Let your customers buy products before they are released and generate cash flow in advance to cover costs.
As of April 2026, YITH Pre-Order for WooCommerce is a WordPress yith plugin with 6.0K+ active installations and a 3.1/5 rating from 16 reviews. It has been downloaded 400K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 6.8+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2016. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are up 648% this week. Top alternative: YITH WooCommerce Compare.
With YITH Pre-Order for WooCommerce you can enable a pre-sales system in your shop, increase your customers’ interest in soon-to-be-released products and get cash flow in advance to cover the costs of production/promotion.
With this free plugin, you can easily manage the pre-sale of your products and create a marketing strategy similar to that used by large e-commerce stores such as Amazon, Apple, Nike, and Nintendo. You’ll be able to change the “Add to cart” button label to “Pre-order”, set a release date for your products, and send an email notification to your customers when the products they pre-ordered become available in your store.
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Excellent little plugin, does exactly what it needs, you can set availability date per variation, and show that to your customers.
Thumbs up !
The plugin is functional and free
There is always room for improvement
I’ve been using the free version of YITH Pre-Order for 6 months, and it’s been incredibly effective for optimizing my site’s performance.
✅ User-friendly setup—works perfectly even for beginners
✅ Great compatibility with WooCommerce
Often causes problems with the site, for very very basic features.
Does what it should do in the front-end, but since it doesn’t use the correct product fields, plugins that are used to map Google Merchant can’t map to the pre-order status or the availability date field.
| WordPress | 6.8+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
| Dependencies | woocommerce |
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