SUMO WooCommerce Pre-Orders is a Comprehensive WooCommerce Pre-Orders Plugin using which you can allow your customers to pre-order the products before they are released. There are many customization options such as whether to charge upfront or when product is released, date and time when the product will be released, maximum quantity that can be pre-ordered, allow customers to cancel their pre-orders etc. It is also compatible with our SUMO WooCommerce Payment Plans Plugin, SUMO Memberships Plugin etc.

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Features

Most Comprehensive WooCommerce Pre-Orders Plugin
Works with both Simple and Variable Products
Allow Customers to Pre-Order Products Before Product Release
Product Release Date and Time can be Configured
Price can be modified[Discount/Mark-Up] for Pre-Order Products
Pre-Order Products can be configured with the Charge Type as Pay Up Front/Pay on Release
Countdown Timer to display the Product Release Date for Pre-Order Products
Option to set Maximum Quantity which can be ordered by a User per Pre-Order Product
Option to Strike Regular Price and display the Pre-Order Price
Option to Send Payment Invoice Reminder to users who have chosen “Pay on Release” after the product has been released
Site Admin can change the Release Date for Pre-Order Product(s) and notify customers instantly
Email Notifications to Admin and Customers about Product Released, Invoice to Complete the Payment, Pre-Order Cancelled, etc
Allow Users to Cancel their Pre-Order Products[Anytime Before Product Release/Specified Time Before Product Release]
Master Log to record the Pre-Order Transactions
Customers can see the updated view of their Pre-Orders on their Account
Compatible with SUMO Payment Plans(Requires SUMO Payment Plans plugin)
Compatible with SUMO Memberships(Requires SUMO Memberships plugin)
Highly customizable
WPML compatible
Translation ready
And more

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Compatible With

SUMO WooCommerce Pre-Orders is Compatible with

1. SUMO WooCommerce Deposits and Payment Plans

2. SUMO Memberships – WooCommerce Membership System

3. SUMO Affiliates Pro – WordPress Affiliate Plugin

How to Upgrade to a newer version of SUMO WooCommerce Pre-Orders?

If you are using an older version and want to upgrade to the latest version of SUMO WooCommerce Pre-Orders then please do the following steps.

1. Deactivate and Delete the existing version of SUMO WooCommerce Pre-Orders in your site.
2. Download the latest version file (sumopreorders.zip) of SUMO WooCommerce Pre-Orders from Codecanyon.
3. Unzip sumopreorders.zip inside which you will find the Plugins files i.e. sumopreorders.zip.
4. Install the latest version of SUMO WooCommerce Pre-Orders i.e. sumopreorders.zip using WordPress Dashboard.
5. Activate the Plugin.

Please note you will not lose any settings values, data etc by following the above steps.

Support

Please check the documentation as we have lots of information there. The documentation file can be found inside the documentation folder which you will find when you unzip the downloaded zip file.

For support, feature request or any help, please register and open a support ticket on our site.

Updates

Version 5.0.0 on 02 November 2025
Tweak: Compatibility Improvements given with WordPress 6.7.x 
Tweak: Bump WordPress "tested up to" version 6.8.3 
Tweak: Bump WooCommerce "tested up to" version 10.3.3 
Fix: Fatal Error displayed in WooCommerce Email Settings

Version 4.9.0 on 30 April 2025
Tweak: Tested with WordPress v6.8.0 
Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce v9.8.2 
Fix: Unable to modify the Pre-Order Release Date[Conflict with Translation]

Version 4.8.0 on 27 February 2025
Update: Translation supported for Countdown Timer Update: PO Translation Improvements 
Update: Compatibility Improvement given with SUMO Payment Plans 
Dev: Bump WordPress "tested up to" version 6.7.2 
Dev: Bump WooCommerce "tested up to" version 9.6.2

Version 4.7.0 on 16 December 2024
Tweak: Translation supported for the Countdown Timer 
Tweak: PO Translation Improvements 
Tweak: Tested with WordPress 6.7.1 
Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce 9.4.3

Version 4.6.0 on 18 August 2023
Tweak: Tested with PHP v8.2.0
Tweak: Tested with WordPress v6.3.0
Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce v8.0.2

Version 4.5.0 on 29 June 2023
Tweak: Compatible with High-Performance Order Storage[HPOS] 
Tweak: Tested with WordPress v6.2.2 and WooCommerce v7.8.0

Version 4.4 on 12 February 2023
Tweak: Code Improvements 
Tweak: Tested with WordPress v6.1.1 & WooCommerce v7.3.0

Version 4.3 on 26 August 2022
New: Shortcode to display the Pre-Ordered Products
Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce v6.8.2

Version 4.2 on 18 July 2022
Tweak: Tested with WordPress v6.0.1 and WooCommerce v6.7.0 
Fix: Pagination is not working when using the shortcode[sumo_pre_order_products] 
Fix: Fatal Error at frontend when using the pre-order shortcode

Version 4.1 on 07 May 2022
Tweak: Tested with WordPress v5.9.3 & WooCommerce v6.4.1
Fix: Fixed Discount Type[Pre-Order Price Adjustment] is not working

Version 4.0 on 24 November 2021
Tweak: Admin can track Pre-Ordered Products based on Pre-Order Charge Type
Tweak: Tested with WooCommerce v5.9.0
Fix: Product Price display issue in Product Page[Compatibility with "Finale - WooCommerce Sales Countdown Timer & Discount" Plugin]
Fix: Date picker for selecting Pre-Order Release Date is not working properly based on WP Date Format

Version 3.9 on 18 October 2021
New: Option to not charge the Shipping Cost for Child Orders when purchasing Regular Products & Pre-Order Products(Pay on Release) in the same order
New: Option to display the Cart Total Amount at frontend when multiple Pre-Order Products(Pay on Release) purchasing in the same order
Tweak: Action Hook added while creating Child Order
Tweak: Code Improvements
Tweak: Tested with WordPress v5.8.1 & WooCommerce v5.8.0

Version 3.8 on 10 July 2021
Tweak: Code Improvements 
Tweak: UI Improvements 
Tweak: Removed support for WooCommerce Versions below 3.0 
Tweak: Tested WordPress up to v5.7.2 and WooCommerce up to v5.4.1

Version 3.7 on 16 March 2021
New: WPML Product Compatibility
Tweak: Tested up to WordPress v5.7 & WooCommerce 5.1

Version 3.6 on 01 January 2021
New: Option to customize Plugin Endpoints
New: Option to give pre-order variation data from Plugin/WooCommerce
New: Added my-preorders.php and no-preorders-found.php template for My account page
Tweak: Code optimization
Tweak: Updating the following actions through Background Process,
i) Pre-Order Release Date
ii) Pre-Order Acknowledgement
iii) Pre-Order Cancellation
Tweak: Added Filter API for calculating the pre-order price from cart
Tweak: Displaying notice at the admin end while configuring the pre-order settings through Bulk Actions
Tweak: Tested up to WordPress v5.6.0 & WooCommerce v4.8.0
Tweak: POT File Updated
Fix: Getting "Unable to write a template error" when editing the email templates given from the Plugin
Fix: Deprecated Error[function named "_sumo_pp_get_payment_endpoint_url"] displaying in the view pre-order page[Compatibility issue with SUMO Payment Plans Plugin]
Fix: Warning errors when configuring products through Bulk Actions

Version 3.5 on 18 September 2020
Tweak: Improvement in modifying the pre-order release date for variable product
Tweak: Tested up to WooCommerce 4.5.1
Fix: Deprecated Message in edit pre-order page with WooCommerce 4.4.1

Version 3.4 18 June 2020
Tweak: Tested up to WooCommerce v4.2
Tweak: Flush rewrite rules call prevented in multiple pages
Fix: Warning Message in Edit Pre-Order Page at admin end
Fix: Tax Cost display issue in the Pre-Order Emails
Fix: Payment Gateway Restriction Settings applying for regular products

Version 3.3 on 15 May 2020
Tweak: Tested up to WooCommerce v4.1.0
Tweak: Validation made when the discount price has set greater than regular price
Fix: Pre-Order Price display issue based on the tax setup[Inclusive]
Fix: Tax display issue in edit preorder page based on the tax setup[Inclusive]

Version 3.2 on 11 February 2020
New: Discount Price option added for "Pay on Later" Charge Type 
Fix: Only Purchased Users can access their Pre-Ordered Details

Version 3.1 on 14 November 2019
New: Added Bulk Update Settings
New: Option is given to display the pre-order variation(s) as Variable Product/Separate Product using Shortcode
Tweak: PO File Updated

Version 3.0 on 12 July 2019
New: Option to allow multiple pre-orders in the cart 
New: Option to allow mixed products in the cart 
Tweak: Major Code Revamp 
Tweak: PO File Updated 
Fix: Pre-order information is not displaying at frontend when other than plugin native date format is selected

Version 2.2 on 06 December 2018
Fix: Cron scheduling problem due to WP Timezone

Version 2.1 on 06 October 2018
Fix: Pre-Order information is not displaying in Variable Product due to message customized with special characters

Version 2.0 on 13 September 2018
New: Option added to place Pre-Order products[only "Pay in Front" charge type products are allowed] along with normal products in a single order

Version 1.9 on 11 August 2018
New: Added Custom CSS Settings 
Tweak: Enhanced Inventory Management 
Fix: Unable to pay the payment when the Pre-Ordered product becomes out of stock[Applicable only for "Pay on Release" charge type]

Version 1.8 on 04 August 2018
Fix: Pre-Order information is not displaying for Guest Users

Version 1.7 on 31 July 2018
New: Option to show the Pre-Order Information based on User(s)/Userrole(s) 
Tweak: Improvement on displaying Pre-Order Information for Variable Product[When all variations have the same price]

Version 1.6 on 10 July 2018
New: Option added to display the Date and Time Format based on WordPress Settings
New: Option added to hide the specific payment gateways on checkout[Applicable only for "Pay in Front" charge type]
New: Shortcode to display the Pre-Order Products
Tweak: Search functionality on Pre-Orders and Master Log
Tweak: String Translation Updated
Fix: Pre-Order notes removed in WordPress Comments Section
Fix: Pre-order notes removed on My Account Page under My Pre-Orders Section when performing Data Erasure

Version 1.5 on 08 June 2018
New: Option added to remove personal data in Pre-ordered Orders(WooCommerce 3.4 compatibility)

Version 1.4 on 03 June 2018
New: GDPR compliance WordPress compatibility for Data Access, Data Erasure and Privacy Policy update

Version 1.3 on 10 May 2018
New: Added POT Translation File
Tweak: Date and Time for Pre-order(s) Product should be configured for both Simple and Variable Product

Version 1.2 on 01 April 2018
Tweak: Compatibility improvements with SUMO WooCommerce Payment Plans

Version 1.1 on 28 March 2018
Tweak: Payment Acknowledgement improvement in Post Type
Fix: Compatibility issue with Avada Theme[Add to Cart text is displaying for Pre-Order Product in Variable Product Type]

Version 1.0 on 20 March 2018
- Initial Release