One of the payment options our Pre-Order plugin offers is the new Pay Later gateway. This gateway does not request payment information at checkout when the customer is pre-ordering the product. Instead, the customer will receive an email requesting the payment when the pre-ordered product becomes available.
- To set this as your default option for pre-orders head over to YITH > Pre-Order > Payment Options on your backend:
- Select the Pay Later gateway and save to enable it for every pre-order product as a global rule; as always, keep in mind that global rules can be overridden on each product’s edit page.
- You will find this payment gateway’s settings in WooCommerce > Settings > Payments; you can click on “Manage” to edit the gateway’s name, its description and the status of the pre-orders placed with it:
Customers will see that label and description when they’re on the Checkout page about to pre-order a product:
Finally, as soon as the product becomes available, the customer will receive an email with a link that will redirect him/her to the site to make the payment:
