WooCommerce plugin · Pre-orders

Shipclock Pre-Orders for WooCommerce

Take orders now. Charge when the stock arrives. Shipclock lets a WooCommerce store sell products before they are in stock, mix them with in-stock items in one cart, and release them by date or by hand.

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What it does

Sell it before it ships.

Launches, restocks and limited editions all have the same problem: customers are ready to buy before the stock is. Shipclock turns any product into a pre-order, shows customers when it will ship, and handles the payment and the release when the stock arrives.

It was designed from the problems merchants report with existing pre-order tools: carts that can’t mix pre-orders with regular products, release dates that are hard to change, and customers who are left without news.

Shipclock is published by vdelafuente.com under its own name. It is the one plugin outside the PointStack family.

At a glance

Pre-orders without the friction

Mixed carts

Pre-orders and in-stock items in one checkout.

Your release, your timing

Release by date or by hand, and move the date if needed.

Customers kept in the loop

Countdown, badges and pre-order emails.

Clean code

Passes the WordPress Plugin Check; Blocks and HPOS ready.

Features

What the store gets

The free version takes full payment at checkout and covers everything most stores need to run pre-orders.

Pre-orders that fit the store

  • Unlimited pre-order products
  • Pre-orders and in-stock items in the same cart
  • Release by date or by hand
  • Countdown, badge and custom texts
  • Shortcodes for any page

Customers kept informed

  • Change the release date and notify customers
  • Email customers from the dashboard
  • Pre-orders in My Account
  • Dedicated pre-order emails
  • Customer cancellation, on or off

Built for current WooCommerce

  • Checkout Blocks compatible
  • High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)
  • Pre-order dashboard for the store team
  • Tested on WordPress 7.1 and WooCommerce 11.2
  • Passes the WordPress Plugin Check
Pro version

For stores that run pre-orders at scale

Flexible payment

  • Deposits
  • Pay on release
  • Let the customer choose, with balance orders, reminders and expiry

Stock and demand

  • Pre-orders per variation
  • First-in, first-out queue when stock arrives
  • Limits, maximum per order and scarcity messages
  • Automatic pre-order when a product runs out

Pricing and service

  • Pre-order discount or surcharge
  • Cancellation requests with automatic refunds
  • CSV export
Details

Technical notes

Full nameShipclock Pre-Orders for WooCommerce
Authorvdelafuente.com
Plugin slugshipclock-pre-orders
Tested withWordPress 7.1, WooCommerce 11.2
CompatibilityCheckout Blocks, HPOS
VersionsFree version planned for the WordPress.org directory; Pro version with the features above
StatusVersion 1.0.1 built; coming soon
Plugins by vdelafuente.com

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