The preorder & restock playbook.
Strategy, teardowns and step-by-steps for selling before, during and after stock — from the team behind the app.
Pre-order Emails in Klaviyo with Timesact's Event
If your store's emails already run in Klaviyo, your pre-order confirmations can too. Connect Timesact to Klaviyo, choose Klaviyo as the pre-order channel in your customer experience template, and Timesact sends a Time...
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Made to Order on Shopify: Sell It, Then Make It
A sofa built after the order, a wig unit made to measure, a ring cast in the customer's size: each of these is sold before it...
Your Shopify Pre-order Report: Orders, Exports and Sign-ups
A Shopify pre-order report answers two everyday questions: what has been pre-ordered, and who is waiting for what. Timesact a...
Shopify Pre-order Limits: Cap Each Size, Then Close
A bag made in two colors, with 80 beige and 20 black coming from the factory, should stop taking pre-orders once each color r...
Shopify Pre-order Estimated Delivery: Why It Says 1–2 Days
On a Shopify pre-order, the estimated delivery at checkout usually comes from the shipping rate's transit time, which leaves ...
How to Take Pre-orders on a Shopify Bundle
You can take pre-orders on a bundle made in the Shopify Bundles app. A Shopify bundle pre-order needs two settings that diffe...
Stock Arrived? How to Remove a Pre-order on Shopify
Does a pre-order switch off by itself when stock arrives? If you kept the default setting, you don't have to do anything to r...
Making Every Route to Checkout Carry Your Preorder Terms
Which buttons carry a Shopify preorder to checkout? A product page can offer more than one way to buy: the main purchase butt...
Shopify Preorder Shipping Dates: Fixed Date or Period
The date you set in March is wrong by April A preorder campaign that runs for one drop can carry one calendar date. "Ships 15...
Shopify Preorder and Restock Text in Multiple Languages
Can Timesact show preorder text in more than one language? Timesact template text is set once per template: you write each fi...
Klarna, Gift Cards and Buy X Get Y on Shopify Pre-orders
One setting decides what a pre-order checkout accepts Yes, a Shopify pre-order can take Klarna, Afterpay and gift cards when ...
When Only Some Variants Are Out of Stock on Shopify
One product page, three different answers A shopper opens a product where size 42 is in stock, sizes 38 and 40 sold out last ...
Shopify Preorders Across Multiple Inventory Locations
Which stock decides when a Shopify preorder starts? When your stock sits in multiple Shopify locations, Timesact adds up the ...