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A pre-order is a real Shopify order the moment the customer pays. Bloom holds its fulfilment until stock arrives, so your shipping app won’t ship it early - for most apps there’s nothing to configure.

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What Bloom does to every pre-order

  • Holds fulfilment. Held orders drop out of Shopify’s Unfulfilled list until you release them, so shipping apps don’t see them as ready to ship.
  • Tags the order. Pre-order, plus Pre-order: All items or Pre-order: Some items. While held it carries Pre-order: Hold; when it’s safe to fulfil the tag flips to Pre-order: Ship.
Holds require Bloom’s fulfilment permissions - grant them when prompted in the app.

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How each app handles pre-orders

A mixed order (in-stock + pre-order items) shows up as one order in your shipping app. To dispatch the in-stock items separately, enable Split shipping in Bloom - see Split orders.
In ShipStation you can add a safety net: map Order Tags to a custom field under Edit Shopify Settings → Custom Field Mappings, then create an automation rule matching Pre-order with the action Hold Until.