Essential ‑ Back In Stock Pro

Shopify stock alerts app by Codexade·Notify customers when products are back in stock and manage an out-of-stock waitlist.

Snapshot

4.90(19 reviews)#63of 241 inStock alerts

Ongoing.AI tracks Essential ‑ Back In Stock Pro daily — category rank, keyword positions in App Store search, install footprint, listing changes, and reviewer sentiment — back to when we first observed the listing.

CategoriesStock alertsPre-orders

Rating

4.90

19 reviews

Pricing

Free

free

Built for Shopify

No

Years live

1

launched Jul 12, 2024

Last updated

Jun 30, 2026

Shopify listing

Category rank over time

Where Essential ‑ Back In Stock Pro sits day-by-day in Stock alerts.

Position across the Stock alerts page, snapshot daily. Lower is better — the Y axis is inverted so the strongest ranks sit at the top of the chart. Open the full Stock alerts leaderboard →

#48#54#59#65#70May 28May 31Jun 4Jun 8Jun 12Essential ‑ Back In Stock Pro · #55A1 · #54Back In Stock ︱Restock Rooster · #56
Best position observed: #52. Essential ‑ Back In Stock Pro climbed 1 positions over the window. Greyed lines: the apps sitting immediately around it on the latest snapshot.

Catalog position

Where Essential ‑ Back In Stock Pro sits in the App Store.

Rank and percentile inside the Stock alerts category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.

Rank in Stock alerts

#63

of 241 active apps

Review count percentile

74th

vs category siblings

Rating percentile

69th

vs category siblings

Years on App Store

1

since 2024

Listing change cadence

What Essential ‑ Back In Stock Pro has changed lately.

Every pricing tweak, tagline refresh, and Shopify-side listing ping. Captured from Ongoing.AI’s per-scrape diff log — the cadence and the content of changes, in one strip.

Listing changes · last 21 days+11shopify_lastmod: 2026-05-11 → 2026-06-15shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-15 → 2026-06-16shopify_lastmod: 2026-06-16 → 2026-06-30Jun 11, 26Jun 21, 26Jul 2, 26

Shopify Lastmod · Jul 1

2026-06-16 → 2026-06-30

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 17

2026-06-15 → 2026-06-16

Shopify Lastmod · Jun 16

2026-05-11 → 2026-06-15

PricingIdentity & listingCadence

Reviews

What merchants are saying

4.90(19 reviews)
  • 96%positive23
  • 4%neutral1
  • 0%negative0

Top themes

    What merchants praise

    “Hele fijne app om je klanten op de wachtlijst te zetten. Je kan zelf de kleur en tekst bepalen. Ik zeg deze installeren!!”
    Dutch Nail Cosmetics · 5★ · 2025-03-21

    Capabilities

    What Essential can do.

    The 12 capabilities Essential lists across each of its 2 categories, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.

    Stock alerts

    Notifications

    4
    • Auto-alerts
    • Back in stock
    • Out of stock
    • Custom alerts

    Customization

    3
    • Alert settings
    • Pop-ups
    • Stock counter

    Pre-orders

    Order type

    2
    • Back orders
    • Out of stock

    Customization

    3
    • Buttons
    • Banners
    • Variants

    FAQ

    Essential — frequently asked questions.

    What is Essential on Shopify?
    Essential, officially listed on the Shopify App Store as Essential ‑ Back In Stock Pro, is a Shopify app in the Stock alerts category. Our Back in Stock app helps you retain customers and recover lost sales by automatically notifying them when out-of-stock items are restocked. Customers can sign up for alerts directly on product pages, and the app will manage the waitlist. You can export customer emails from our app and customize the pop-up form to match your brand colors. The app supports home, product, and collections pages. Easy to install and customize, this app ensures you never miss a sale due to stock issues. It averages 4.90 out of 5 across 19 merchant reviews on the Shopify App Store.
    How much does Essential cost?
    Essential is free to install and use on Shopify — there are no paid plans on this app.
    Is Essential free?
    Yes — Essential is free to install and use on Shopify. There are no paid plans.
    When was Essential launched?
    Essential launched on July 12, 2024 — over 1 year on the Shopify App Store. In that time it has gathered 19 merchant reviews.
    Is Essential Built for Shopify?
    Essential does not currently carry Shopify's Built for Shopify badge. The badge is awarded to apps that meet Shopify's published standards for performance, ease of use, and merchant value — many high-quality apps operate without it.
    What are the best Essential alternatives?
    Merchants commonly compare Essential with Back In Stock,Notify Me, Notify! Back in Stock|PreOrder, Preorder, Back In Stock, and Preorder Now Presale Timesact. Each alternative covers a similar use case but differs on pricing model, integration depth, and the specific themes merchants praise in reviews — see the alternatives section above for a side-by-side.

    Alternatives

    Apps merchants pick instead.

    DEVSQUAT SOLUTIONS

    Back In Stock,Notify Me: Kbite

    5.00★3,657

    Known for: pricing

    Notify Me!

    Notify! Back in Stock|PreOrder

    4.90★3,326

    Artos Software

    Preorder, Back In Stock ‑ STOQ

    5.00★3,304

    Kairock Partners SRL

    Preorder Now Presale Timesact

    4.90★1,900
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    Methodology

    Where the numbers come from.

    Ratings, review counts, pricing tiers, “Built for Shopify”, launch date, and category memberships come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily by Ongoing.AI’s crawler. The review-count trajectory is the diff between today’s snapshot and snapshots from 7 and 28 days ago. Topic counts and sentiment come from the review corpus, topic-tagged with Claude. Install footprint is observed via Ongoing.AI’s tech-detection pass against actively-tracked Shopify storefronts. Catalog position is computed at snapshot time against every active app sharing the primary category. Snapshot generated .

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