Shopify App : PreProduct next‑gen pre‑order

A smarter way to launch products (pay later pre-orders & more)

About PreProduct next‑gen pre‑order

Pre-sell your next product : Launch your next product much earlier and start collecting pre-orders.

Communicate with customers : PreProduct's custom front-end wording, customer portals and email campaign lets you keep customers in the loop.

Charge when you're ready : Pay-later, pay-now & deposit-based pre-orders supported. Powered by deferred charge or payment links.

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Description

You shouldn’t have to wait until stock hits your warehouse to list your next product.

PreProduct lets brands capture pre-orders for upcoming product launches at any point in the new product cycle. Allowing you to pre-sell, gauge demand & recoup cash quicker. Pay-later & deposit-based pre-orders are only charged when you're ready, whether that's by payment link or deferred charge.

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Why use PreProduct?

• Start making sales for future releases today.

• Improve cash flow by collecting revenue earlier & recouping cash quicker.

• Validate & gauge demand for new products.

• Start charging when you're ready – transition between pay-later/deposit-based/pay-now pre-orders and buy-now.

• Manage inventory and purchasing in a more precise way.

• Lightweight on the front-end to keep your site's page speed fast.

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Features

• Supports pay-now, pay-later & deposit-based pre-orders.

• Customise your email campaign (includes dynamic variables).

• Customise pre-order button and cart, including colours, font, logo and header image (PreProduct can also hijack your native buy-now button if needed).

• Option to force checkout to stop 'buy now' & pre-order shipping fees mixing.

• Customer portals, where customers can monitor and update their pre-orders.

• Monitor & edit pre-orders in their own system, includes payment, vaulted card and deposit tracking.

• Headless code generator – receive pre-orders from outside of your Shopify store. Whether that's a WordPress blog, affiliate site or a headless e-commerce store.

• Set & update shipping dates.

• Supports discount pre-orders.

• Accept multiple variant/quantity pre-orders.

• List specific variants and set max order limits.

• Segment charging at both the variant and individual customer level. Automatic charging by stock level also supported.

• Integrates with Shopify and the native inventory/order/checkout system.

• Set front-end & email translations across multiple languages.

• Set a 'success URL' to forward customers too.

• Optional automations - Including weekly pre-order reports, email opt-in and charging automation.

• Set a customer max limit.

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Pre-order app modes

pay-later pre-sale - Just pre-order and customer details are captured. A ‘thank-you email' is sent at the time of pre-order. In the future, a payment link or deferred charge is triggered.

deposit-based pre-sale – The pre-order and customer details are captured along with their deposit. Then when the store is ready, the customer is charged the remaining amount via deferred charge or payment link emails.

pay-now pre-sale - Customers will be sent to checkout (or cart) straight away.

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Launch date
March 09, 2020
App rating
4.9
Top features

Seamless workflow: use directly in Shopify admin

Up-to-date tech: works with the latest themes

Speed tested: low impact to your online store

Latest Blog Posts on www.preproduct.io

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Adding pre-orders to the Shopify Turbo theme

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Adding pre-orders to Shopify Dawn

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Great Jones brings cookware innovation by selling chief-grade products

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[2020/07/23 09:44:04]

High-end DTC beauty brand, Beauty Pie launched by serial entrepreneur Marcia Kilgore, operates on a paid membership basis. You need to buy a monthly or yearly subscription to get access to the products. The concept is based around the fact that most premium beauty brands use the same outsourced labs and manufacturers, Beauty Pie’s innovation is to be upfront with customers about this and offer their lines at ‘factory prices’, thus saving money without sacrificing […] The post High-end DTC brand charges customers to buy from them appeared first on .

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