How to manage your Preorder List

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The Preorder List in EZ Preorder & Back In Stock holds every product and variant you sell as a preorder. Open Preorders in the app to add products with Select products, edit each product's rule and note, turn preorders on or off per product, and sync the list with changes made in Shopify. On the Core plan and above, Bulk actions adds your whole catalog or whole collections, edits every product at once, or clears the list.

Available on: All plans (Free, Core, Growth, Professional and Scale). Bulk actions (Bulk Add, Bulk Add Collections, Bulk Settings and Bulk Remove) need Core, Growth, Professional or Scale.
Where to find it: EZ PreOrder → Preorders. The page is titled Preorder List.

#What the Preorder List shows

The Preorder List page shows one row per product, 25 products per page.

• Product row: the product image and title, a status badge (Enable when preorders are on, Disable when they are off), the number of variants on the list (for example, "3 items"), and the Sync and Edit links. Click the row to expand it.
• Variant rows (when expanded): the variant title, its SKU, its current stock ("12 available"), its rule badge, and Edit and Delete links. The rule badges are Always, Sold out, and Greater than 0 for Specific inventory level.
• Tabs: All, Enabled and Disabled filter the list by preorder status.
• Search product: finds products on the list by title.
• Sync all: syncs every product on the list with Shopify.

#How to add products with Select products

1. Open Preorders and click Select products.
2. In Add or Remove products from the preorder list, search by product title or scroll. More products load as you scroll.
3. Tick a product to add all its variants, or click the product to expand it and tick single variants. Each variant shows its stock and price.
4. Click Save. A "Preorder list updated" message confirms the change.

Products already on your list appear ticked. Unticking one and clicking Save removes it from the list. The picker shows products of every status, including drafts.

#How to add products in bulk

Bulk Add and Bulk Add Collections add many products at once on the Core plan and above.

To add every active product:

1. Open Preorders → Bulk actions → Bulk Add.
2. In Add All Products, click Add Products. Keep the page open until it finishes; large catalogs take a while.

Bulk Add adds every product with the status Active in Shopify that is not already on your list.

To add whole collections:

1. Open Preorders → Bulk actions → Bulk Add Collections.
2. In Bulk add collections, tick the collections you want. Use the arrow buttons to page through them, 5 at a time.
3. Click Add. A "Collections added" message confirms it.

Bulk Add Collections adds every product in the ticked collections that is not already on your list. The dialog remembers the collections you ticked, so running it again later adds any new products in them. It lists up to 250 collections.

#What happens when you add a product

Every product you add, by any method, starts with:

• the Specific inventory level rule on each added variant,
• preorder status on (the Enable badge),
• Continue selling when out of stock turned off in Shopify for each added variant.

With that default rule, any added variant that has stock shows the preorder button straight away. Open Edit to choose the right rule. See Preorder rules.

Only the first 100 variants of a product can be added.

#How to edit a product

Click Edit on a product row to open its first variant, or Edit on a variant row to open that variant. The Edit page holds the variant's preorder rule, custom note, schedule and market settings. Click Save in the bar at the top to keep your changes. See Preorder rules, Add a custom note to preorder products, Schedule preorder start and end dates and Preorders for specific countries and markets.

#How to enable or disable preorders on a product

The preorder status turns a product's preorders on or off without removing it from the list. Disabling keeps all of the product's settings.

1. Click Edit on the product.
2. In the Setting card, click Disable to turn preorders off, or Enable to turn them back on. The change applies straight away to every variant of the product; you do not need to click Save.

To change the status of every product at once, use Bulk actions → Bulk Settings → Preorder status (Core plan and above). See Bulk edit preorder settings.

A disabled product:

• shows your theme's normal button instead of the preorder button,
• does not tag new orders preorder or count them toward your plan's preorder limit,
• keeps its Continue selling when out of stock setting. If its rule was Always or Sold out, shoppers can still buy it at zero stock with the normal button. See A product still sells after the preorder ends.

Saving changes on the Edit page turns a disabled product back on, unless the save sets a schedule starting on a later date. Click Disable again after saving if you want it to stay off.

#How to sync the list with Shopify

Sync on a product row, and Sync all at the top of the list, remove variants from your Preorder List that no longer exist in Shopify.

• If you deleted several variants of one product, click Sync again until all of them are gone from the list.
• Sync does not add new variants. To add a variant you created in Shopify, click Select products, expand the product, tick the new variant and click Save.
• The variant titles, SKUs and stock in expanded rows always show current Shopify data. The product title and image on the list are the ones saved when you added the product.
• When you delete a whole product in Shopify, EZ Preorder removes it from the list for you.

See My preorder product does not match Shopify.

#How to search and filter the list

• Type in Search product to show products on your list whose title contains the text.
• Click Enabled or Disabled to show only products whose preorders are on or off. All shows every product.

#How to remove products

Remove a product by unticking it in Select products, remove one variant with Delete, or clear the whole list with Bulk actions → Bulk Remove (Core plan and above). See How to remove a product from preorder.

#How many products the Preorder List can hold

EZ Preorder does not stop you at a fixed number of products, and the Free plan has no product limit. The app's guidance is that the list works with around 600 products at once; products with many variants lower that number. Above that, the list can load slowly or fail to save. If Bulk Add does not finish for a large catalog, add products in smaller groups with Bulk Add Collections or Select products. See I cannot add more products to the Preorder List.

#What happens when you reach a plan limit

Each plan includes a number of preorder orders and an amount of preorder revenue. See Plan limits. When your store reaches the limit:

• EZ Preorder turns off preorders on every product on the list, so every product shows Disable.
• The Preorder List page shows You have reached your plans preorder limit with a GO TO PLAN button.
• On the Free plan, Select products is also unavailable.

Products stay disabled after you upgrade or a new billing cycle starts. Turn them back on with Enable on each product, or all at once with Bulk Settings → Preorder status.

#Limitations

• Bulk actions need the Core plan or above. On the Free plan the button is greyed out and shows "Available on Core plan or higher" when you point at it.
• Bulk Add adds only Active products. Bulk Add Collections adds every product in the chosen collections.
• Search on the list matches product titles only, not SKUs or variant names.
• The product title and image on the list do not update when you change them in Shopify.

#Troubleshooting

Bulk actions is greyed out. Your plan is Free. Bulk actions need Core or above. See Plans and pricing.

Select products is greyed out. On the Free plan, your store has reached the Free plan's preorder limit. Upgrade from Plan.

Every product suddenly shows Disable. Your plan's preorder limit was reached, or someone used Bulk Settings to disable all products. Re-enable them after upgrading or when your new cycle starts.

A new variant does not appear after Sync. Sync only removes deleted variants. Add the new variant with Select products.

A product's title on the list is out of date. The list keeps the title from when you added the product. The Edit page shows the current title.

#Frequently asked questions

#Is there a limit on how many products the Free plan can add?

No. The Free plan has no product limit; its limit is on preorder orders and revenue. A message about adding only one product appears only to stores on a retired free plan.

#Does adding a product change it in Shopify?

Yes. Adding a variant turns off Continue selling when out of stock for it. Prices, titles, images and stock are not changed.

#Can I add only some variants of a product?

Yes. In Select products, click the product to expand it, tick the variants you want and click Save.

#Does disabling a product delete its settings?

No. A disabled product keeps its rules, note, schedule and market settings. Click Enable to turn it back on.

#Why did all my products get disabled?

Your store reached its plan's preorder limit, and EZ Preorder turned off every product. Upgrade or wait for your next cycle, then enable them again.

#Related articles

• Preorder rules: choose when each variant shows the preorder button.
• Bulk edit preorder settings: change status, rule or note for every product.
• How to remove a product from preorder: take products off the list.
• I cannot add more products to the Preorder List: large lists.
• My preorder product does not match Shopify: sync problems.
• Plan limits: what counts toward your plan.