Hot to set a product as “pre-order”

To create a pre-order type of product, go to WooCommerce > Add Product.

Now, scrolling down to Product Data, you will find the “Set as Pre-Order” option, right by Virtual and Downloadable:

Now a new tab called Pre-Order will be created, including all of the options related to this plugin:

Use For sale date option to set the date and time for the end of the pre-order period.

Customize the text of the pre-order button for the product, thanks to the “Pre-Order Label” option. In case you don’t customize it, the default one will displayed, which can be customizable in Label Settings in YITH Plugins > Pre-Order.

And this is what your pre-order product will look like in the product page:

Bulk edit products into Pre-order

If you need to assign the Pre-order status to one or more products at the same time, you can do that from the Products page. Select the products that you want to edit and then click on Bulk Actions > Set the Pre-Order status > Apply.

If you select variable products, this action will apply the Pre-order status to all its variations. To edit the pre-order status of variable products variation by variation, please, refer to this post.

The plugin supports variable products and allows managing the pre-order status differently for each product variation.

Let’s see how to do it.

Select the variation you want to configure and set the pre-order status through the related checkbox, as shown in the image.

Now, the new options added to the variation show and let you configure the pre-order status.

In the variation, you can set:

• for sale date: set the date when the product will be for sale
• pre-order label: label to show for the selected variation on the pre-order button
• price: you can set the pre-order product price in three different ways
  • fixed: the pre-order product price will be in the same amount of the specified value
  • Discount the selling price: the pre-order product is purchasable with a discount (by setting the value) on the selling price
  • Markup the selling price: the pre-order product is purchasable with a markup on the selling price.

To show the corresponding label for variable pre-order products,  you’ll need to enable the option in “Label settings” which you will find in the general plugins settings menu.

Note: only if all variable options are set as “pre-order” the label will be shown.