Setting Up Quantity Limits on the Pre-Order Manager
Types of Quantity Limits
There are two types of Quantity Limit that you can set for your Pre-Order:
Total limit of pre-orders that can be purchase.
Limit of pre-orders that can be purchased in a day (Daily Limit).
There is no limit to the pre-order quantity by default. It means that a customer can pre-order an unlimited quantity of products.
How to Setup Quantity Limits for ALL Pre-Order Products
On the Products page, select Default Settings button.
You can setup the pre-order limit under the Pre-order quantity limit section:
a. No limit
There is no limit for pre-orders.
The store will accept an indefinite amount of pre-orders.
b. <Quantity> items that can be pre-ordered
This will set a total limit for pre-orders.
The store will stop accepting pre-orders once this limit is reached.
c. <Quantity> items PER DAY can be pre-ordered for each variant
The total of number of pre-orders you can in a day.
It daily limit starts at 00:00 (12am) and ends at 23:59 (11.59pm) of your store's time zone.
Select Save to apply the changes.
Setup Default Quantity Limits for INDIVIDUAL Pre-Order Products
To setup Quantity Limits for individual product, in Products page, select Default Settings button (or Custom Settings if the settings had already been edited earlier).
You can setup the pre-order limit under the Pre-order quantity limit section:
Pre-Order Quantity Limit Toggle - Enabling the toggle switch will enable Pre-Order quantity limit for the selected product.
<Quantity> items that can be pre-ordered - This will set a total limit for pre-orders. The store will stop accepting pre-orders once this limit is reached.
<Quantity> items PER DAY can be pre-ordered for each variant - The total of number of pre-orders you can sell a day. It daily limit starts at 00:00 (12am) and ends at 23:59 (11.59pm) of your store's time zone.
Quantity Labels - this option will place a quantity bar and/or label with your pre-order to show limited stock which can create a sense of urgency and scarcity to increase customer demand.
To add a Quantity Label, select the dropdown list and select the following options:
Disable - Selecting this will not display any quantity label/bar.
Show only Pre-order counter label - This will display a label stating the quantity remaining:
You can customizing the label by configuring the message at the Pre-order counter label field.
Currently there is no way to customize the colors of the Pre-order counter label. This customization will be release in future releases.Show only Pre-order counter bar only - This will display a counter bar at the product page:
You can select a bar that displays the number of items pre-ordered or a pre-order bar showing the items remaining as well as configuring the bar's colors:
Show both - This will show both the labels and bar:
IMPORTANT NOTE: Please note that this will only set the quantity limits for individual products only.