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Best Shopify Pre-orders Apps

The 16 strongest of the 17 pre-orders apps in our index of the Shopify App Store category chart, scored on four things we measure ourselves: how many stores use it, how well those stores rate it, whether it is gaining or losing ground, and what it costs. No editor picks the order, and nobody can pay to move up it.

Apps in category
17
Top score
81.3
With a free plan
12 of 16
Rank tracked for
9 days

The short answer

Five ways to be the right pre-orders app. Each award is the highest scorer that fits it, and no app can win twice.

Best overall

The highest total score in the category: 4,157 reviews at 5.0, and 100 out of 100 on adoption against every other pre-orders app.

Best paid app

No free tier, so the price component holds it down the ranked list — but 133 merchants rate it 4.9, and it starts at $4.99/month.

Fastest growing

Gained 36 reviews in the last 9 days.

Most established

3,542 reviews — more than anything else Shopify files under pre-orders — and still rated 5.0.

The full ranking

Sorted by BestAppify Score. The four bars under each app are its percentile within this category on each component — a 90 on adoption means only a tenth of pre-orders apps have more reviews.

  1. 1
    Back In Stock,Notify Me: Kbite

    Recover lost sales with automated back in stock alerts via email, SMS, and push. Keep customers engaged and drive more restock conversions.

    5(4,157)Free · then $5Category rank 1 0
    81.3
    score
    Adoption
    100
    Satisfaction
    100
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  2. 2
    Preorder, Back In Stock ‑ STOQ

    Sell pre orders & manage backorders with the #1 Shopify Pre-order App. Automate back in stock alerts from restocks & increase conversions. Start for free today.

    5(3,542)Free · then $10Category rank 3 0
    74.7
    score
    Adoption
    87
    Satisfaction
    93
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  3. 3
    Preorder Now Presale Timesact

    Timesact Shopify app makes it easy to automate preorders, restock alerts, & sell pre-sale products. Never miss sales with restock & back in stock notifications.

    5(2,072)Free · then $5Category rank 4 0
    70.4
    score
    Adoption
    80
    Satisfaction
    87
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  4. 4
    Notify Me! Back in Stock Alert

    Download the official Notify Me!™ app on Shopify. Shopify stores love our "Pre-order" and "notify me when available", "Wishlist" and "Only X Remaining" button

    4.9(3,827)Free · then $9.9Category rank 2 0
    65
    score
    Adoption
    93
    Satisfaction
    13
    Momentum
    67
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  5. 5
    Preorder, Back In Stock REZ

    Use REZ’s Preorders and Notify Me tools to create waitlists for out of stock products. Accept pre-order, backorder, and presale orders. Send back in stock alert

    5(1,445)Free · then $4.99Category rank 6 0
    63.7
    score
    Adoption
    67
    Satisfaction
    80
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  6. 6
    Essent Preorder Back in Stock

    Accept preorders with partial payments or deposits. Send back in stock email alerts when sold out products restock. Notify Me waitlist and 24/7 support.

    5(1,212)Free · then $5Category rank 7 0
    59.3
    score
    Adoption
    60
    Satisfaction
    73
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  7. 7
    Preorder, Back in stock Duck

    Recover lost sales from your sold out pages with Pre-orders and back in stock alerts. Setup only takes a few minutes.

    5(480)Free · then $9Category rank 9+1
    58.7
    score
    Adoption
    47
    Satisfaction
    67
    Momentum
    37
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  8. 8
    PreOrder Globo | Back in Stock

    Easy enable pre-order button for out of stock product or any product. Automatic appy discount and custom note on pre-orders

    4.9(1,848)Free · then $9.9Category rank 5 0
    48
    score
    Adoption
    73
    Satisfaction
    20
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  9. 9
    Stockie Inventory Management

    Forecast demand, create purchase orders, manage suppliers and get low stock alerts via email or Slack. Reorder smarter across all your Shopify locations.

    4.9(133)$4.99/moCategory rank 12 0
    44.1
    score
    Adoption
    27
    Satisfaction
    40
    Momentum
    50
    Price
    85
    View on the Shopify App Store
  10. 10
    Amp Back in Stock & Preorder +

    Turn out-of-stock moments into waitlists. Auto-send restock alerts via email, SMS & push. Preorders, wishlists & demand insights. Trusted since 2011.

    4.9(841)Free · then $19Category rank 8 0
    43
    score
    Adoption
    53
    Satisfaction
    27
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  11. 11
    Bat Preorders | Preorder Now

    PreOrder Bat is a simple, powerful solution to manage pre-orders and product availability on your e-commerce store. Whether you're launching new pr...

    4.9(262)—Category rank 10+1
    37.3
    score
    Adoption
    40
    Satisfaction
    33
    Momentum
    37
    Price
    40
    View on the Shopify App Store
  12. 12
    EZ Preorder & Back In Stock

    Use our preorder or notify me button to capture demand regardless of stock levels! Use preorder now to launch products before inventory arrives, or...

    4.5(144)Free · then $10Category rank 11 0
    36.7
    score
    Adoption
    33
    Satisfaction
    0
    Momentum
    50
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  13. 13
    Dibs – Preorders & Backorders

    Pre-order & backorder app for sold out & out-of-stock items. Preorder deposits, split payments, coming soon badges, presales, inventory tracking & reminders.

    5(122)—Category rank 13 0
    32.3
    score
    Adoption
    20
    Satisfaction
    60
    Momentum
    7
    Price
    40
    View on the Shopify App Store
  14. 14
    Stok: Back in Stock Preorders

    Recover lost sales with back in stock, notify me price drop & preorder alerts via Email, SMS & WhatsApp Waitlist, restock notifications & multi-language support

    4.8(112)Free · then $10Category rank 14 0
    31.7
    score
    Adoption
    13
    Satisfaction
    7
    Momentum
    50
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  15. 15
    PreProduct next‑gen pre‑order

    Flexible Shopify pre-orders: pay-now, pay-later & deposits, with fulfilment holds and automation.

    4.9(102)Free · then $29.99Category rank 15-1
    31.4
    score
    Adoption
    7
    Satisfaction
    47
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  16. 16
    Downpay: Partial Pay & Deposit

    Downpay lets Shopify merchants offer deposits and pay later options for custom, made-to-order, or pre-order products. No credit checks or outside financing.

    5(83)$29/moCategory rank 16-1
    20.5
    score
    Adoption
    0
    Satisfaction
    53
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    30
    View on the Shopify App Store

How the score is calculated

The BestAppify Score is four measurements, each turned into a percentile against the other pre-orders apps and then weighted. It is computed from our own crawl of the App Store — no human ranks these, and no app can pay to move.

Adoption35%
Review count on a log scale. It is the only public proxy for how many stores actually run the app, and the log stops a single 43,000-review incumbent from flattening everything beneath it.
Satisfaction30%
The star rating, shrunk toward the category average in proportion to how few reviews back it. Half of all rated Shopify apps show exactly 5.0 off a median of four reviews, so the raw number separates almost nothing.
Momentum20%
Reviews gained and category-rank movement over the last 52 days, from our own daily snapshots of the App Store charts. An app losing ground scores badly here even if its lifetime totals look strong.
Price15%
A plan a live store can stay on for $0 takes the top of this component; paid apps are ranked cheapest-first across a narrower band, so price nudges the order without overruling thousands of merchants.

What it cannot see: whether the app is any good at the job. Nothing here reads the feature list or installs the app, so treat the score as a shortlist, not a verdict — it tells you which three or four of these 16 are worth an hour of your evening, and no more than that. Apps whose pricing the crawler could not read score below the paid range on price rather than in the middle of it, deliberately: a price you cannot check before installing is a cost too. Momentum is measured over the last 9 days — the run of days on which our coverage of this category has been complete enough for one day's rank to mean the same thing as another's. It is deliberately shorter for categories we finished crawling recently: a rank of 4th out of the 28 apps we had in July is not comparable to 6th out of 436 today, and treating it as though it were would have scored every established app in some categories as falling.

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