Conditions To Start / End Pre-order

Define the conditions that automatically start or end the pre-order period. This can be based on date, stock level, or other criteria.

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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

End preorder on date
2

Stock Conditions

Start pre-order by stock:

  • 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.

Stock conditions

End Pre-Order by stock:

  • 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.

  • Currently we will calculate based on total available products

End preorder by stock

Tips *

  • 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

End Pre-order by quantity sold:

  • 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

Limit quantity sold
3

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.

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.

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 Requires "Continue selling when out of stock" to enable pre-orders

Required continue selling

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