PreOrder Now Review (2026)
The free tier is more useful than it first looks: one pre-order product, unlimited time, with the mixed-cart warning included.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 1 Sep 2026
Five tiers, and they are named after your Shopify plan rather than after what the app does. Free is $0 and covers your first pre-order product, with mixed-cart warnings, email and tech support. Then Shopify Basic is $19.95 a month, Shopify Standard $39.95, Shopify Advanced $59.95 and Shopify Plus $99.95 — all with unlimited pre-order products. Read the feature lists side by side and the point becomes obvious: Basic and Standard list exactly the same features, and Advanced and Plus list exactly the same features as each other.
So the ladder is not buying you capability; it is charging you according to the size of store Shopify says you run. A Plus merchant pays five times what a Basic merchant pays for the same badges, the same partial payments and the same tagging. The one real step is Advanced, which adds a dedicated success manager. All charges are in USD and recur every 30 days. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.
The honest knock
For a store that runs one drop at a time that is not a trial, it is a plan. Before you upgrade, check which Shopify plan you are on, because that — not your feature needs — is what sets the price here. And if you are on Plus, price this against alternatives properly: at $99.95 a month you are paying a Plus surcharge for a feature set the app itself lists as identical to the $59.95 tier.
What PreOrder Now does
Shopify pre-orders with badges, partial payments, mixed-cart warnings and back-in-stock emails. Priced by which Shopify plan you are on rather than by features: $19.95 on Basic up to $99.95 on Plus.
When the paid plan is worth it
Free to Basic at $19.95 is the only step that buys capability: it lifts the one-product limit and adds collection-page badges, pre-order discounts and tagging. Everything above that is priced by your Shopify plan, not by what you receive — Standard at $39.95 lists the same features as Basic, and Plus at $99.95 lists the same as Advanced at $59.95. The genuine difference higher up is the dedicated success manager that arrives at Advanced.
If you want that, budget for it deliberately; if you do not, there is nothing else up there to buy.
How to actually use PreOrder Now
Start on free with one product and run a real pre-order through it end to end, including the mixed-cart case where a shopper puts an in-stock item and a pre-order item in the same basket — that is where pre-order apps either save you support tickets or create them. Check which Shopify plan you are on before you look at the pricing table, because it decides your rate. And if you are on Plus, do the comparison honestly: the app is charging you for your size, not for your usage.
The natural comparison is a theme customisation or a general merchandising app — pre-orders can be built into a theme for free if you have the developer time — this app is worth it when badges, partial payments and mixed-cart handling all have to work together without you maintaining them.
More on PreOrder Now
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The ex-banker filter — the same yardstick on every review (how we review): My ex-banker filter is simple: does PreOrder Now remove a real cost — time, errors, missed revenue — bigger than what it charges? If the job above is genuinely yours, it's worth a look. We never publish fake or “exclusive” prices, so always confirm the current plan on their site.
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- Read 1 September 2026 on the vendor's own listing page, because the Shopify App Store listing would not serve its pricing block to us.
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