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Magento Extension
User Guide
Official extension page: Pre Order
User Guide: Pre Order

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1. General Settings ………………………....……………………………………….. 3
2. Order Grid………………………………………………..…..……………………… 7
3. Order Info……………...……………………. ..………..………………………….. 8
4. Product Grid…………………………………………………………….…………… 9
5. Simple Product Settings……………………………..…………………………. 10
6. Configurable Product Settings…………..…………………………………… 12
7. Frontend Examples...…..……...……………………………………………….. 14
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User Guide: Pre Order

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Specify whether to
allow pre orders
for products with
Zero quantity.
1. Pre Order: General Settings
User Guide: Pre Order
Please go to admin panel -> System ->
Configuration -> Pre Order to manage the
extension settings.
Set this option to “Yes” to enable pre
orders only for products with Zero
or lower quantity.

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Specify this note if you want
to display one and the same
text with all pre order
products. You can use
variables {} with product
attributes.
1. Pre Order: General settings
User Guide: Pre Order
Here you can
create a
message to
display with
order
information
Specify the text that will be displayed
instead of the Add to Cart button on
category and product pages for all
pre order products.

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Set the option to ‘yes’ to
display the pre order
warning message right on
the product and category
pages before customer
chooses any product
configuration. The option
works for bundle, grouped
and configurable products
if all their components
have ‘Pre order’ status.
1. Pre Order: General settings

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If the option is set to ‘Yes’ the pre
order warning message will be
automatically added to the
transactional email template. If the
option is set to ‘No’ you can choose
the place where to insert {{var
order.preorder_warning}} variable
in the email template.
1. Pre Order: General settings

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2. Pre Order: Order Grid
Quickly find pre
orders with the
help of a special
filter

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3. Pre Order: Order Info
On the Order Information
page all the products
ordered in advance will be
marked as Pre Order

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4. Pre Order: Product Grid
On the Product Grid
choose the item you
want to mark as a
product for pre order

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5. Pre Order: Simple Product Settings
User Guide: Pre Order
To enable pre order feature for a
simple product please click on the
‘Inventory’ tab on the product
information page, untick the ‘Use
Config Settings’ checkbox and
choose the ‘ Allow Pre-Orders’
option.

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5. Pre Order: Simple Product Settings
User Guide: Pre Order
Here you can
customize pre
order note for each
particular product
instead of the
default one.
Customize the Pre
Order Cart button
for each particular
product if you
don’t want to use
the default text,
specified in
General Settings.

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6. Pre Order: Configurable Product Settings
To mark particular product
configuration as a pre order
item:
- choose corresponding
Configurable product;
- on the Asscociated Products tab
you’ll see all simple products to
configure;

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6. Pre Order: Configurable Product Settings
Choose any simple product
on the Associated Products
tab to enable pre order
option.
NOTE: to enable pre
orders for grouped and
bundle products you need
to activate this option for
each particular simple
product included in a
group or a bundle

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7. Pre Order: Frontend Examples
Here you can see the Pre
Order button set by default,
and the Backorder button
set for a particular
product.
See the example of a
category page with the ‘Pre
Order’ button for simple
products.

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7. Pre Order: Frontend Examples
The Pre Order Message
you’ve specified for
each particular product
in the ‘Inventory’ tab is
displayed on a shopping
cart page.

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7. Pre Order: Frontend Examples
Configurable Product Page
As soon as product configuration,
available for pre order is chosen, the
Add to Cart button is replaced with the
Pre Order button and the note
specified for this product
configuration appears.

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7. Pre Order: Frontend Examples
This is the warning message
that is specified on the
General Settings tab

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7. Pre Order: Frontend Examples
This is an example of an
order confirmation
email with the Pre
Order warning message
displayed.

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