Communicating clear delivery timelines is essential for pre-order products. The "Notify Me!" app allows you to easily display estimated shipping or availability dates directly on your product pages and cart page, helping manage customer expectations before they buy.
Setting Up Availability Dates
You can configure availability settings individually for each PreOrder offer you create.
Navigate to Apps > Notify Me! > PreOrder.
Select the offer you want to edit (or click "Add offer" to create a new one).
Scroll down to the Availability (Shown on product page) section.
You will see three options for how to display availability to your customers:
1. Available Soon (Default)
Use this option if you do not have a confirmed date yet.
What it shows: Displays a generic message like "Coming soon" on the product page.
How to customize: You can change the default "Coming soon" text by going to Settings > Language > PreOrder > Widget display and editing the "Soon available text" field.
2. Available on a Specific Date
Use this option if you know the exact date stock will arrive.
How it works: Select the expected date from the calendar picker.
What it shows: The widget will display that specific date to all customers (e.g., "Expected availability: October 30, 2025").
3. Available on a Timeframe
Use this option for products that are made-to-order or always take a set amount of time to ship.
How it works: Enter the number of days it takes to fulfill the order after purchase (e.g., 7 days).
What it shows: The app automatically calculates the date based on when the customer is viewing the page. If set to 7 days, a customer viewing on the 1st will see an availability date of the 8th.
Customizing the Availability Message
You can change how this date appears to customers in the widget.
On the main PreOrder dashboard, click Customize appearance.
Ensure the Button on Product Pages toggle is ON.
Look for the Widget description field.
Understanding the {{availability_date}} Placeholder
In the Widget description field, you will see a bit of text that looks like code: {{availability_date}}.
This is a placeholder. You do not need to enter a real date here; the app will automatically replace this placeholder with the actual date or text you selected in your offer settings (e.g., "October 30" or "Coming soon").
You can type any text you want around this placeholder. For example:
Default: Expected availability: {{availability_date}}
Custom example: Orders ship out around {{availability_date}}. Reserve yours now!
Cart and checkout labels
When a shopper adds a pre-order item to the cart, Notify Me! attaches two lines to that item, and Shopify shows them in the cart and at checkout: the availability date and the payment breakdown. You name both lines yourself.
Go to Settings > Language, pick the language you want to edit, then open PreOrder > Widget display.
Edit the Availability date label field (default: "Expected availability").
Edit the Payment label field (default: "Payment").
Click Save.
The availability label is followed by the date or the "Soon available text" from the offer, exactly as on the product page (e.g., "Ships by: October 30, 2025"). The payment label is followed by the payment terms built from your "Billing due now label", "Billing due later label" and "Billing full payment text" (e.g., "Payment: Full payment at checkout").
Type the label without a trailing colon. Notify Me! adds the colon and removes any trailing colon or square brackets you type, so "Ships by:" shows as "Ships by: October 30, 2025" everywhere.
A label left empty falls back to its default. If you give both fields the same text, the payment line keeps it and the availability line falls back to "Expected availability", so the two lines never merge into one.
Items already in a shopper's cart keep the text they were added with. The new labels apply to items added after you save.
The "preorder" line shown under these two is the Shopify selling-plan name and cannot be renamed here.