Install Notifylyst and choose a plan

Install from the Shopify App Store and approve the permissions. If your store has no plan yet, the app shows Choose a plan to get started and takes you to Shopify’s plan page. Pick a plan (paid plans start with a free trial) and approve it — you land back on Home.More on plans: Change your plan.
2

Turn on Notifylyst in your theme

The first step of the guide. Notifylyst is a theme app extension: nothing appears on your storefront until you switch on its app embed, Notifylyst Restock Widget. It loads the Notify me button and the sign-up form on every page.Press Open theme editor in the step, open App embeds, switch on Notifylyst Restock Widget, and Save. Back in the app, the guide checks your live theme and ticks the step — or tells you Still off in your theme. Switch it on and save.
The Shopify theme editor's App embeds panel with Notifylyst Restock Widget switched on.
3

Show the Notify me button

Choose how shoppers reach the form:
  • Turn on floating button — a tab on the edge of every product page, shown only when the selected variant is sold out. Styled under Appearance → Notify me button.
  • or add the Notifylyst Restock Button block to your product template, so the button sits next to Add to cart.
You can use both. Details: Storefront widget.
The Setup steps card on Home at 4 of 4: Turn on Notifylyst in your theme (with Open theme editor), Show the Notify me button, Try it on a sold-out product and Send yourself a test alert.
4

Try it on a sold-out product

Open a sold-out product on your storefront, choose the sold-out variant, and press Notify me when available. Sign up with your own email address. Then press It works in the guide.Your sign-up appears in Analytics → Sign-ups within moments — the fastest proof that everything is connected.
The Notify me when available form open on a sold-out product, with the variant picker, the channel tabs, the email field, the quantity and the Notify me button.
5

Send yourself a test alert

Press Send test alert to open Appearance → Notifications, then Send test email. You get the exact message a shopper receives when the product is back.Email is on from the start. Web push you switch on yourself; SMS needs a one-time activation review — see Notification channels.
Settings → Channels with Email, Web push, SMS and WhatsApp and their on/off switches.
That is the whole loop. Home now says You are all set. Sign-ups collect against your products, and the moment stock comes back, everyone waiting is alerted.

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