Quick start guide

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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Quick start walk-through

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Follow the in-app setup guide

The Bloom home page (Apps → Bloom) is the easiest way to work through setup. It shows three tiles - Core, Pre-order, and Notify Me - each with a status badge, expanding into the steps below.

• Steps tagged Auto-detected tick themselves off as Bloom detects them; the rest you tick off as you go.
• Optional steps are tagged - the product page block, for example, is Only if needed.
• Each step’s button deep-links straight to the right screen in Shopify admin.
• Once a feature is live, its tile shows live stats (variants on pre-order, sign-ups) instead of setup steps, and the home page shows your Results.

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. Go to Design.
3. Adjust button & text styles, colours, borders, sizing, etc. The live preview alongside the controls updates as you edit - switch it between pre-order, sold-out and notify-me states to check every surface.
4. Click Save.

Configure your language on the product page & cart.

1. In Shopify admin, open Apps → Bloom.
2. Go to Content.
3. Adjust default messaging for each placement.
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. Go to Products.
3. Find the product or collection of products you’d like to update.
4. In bulk update the full list, individual products or individual variants.
5. You can enable / disable, change messaging, set oversell limits or schedule when the pre-order feature 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.

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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 → Content → Pre-order → Checkout banner.
• 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.