Wishlist Setup Guide
One theme embed puts the button on your product pages. The rest is deciding which alerts you want to send and what they say.
Before you start
- An Online Store 2.0 theme, so the theme editor has an
App embedssection - A sender name and logo if you want the alert emails branded, though the app falls back to your store details
- Nothing else. Shoppers do not need accounts for any of this to work
1
Enable the wishlist on your theme
- Install the app and open it from
Appsin your Shopify admin. The Dashboard opens with a three step checklist. - Click
Enable on theme. The theme editor opens atApp embeds. - Switch on
Vensa Wishlist Widgetand clickSave. - Back in the app, open
Displayand clickCheck again. The status card turns green once it can see the embed.
2
Check the button on a product page
- Open any product page on your storefront. An
Add to wishlistbutton sits under the add to cart button. - Click it. The icon fills and a floating button with a counter appears in the corner.
- If the button lands in the wrong place, go to
Display. You can move it under the add to cart button, onto the product image, both, or point it at your own CSS selector. - The same page controls the icon, the label, colours, size, and whether hearts also appear on collection cards, search results and the home page.
3
Give shoppers a page for their list
- In
Display, find the wishlist page setting. - The quickest route is
Create page for me, which publishes a page at/pages/wishlistand links it up for you. - If you would rather use your own page, add the
Wishlist pageapp block to it in the theme editor and point the setting at that URL. - You can also show the list as a slide out drawer instead of a full page.
4
Set up alerts
- Open
Alerts. Three types are available and each is a separate card. Back in stockis on by default. Choose whether it sends immediately or batches hourly, which stops someone waiting on four items receiving four emails at once.Markdownis on by default with a five percent threshold. Raise it if you run frequent small changes.Low stockships switched off. Turn it on only if you want that pressure in your shopper experience.- Also here: whether guests are asked for an email when they save an item or only when they subscribe to an alert. Asking later means fewer addresses but higher intent.
5
Brand the emails and send yourself a test
- Open
Email. Each alert type has its own subject, heading, body and button label, with a live preview beside the form. - Add your logo and accent colour. Variables such as
{product}and{variant}are filled per recipient. - Click
Send test emailand check it in a real inbox before you go live. This is the step worth not skipping.
Good to know
- Alerts are per variant. Someone who saved a medium is not emailed when the small comes back, which is the point of the app.
- Some limits are fixed and cannot be raised: at most three alerts per shopper per day across all types, and no repeat of the same alert for the same variant within a day.
- Anyone who buys the variant they were waiting for is unsubscribed from that alert automatically.
Wishlist Itemshas two tabs.Productsranks what shoppers save most,Shoppersshows who is waiting on what. Both export to CSV.Analyticsreports recovered revenue by alert type, so you can see which of the three is doing the work.- If you also run Vensa Try-On or AI Complete the Look, the back in stock email can carry a try-on button or an outfit suggestion. Those options appear in
Emailonce the other app is installed.