Title: Anticipo – Pre-Orders for WooCommerce Author: ProPluginsLab Published: August 27, 2026 Last modified: August 27, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce/assets/banner-772x250.jpg? rev=3668791) ![](https://ps.w.org/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce/assets/icon-256x256.gif? rev=3668791) # Anticipo – Pre-Orders for WooCommerce By [ProPluginsLab](https://profiles.wordpress.org/propluginslab/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce.1.0.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce/) ## Description Anticipo lets you sell a product weeks or months before it lands, then hands the whole launch back to you as a normal WooCommerce order on release day. Customers pay in full at checkout and the order waits in a dedicated Pre-ordered status, out of your fulfilment queue. On the release date a background job releases every waiting order, reduces stock, moves the orders into your normal workflow and emails the customers. None of it needs anyone logged in. #### What you can do * Turn any simple, variable or external product into a pre-order from a Pre-order tab on the product. * Set a release date and time in your store timezone, stored in UTC so a timezone change never moves a launch. * Take pre-orders with no announced date at all, then fill the date in later and have every waiting customer emailed automatically. * Set a cut-off date so orders close before release while you confirm quantities with a supplier. * Reduce stock on release day rather than at checkout, so your inventory figures stay honest. * Decide whether pre-orders can share a basket with in-stock items, or must be bought on their own. * Give each product its own button text and availability message, or set them once for the whole store. * Show a pre-order badge and a live countdown to release. * Release or cancel any pre-order by hand, individually or in bulk. #### On release day Releases run in the background through WooCommerce Action Scheduler in small batches, so a launch with thousands of orders never blocks a page load. A nightly sweep catches anything that was missed, so a launch interrupted by a server restore recovers on its own. #### Emails Five emails, each a real WooCommerce email class you manage from WooCommerce, Settings, Emails: pre-order confirmed, release date changed, pre-order released and pre-order cancelled for the customer, plus a new pre-order notice for the store. Every one has an editable message with merge tags and a table of the products pre-ordered, in HTML and plain text, both overridable from your theme. #### Customers can see their pre-orders A Pre-orders tab in My Account lists everything a customer has reserved, its status and when it arrives. #### Built to stay fast Pre-orders live in their own indexed database table rather than in order meta, so nothing turns into a slow meta query as you grow. Product settings are read from the object WooCommerce has already loaded and cached for the request. The CSS and JavaScript are not loaded at all on pages with no pre-orders. #### Works with what you already run High Performance Order Storage and legacy order storage. Cart and Checkout Blocks, with the cart rules enforced through the Store API. WPML and Polylang, with release emails sent in the language the customer originally ordered in. Any payment gateway, because a pre-order is an ordinary WooCommerce order. #### For developers Over twenty documented hooks, a helper function API, six overridable templates and an activity log of every action taken on every pre-order. Full documentation is built into the plugin under WooCommerce, Pre-orders, Documentation, and in the docs folder. #### External services This plugin does not connect to any external service. It makes no outbound HTTP requests and sends no data anywhere. #### A paid edition is available Anticipo Pre-Orders Pro is a separate plugin sold at propluginslab.com. It adds deposits and pay on release billing, allocation limits, pre-order pricing, scheduled reminders, reports, CSV export and a REST API. Everything described above is included in this free plugin and is not limited in any way. ## Screenshots [⌊The Pre-order tab on the product edit screen.⌉⌊The Pre-order tab on the product edit screen.⌉[ The Pre-order tab on the product edit screen. [⌊The pre-orders list with filters and bulk actions.⌉⌊The pre-orders list with filters and bulk actions.⌉[ The pre-orders list with filters and bulk actions. [⌊The settings screen.⌉⌊The settings screen.⌉[ The settings screen. [⌊The documentation built into the plugin.⌉⌊The documentation built into the plugin .⌉[ The documentation built into the plugin. [⌊The status and health screen.⌉⌊The status and health screen.⌉[ The status and health screen. [⌊A pre-order product on the store front, with countdown.⌉⌊A pre-order product on the store front, with countdown.⌉[ A pre-order product on the store front, with countdown. [⌊The customer pre-orders page in My Account.⌉⌊The customer pre-orders page in My Account.⌉[ The customer pre-orders page in My Account. [⌊The Pre-order column on the products list, showing status at a glance.⌉⌊The Pre- order column on the products list, showing status at a glance.⌉[ The Pre-order column on the products list, showing status at a glance. [⌊The pre-order emails, registered with WooCommerce and editable like any other.⌉⌊ The pre-order emails, registered with WooCommerce and editable like any other.⌉[ The pre-order emails, registered with WooCommerce and editable like any other. ## Installation 1. Install and activate WooCommerce first. 2. Upload the plugin folder to `/wp-content/plugins/`, or install it through Plugins, Add New. 3. Activate the plugin. 4. Go to WooCommerce, Pre-orders, Documentation for the five minute setup guide. 5. Edit any product, open the Pre-order tab in the Product data box, tick Enable pre- orders and set a release date. ## FAQ ### Does this work with variable products? Yes. Variations inherit the release date and rules from the parent product. ### Why is my stock not going down when someone pre-orders? By design. Stock is reduced on release day, because the units do not exist yet and reducing stock now would make your inventory figures wrong for weeks. If you are pre-selling from stock you already hold, turn off “Reduce stock on release” under Release workflow. ### The release date passed and nothing happened. Open WooCommerce, Pre-orders, Status. It tells you whether Action Scheduler is running and lists anything overdue. You can also release by hand from the Pre-orders screen. On a very low traffic site, pointing a real server cron at wp-cron.php makes scheduled jobs punctual. ### The Pre-orders tab in My Account returns a 404. Open Settings, Permalinks and press Save without changing anything. That regenerates the rewrite rules. ### Will this slow my shop down? No. Pre-orders live in their own indexed table, settings are read from objects WooCommerce has already loaded, and the plugin’s CSS and JavaScript are not loaded on pages that have no pre-orders. ### Does it work with High Performance Order Storage? Yes, and with the legacy post based storage. Compatibility is declared for both, plus the Cart and Checkout blocks. ### Is my data deleted if I remove the plugin? Only if you ask for it. Deactivating never deletes anything. Deleting the plugin removes data only when you tick the option on the Advanced settings tab. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Anticipo – Pre-Orders for WooCommerce” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ ProPluginsLab ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/propluginslab/) * [ CodeWooGeek ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/codewoogeek/) * [ heyvicky ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/heyvicky/) [Translate “Anticipo – Pre-Orders for WooCommerce” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/anticipo-pre-orders-for-woocommerce) ### Interested in development? 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