Restock alerts
SiteMonit watches the product page and alerts you when the stock status changes. It doesn't depend on the store having a notify-me list, and it checks more often than most waitlists send email.
Any store. Checks up to every 2 minutes on higher-tier plans.
Plenty of out-of-stock pages skip a waitlist entirely, or bury one behind a signup form the retailer gets around to eventually. SiteMonit checks the page itself, so it works the same way on a store that never offered a restock alert.
A store's own waitlist often batches sign-ups and sends once a day, if it sends at all. SiteMonit checks as often as every 2 minutes on higher-tier plans, or every 15 on the free plan — not on someone else's schedule.
Track a graphics card on one retailer's site, a sneaker on the brand's own store, and a spare part on a supplier's page, all from the same account and the same alert channel.
Works the same whether it's a big retailer's product page or a small supplier's site with no notify-me list at all.
Step 1
Paste the URL of the item that's out of stock, on any store.
Step 2
Select the add-to-cart button or the stock label with the element picker. SiteMonit watches that exact element instead of the whole page.
Step 3
Every 15 minutes on the free plan, down to every 2 minutes on higher-tier plans. Faster checks matter most on drops that sell out quickly.
Step 4
Email, Telegram, Slack or webhook. The alert links straight to the product page and the diff that triggered it.
Two habits: pick the element that actually reflects stock, and keep the rest of the page's noise out of your alerts.
A product page is one of the noisiest page types on the web, and whole-page monitoring turns most of that noise into alerts.
Recommended products, review counts and promotional banners change on nearly every load. Watch the full page and most alerts end up unrelated to whether the item is actually back.
The add-to-cart button's disabled state, or a single stock-label span, typically changes exactly once when the item restocks. Select that element and the alert fires only when it matters.
A shoe or a phone case can show "in stock" while your specific size or color is the one still unavailable. Select the variant control itself, not the page-level status, to keep the alert tied to what you actually want.
Say a graphics card has been out of stock for weeks, and restocks sell out within minutes.
You refresh the product page by hand a few times a day, which misses restocks that land at 3am or during a meeting. Or you join the retailer's waitlist and wait — some send the moment stock lands, others batch alerts and send hours later, after the item is gone again.
You've selected the add-to-cart button on the product page and set a 2-minute check interval. The moment the button flips from disabled to available, an alert lands in Slack or Telegram with a link to the page and the diff that triggered it.
Sneakers, trading cards and limited runs that sell out in minutes reward whoever finds out first. Watching the brand's own store directly reaches drops that third-party trackers don't cover.
A stroller, a car seat, or this season's one toy that's sold out everywhere. One alert covers every retailer that carries it, instead of checking ten tabs by hand.
Spare parts, packaging or an ingredient from a supplier with no restock notification. Watching the supplier's page directly means a reorder doesn't wait on a phone call or a sales rep's email.
Some large retailers, particularly ticketing platforms and some marketplaces, run aggressive bot protection on their pages. Those pages may not be reliably fetchable — when a check fails, SiteMonit reports that plainly instead of quietly showing "no changes".
SiteMonit is not a checkout bot. It will not add the item to your cart or complete the purchase for you — it only tells you the moment the page changes. On a genuinely limited drop, you can still lose out to someone faster after the alert lands.
On the free plan's 15-minute interval, a hot drop that sells out in a minute or two can come and go between checks. Faster intervals, down to every 2 minutes, are on higher-tier paid plans, though that isn't a guarantee against the fastest restocks.
Does it work on any store?
Yes. SiteMonit watches the product page directly instead of depending on the store's own systems, so it works on shops with no built-in back in stock notification just as well as on ones that have it.
How fast is the alert?
You get the alert on the first check that finds the item back in stock. The free plan and entry paid plan check every 15 minutes; higher-tier plans check as often as every 2 minutes.
Where do alerts go?
Email, Telegram, Slack or webhook, your choice per monitor. Every alert links back to the product page and the diff that triggered it.
Is it free?
Yes, up to 5 monitored pages and 500 checks a month, with no card required. Paid plans raise the page limit and the check frequency.
Can I get a restock alert for a specific size or color?
Yes. Select the specific size button, color swatch or variant control with the element picker instead of the general stock label. SiteMonit then watches that exact element, so a restock of a different size won't trigger a false alert.
What's the difference between a restock alert and an out of stock alert?
They describe the same page from two directions: an out of stock alert flags that an item just sold out, and a restock alert, or back in stock alert, flags that it's available again. SiteMonit is built for the second case.
Will this work on high-demand drops like sneakers or GPUs?
It can help, but it's not a checkout bot and doesn't guarantee you'll get the item. On the fastest drops, stock can sell out between one check and the next, especially on the free plan's 15-minute interval. A higher-tier plan's 2-minute interval narrows that window but doesn't eliminate it.
Free plan, no card. See also price drop alerts and competitor monitoring.