Early Bird: Preorder & Restock

Early Bird: Preorder & Restock

Pricing
Free plan available
Highlights
Use directly in Shopify admin
Works with the latest themes
Rating
4.8 (26)
Developer
Shopside

Run flexible preorder/coming soon campaigns with partial pay, back in stock alerts to secure sales.

Capture coming soon interest and secure pre-sales with flexible pre-order campaigns. Enable partial payment, schedule balance collection, and convert waitlists into sales with notify me back in stock notifications. Track performance with real-time dashboards. Perfect for product launches, seasonal drops, and made to order items with long lead times. Reduce complaints with clear shipping info display. Trusted by furniture, apparel, and beauty brands to forecast demand and prevent lost sales.

Capture coming soon interest and secure pre-sales with flexible pre-order campaigns. Enable partial payment, schedule balance collection, and convert waitlists into sales with notify me back in stock notifications. Track performance with real-time dashboards. Perfect for product launches, seasonal drops, and made to order items with long lead times. Reduce complaints with clear shipping info display. Trusted by furniture, apparel, and beauty brands to forecast demand and prevent lost sales. more
  • Flexible preorder manager for campaign launches, made-to-order, or ongoing sales
  • Choose various fulfillment settings that fit your preorder & shipping workflows
  • Offer split payments & auto-capture deposits/partial pay with custom discounts
  • Capture waitlist interest & auto-send back in stock alerts to convert into sales
  • Keep customers informed with pre-order updates and clear shipping info display
Highlights
Use directly in Shopify admin
Works with the latest themes

Languages

English

Works with

Pricing

Free

Free

  • Unlimited products
  • Unlimited back in stock signups
  • 10 preorders/month
  • 10 emails/month
  • Custom localization and styles
  • No commission fees
  • No app branding

Launch

$19 / month

or $190/year and save 17%

  • All previous features
  • 200 preorders/month
  • 500 emails/month
  • Partial payments
  • Auto-capture deferred payments
  • Custom email domain and templates

Grow

$49 / month

or $490/year and save 17%

  • All previous features
  • 500 preorders/month
  • 5,000 emails/month
  • Priority support
  • 1:1 onboarding call & marketing call

Scale

$99 / month

or $990/year and save 17%

  • All previous features
  • 1,000 preorders/month
  • 10,000 emails/month
  • Contact us for higher limits
  • Top priority support
  • 1:1 onboarding & marketing call

All charges are billed in USD. Recurring and usage-based charges are billed every 30 days.

Reviews (26)

Overall rating
4.8
Counts per rating level
  • 92% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 0% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 0% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 4% of ratings are 1 stars
February 14, 2025

Early bird has worked great for our two online stores - as we both make to order, and hold stock, we needed a way to show the customer what was "made to order" and available for immediate shipping, which Early Bird does perfectly.

Super grateful for the quick responses and problem solving from the team!!

Pedersen + Lennard
South Africa
2 months using the app
February 7, 2025

Brilliant app, easy to use, and the customer service is above and beyond. The sales were instant from the first day we started our first campaign. Three campaigns in and the sales have been great We have had zero negative feedback from any of our customers, so they've also found it clear and simple to use. I'm very excited to see what we can achieve going forward with this app, in terms of back in stock notifications and preorders. Wish I'd found it sooner.

Earlwood Equine
Australia
16 days using the app
February 12, 2025

We needed an app that could help us handle partial payments for add-on products along with the main product. Since we weren’t familiar with how different apps worked, we reached out to several app support teams to understand whether their solutions could meet our needs.

Early Bird: Preorder & Restock stood out the most. With other apps, we had to wait at least a day for a response, and even then, the replies were often vague and didn’t really address our questions. In contrast, Josiah, the co-founder of Early Bird, got back to us almost immediately. Not only was he quick to respond, but he also took the time to understand our business needs and offer a solution that made sense for us.

When running a business, having responsive and helpful support makes a big difference, and Jo went the extra mile to ensure we fully understood how the app works and how it meets our business needs, especially in terms of customer experience.

Functionality-wise, Early Bird is easy to use and integrates smoothly into our existing setup. The partial payment feature works as expected, making it a great option for handling preorders and add-ons.

If you're looking for the best Preorder & Restock solution with reliable support, Early Bird is the way to go.

The Energy Group NZ Limited
New Zealand
8 days using the app
March 3, 2025

Fairly easy to set up, worked as expected. Sounds trivial, but that's a huge deal in todays vast ecosystem of 'apps' and add-ons. The support has been spot on, attentive, and incredibly helpful. We've only been using the solution for a brief period of time, but anticipate making this an integral part of our future product launch strategies.

Peaky Hat
United States
10 days using the app
February 4, 2025

It will let the customer purchase into zero and negative amounts without indicating that any purchase of an item when the inventory goes from zero or below will be a backorder. Basically, if a product has an inventory of 1 it will allow the customer to purchase 4, in a single order, without indicating that 3 will be a backorder. The customer is left unaware that 3 items are not in stock, and we the merchants are stuck dealing with this. They require you to check "continue selling when out of stock" to enable the backorder function but did not take into account going zero or below in inventory on a single purchase. Not to mention Google lists your products in stock when inventory is zero or below because of the "continue selling when out of stock" requirement to use the backorder function.

MPM Hobbies
United States
About 1 month using the app
Shopside replied February 13, 2025

Hi there,

Josiah here. We appreciate your feedback and the conversation we've had with you directly. Thanks again for bringing this to our attention and sorry about the frustration you've had to go through!

We hope this one issue isn't representative of your whole experience with our app.

For other merchants reading this, the ability to sell beyond available inventory is a Shopify platform behaviour tied to the "Continue selling when out of stock" setting, which is required for back-orders.

Unfortunately, Shopify doesn’t natively provide a way to automatically alert customers when they add to cart or at checkout when part of their order will be back-ordered.

That said, we recognize this isn’t an ideal customer experience, so we've immediately researched potential workarounds and put together a help centre article.

One of the most straightforward workarounds is many Shopify themes have built-in stock counters that can help set some expectations for customers about the available inventory before they place an order.

We're more than happy to help enable this for their store when they are ready.

- Josiah

Support

App support provided by Shopside.

Developer

Shopside

8/462 Hawthorne Road, Bulimba, QLD, 4171, AU

Launched

June 20, 2024

Data access

This app needs access to the following data to work on your store. Learn why in the developer's privacy policy .

View personal data:

Customers, store owner

  • Customers

    Name, email address, phone number, physical address, geolocation, IP address, browser and operating system

  • Store owner

    Name, email address, phone number, physical address

View and edit store data:

Customers, products, orders, Online Store

  • Edit customers

    Customer data

  • Edit products

    Inventory, products, or collections

  • Edit orders

    Merchant managed fulfillment, all order details, or third-party fulfillment

  • View your Online Store

    Theme

  • Edit other data

    Customer payment methods, locations, Payment mandate, or purchase options

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