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Use pre-orders to increase sales and trigger a sense of urgency in your store buyers
Using a pre-order plugin allows you to list products in your shop that aren’t available yet but will be launched at a certain date or time. Customers can reserve the product by paying in advance, ensuring they won’t miss out and will receive the item as soon as it’s released.
It is a strategy used by leading companies like Amazon or Apple because pre-orders effectively create a sense of urgency, engage customers, and generate an early cash flow to support production, advertising or marketing campaigns.
With YITH Pre-order for WooCommerce, you can build an effective pre-order strategy in your shop, push your customers to buy by offering a special discount on the regular price, and choose between requiring an upfront payment or allowing them to pay later when the product becomes available.
With the integration with our plugins YITH Stripe, YITH Stripe Connect or YITH Braintree you can also sell the pre-orders and automatically charge the customer’s credit card only when the product becomes available: no manual payment will be required to the users and everything will run smoothly and seamlessly.
Enable pre-orders automatically on out of stock products
Automatically enable the pre-order mode on out of stock products. In this way, your customers will be able to buy items temporarily unavailable or out of stock and you will not lose the sale.
Enable pre-orders manually on specific products or categories
Need more control? You can enable or schedule pre-orders on all products, specific categories or even specific products. This allows you to build a pre-order strategy for your new or exclusive items.
Set a pre-order price (and offer a special discount to encourage early purchases)
We offer a wide range of options to manage pre-order pricing. You can either keep the regular product price or set a fixed pre-order price. Even better, you can offer a fixed or a percentage discount on the regular price for all users who pre-order the item before it becomes available in the shop. Offering a special price is a powerful strategy to create a sense of urgency and push users to buy.
Manage the products’ availability in an advanced way
For each product, you can choose to set a specific availability date (and optionally a time) by picking a date in the calendar (e.g. “Available on May 15th, at 10 am”). Alternatively, you can specify an availability window based on when the pre-order is placed (e.g. “10 days after the pre-order”). However, you can also avoid setting an availability date and end the pre-order mode manually.
Add an extra fee to each pre-order
Ask users to pay an extra fee on pre-orders and customize the amount. You can set a global fee for all pre-orders or override it with a different amount on specific products.
Offer free shipping to customers that pre-order a product
Want to give your customers an extra incentive to pre-order? With just a single click, you can offer free shipping for all orders that contain a pre-order product.
Charge the product price upfront
Charge the product cost upfront to avoid the risk of unpaid pre-orders. Don’t worry: users are happy to pay upfront if they can be sure they can get a discount or an exclusive limited-quantity product.
Enable the “Pay Later” option to ask users to pay manually when the product becomes available
If you want to offer more freedom, let your users choose the “Pay Later” option at Checkout. Once the product becomes available, they will get an email that informs them about the product availability and redirects them to pay for the pre-order.
Automatically charge the product price on the customer’s credit card when the product becomes available
Thanks to the integration with our plugins YITH Stripe, YITH Stripe Connect, or YITH Braintree you can ask your customers to enter their credit card info and, only when the product becomes available, the plugin will automatically charge the price on the customer’s credit card. This solution will reduce the percentage of unpaid pre-orders and will make managing pre-orders easier.
Manage pre-orders and pre-order products through the dedicated tables available in the plugin
Manage pre-orders and products in pre-order mode with the new tables available from version 2.0. You can easily monitor the status, export the data into a CSV file, enable/disable the pre-order mode, and so on.
A wide range of notifications for the admin and the customers
Automatically send emails to the customers to confirm the pre-order and to keep them updated about the availability date and the pre-order status. The plugin also provides several notifications for the admin to help him/her easily manage pre-orders and products.
Customize text, buttons, and prices with the advanced style options
Replace the standard “Add to cart” button with a “Pre-order” button, customize the label and the colors, and set a custom message (to show in product detail pages and in shop pages) to inform your customers about the availability date. The plugin includes many options to customize the way your shop looks to the customers.
1 year of updates, bug fixes and technical support
The official plugin license entitles you to one year of updates (and new features that will be added in future versions), error and bug fixes, and access to our technical support platform.
30-Day money back guarantee
Do you have any doubts about the plugin and don't know if it's a good fit for your project? You have nothing to worry about, you can always take advantage of our 100% money back guarantee and get a full refund within 30 days of purchase.
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ventas-web - verified customer
Muy buena experienciaEmpezamos a trabajar con preventas y lanzamientos de productos exclusivos y logramos implementarlo con este plugin. Experiencia positiva tanto con el pugin como con la atención
contact376 - verified customer
Two stars for this oneThis rating is both for the few bugs we found, and also for the team's unwillingness to further develop the product.
Over the years, we were not 100% happy with the pre-orders plugin, as I personally find it too complicated to administer.
Also, when making some changes at the product level, even if you switch back to the general settings, the custom settings remain in place. 😐
But what triggered me to share this two star rating is the export file of the pre-orders.
We can only download the orders meta, but there's no information on the SKUs and quantity!!! 😯
I thought that there must be something I missed, but it seems like this is Yith's standard. More than that, we provided a template they could use for improving the current setup (which is unacceptable in my opinion), but we were told that their support policy doesn't include any kind of development service (coding, guidance, etc).
I was once their biggest fan... Nowadays, I really don't know anymore. ☹️
Alessandra Giuliani
Hi there,
Thank you for your feedback!
We understand the importance of including the product SKU in the CSV file for your needs. However, we must confirm that our support service does not offer customizations, as also stated in our policy. When time and priorities allow, we strive to accommodate our customers' requests to the best of our abilities. However, there are situations like this one where we are unable to fulfill the request.
That said, we have taken note of your suggestion and will consider it for a future update.
Thank you for your understanding.
Marianne P. - verified customer
I absolutely recommend it!I looove this plugin! Perfect for avoiding losing sales due to out of stock products
Eshal Hart - verified customer
Nice integration featureExcellent integration with the Stripe plugin, I can charge my users automatically when the pre-order products are available.
Mary-ur434 - verified customer
Great plugin!It works perfectly fine for my clothes store. It is very easy to manage and configure all options so I'm glad I chose you!