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Shopify Backorders: How to Set Them Up (and When to Use a Pre-order Instead)
TLDR: Shopify has no dedicated backorder feature. You enable a Shopify backorder by ticking “Continue selling when out of stock” on a variant, which lets inventory go negative so customers can keep buying. That checkbox is step one of about eight. It won’t hold fulfilment, cap how many units you sell, show customers an ETA…
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How to Migrate Pre-orders to Shopify (from Any Platform)
TLDR: To migrate pre-orders to Shopify, treat it as two jobs, not one. First, get the historical orders into Shopify (via a CSV or store-migration tool if you’re coming from WooCommerce, BigCommerce or a Kickstarter pledge manager). Then tag those orders and let a pre-order app import them as proper pre-order records, so paid, deposit…
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Running Pre-orders on Shopify with Multiple Fulfilment Locations
TLDR: You can run pre-orders on Shopify with multiple fulfillment locations, but not with native tools alone. Shopify tracks inventory separately at each location, yet its only native lever, the “continue selling when out of stock” toggle, applies store-wide, with no per-location logic. The result: one empty warehouse can flip your whole storefront to oversell,…
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Custom Orders on Shopify: The Complete Guide
TLDR: Custom orders on Shopify come in two flavours: personalised or made-to-order products sold on your storefront, and one-off orders you create manually in the admin. Shopify gives you the front-end tools (variants, line item properties, product options apps) and draft orders for bespoke quotes. What it doesn’t give you is a way to get…