Stock Scarcity

Show the shelf, not a stopwatch.

The low-stock line reads your product’s own WooCommerce stock quantity. Not a countdown, not a number somebody typed — the figure your inventory already holds.

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A LUMÉ demo shelf. One of the three products shows a low-stock line, and it reads the store’s WooCommerce stock quantity, printed beneath it as a stock record. The demo shopper adds one beanie to the cart and the record does not move. Only when the order is paid do the line and the record go from 3 to 2 together, because WooCommerce reduces stock on the order, not on add to cart. The other two products’ counts never change.

LUMÉ is a demo store — these are LUMÉ’s own stock numbers, not a live feed.

▲ +17% conversions** The SalesMax marketing page prints “Low-stock alerts can boost conversions by up to 17 (Data by Baymard Institute)”. Read it as an up-to benchmark for low-stock alerts in general, attributed to Baymard Institute, not as a SalesMax measurement. Your own figure appears per booster in the SalesMax dashboard.

A LUMÉ demo shelf. One of the three products shows a low-stock line, and it reads the store’s WooCommerce stock quantity, printed beneath it as a stock record. The demo shopper adds one beanie to the cart and the record does not move. Only when the order is paid do the line and the record go from 3 to 2 together, because WooCommerce reduces stock on the order, not on add to cart. The other two products’ counts never change.

Upsell Popups
Stock Scarcity Runs on single product pages
Live Sales Notifications

Where it shows

Where the card sits.

We show it on the single product page, between the price and the Add to cart button. Four parts: three you type, the fourth is your product’s stock.

Click a part of the card — the note below says who writes it.

If you build with a page builder

Elementor widgetDrop the SalesMax widget into an Elementor product template and choose this booster from the list.
Gutenberg blockInsert the SalesMax block in the WordPress editor and pick this booster from the list.
WPBakery shortcodePaste the booster’s shortcode into a WPBakery text element to place it in a WPBakery layout.

The widget, the block and the shortcode are SalesMax’s own insertion methods, confirmed by 8theme — this booster’s documentation page does not list them.

Where this page stops.

The card above is redrawn part for part, and the number in it is your stock. What this page does not try to be is an implementation reference:

  • no WooCommerce hook name, template file or priority number;
  • the product page is the placement shown here — other positions on it are not enumerated;
  • what the progress bar’s fill maps to is not documented; the 30% drawn above is ours, for shape;
  • no threshold field named here — see on your own store which counts bring the card out;
  • no placeholder syntax printed for dropping the quantity into the sentence;
  • backorders, variable products with per-variation stock, unlimited stock and stock management switched off all depend on how your catalogue is built — worth a run on a staging copy.

Appearance

Three strings, and a colour.

Heading, badge and message are yours to type. The quantity is not — it comes from the product. The picker is this page’s device, not a plugin preset list.

Template Type
Accent (preview)
Product page · between the price and Add to cart

Minimal — a quiet card: plain heading, hairline rule, one message line. Bar omitted.

The math

The math, disclosed.

A stock line changes how many baskets get finished, store-wide — only genuinely scarce products move it. 400 orders, a 6% lift, a $70 order: 400 × 6% × $70 = +$1,680/mo. Press the keys.

Monthly orders now
400
Conversion lift
6%
Average order
$70
Extra revenue example
extra revenue in this example

The control room

The one number you never set.

You configure when the campaign runs and which products it runs on. What you do not configure is the quantity in the sentence: that is already in the product.

Stock Scarcity booster illustrative

Tap the chips — the rule sentence rewrites itself. These are the controls SalesMax gives every booster.

Status
Schedule

A start and an end, set at campaign level — the booster switches itself on and off.

Conditions

What every SalesMax booster gets
You create it like any other booster

SalesMax → Sales Boosters → + New Booster, pick the booster type, name it, configure it. It is the same four steps for every one of them.

Status, start date, end date

An activation toggle, a moment the campaign switches itself on and a moment it switches itself off — set at campaign level, the same as every other booster.

Conditions

Flexible rules based on cart value, product categories, user roles and purchase history — the same condition system every SalesMax booster uses.

Finer points, and where to check them
Where “almost gone” begins

The count is your product’s. Which counts read as low is a separate question from where the number comes from — a quantity can be perfectly true while the urgency framed around it is editorial. That is the honest shape of every low-stock alert, this one included, so watch which counts bring the card out on a staging copy before a sale.

What the number is, and is not

The figure in the sentence is your product’s stock quantity, not a copy of it kept inside the booster — nothing to type, nothing to keep in sync. This page claims no live socket and no polling; if refresh timing matters to your store, watch it on a staging copy.

The depletion bar

The card carries a filled track under the message. It is not part of this redraw: in the product illustration it sits at roughly 85–90% full while the message says four units remain, so it is not a picture of stock remaining. Dashed and empty here — see the real one on your own store.

Filters, and how several of them combine

The rule, as written up for the Fake Sale Popup: “Filters in SalesMax are additive, not restrictive” — several filters pull anything matching any of them, rather than only what matches all. Confirm the combination you build on a staging copy before it goes near a sale.

Where the invented numbers live

Not here. SalesMax does ship simulated urgency, under a different name and with a label on it: the Fake Sale Popup documentation states “No actual customer data is used. All names, products, and times are simulated.” The separation is deliberate, and it is why nothing on this card is invented. The number here is your stock.

FAQ

Questions merchants actually ask

Does the low-stock number come from my real WooCommerce stock?

Yes. The line prints the product’s WooCommerce stock quantity — the same number in the product’s inventory, the one WooCommerce reduces when an order is paid. You never type it into the booster and you never keep a second copy of it in sync: there is nothing in the booster to update when the quantity changes, because the line reads the product’s own number. That is the whole difference between this and a scarcity plugin running a timer.

What happens on a product with unlimited stock, or with stock management switched off?

The line needs a tracked quantity to print. Unlimited stock, stock management switched off, backorders and variable products with per-variation stock all depend on how your own catalogue is put together — try all four on a staging copy of it before a sale.

Does SalesMax invent the urgency — countdowns, viewer counts, sold-in-the-last-hour?

Not here. The number is your stock quantity, and this booster carries no countdown, no visitor counter and no sold-in-the-last-hour line. Where SalesMax does simulate, it ships under a different name and labels it: the Fake Sale Popup documentation states “No actual customer data is used. All names, products, and times are simulated.” The separation is deliberate.

Where on the page does the widget appear?

On the single product page, between the price and the Add to cart button — that is the placement we show it in. The category shelf in this page’s hero demo is our own staging, chosen so you can watch three products at once and see which of them has a count worth reporting. Read it as an illustration, not as a second placement.

Where does the +17% conversions figure come from?

From the SalesMax marketing page, which prints “Low-stock alerts can boost conversions by up to 17 (Data by Baymard Institute)”. Read it as an up-to benchmark for low-stock alerts in general, attributed to Baymard Institute, and not as a SalesMax measurement. Your own numbers appear per booster in the SalesMax dashboard.

Works well with

Boosters that meet the shopper after the shelf.

A stock line only gets someone to open the product page. The row starts with what waits for them there, then runs through the rest of the suite.

Use the left and right arrow keys to scroll this list.

Frequently Bought Together

Show the products that naturally belong with this one, added in one click.

▲ +35% sales*Learn more

Product Add-Ons

Offer catalogue extras on the product page — ticked in one go, each with its own discount.

▲ +20% AOV*Learn more

Upsell Popups

A relevant offer the moment something is added to cart — one popup, not a maze.

▲ +20% conversions*Learn more

Smart Recommendations

Condition-based suggestions by category, cart contents, order history or totals.

▲ +31% revenue*Learn more

Live Sales Notifications

Subtle purchase notifications — from your real recent orders, or from name lists you write.

▲ +15% conversions*Learn more

Cart Add-ons

Offers shown right in the cart, on top of what the shopper already has.

▲ +10–30% revenue*Learn more

Cart Page Upsells

Small upgrades and companion products, one tap from the cart summary.

▲ +29% sales*Learn more

Buy More, Save More

Tiered quantity discounts that make the bigger order the obvious choice.

▲ +30% order value*Learn more

Free Shipping Bar

“You’re $11 away from free shipping” — the most effective sentence in e-commerce.

▲ +30% AOV*Learn more

Goal Order Discount

“Spend $80, get 10% off” — tiered rewards that pull the total upward.

▲ +18% avg. spend*Learn more

Checkout Offers

A last relevant order bump right before payment — accepted with one checkbox.

▲ +35% conversions*Learn more

One-Click Double Order

Let buyers duplicate their purchase with a single click — popular for consumables and gifts.

▲ +73% uptake*Learn more

Thank You Page Offers

Upsells on the order-confirmation page, where trust is already established.

▲ up to 3.1% conversion*Learn more

Post-Purchase Offers

One-click additions right after “Place order” — no re-entering payment details.

▲ +10% revenue*Learn more

Next Order Coupon

A unique coupon — the reason they come back.

▲ +25% repeat orders*Learn more

* Industry benchmarks and vendor-observed averages for each booster type — not a guarantee.

Stock Scarcity

Low stock, said plainly.

A number your store already keeps is the most honest reason to decide today. Print it — and every other booster in the suite with it, on every plan, no feature gating, ever.

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