Pre-Orders

Benefits for Retailers

Improve speed-to-market by selling future inventory

Sell more full-price inventory and thereby reduce markdowns

Reward loyal customers by giving early access to new products

Build hype for products and improve cash flow

Inventory visibility of future inventory

Provides visibility of future inventory by accessing information from POs and ASNs from the ERP system and communicates this information to the eCommerce platform so that it does not accept orders that cannot be fulfilled.

 

 

 

Pre-Order button with estimated delivery date

Shows the “Pre-Order” button and estimated delivery date on the product detail pages. Automatically converts the “Pre-Order” button to “Add-to-cart” once the product is released and inventory is available. Automatically converts the “Add-to-cart” button to the “Backorder” button if the product is out of stock.

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Backorder button with estimated delivery date

Shows the “Backorder” button and estimated delivery date on the product detail pages when inventory is out of stock. Automatically converts the “Backorder” button to “Add-to-cart” once the inventory is back in stock. 

Inventory allocation between stores and pre-orders

Enable merchandisers to reserve some inventory for stores by specifying the quantity of available inventory they want to release for pre-orders that are in the queue.

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