# Conditions To Start / End Pre-order

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## **Start and end pre-order by time**

**Start Date:**

* Choose the exact date and time (based on your store’s timezone) for pre-orders to begin.

**End Date:**

* Choose the exact date and time for pre-orders to stop.
* End date must always be greater than start date

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## **Stock Conditions**

<mark style="color:blue;">**Start pre-order by stock:**</mark>

* **Always:** Pre-order is available at all times.
* **Stock is 0 or less:** Pre-order starts only when the product is sold out.
* **Stock is greater than 0:** Pre-order starts when there is still stock available.

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<mark style="color:blue;">**End Pre-Order by stock:**</mark>

* **End Pre-Order When Stock Reaches**:  Setup a stock inventory number to stop pre order. Once inventory drops to this number, pre-order product will stop.&#x20;
* Currently we will calculate based on total available products

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> <mark style="color:orange;">**Tips \***</mark>
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> * If you select **"Stock is 0 or less"** -> End pre-order when **stock reaches must lest than 0**
> * If you only want to preorder when the product is in stock, and end preorder when the product is out of stock -> select **Stock is greater than 0 and End pre-order when stock reaches 0**

<mark style="color:blue;">**End Pre-order by quantity sold:**</mark>

* For a profile applied to special products, we count units sold for each product variant, so you can set a limit on the number of units sold for the product variant.
* When a product has reached the limit, this product will stop preordering.
* If a product ends by limit and general configuration of the profile has not expired the preorder period, the product status will change to **coming soon preorder**

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## **Continue Selling When Out of Stock Option**

* **Enabled** – When a product is out of stock, this option keeps pre-order available.
* **Disabled** – When the stock limit is reached, pre-order will automatically stop.&#x20;

You can display the Pre-order button when the Shopify option Continue selling when out of stock is enabled. Only when product is enabled with this option, Pre-order will work.&#x20;
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## Pre-order - required continue selling when product out of stock

* Setting option allows to display pre-order, if you enable this option, when the product is out of stock, it is required to enable **Continue selling when out of stock**
* Setting at: **Setting** page -> **Pre-order** -> checkbox <mark style="color:orange;">Requires "Continue selling when out of stock" to enable pre-orders</mark>

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