Pre-orders let you keep selling a product before stock arrives. Shoppers see your own button text, for example Pre-order, and when it ships, and the ship date travels with the item into the cart, checkout and the order.
Where to find it
In the Miko B2B app, open Pre-orders from the app menu.
How to set it up
Open Pre-orders and click Add product.
Set the button text, the expected ship date and the note.
Use
{date}in the note wherever the ship date should appear, for example Expected to ship {date}.Choose when the pre-order applies, then save.
Only when sold out: each variant sells normally while it has stock and switches to pre-order at zero. Turn it off to put the whole product on pre-order, for example before a launch.
Options
| Where | What shoppers see |
|---|---|
| Product page | Your button text, with the note under the button. |
| Cart and checkout | The note printed on the line item. |
| Your orders | The note on the line item, and the order tagged Pre-order so you can filter it. |
Your stock settings
While a pre-order is live, the product's variants keep selling when out of stock, so shoppers can buy. Miko remembers each variant's previous setting and puts it back when you switch the pre-order off or remove it, when your plan no longer includes pre-orders, and when you remove the app.
Wholesale prices
A pre-order item is an ordinary cart line, so trade customers get their wholesale price, volume breaks and campaigns on it as usual.
Example
Example: a new lamp arriving next month
Set the button to Pre-order, the ship date to 12 December and the note to Expected to ship {date}. Shoppers see Expected to ship December 12, 2026 under the button and on the cart line, and the order arrives tagged Pre-order.
Plan required
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