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Best Shopify Pre-orders Apps

The 13 strongest of the 13 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
13
Top score
91.8
With a free plan
11 of 13
Rank tracked for
53 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: 3,486 reviews at 5.0, and 91.7 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 65 merchants rate it 4.2, and it starts at $2.99/month.

Fastest growing

Gained 345 reviews in the last 53 days and climbed 1 places in the category chart.

Most established

3,544 reviews — more than anything else Shopify files under pre-orders — and still rated 4.9.

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
    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(3,486)Free · then $10Category rank 2 0
    91.8
    score
    Adoption
    92
    Satisfaction
    100
    Momentum
    73
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  2. 2
    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(3,544)Free · then $9.9Category rank 1 0
    83.7
    score
    Adoption
    100
    Satisfaction
    67
    Momentum
    68
    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(1,945)Free · then $1Category rank 3 0
    82.3
    score
    Adoption
    83
    Satisfaction
    92
    Momentum
    53
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  4. 4
    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(1,197)Free · then $5Category rank 5+1
    80
    score
    Adoption
    67
    Satisfaction
    83
    Momentum
    83
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  5. 5
    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(1,825)Free · then $9.9Category rank 4 0
    70.4
    score
    Adoption
    75
    Satisfaction
    58
    Momentum
    58
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  6. 6
    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(469)Free · then $9Category rank 7 0
    63.7
    score
    Adoption
    50
    Satisfaction
    75
    Momentum
    43
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  7. 7
    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(257)Category rank 8+2
    50.6
    score
    Adoption
    42
    Satisfaction
    50
    Momentum
    75
    Price
    40
    View on the Shopify App Store
  8. 8
    Early Bird: Preorder & Restock

    Capture waitlist interest and secure pre-sales with pre-order campaigns. Partial pay, custom discounts, smart-send back in stock alerts. Zero commission fees.

    4.9(70)Free · then $19Category rank 12+1
    39.6
    score
    Adoption
    8
    Satisfaction
    33
    Momentum
    58
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  9. 9
    Doran Back in Stock | Preorder

    The app is designed for merchants who want to maximize sales opportunities by recovering lost sales through restock alerts. This app simplifies inv...

    4.9(137)Free · then $9Category rank 9-1
    36.3
    score
    Adoption
    25
    Satisfaction
    42
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  10. 10
    PreOrder Now Back in Stock WOD

    PreOrder Now lets merchants enable preorders and automatic back in stock alerts for out-of-stock or upcoming products. Great for managing inventory.

    4.5(981)Free · then $19.95Category rank 6-1
    35.4
    score
    Adoption
    58
    Satisfaction
    0
    Momentum
    0
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  11. 11
    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(111)Free · then $10Category rank 11 0
    34
    score
    Adoption
    17
    Satisfaction
    25
    Momentum
    28
    Price
    100
    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...

    4.6(137)Free · then $10Category rank 10-1
    32.8
    score
    Adoption
    25
    Satisfaction
    17
    Momentum
    20
    Price
    100
    View on the Shopify App Store
  13. 13
    Magical Preorder & Presale

    Presell products and manage preorders easily with this Shopify App. Use flexible rules, send notifications, and display messages to build hype and boost sales.

    4.2(65)$2.99/moCategory rank 13-1
    7
    score
    Adoption
    0
    Satisfaction
    8
    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 13 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 53 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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