This document provides instructions for using an extension that allows pre-ordering of products on a Magento site. It outlines how to enable the extension, set up products for pre-ordering, configure global pre-order settings, place a pre-order, and ship orders that include pre-ordered and regular items. The extension replaces the "Add to Cart" button with "Pre-Order" for eligible products, and allows filtering orders by pre-order status. When a pre-ordered item is available, the entire order can be shipped.

1. Pre-Orders
User Manual for Magento
Aitoc

2. Aitoc
Table of Content
1. Enabling the extension in Magento.
2. Making a product available for pre-ordering.
3. Pre-Orders global settings.
4. How to order a pre-ordered product.
5. Shipping an order with pre-ordered and regular items.

3. Aitoc1. Enabling the extension in Magento
In System > Manage Aitoc Modules, check
Pre-Orders and click "Save modules
settings" on the top right.

4. Aitoc2. Making a product available for pre-ordering
By setting Backorders/Pre-Orders to
Pre-Orders, you let the product to be
sold as a pre-order.
Add a custom note specifying when the
product arrives or informing customers
about anything else they should know.
From version 1.2 and up, you can allow
ordering out-of-stock products as Pre-
Order.

5. Aitoc3. Pre-Orders global settings
This Global setting enables pre-orders of
out-of-stock items. The setting is also
available individually per product.
Allow/don’t allow customers to mix pre-
ordered & regular items in a shopping cart.
When this is set to Yes, the customer will
get an Error if they try to order both.
Send notifications when a Pre-Ordered
item becomes available.
System > Configuration > Catalog > Inventory > Pre-Orders

6. Aitoc4. How to order a pre-ordered product
Customers can order the product as usual.
The default “Add to Cart” button is replaced
with “Pre-Order” on product pages only for
simple products.

7. Aitoc4. How to order a pre-ordered product
From version 1.2 and up, the “Add to Cart”
button is replaced with “Pre-Order” on the
front end.

8. Aitoc4. How to order a pre-ordered product
A notification about the order being a Pre-
Order is also displayed in the cart, along
with a custom note specified by admin.

9. Aitoc5. Shipping an order with pre-ordered and regular items.
Now you can filter orders by Pending Pre-
Order or Processing Pre-Order statuses.
NOTE: If you have any Pending/Processing
Pre-Orders and you disable the Pre-Orders
extension by Aitoc, all orders with above-
mentioned statuses will revert to Pending/
Processing statuses accordingly.

10. Aitoc5. Shipping an order with pre-ordered and regular items.
When a product becomes available to be
shipped (if it has “No Backorders” in
Backorders/Preorders in the product’s
Inventory tab), the order can be shipped
as any regular order.
If this order contains both pre-ordered
and regular products, you can ship them
separately. You can ship the regular
products and wait for pre-ordered items
to become available.

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