Bloom quick start guide

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Walk-through

Bloom adds variant-level Pre-order and Notify Me to your store - no theme-file edits. New here? Start with the Overview. This guide gets you live in under 10 minutes. By the end your store will show Pre-order and Notify Me on the products you choose when stock hits zero.

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In a nutshell

1. Enable Bloom in your theme
2. Style and customise messaging
3. Pre-order Configure products you want on pre-order
4. Notify Me Connect Klaviyo and set up the back-in-stock flow

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Follow the in-app setup guide

Bloom’s Home page (Apps → Bloom) is the easiest way to work through setup. The sidebar holds Pre-order, Notify me, Recommendations and Settings.

• Tiles across the top pick a setup guide - Welcome, Pre-order, Notify Me and Recommendations. Each feature tile shows Not started, Setup in progress or Active.
• Pick a tile to see its setup steps. Each step has a button that deep-links to the right screen - Theme editor, Edit design, Manage products, Configure Klaviyo and so on. Most steps tick themselves off once Bloom detects them.
• Performance runs underneath, showing revenue, conversion and sign-up stats once orders and sign-ups start landing. See Results.
• One banner shows at a time, most urgent first - setup problems such as the theme embed being off, approaching your plan limit, reinstall choices, then Recommendations.
• When stock arrives for pre-orders, a Ready to ship card appears with a Review & release button. See Releasing pre-orders.

The rest of this page walks through the same steps in detail.

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1. Enable Bloom in your theme

Enabling the Bloom app embed is the only theme change required. The pre-order message and Notify Me form auto-inject next to your Add to cart button on every product page.

1. From Shopify admin, go to Online Store → Themes.
2. On your live theme click Customise.
3. Open the App embeds panel (the puzzle-piece icon in the left sidebar).
4. Toggle Bloom on.
5. Click Save.

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Product page block

Most themes need nothing more than the app embed. Add the Bloom Product block to your product template only if:

• The pre-order button flickers or doesn’t appear on your theme.
• You want per-template, market or locale overrides.

See Add the Bloom Product block.

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2. Design & messaging

Style buttons and messaging on PDP and cart to match your brand.

1. In Shopify admin, open Apps → Bloom.
2. Open Pre-order or Notify me in the sidebar, then the Design tab.
3. Work through the sections in the left column, adjusting text, buttons, colours, borders and spacing.
4. Check your work in the Preview panel. Switch between Product page and Cart, and between states such as Pre-Order, Pre-Order Notify and Sold-Out Notify.
5. Click Save.

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Edit on your live store

The Preview panel always shows the default placement. To see changes on a real product page:

1. On the Design tab, click Live store in the Preview panel.
2. Change styling, copy and placement on your storefront, with desktop and mobile previews.
3. Changes autosave as a draft. Publish the ones you want and leave the rest for later.

The clipboard icon beside Live store copies the preview link, so you can open it elsewhere or send it to a developer. Editing access through the link expires after 60 minutes. Configure your language on the product page & cart.

1. In Shopify admin, open Apps → Bloom.
2. Open Pre-order or Notify me, then the Content tab.
3. Adjust default messaging for each placement. The preview updates as you type.
4. Click Save.

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3. Configure products

You can bulk update pre-order and Notify Me settings for products and variants with a high level of granular control.

• Pre-order Shows when a variant has pre-order enabled, has an oversell limit, and is out of stock.
• Notify Me Shows on any out-of-stock variant, unless disabled.

1. In Shopify admin, open Apps → Bloom.
2. Open Pre-order or Notify me, then the Configure products tab.
3. Find the variants you want with the search and filter bar. Search by title or SKU, or filter by Product status, Stock level, Vendor, Tag, Product type or Collection. Set Stock level to Sold out for everything currently at zero.
4. Edit the Apply to all row to set every matching variant at once, or edit a single product or variant row.
5. Set oversell limits, messaging, ship dates, and when pre-order should start.
   • Configure a Pre-order product
   • Configure a Notify Me product
   • Disable Notify Me on a product
   • Schedule a Pre-order
6. Click Save.

Search, filters and sort stay in the URL, so a reload or shared link keeps your view. The Status column tells you where each variant stands: Active (selling on pre-order now), Scheduled (start date set, not yet live), Pending, Finished (oversell limit reached) or Draft.

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4. Pre-order Show pre-order info during and after checkout

Bloom ships three customer-facing blocks beyond the product page: Where the copy comes from:

• Banner text on Checkout and Thank you: Apps → Bloom → Pre-order → Content → Cart messages → Cart notices.
• Per-line text on Order status: each variant’s Message in cart.

Change a variant’s Message in cart after orders are placed and the order status block updates automatically - see Updating pre-order info on existing orders.

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Add blocks to checkout, thankyou & order status

1. Open the relevant editor in Shopify admin (the setup guide’s Checkout, Thank you and Order status buttons link straight there):
   • Checkout and Thank you: Settings → Checkout → Customize (Shopify Plus).
   • Order status: Settings → Customer accounts → Customize.
2. Switch to the page, click Add app block, pick the Bloom block.
3. Click Save.

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5. Notify Me Connect Klaviyo

All email and SMS communications come from Klaviyo using their back-in-stock flows. To start capturing back-in-stock sign-ups, configure Notify Me settings. To start sending notifications, follow the back-in-stock flow guide. Pricing, free trial, and what happens if your plan expires: see Plans and billing.