PluginCity Advanced Pre-Orders for WooCommerce

Description

PluginCity Advanced Pre-Orders for WooCommerce lets you take money for something that is not on your shelf yet, without anybody being misled about when it will arrive.

Tick a box on a product, give it the date you expect it, and the button changes from Add to basket to Pre-order. The date follows the customer from your shop listings to the product page, into the basket, through checkout, and onto the order they keep. Their order says it is awaiting release rather than sitting there looking like a warehouse has lost it, and it says the same on your orders screen.

Simple products and variable ones both work. A variable product’s date applies to every variation of it.

The free version is permanent. It does not expire, needs no licence key, and never contacts PluginCity.

What you get

• Pre-orders on any product, with the expected date you were given
• Add to basket becomes Pre-order, in whatever wording suits your shop
• The date shown in shop listings, on the product page, in the basket, at checkout and on the order
• Dates written in your site’s own format, or as a full day, or as the month alone for when you know roughly when but not exactly
• Wording for a pre-order you have no date for at all, rather than an awkward blank
• Pre-order status on every order: awaiting release, due, or released
• A Mark pre-order as released action on the order screen, which writes it into the order’s history
• Baskets holding a pre-order alongside something you can post today are refused, with a message you write
• Refused on classic checkout and block checkout. Express payment flows are also blocked when the basket does not meet the pre-order rules
• A shortcode, [apofw_message], to put the basket message anywhere
• Settings import and export, so your wording can be carried to another shop or kept as a backup
• High-Performance Order Storage compatibility

Nothing here phones home. There is no account, no licence key, and no trial clock.

What Pro adds

The free version takes as many pre-orders as customers will place, and gives every variation of a product the same date. Pro is for shops working to an allocation, shipping one colour before another, or with enough pre-orders on the go that they need a screen of their own.

• A date for each variation, so the black one can ship in October and the red one in January
• A cap on how many of a thing you will sell before it exists, counted against the orders you already hold
• Baskets that mix pre-orders with goods on the shelf, and a ship together or ship separately choice for the customer
• An email to everyone waiting when a date moves, whether it has slipped or come forward
• A pre-order dashboard: what is on order, how much of each allocation has gone, and how many customers are waiting
• Moving a date on several products at once, and switching pre-orders on or off in bulk from your products list
• Orders released automatically the morning the goods are due
• A pre-order fee, fixed or a percentage, charged on the pre-ordered part of the basket
• A launch date, so a pre-order opens on a morning you choose rather than the moment you save the product
• Your own colour, size and shape on the line about waiting, with a calendar or clock beside it, so it is not the quietest thing on the page
• The settings above travel with an export too, so a fee or a shipping default is carried to another shop with everything else

PluginCity Advanced Pre-Orders Pro is a separately distributed paid version. It is not included in this plugin and is not downloaded or installed by it.

Configuration

1. Edit a product, open the Pre-order tab in the product data box, and tick Sell before release.
2. Put the date you expect it in Expected date. Leave it blank if your supplier has not given you one.
3. On WooCommerce → Advanced Pre-Orders, set the button wording and how the date should read.
4. Write the message a customer sees when their basket holds a pre-order alongside something you can post today.