<p>Pre-orders are an efficient way to excite customers, generate cash flow, and gain early sales. With pre-orders, you can also test how well your new product resonates with your target audience. With the Advanced Pre-Order and Backorder extension, you can create a smooth pre-order system in your store that also allows you to better manage your backorders.</p>
<p>You can put any product on pre-order and customize its availability date, discount options and payment plan i.e upfront or pay later. Communicate with your customers about pre-order status, discounts and availability dates through custom messages and badges on product images.</p>
<p>The extension offers extensive pre-order options that include custom email notifications, prevent mixing with regular items, automate pre-order status, separate pre-order listing page, and much more. See the details features list below,</p>
<p>Using the Backorders feature of this extension, you can add product availability date, customize add to cart button, limit the maximum order quantity, and restrict backorder option to specific user roles only.</p>
<h2>Features List:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Allow customers to place pre-orders on your store</li>
<li>Put any recent or upcoming product on pre-order</li>
<li>Control the following pre-order options:
<ul>
<li>Define product release date and time</li>
<li>Customize add-to-cart button</li>
<li>Accept upfront or enable pay later option</li>
<li>Customize product availability text</li>
<li>Offer pre-order at the same or discounted price</li>
<li>Allow pre-order for all or specific user roles</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Control the following backorder options:
<ul>
<li>Show custom back order message</li>
<li>Add the available date and time</li>
<li>Customize add-to-cart button title</li>
<li>Restrict by user roles</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Prevent mixing of pre-order, backorder and instock products</li>
<li>Dedicate pre-orders listing page with relevant information on pre-orders</li>
<li>Display pre-order text and badges on product and listing pages</li>
<li>Add customizable image or text badges</li>
<li>Choose from 4 different display positions</li>
<li>Customize pre-order text & desired default availability text</li>
<li>Customize error message and labels using global settings</li>
<li>Automatically enable pre-order status when a product runs out of stock</li>
<li>Automatically disable pre-orders for items when stock is added</li>
<li>Enable notifications for pre-order products for admins and customers</li>
<li>Compatible with cart and checkout blocks</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Offer any product on pre-order</h2>
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<p>You can put any recent or upcoming product on pre-order from the product detail page. While enabling pre-order status you can customize following options,</p>
<p><strong>Restrict by user roles:<br />
</strong>You can enable pre-order status for all customers or selected customers by their user roles.</p>
<p><strong>Release date and time:<br />
</strong>Add the expected release date and time of the product. The pre-order status will automatically turn off after this period.</p>
<p><strong>Add to cart button label:<br />
</strong>Customize your default add to cart button label with default “Pre Order Now” or add any other custom label of your choice.</p>
<p><strong>Availability text:<br />
</strong>Add a custom text to inform your customers about the pre-order status and the expected product availability date and time.</p>
<p><strong>Price adjustment:<br />
</strong>You can change pre-order product price using following adjustment types,</p>
<ul>
<li>Same price</li>
<li>Fixed price</li>
<li>Fixed discount</li>
<li>Percentage discount</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Pay later:<br />
</strong>By default the pre-order products are set to upfront payment. You can enable the Pay Later option to show a custom pay later payment method allowing your customers place order without making any payment. Once the product is available, your customer will get an email with instructions to make payment.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004521300" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Product-Level-Pre-Order-Settings-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="628" /></p>
<h3><strong>Prevent product mixing:</strong></h3>
<p>With this extension, you can choose to prevent your customers from mixing different product types in one order. This feature comes in handy for merchants to easily manage their Pre-Order and Backorders. You can enable/disable each of following mixing types,</p>
<ul>
<li>Pre-order and instock products</li>
<li>Upfront and pay-later pre-order products</li>
<li>Multiple pre-order products</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004520360" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Pre-order-and-normal-product-mixing.png" alt="" width="980" height="620" /></p>
<h3><strong>Add attractive pre-order badges:</strong></h3>
<p>You can showcase badges on the listing and product pages to highlight products that are available for pre-order. The badges can be text-based, image-based, or both image and text-based. Additionally, you can customize the labels and availability text for both back and pre-orders to make them more appealing.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004520356" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Pre-Order-Product-with-badge.png" alt="" width="980" height="521" /></p>
<h3><strong>Automate pre order for out of stock items:</strong></h3>
<p>Enable out-of-stock products to automatically attain pre-order status and revert to standard products when restocked. This feature comes in handy when merchants are selling unique products, and every stock brings some additional value, forcing customers to pre-order before it’s sold out. When the stock is added, the product’s pre-order status can automatically be removed.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004520365" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/out-of-stock-on-pre-order.png" alt="" width="980" height="791" /></p>
<h3><strong>Dedicated pre-orders listing:</strong></h3>
<p>The extension also keeps an additional record of all pre-order products on a dedicated pre-order listing page. You can view the basic details about the pre-order, which includes the orderid, customer details, payment status, order status, availability date and time, and more.</p>
<p>With separate detailed pre-order information, you can better manage your pre-orders and ensure timely delivery.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004520364" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Pre-Orders-List.png" alt="" width="980" height="392" /></p>
<h3><strong>Email notification for admin and customer:</strong></h3>
<p>The extension offers the following email notification for customer and store admin to keep them informed about their pre-order product status. You can customize email template and content just like your standard WooCommerce email.</p>
<ul>
<li>Out-of-stock product moves to pre-order (Admin)</li>
<li>Pre-order end date is near (Admin)</li>
<li>Pre-order end date has passed (Admin)</li>
<li>Product is now available (Customer)</li>
</ul>
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<h2><strong>Improve backorder management</strong></h2>
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<p>With this extension, you can also improve your backorder management using the following options,</p>
<p><strong>Restrict by user roles:<br />
</strong>Allow backorder for select customers based on their user roles.</p>
<p><strong>Stock availability date & time:<br />
</strong>Add expected stock available date and time.</p>
<p><strong>Custom message and add-to-cart button:<br />
</strong>Show a custom message and change the add-to-cart button label to inform customers about backorder and stock availability status.</p>
<p><strong>Maximum quantity:<br />
</strong>Add a maximum quantity limit to fix a number of orders you can accept when product is on backorder.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004520357" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/WooCommerce-Backorder-management.png" alt="" width="980" height="947" /></p>

Advanced Pre Order and Backorder

<p>Build excitement and boost revenue by offering products on pre-order before they are available. Efficiently manage pre-orders and backorders, offer discounts, set up pay-later or upfront payment for pre-orders, email notifications, and more.</p>

<h2><b>Quantity Button – Min/Max Quantity Features</b></h2>
<ul>
<li><b>Add +/- Buttons:</b> Add Quantity plus and minus buttons to your store.</li>
<li><b>Set Min/Max Quantity:</b> Define the minimum and maximum quantities for placing an order.</li>
<li><b>Increment/Decrement Steps:</b> Define steps for increasing or decreasing product quantity, such as 2, 4, 6,…..</li>
<li><b>Rule-Based Management:</b> Create rules to control the display of quantity buttons.</li>
<li><b>Quantity Range Slider:</b> Display a quantity range slider for easy quantity selection.</li>
<li><b>Button Design Style:</b> Choose the button style as classic or modern to match your store.</li>
<li><b>Button Customization:</b> Customize the color, border, radius, font, width, and hover color of the quantity button.</li>
<li><b>Supports Custom CSS:</b> Add Custom CSS styling to match the buttons to your store’s theme.</li>
<li><b>Display on Checkout:</b> Option to display the quantity button on the checkout page.</li>
</ul>
<h2><b>Quantity Increment Buttons – Min/Max Quantity</b></h2>
<p>Make it easy for customers to choose the right quantity without frustration. Quantity Buttons for WooCommerce replaces the default number field with clear plus and minus buttons, quantity range sliders, and smart quantity controls directly on your shop, product, and cart pages.</p>
<p>With full customization options, you can set minimum and maximum quantity limits, define increment steps, and apply rules to specific products or categories. Encourage larger orders, manage stock more effectively, and deliver a smoother, more user-friendly shopping experience with powerful quantity controls built for WooCommerce.</p>
<h2><b>Display Quantity Buttons on Multiple Pages</b></h2>
<p>The WooCommerce Quantity Plus Minus plugin allows you to replace the default quantity selector with a customizable quantity plus minus button. Display the button on the product, shop, cart, and checkout pages.</p>
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<h2><b>Set Minimum and Maximum Quantity</b></h2>
<p>Increase average order value by setting the minimum and maximum quantity required for placing an order. The WooCommerce Quantity Increment plugin allows store owners to set a minimum or maximum product order quantity and customize the error messages for quantity limits. This encourages customers to purchase products in larger quantities.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006312496" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Set-Minimum-and-Maximum-Quantity.png?w=827" alt="Set Minimum and Maximum Quantity" width="827" height="185" /></p>
<h2><b>Set Custom Increment Steps</b></h2>
<p>The WooCommerce Quantity Plus Minus plugin lets you define how quantities increase for specific products. For example, set the step value to 5 to let customers purchase in multiples like 5, 10, 15, and more, making it perfect for products sold in sets or bulk quantities.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006312498" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Set-Custom-Increment-Steps.gif?w=896" alt="Set Custom Increment Steps" width="896" height="537" /></p>
<h2><b>Create Rules to Manage Display of the Button</b></h2>
<p>The WooCommerce Quantity Buttons plugin allows you to create multiple rules to manage the display of the quantity increment button. By creating rules, you can control:</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Min/Max Quantity:</b> Set the maximum and minimum quantity allowed for each rule.</li>
<li><b>Display for Product or Category:</b> Apply the rule to specific products or categories, or all products.</li>
<li><b>Control by User Role:</b> Control the display of quantity buttons based on user roles.</li>
<li><b>Increment Steps:</b> Configure the increment steps for each rule.</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006312503" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Create-Rules-to-Manage-Display-of-the-Button.png?w=896" alt="Create Rules to Manage Display of the Button" width="896" height="813" /></p>
<h2><b>Customize the Quantity Button</b></h2>
<p>Personalize the quantity increment button to match your store’s theme. You can choose the button style as <b>Classic</b> or <b>Modern</b>. Easily customize the color of the quantity button, font, hover, and border. Also, customize the border width, radius, font size, and field width.</p>
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<h4></h4>
<h2><b>Display a Quantity Range Slider</b></h2>
<p>Add a quantity slider next to or instead of the plus and minus buttons, allowing customers to adjust quantities quickly and smoothly. Use both the buttons and slider together, or enable only one option based on your store’s needs.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006312515" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Display-a-Quantity-Range-Slider.png?w=896" alt="Display a Quantity Range Slider" width="896" height="539" /></p>
<h2><b>Add Custom CSS Styling</b></h2>
<p>The WooCommerce Quantity Plus Minus Plugin allows store owners extensive customization by adding custom CSS. You can add your own custom CSS styling to apply to the whole store. This way, you can have a more personalized user experience.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-18734006312517" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Add-Custom-CSS-Styling.png?w=751" alt="Add Custom CSS Styling" width="751" height="436" /></p>
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Quantity Buttons

<h2><b>Add Customizable Quantity Increment Buttons to your Store. Set Minimum/Maximum quantity limits, define steps, and add a Quantity Range Slider to Sell More.</b></h2>

Advanced Pre Order and Backorder vs Quantity Buttons