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Pre‑order Manager Pro
Pre‑order Manager Pro
by Mercantile Apps
4.6
(19 reviews)
Best suited for merchants running pre-order campaigns who want to manage inventory and orders across multiple sales channels.
Probably not for you if you don't use ShipStation for fulfillment.
Separate preorder and in-stock items, offer customers split shipping costs at checkout, & more! Stop missing out on further sales & revenue! Have better control over your preorders! Use our in-built pre-order button, or use your existing one. This app can handle your mixed carts, by separating pre-order and regular orders in the same purchase! Offer at checkout to have pre-order and regular items shipped separately, or wait and combine everything for cheaper shipping. Route preorders to a different warehouse, integrated with ShipStation & more! Optimize your revenue & workflows today! Stop missing out on further sales & revenue! Have better control over your preorders! Use our in-built pre-order button, or use your existing one. This app can handle your mixed carts, by separating pre-order and regular orders in the same purchase! Offer at checkout to have pre-order and regular items shipped separately, or wait and combine everything for cheaper shipping. Route preorders to a different warehouse, integrated with ShipStation & more! Optimize your revenue & workflows today! more Increase revenue by collecting pre-orders for out-of-stock items Ship pre-order & regular orders separately, or combine for cheaper shipping Re-route your pre-orders to a different warehouse Charge customers immediately or defer payment until item is fulfilled Manage your pre-order items as separate Shopify or ShipStation orders
Copy from the Shopify App Store listing, unedited.Which plan would my store need?
Move this to your own volume. Nothing is sent anywhere — the answer is computed here, from the limits this developer publishes.
How many products?
Starter Plan
$19/month
≈ $0.32 per product
Next step up is Standard plan at $49/mo — $30 more a month.
Orders - Other
Top line
conversion rate and average order value
From $19/mo
3 tiers · priced by products
32/100
Limited evidence · from 19 reviews
What it does
Increase revenue by collecting pre-orders for out-of-stock items
Ship pre-order & regular orders separately, or combine for cheaper shipping
Re-route your pre-orders to a different warehouse
Charge customers immediately or defer payment until item is fulfilled
Manage your pre-order items as separate Shopify or ShipStation orders
Pricing
$19/month
$49/month
$199/month
32
/ 100Limited evidence
Scored on 19 merchant reviews we hold for Pre‑order Manager Pro, across five checks. Every figure is computed from those reviews — expand any row to see the counts behind it.
Review history
2021–2025 · 19 reviews read| 2021 | 2 reviews |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 9 reviews |
| 2023 | 3 reviews |
| 2024 | 4 reviews |
| 2025 | 1 reviews |
What merchants say
4.6
16%
of reviews get an answer11%
had used it a year when they wroteRecent merchant reviews
The newest 8 of 19. Open one to read it in full, with the developer's reply where there is one.
Installed this for my client, a small business owner who isn't tech savvy and needed a complex split-payment feature. It's been great for her, and the developer has been very responsive.
Great app to have for larger stores that maintain stock lists from multiple vendors. We are able to offer pre-order for specific skus and upload quickly to create and maintain. Support is top notch when issues arise. The team is quick to make updates and add features based on needs. Highly recommend!
This app solves what we weren't able to solve with any other app... being able to take pre-orders on our site that 1) automatically turned off when stock checked in and 2) played nice with Bundles.app (app we use to sell product bundles). There's been occasional issues as the app updates or our theme updates, but the developer is super quick to respond and figure out the issue and fix it. Highly recommend!
Shocking customer support. I had to reach out to Shopify who had to nudge the developers to respond. After one response, I asked my questions and have been waiting to hear back since. Simply not good enough in comparison to your competition.
Brilliant app, it's only dropped a star because I can't bulk de-activate pre-orders, and a whole star feels harsh, I'd give 4.5 stars if I could. This is the third pre-order app I've tried, and it's by far the best. This app has two main advantages over others I've tried: the button loads immediately, and the app isn't affecting page load speeds. One of the other apps I tried loaded a script that was a bit slow, so it was possible for customers not to be shown the "Pre-Order" version of the button. Another app I tried added full seconds to page load speeds. This app has none of these problems. On top of that, this app is the easiest to use, it's really intuitive. I emailed the developer a question about how it worked and got an excellent answer right away, too.
Not only is this app able to handle and facilitate a unique part caveat of our business model (Wholesale customers), it was the only app that was able to also facilitate backorders with order splitting - something that made our Ops team very happy. Above both of those was their incredible support. Jesse was incredible to deal with and amongst all the back and forth emails, he made the time to hop on a call with our team to work through some scenarios. His attention to detail, response time, and overall helpfulness did not go unnoticed. Now, our storefront is able to function as needed with the app and has solved a customer pain point and internal paint point/limitation as well. Thank you Jesse!
This app is necessary! If you deal with preorders / backorders in any way (or have been hesitant to do so), get this today. You can let your customers know up-front when you expect the product to ship while still generating sales; and you can help your fulfillment team -or individual- properly manage these orders (splitting fulfillment to ship in-stock items first or holding the entire order until all ordered products are in). Most importantly, the developer is very attentive and shows a genuine interest in your store's success. If you are looking for an app for a very important business need, this is it!
This App was suggested (by Shopify) as a substitute for lead times per variant using custom meta fields. With lead times changing by the week it's been challenging communicating this to our customers. The BackStop app does that for us. It allows us to provide information on our product page and throughout the purchase process so there are no surprises. It's been working great so far and the customer support from Jesse has been quick and professional.
Pre‑order Manager Pro FAQ
Answered from this app's own listing and its full review record.
Best suited for merchants running pre-order campaigns who want to manage inventory and orders across multiple sales channels. Probably not for you if you don't use ShipStation for fulfillment.
Paid plans start at $19/month, and run to $199/month across 3 published tiers. Prices are as listed on the Shopify App Store and can change — confirm before installing.
Pre‑order Manager Pro's tiers are gated on products, so the right plan depends on your own volume. The plan-fit tool on this page resolves the cheapest tier whose published limits cover the number you enter, and shows how much headroom is left before the next step up.
On our scorecard Pre‑order Manager Pro rates 32 out of 100 — limited evidence — read from 19 merchant reviews. The developer has published replies to 3 of 19 reviews. The score reflects what the review record shows, nothing more.
19 merchants have reviewed Pre‑order Manager Pro, averaging 4.6 out of 5. We hold the review history from 2021 to 2025, which is what the year-by-year chart on this page is built from.
At a glance
4.6 / 5 · 19 reviews
0
3 of 19 reviews
1 months
From $19/month. Free trial available.
July 28, 2021
2021 – 2025
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