Release on units sold means that only if we get the minimum sales we go forward with the launch.

This is useful for workshops, courses, etc. Sometimes it is not profitable to have a workshop for 10 people.

Let's say we define a 20 people minimum for a particular event to be profitable. If only 10 people buy it, then the event doesn't happen and we would need to refund everyone and that is not ideal.

If this ever gets implemented we could even move to conditional ways to add more detail, example:
- Certain event is scheduled to happen on December 15th.
- We need 20 participants.
- If by December 13th we only have 10 participants, all the preorders gets canceled.

The Woo Commerce Pre-Orders plugin allows you to charge an optional pre-order fee. Unfortunately, it is only charge on top of the regular product price and can't be deduced from the full paiement. Because of that, this pre-order fee can't be used as deposit.

One option would be to lower the product price so the product price + the pre-order fee equal the final product price. If the price is $100 and I want to charge $25 upfront, I could indeed set the price to $75 + $25 of preorder fee. That could work if the displayed price includes the fees, either $100 or $75 + $25. But it does not and the displayed price is only $75. The fees are only mentionned once in the product description: "This product has a $25 pre-order fee". It therefore looks as hidden fees (that most clients despice) instead of simple deposit.

It is too bad because a real deposit feature would be a real upside for this plugin!

Thanks a lot for reading!

Our stock is managed externally and is updated every day via an automated CSV import. When a product is marked as 'In stock' (in the imported CSV file), the product page still says 'Pre-order' instead of 'Buy' because the 'Enable Pre-Orders' field in the back-end isn't automatically disabled when a product is back in stock (in this case it's back in stock before the initial set availability date). This means that we have to do a lot of manual work updating each and every single product that's back in stock and by not being compatible with CSV imports the Pre-Orders extension isn't suitable for larger shops where these things need to be automated.

In 'YITH Pre-Order for WooCommerce' you can "Force 'Allow Backorders' and 'In stock' status" – this almost solves the issue, but instead of enabling/disabling preorders based on stock status it overwrites it completely and forces preorders no matter the stock status.

I think it would be great if there was a way to force products that are set to 'In stock' to always be available to order.

Thanks

Develop the Pre-orders extension to be enabled/disabled by product variation.

The extension can currently only be enabled only by product, which gives the impression that in-stock variations will not be shipped until the pre-order shipment date, or that all variants will be shipped on the same date.

This development could be used in a number of ways:

• Physical Goods Shops: Useful for taking pre-orders for product variants, when some of the product's variants are in stock and others are out of stock




• Physical and Digital: Useful for staggering release date by variant. For example a product could have Gold, Silver and Bronze pricing tiers with the Gold tier being released first etc...

When a product has no set availability date and the product is out of stock, the preorder button is swapped with a message saying "No longer available for pre-ordering". I suggest you make it possible to allow preorders despite there not being a set availability date.

We're especially interested in this for products that are made on demand, so products that we do not have in stock, but which will be produced once an order is made (we cannot legally take payment before we ship).

In 'YITH Pre-Order for WooCommerce' they've solved this issue by simply not disabling preorders when there's no availability date set. I think WooCommerce Pre-Orders should do the same.

Thanks