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Who: you, the merchant · Goal: a working back-in-stock alert by the end of the day
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Install and choose a plan

Install Notifylyst from the Shopify App Store and approve its permissions. The app asks you to Choose a plan to get started and sends you to Shopify’s plan page; approve a plan there. Paid plans can start with a free trial.It worked if: you land on Home, greeted with the setup guide.
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Turn on Notifylyst in your theme

Press the first step of the setup guide. Your theme editor opens; switch on Notifylyst Restock Widget under App embeds and save.It worked if: the guide ticks the step and shows Notifylyst is on in your theme. If it says Still off in your theme. Switch it on and save., you probably edited a draft theme — do it on the live one.
The Shopify theme editor's App embeds panel with Notifylyst Restock Widget switched on.
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Show the Notify me button

Press Turn on floating button for a tab on the edge of product pages, or add the Notifylyst Restock Button block to your product template. Then make it yours under Appearance — the button and form.It worked if: Home’s Live on your store card lists the Notify me button.
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Try it on a sold-out product

Open your storefront in another tab, find a sold-out product, choose the sold-out variant and press Notify me when available. Sign up with your own email address and press It works.It worked if: your sign-up appears in Analytics → Sign-ups and in Recent activity on the Dashboard.
The Notify me when available form open over a sold-out product page.
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Send yourself a test alert

Press Send test alert, then Send test email in Appearance → Notifications.It worked if: the email arrives, and Settings → Communication logs lists it as Sent. Read it as a shopper would — is the sender name right? Is the wording yours? See Message templates.
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You are all set

Home now reads You are all set — All 4 setup steps are done. From here, Home’s Needs your attention card tells you when something stops alerts going out, and Do more with Notifylyst suggests what to switch on next.
Home after setup: You are all set, this month's numbers, Needs your attention, Do more with Notifylyst and Live on your store.

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What happens behind the scenes

Nothing is added to your theme’s code: the embed and blocks are part of Notifylyst’s theme extension, and the button and form settings are stored with your store in Shopify, so the storefront loads them without calling Notifylyst’s servers. From now on Shopify tells Notifylyst whenever stock changes; you don’t schedule anything.

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Where it can go wrong

A shopper gets a restock alert

The other side: what your shoppers experience.

Quickstart

The same steps as a short checklist.