Pre-order overview - Good Native Help

Pre-order lets shoppers buy a product before stock arrives. When a variant runs out, the Add to cart button turns into Pre-order with a ship-date message. Orders take inventory negative until they hit your oversell limit.

How it works

Inventory goes negative. When stock hits zero, pre-orders push inventory below 0 until they reach your oversell limit for that variant.
Orders are tagged. Every pre-order order is tagged Pre-order, plus either Pre-order: All items (every item) or Pre-order: Some items (mix). Filter and automate on these.
Messaging follows the customer. Your ship-date message (e.g. Ships late July) appears under Add to cart, on each cart line, and at checkout.
Customers can cancel themselves from their order status page until you start preparing the order. Disable if you’d rather handle it manually.
Optional: Set a date to start pre-order after a specific day and time.

What a pre-order looks like

The customer sees:

A Pre-order button on the product page with your ship-date message
A Ships: label on each pre-order cart line
A notice at checkout
The current ship date on their order status page after purchase

You see:

The Pre-order order tag, plus Pre-order: All items or Pre-order: Some items
The cart message on each line
A Bloom block in the order note with a pre-order summary and an Updates: history of any ship-date changes

If you change a ship date later, the order note and the customer’s order-status page update automatically. See Updating pre-order info on existing orders.