WooCommerce Preorders
Keep the buy button active on out-of-stock or unreleased products, relabel it, and add a message under it.
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From first preorder to fulfilled demand
Explore the storefront experiences and management screens. Click any image to read its guide and setup details.
Preorders
Keep selling before stock arrives, with a clear ship-date message.
Back-in-stock alerts
Collect sign-ups from sold-out products and notify shoppers after a restock.
Preorder management
Review preorder demand, stock, order status, and expected ship dates.
Waitlist management
Find pending and notified sign-ups, with CSV export in Pro.
Partial payments (Pro)
Offer a deposit at checkout and track the remaining balance on the order.
Early Bird pricing (Pro)
Show the preorder price beside the launch price and supporting widgets.
Coming Soon (Pro)
Announce a launch and show a countdown before purchasing opens.
Preorder and waitlist analytics (Pro)
Compare preorder revenue, fulfilment progress, and waitlist demand.
Two plugins worth of features, one install
Everything you need for out-of-stock and upcoming products
Most stores install one plugin for back in stock alerts and another for preorders. Choose the behaviour that matches the product and the moment instead.
Preorders and backorders
Sell before the stock arrives
Keep Add to Cart working on upcoming and out-of-stock products, set expectations with a ship date, and flag the order for fulfilment.
Ship Dates
Ships as soon as possible, on a specific date, or X days, weeks or months out — shown on the button, cart, checkout and order.
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Cart & Checkout Notes
The preorder note follows the item through the cart and checkout on both the classic and Cart & Checkout Blocks experiences.
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Order Tagging
Every preorder is flagged on the order with an order note and the ship date saved, so fulfilment knows not to pick it yet.
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Button Styling
Set the preorder button background, text colour and border radius, printed as scoped CSS that survives most themes.
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Blocks & Shortcode
Notify Me and Preorder Message Gutenberg blocks plus a shortcode, for block themes and page builders that skip the standard hooks.
Explore featureBack in stock
Capture the sale you would otherwise lose
Turn every out-of-stock product page into a waitlist sign-up, then email everyone the moment inventory returns.
Back in Stock Notifications
Replace the dead buy button on out-of-stock products with a themed Notify me button that opens a pop-up sign-up form.
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Notify Me Sign-up Form
A fully styleable modal with email validation, GDPR consent, honeypot and per-IP rate limiting built in — no configuration needed.
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Automatic Restock Emails
Restock detection is queued through Action Scheduler with a processing lock, so every customer is emailed once and never twice.
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Branded Email Designer
Four layouts, your logo, colours, social links and product image — with a live preview that matches exactly what sends.
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Waitlist Management
Browse and filter every sign-up by product and status, delete in bulk, and send alerts manually when stock changes outside WooCommerce.
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Customer Self-service
A My Account tab where customers see their own sign-ups and unsubscribe, plus a signed one-click unsubscribe link in every email.
Explore featureCampaigns and targeting
Configure once, apply everywhere
Campaigns replace per-product editing. Target the products, set the rules and the schedule, and the plugin applies the behaviour automatically.
Campaign Editor
Settings on the left, a live storefront preview on the right that updates as you type — before anything reaches customers.
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Product Targeting
Target all products or specific products with Include and Exclude rules, plus categories and tags in Pro.
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Scheduling
Open and close campaigns on dates, date-times or specific weekdays — or leave the schedule empty to run always.
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Settings & GDPR
Consent at sign-up, one-click unsubscribe, personal-data export and erasure, and an opt-in clean uninstall.
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Turn preorders into revenue tools
Take deposits, discount preorders, build urgency with widgets, and see what your waitlist is telling you to restock.
Deposits & Partial Payments
Let customers pay a percentage or fixed deposit now, with the remaining balance recorded on the order for collection before fulfilment.
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Preorder Widgets
A countdown to the ship date, an order progress timeline, and an info panel with live stock, price and deposit tokens.
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Early Bird Pricing
A two-card Launch Price versus Early Bird comparison that only appears when the preorder price is genuinely lower.
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Waitlist Analytics
Signups over time, restock emails sent, notified rate, and your most-wanted products — a direct answer to what to reorder.
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The details that decide whether customers trust you
A restock email that arrives twice, or never, costs more than the sale. These are the parts that are not optional.
- Sent once, never twiceRestock notifications are queued through Action Scheduler with a processing lock and a per-row notified status, so repeated stock saves cannot produce duplicate emails.
- Anti-spam by defaultNonce verification, a honeypot field, per-IP rate limiting, email validation, required consent, and duplicate suppression — all on, with nothing to configure.
- Privacy handledConsent at sign-up, a signed one-click unsubscribe link, and integration with WordPress personal-data export and erasure.
- Theme resilientStandard WooCommerce hooks, broadened selectors, a JavaScript fallback, plus Gutenberg blocks and a shortcode for themes that skip the usual hooks.
A practical setup flow
Live on your storefront in three steps
Campaigns replace per-product editing, so a single configuration covers your whole catalogue — with a live preview before anything reaches customers.
- Create a campaignChoose Preorder or Back in Stock, then target all products or specific ones.
- Set the text and rulesButton label, message, ship date or sign-up form, plus any schedule.
- Activate and saveEvery matching product updates immediately — no per-product editing.