Introduction:
The Pre-order Settings section in Notify Me allows you to manage how your products are offered for pre-order, including configurations for payment, product visibility, and notification preferences. This guide provides an overview of the features and options available in the Pre-order Settings.
1. Accessing Pre-order Settings: To access the Pre-order Settings, navigate to the Notify Me app in your Shopify admin panel and select the Pre-order tab from the left-hand menu and click on the Settings under Preorder Functionality.
Here, you'll find all the settings related to managing pre-orders for your products.
2. Product Applicability: In the Pre-order Settings, you can specify which products are available for pre-order:
All out-of-stock products: Applies to all products that are currently out of stock.
Specific products: You can further refine which products are included in the pre-order setup by excluding specific items, collections, tags, vendors, or product types. This flexibility helps tailor the pre-order experience to your business needs.
For more details, visit the Excluding Specific Products from Pre-order article.
3. Pre-order Notification: You can customize the pre-order confirmation notifications sent to customers when they place a pre-order. This includes email and SMS notifications, with options to customize the appearance and content of these messages.
For more details, visit the Customizing Pre-order Notifications article.
4. Pre-order Logics: This section allows you to set specific rules for pre-orders, including:
Billing policy: Choose between full payment or partial payment at checkout.
Discount policy: Decide whether to offer discounts on pre-order products.
Delivery fulfillment trigger: Set when an order is marked as "Unfulfilled" and ready for delivery.
Inventory Reserve Preferences: Determine whether to reserve stock at the time of sale or fulfillment.
5. Pre-order Buying Limitation: Set limitations on the number of units available for pre-order to prevent overselling. You can use the preorder-limit-count tag to assign a maximum number of pre-orders for each product.
For more details, visit the Setting Pre-order Buying Limitations article.
Conclusion: Understanding and configuring the Pre-order Settings can help streamline your sales process, provide clarity to customers, and ensure a smooth pre-order experience. Be sure to review each setting and customize it according to your store's needs.