Category Notifications for WooCommerce

WooCommerce sends every low-stock and out-of-stock email to one store-wide address. If you have more than one supplier, warehouse or category owner, that address belongs to someone who has to forward the alerts by hand — or ignore them.

This plugin adds rules. Pick one or more product categories, list the email addresses that should hear about them, done. When a product in those categories hits low stock or sells out, those addresses get the mail. Everyone else stays quiet.

What people use it for

• Suppliers. Your supplier hears about their own products running low, and nothing else.
• Warehouses. Alerts go to the location that actually holds the stock.
• Category owners. A purchase or brand manager gets their range only.
• Drop-shipping. The alert lands with whoever fulfils that product line.

Categories are hierarchical, so a rule on a parent covers everything under it — and you can exclude a sub-category that belongs to someone else. Variable products use the parent product’s categories, so per-variation stock works too.

Features

• Add unlimited rules — each with one or more include categories, optional exclude sub-categories, and one or more email recipients.
• Comma-separated email lists per rule (a@example.com, b@example.com).
• Hierarchical category support. Set a rule on a parent category and it automatically covers all child categories. Set a rule on a child category and it only covers that branch.
• Sub-category excludes. Include a parent category but exclude specific sub-categories that should be handled by a different recipient.
• Multi-include. One rule can match several categories at once, sharing the same recipient list and the same exclude set.
• Variation-aware. Variable products correctly use the parent product’s categories when a single variation hits the threshold.
• Rich select2 UI. Both include and exclude fields use WooCommerce’s enhanced select, with categories indented by hierarchy depth for easy navigation.
• Works alongside the standard WooCommerce stock notification — these are additional recipients, not a replacement.
• Translation-ready (jalma-category-notifications-for-woocommerce text domain). Swedish (sv_SE) included.
• No external services, no telemetry, no API keys.

How it works

1. Configure rules at WooCommerce → Category notifications: pick one or more include categories, optionally pick sub-categories to exclude, and enter the email addresses that should be notified.
2. When a product reaches low stock or sells out, the plugin checks the product’s categories (and parent categories) against your rules.
3. Matching rules fire and their email addresses receive a clear notification with the product name, current stock, and a link to edit the product.

This runs on top of WooCommerce’s existing low-stock / out-of-stock hooks, so it respects all your normal stock-notification settings (thresholds, manage-stock, etc.).