Batch pre-orders and deposits for WooCommerce
WooCommerce shops that take pre-orders and deposits for goods that arrive from a supplier in batches, such as made-to-order or small-run products. A proposed WooCommerce plugin, not yet built, that would combine lead-time ship dates, a cap per batch, deposits, balance collection when a batch is ready and delay emails. Payment-gateway support remains to be tested.
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The problem
Pre-order plugins handle one release date. When stock comes in batches, you end up juggling a ship date that moves with the supplier, deposits, chasing the balance, capping how many orders each batch can take and telling customers when a date slips, often across several plugins.
What you get
A proposed WooCommerce plugin, not yet built, that would combine lead-time ship dates, a cap per batch, deposits, balance collection when a batch is ready and delay emails. Payment-gateway support remains to be tested.
Why it matters
- The aim is one plugin to set up and maintain instead of several that may not work together.
- Customers would see an expected ship date based on the supplier's lead time.
- Balance payments would be requested automatically where the payment gateway supports it, rather than chased by hand.
- Planned compatibility checks against new WooCommerce and WordPress releases; no maintained plugin exists yet.
How it works and what it costs
Planned: a free version covering lead-time ship dates, batch caps and delay emails, and a paid Pro licence each year for deposits and balance collection. The Pro price is not set.
Where things stand
What's available now
Nothing to download or buy yet: the plugin is not built. If this is a problem in your shop, email us how you handle it today; that tells us whether to build it and what it must do.
What we're still working out
Which payment gateways can collect a stored balance reliably, what the Pro price should be, and where the plugin will be listed.
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