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Listing a Shopify pre-order with PreProduct is done by piggy-backing off of existing product listings. This stops you from having to enter the same information twice, as well as allowing a seamless transition from regular order to pre-order. It’s important to note that PreProduct requires a line of code to be installed in your theme. You can learn more about this from the top of the setup menu from within the app. To create a new PreProduct listing, follow these steps:
Listing a Shopify pre-order with PreProduct is done by piggy-backing off of existing product listings. This stops you from having to enter the same information twice, as well as allowing a seamless transition from regular order to pre-order.
It’s important to note that PreProduct requires a line of code to be installed in your theme. You can learn more about this from the top of the setup menu from within the app. To create a new PreProduct listing, follow these steps:
PreProduct offers two approaches; a period in days (which will automatically be reduced by one every 24 hours), or a fixed phrase e.g. ‘next season’. The ‘something else’ box allows you to switch between the two options.
By default, PreProduct will create a pay-later pre-order listing. Customers will enter their order details, along with a name + email. Then when you’re ready to charge customers, a payment link email is sent out.
Selecting charge-later will mean that customers are sent through checkout at the time of pre-order to accept the future charge. Then in the future, you can trigger this deferred charge on their card.
Just like the name suggests, customers are charged at the time of pre-order.
This number field will create a discount if populated. There are a lot of Shopify store themes out there and they all have their own quirks and rules. To cater to this, PreProduct will directly change your product’s/variant’s ‘price’ and ‘compare at price’ in Shopify. The former, a discounted version of the latter. This will cause 99% of themes to display the prices and discounts as requested throughout your store. (note, when PreProduct listings are finished, this discount is reversed).
PreProduct offers the ability to require a deposit for pre-orders.
—–Advanced section
If you would like to set an expectation upfront with customers that a minimum amount of orders is needed before you’re happy to ship the product, this is the place to do it. When-you-charge/if-you-charge is still entirely in your control. This option’s main functionality is in affecting the front-end and showing users how many orders you have/need. (Your PreProduct dashboard will reflect this option as well though)
Checking this check-box will enable a number field where you can specify the minimum of orders.
You might have a product with variants you’d like to list through PreProduct and variants that should be available as a regular ‘buy now’. By checking this tick-box and then subsequent variant boxes, you can do just that. (PreProduct will dynamically hide and show your ‘buy button’/PreProduct widget as needed)
This section allows you to set a maximum number of pre-orders that a variant can receive. For example, maybe you’re worried about selling out of a specific variant. Once a variant hits its limit, PreProduct will stop accepting pre-orders for it and (theme depending) hide that variant or show a ‘sold out’ sign in place of the ‘pre-order’/’buy-now’ button.
This section allows you to limit the number of pre-orders a single customer can make. PreProduct’s front-end will stop the customer from exceeding this limit.
*Something to note; a user can bypass customer limits via Chrome Incognito mode, but these rare cases can be caught at the PreProduct dashboard or Shopify Orders level.
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