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Pre-orders plugin allow other products to be added to cart

Currently, the pre-order plugin allows for only one pre-order product to be added to the cart. If there are existing products in the cart, the pre-order plugin wipes the cart clean. It would be great to be able to order other products while pre-ordering another product.

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  • MikeIsTheBest commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I can't believe YITH does a better job on this feature than WooCommerce themselves. Embarrassing to say the least and I will be switching to YITH products moving forward. For anyone looking for a quick and dirty solution, try the following in your child theme's functions.php file:

    add_action( 'init', 'remove_validation_cart' );
    function remove_validation_cart(){
    remove_filter( 'woocommerce_add_to_cart_validation', array( $GLOBALS['wc_pre_orders']->cart, 'validate_cart' ), 15, 2 );
    }

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Though I imagine there are some businesses for whom current functionality fits the bill, mine is not one of them. I do hope Woo considers developing this functionality.

    I want to share this suggestion from Abhi -- a Woo support person who gave me an incredibly thorough and empathetic response:

    However in the comments on the Ideas Board, there was a suggested customization to help work around this:
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29358248/woocommerce-pre-orders-plugin

  • Matt Campbell commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Any update on this? It's a basic necessity and is causing me to actively seek an alternative plugin.

    There's a lot with WooCom Pre-orders that needs updating and it appears there's zero development being done on the plugin since WooCom bought it. :(

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    totally agree. We need this feature to be activated asap. A lot of client think that it's a bug on the website that deletes all current added to cart items.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    That's ridiculous you cant add more than one product!! Refund request on its way!

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Yes please! Had to refund customers for paying double shipping costs, because the plugin wasn't able to handle more than 1 pre-order at a time.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is definitely a major requirement for most web stores. The added value of the plugin without it is very limited!

  • Sébastien commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is definitely a major requirement for most web stores. The added value of the plugin without it is very limited!

  • Nicole commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I agree!! Very annoying and inconvenient to have customers make multiple purchases!

  • Dom commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This limitation makes the plugin unusable because customers will purchase dozens of items on pre-order at once. My client has only one supplier so all pre-ordered products arrive at once, and customers can only put pre-orders in their cart, so the complexity is removed.

    Even so, I'm sure it's possible to add a feature where an order can be given the status Partially Processed, and where the status of each item in the order can be recorded individually

  • Jeremy R. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    While I understand the ease of only allowing for (1) pre-order product at a time, its a MASSIVE disservice to customers (like mine) looking to add multiple products to one order and waiting for ALL of them to become available.

    My customers don't want to pre-order one product at at time, because they don't want to submit multiple orders for pre-order products especially when most of those products will become available the same day. Why make them submit multiple orders, potentially having to pay for multiple shipping costs, for products that are available for pre-order and will be available on the SAME DAY?!?!?

  • Chris Atkin commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I just purchased this plugin yesterday. My site will be heavily using Pre-Orders moving forward. I was using YITH, but thought it'd be best to use WooCommerce instead. If this can't or won't be fixed in the next 29 days, I will have no choice but to request a refund and go back to using YITH's plugins. Patiently waiting for an urgent update. Thank you.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I understand that it's difficult to handle normal products and pre-order products together, when one needs immediate payment and the other uses "pay later".
    But when you add a second pre-sale product with the same payment date, this must be possible to check out both together!
    See also: https://ideas.woocommerce.com/forums/133476-woocommerce/suggestions/31677622-multiple-pre-order-products-checkout-if-products

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