PreOrder Now: Capture Shopify Sales When Products Are Out of Stock

When a product is out of stock, or a launch date is still weeks away, a Shopify storefront often has nothing useful to show except a disabled Add to Cart button. Demand does not disappear in that window. It just goes to a competitor, or it never gets captured at all.

PreOrder Now is a Shopify pre-order app from Zenpire that keeps those products shoppable. Merchants can replace Add to Cart with a PreOrder action, add preorder badges on product and collection pages, collect Notify Me interest when something is back in stock, and take a deposit now with the balance due at release. The app is listed on the Shopify App Store and carries Shopify’s Built for Shopify badge.

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Sell Ahead of Inventory, Then Switch Back Automatically

PreOrder Now is built around the moment a shopper is ready to buy and the catalog is not. You can schedule preorder windows so a campaign or product drop goes live on a set date, enable preorders by product or by tag in bulk, and set inventory rules or limits so you do not oversell a run. Line-item notes can flag a preorder on the order itself, which helps fulfillment teams separate those items from in-stock products in the same checkout.

Shoppers still need a clear signal on the storefront. The app can place preorder badges on product images, collection pages, and Quick View, so the offer is visible before someone opens a product page. When stock arrives, PreOrder Now can switch the product back to a regular purchase automatically, which keeps the catalog from lingering in preorder mode after inventory is available.

For items that are simply unavailable, a Notify Me option lets customers request an alert instead of abandoning the page. That is useful for restocks as well as for launches that are not quite ready to take payment.

Deposits, Discounts, and Mixed Carts

Not every preorder should require the full price up front. PreOrder Now supports flexible partial payments, so a merchant can collect a deposit at checkout and the remaining balance when the product is released. Preorder-only discounts can be offered as an incentive to reserve a product early, and mixed-cart alerts help when a shopper combines a preorder item with in-stock products that can ship immediately.

Paid plans also include live chat and email support. Personalized notification emails are available as a metered add-on at $0.01 per send.

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PreOrder Now Pricing

Pricing on the Shopify App Store is organized around the merchant’s Shopify plan, with a free tier for getting started:

• Free: Publish 1 preorder product, with dynamic mixed-cart alerts and email support.
• Shopify Basic: $19.95 per month, for Shopify Basic stores. This plan includes unlimited preorder products, badges on collection pages, preorder discounts, preorders by product tag, flexible partial payments, Quick View display, and instant live support by chat and email. A 14-day free trial is included.
• Shopify Grow: $39.95 per month, for Shopify Grow and Standard stores, with the same feature set as the Basic plan and a 14-day free trial.
• Shopify Advanced: $59.95 per month, for Shopify Advanced stores. This tier includes all features plus a dedicated success manager, with a 14-day free trial.

Personalized notification emails are billed at $0.01 per send on the paid plans. On the Shopify App Store, PreOrder Now holds a 4.5 rating from more than 1,000 reviews. If you are losing sales whenever a product is out of stock or not yet released, PreOrder Now is a straightforward way to keep those items available to buy.

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