You’re a busy entrepreneur running a successful eCommerce store. Finding the finest pre-order plugins to optimize your WooCommerce store can be time-consuming. We did the work for you!
These plugins can help you to sell products under pre-order to your WooCommerce store even if your product isn’t in stock or before your sale begin.
Here, we selected the best apps based on the app ratings, number of reviews, app’s top features, and other objective criteria. We hope this information will help you search for an app that suits your needs.
8 Best WooCommerce Pre-order Plugins
WooCommerce Pre-Order Sales, Bulk Discount & Time Counter
by MotifCreatives
WooCommerce Pre-Order Sales handles the orders you take before a product is on sale.
When you make a product available for pre-order, you can choose when it will go on sale, set a new pre-order price, add a discount, and choose the minimum and a maximum number of items that can be bought. The quantity cap is genuinely useful, and plenty of pre-order plugins skip it.
You can also add a countdown timer and a feedback form to the product page so that customers can ask you questions before they pre-order.
View MoreStoreOne
by ThemeHunk
Store One’s Pre-Order module takes orders before a product exists, with no extra plugin.
Turn on pre-orders for upcoming or out-of-stock items. Add a custom message showing when it’ll be available. Start taking orders before the stock even arrives. This keeps buyers interested, shows you real demand, and gets cash in earlier.
Store One also comes with other modules built for conversions: Product Bundles, Frequently Bought Together, Smart Offers (BOGO), Sticky Add to Cart, Trust Badges, Sale Countdown, Stock Scarcity, Product Video Gallery, Buy Now Button, and Visitor Count. Turn on only what you need. Less clutter, and more ways to lift average order value.
View MorePreorders for WooCommerce
by Bright Plugins
Bright Plugins’ Preorders for WooCommerce keeps pre-sales moving without extra admin. It lets you follow up on pre-sales in a comprehensive way.
This WooCommerce backorder plugin is used by more than 4000 stores around the world. It keeps existing customers engaged and pulls in new ones before the product even ships.
It’s important to let your customers know when a new item is available, so this plugin takes care of everything. The new item will be sent to customers soon after it comes out.
View MoreYITH Pre-Order for WooCommerce
by YITH
YITH Pre-Order for WooCommerce lets you sell items that are not in stock yet. Selling something that is out of stock beats not selling it at all.
In either case, you need to say on the product page that the product (either the standard product or a variant) is on “Pre-Order” and that there will be “additional stock” available.
You can also tell your customers about pre-orders by adding the message “Pre-Order this product now” to the “Add to Cart” button.
View MoreWordPress WooCommerce Pre Order Plugin
by Webkul
This plugin adds pre-orders to a WooCommerce store. It is flexible and does not take long to set up. Even if you’ve only gotten part of the money for pre-orders, you can still take them.
Admins can use this plugin to find out what products are most popular and then adjust production to meet demand. It works with all kinds of products, like those that are Simple, Downloadable, Virtual, Grouped, and Variable.
View MoreMighty WooCommerce Pre-Order
by Mightythemes
A product launch gets people interested, and interested people add things to carts. Then demand outstrips supply and they end up with nothing. This is why reputable companies use pre-ordering as a marketing strategy to beat the demand for their products.
Thanks to the Mighty WooCommerce Pre-Order Plugin, it’s easy to add the ability to pre-order to your WooCommerce store. The plugin has a number of useful features, such as the ability to create products that are ready to be pre-ordered and customize them. It also has email reminders for pre-orders, a partial payment system, a countdown display, and a single place to manage product lists, country-specific time zones, and other things.
View MoreWooCommerce Pre-Orders
by WooCommerce
The WooCommerce Pre-Orders plugin sets up pre-orders without much work. The useful part is choosing whether to charge at the time of the pre-order or later. Since you can add a pre-order cost, you can charge a small amount up front and then the full amount when the product is ready. At the checkout, customers can pre-authorize purchases so they don’t have to go back to the site and finish the transaction again.
View MoreRunning the store behind the plugins
A plugin stack is only half of it — the other half is answering the people buying from you. ThriveDesk for WooCommerce puts order history, refunds, and subscriptions next to every conversation, so support does not mean digging through wp-admin.
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