pre-orders-for-woocommerce

Pre-Orders for WooCommerce

Ultimate Pre-Orders Plugin for WooCommerce.

38.6 opportunity score Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org

7.0Kactive installs

165.8Kdownloads

4.5rating

1unresolved threads

13complaints analyzed

10praise analyzed

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Download Momentum

180 days

684recent 30 days 789previous 30 days -13.3%movement 6.0Kshown total

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complaint support · high severity · relevance 1.0

No e-mails sent after installing WPML part 2

No e-mails sent after installing WPML part 2: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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No e-mails sent after installing WPML part 2 Apparently you cannot reopen topics, so here goes: Since I’ve installed WPML, no more mail is sent for pre-orders.

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95

Status Completed instead of Pre-ordered in Free Version

Status Completed instead of Pre-ordered in Free Version: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Status Completed instead of Pre-ordered in Free Version Hi!

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95

Display preorder date

Display preorder date: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Display preorder date I’m interested in showing the preorder availability date on the product and checkout page of my woocommerce-based shop, but even after adding the availability date and updating the plugin settings to display it, it’s not showing on my website.

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.95

Order Status Issues

Order Status Issues: users show bugs, missing feature, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Order Status Issues Hello- when I order I preorder product via a real time payment (e.g.

complaint review · high severity · relevance 0.91

Not recommended compared to the competition: users show missing feature, pricing, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Then the disaster: orders that canceled themselves, pre-orders that returned waiting for payment after weeks and then were canceled (all documented by the system logs), a lot of angry customers and €1000 of damage done to my business.

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.89

Uncaught DivisionByZeroError: Division by zero

Uncaught DivisionByZeroError: Division by zero: users show bugs, compatibility, pricing pain that may indicate a product gap.

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Uncaught DivisionByZeroError: Division by zero I’m receiving this error at checkout when a product price is $0 the cart total is $0.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.88

Preorders ALL CHANGED to completed and shipped! Even though a preorder date set

The plugin repeatedly changed all preorders to completed and shipped before their preorder dates, forcing the shop owner to apologize to customers.

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set all my preorders to “completed” and shipped and it’s so embarrassing! I wrote an apology email.

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.8

Pre-Order status bypassed for Apply Pay/Google Pay (Stripe)

Apple Pay and Google Pay orders through Stripe bypass the Pre-Order status and appear as normal processing orders.

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only express checkout misses the Pre-Order status

complaint support · high severity · relevance 0.73

Error: Invalid date format, adjust it!

Pre-Orders for WooCommerce rejected selected product dates, causing pre-order items to become normal cart items until users manually entered dates.

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clients can add to cart rather than pre-order… then I noted on the backend this notice Error: Invalid date format

mixed support · high severity · relevance 0.7

version 2.1 crashed my site

The last update crashed the user's WooCommerce site, but reinstalling the plugin resolved the problem.

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Last update crashed my site

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YITH Pre-Order for WooCommerce praise owner · intel 72.6 · weakness 59.5

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below-average rating 21 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions

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PRENA – Product Pre-Orders for WooCommerce praise owner · intel 64.7 · weakness 48.6

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1 unresolved support thread(s) 16 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity

Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor WooCommerce failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions

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Place Order Without Payment for WooCommerce praise owner · intel 50.0 · weakness 26.7

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2 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Evidence only

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Pre-Orders for WooCommerce – PreCart praise owner · intel 42.3 · weakness 19.3

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2 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Evidence only

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complaint Error: Invalid date format, adjust it! support · 2026-05-15T04:04:26+00:00 · high severity · pre order

Pre-Orders for WooCommerce rejected selected product dates, causing pre-order items to become normal cart items until users manually entered dates.

Evidence: clients can add to cart rather than pre-order… then I noted on the backend this notice Error: Invalid date format

bugs compatibility pre-order date picker Evidence only

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praise Easy Integration with WooCommerce (5 stars) review · 2026-03-21T03:25:14+00:00 · low severity · pre order

The reviewer says the preorder plugin worked well for a book launch and integrated easily with WooCommerce.

Evidence: Has worked great for preorders of my book launch. Integrates well with WooCommerce.

easy quality WooCommerce preorders Evidence only

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complaint (Free): show notice when mixing pre-order & in-stock item support · 2026-02-06T22:51:29+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

The user says customers get no message when the plugin blocks carts mixing pre-order and in-stock items, making add-to-cart look broken.

Evidence: the page just reloads and nothing happens — no error, no notice, no message.

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mixed Logic of the preorder support · 2025-12-02T20:21:16+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

The plugin could not automatically continue selling preorders after stock reached zero, requiring manual product changes.

Evidence: the plugin does not automatically switch to pre-order when the stock reaches 0

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complaint Error Checkout.php:67 support · 2025-11-17T09:19:11+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

Pre-Orders for WooCommerce produced fatal errors in WooCommerce emails, with support acknowledging a known issue but initially giving no fix date.

Evidence: Any idea on how long will it take ? Any fix that could be implemented meanwhile ?

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complaint Plugin Causes Error with WooCommerce Email Previews support · 2025-11-14T21:46:16+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

Pre-Orders for WooCommerce caused fatal errors in WooCommerce email previews until the vendor fixed it in version 2.3.

Evidence: a fatal error is thrown by the email notification previews

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praise Very Good (5 stars) review · 2025-11-08T20:35:49+00:00 · low severity · pre order

The reviewer says the free version of the pre-orders plugin works very well.

Evidence: It works very good, even in free version

value reliable WooCommerce pre-orders Evidence only

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praise Helpful support (5 stars) review · 2025-11-08T15:59:25+00:00 · low severity · pre order

Support investigated and helped the user with a plugin problem even though they used the free version.

Evidence: their support team was gracious to take the time to investigate and help me

support preorder troubleshooting Evidence only

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complaint Preorder Marked Completed support · 2025-10-22T18:04:18+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

Some preorders were automatically marked completed even though the store owner had not marked them that way.

Evidence: preorders that were automatically marked completed that we did not mark

bugs preorder status transition Evidence only

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complaint Pre-Order status bypassed for Apply Pay/Google Pay (Stripe) support · 2025-10-17T20:42:57+00:00 · high severity · pre order

Apple Pay and Google Pay orders through Stripe bypass the Pre-Order status and appear as normal processing orders.

Evidence: only express checkout misses the Pre-Order status

bugs compatibility express checkout pre-orders Evidence only

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complaint pre order status support · 2025-08-19T01:02:39+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

Some products remain marked as pre-order after the end date or after the option is unchecked, but no reproduction details were provided.

Evidence: remain tagged as pre order, after the end date

bugs product pre-order status Evidence only

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mixed cart does not update support · 2025-08-15T22:30:59+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

cart does not update: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: When i disable the pre order plugin, it works fine any idea ?

bugs compatibility support migration Evidence only

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mixed version 2.1 crashed my site support · 2025-08-14T02:32:42+00:00 · high severity · pre order

The last update crashed the user's WooCommerce site, but reinstalling the plugin resolved the problem.

Evidence: Last update crashed my site

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complaint Preorders ALL CHANGED to completed and shipped! Even though a preorder date set support · 2025-07-25T15:04:13+00:00 · high severity · pre order

The plugin repeatedly changed all preorders to completed and shipped before their preorder dates, forcing the shop owner to apologize to customers.

Evidence: set all my preorders to “completed” and shipped and it’s so embarrassing! I wrote an apology email.

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complaint Free Shipping Coupon Not Applying to Pre-Order Product support · 2025-07-22T04:22:04+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

The user reports that free-shipping coupons work for regular products but not when the cart contains only a pre-order product.

Evidence: free shipping works perfectly with regular products, it does not work when the only item in the cart is a pre-order product

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praise Works Wonderfully (5 stars) review · 2025-06-28T19:32:45+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

Works Wonderfully: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works Wonderfully The plugin worked seemlessly!

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mixed Dokan support · 2025-06-23T06:02:48+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

Dokan: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: While we cannot guarantee compatibility with each one individually, many users have successfully implemented it even in custom environments.

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praise Perfect and simple solution (5 stars) review · 2025-06-10T14:59:14+00:00 · medium severity · pre order

Perfect and simple solution: users praise easy, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Perfect and simple solution Using it on barkshiredog.com and worked out of the box as expected!

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mixed PreOrders not set to transition status support · 2025-06-06T08:29:29+00:00 · low severity · pre order

PreOrders not set to transition status: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PreOrders not set to transition status Hi, If you have more than 10 pre-orders in the system, you have a fair chance of pre-orders not being released because this function in Sync.php: public function checkForPreOrders() { $args = [ 'status' => 'wc-pre-ordered', ]; ..only returns 10 items.

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mixed Display preorder date support · 2025-06-05T16:37:15+00:00 · high severity · pre order

Display preorder date: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Display preorder date I’m interested in showing the preorder availability date on the product and checkout page of my woocommerce-based shop, but even after adding the availability date and updating the plugin settings to display it, it’s not showing on my website.

bugs compatibility missing feature pricing Evidence only

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