Laravel eCommerce Pre Order

• Customers can pre-order only out-of-stock products.
• Module works with both simple and Configurable products.
• This module also allows the admin to set a custom message to display on the preorder product page.
• Admin can set preorder status and availability date.
• The preorder module allows the customer to pay either a complete or partial payment.
• Customers will receive an email notification when a product is back in-stock.
• The admin can set the custom percentage of the partial amount to pay for pre-ordering.
• Guest users can also pre-order the out-of-stock product.
• Multi-Lingual support / All language working also including RTL.
• The code is fully open & you can customize it according to your need

After purchasing the extension the customers will get a zip folder.

Unzip the respective extension zip and then merge “packages” and “public” folder into project root directory.

Next, Run these commands below to complete the setup in the bagisto root directory.

• Goto config/app.php file now add the following line under ‘providers’

Webkul\PreOrder\Providers\PreOrderServiceProvider::class

• Goto composer.json file inside the Bagisto root directory now add the following line under ‘psr-4’

"Webkul\\PreOrder\\": "packages/Webkul/PreOrder/src"

• In the config/bagisto-vite.php file, add the following line under the ‘viters’ section:

'preorder' => [
        'hot_file'                 => 'preorder-default-vite.hot',
        'build_directory'          => 'themes/preorder/build',
        'package_assets_directory' => 'src/Resources/assets',
    ],

composer dump-autoload

php artisan migrate

php artisan db:seed --class=Webkul\\PreOrder\\Database\\Seeders\\DatabaseSeeder

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Webkul\PreOrder\Providers\PreOrderServiceProvider" --force

php artisan optimize:clear

Once the commands have executed successfully, you will see the Pre Order icon on the left-hand side in the menu bar as shown in the below image.

For Preorder configuration, the admin will be navigating to Configure>Preorder.

General Settings

At the top, you’ll find the settings to select the locale for your store,

Now let’s go through with the Configuration Settings one by one:

Enable Preorder

The admin can enable or disable the module.

Preorder Type

From the drop-down select how the customers will make the payment for pre-order – Complete Payment or Partial Payment.

Preorder Percent

(Only available for partial payment)

Set the percentage amount of the product’s price. For e.g If the price of the product is $100 and Preorder Percent is 30 then the customer will need to pay $30 only for pre-order. 

Preorder Message

The admin has an option to display a small message on the pre-order product page.

Enable Automatic Mail

When enabled by the admin, customers are automatically notified via email when placing a pre-order, when the product is back in stock, and during the final checkout process.

On the admin dashboard, click the Preorder icon which is there on the left-hand side to check on the features available in the backend for admin.

Now the admin can easily check all the pre-orders received also with the Order ID, Purchase Date, Product Name, Customer Name and Customer Email

They also get to see the Paid Amount, Remaining Amount, Preorder Type, Status, Email Sent information.

Notify Customers Manually

When the product will be in stock the admin can also easily notify the customer by sending them an email.

By selecting the customer from the below list the admin can easily notify them about the product availability.

The admin can also send the bulk email to the customers by using the filter feature.

Please Note – If the invoice is not generated for the pre-order, the customer will not get the In-Stock notification.

Therefore, the admin must create the invoice after receiving the pre-order payment.

This is the sample of Product In-Stock Email Notification as shown in the below image.

The admin will go to Catalog>Products>Add Product.

While adding/editing any product the admin will find the below attributes.

• Allow Preorder – From the toggle button the admin will enable or diasable the pre-order.
  
• Pre-Order Quantity –The admin can set a purchase limit for pre-order products, defining the maximum quantity a customer can pre-order.
  
• Product Availability – Select the date of Product Availability.

At the pre-order product page the customer will also see the various information about the pre-order :

• Partial Payment Info
• Preorder Message
• Product Availability Date
• Pre Order button

In the configurable product, the admin can set the Pre-Order Status as “Yes” for any of its associated products. Then the configurable product will also be shown below.

While the customer placing pre-order there would be two cases are as follows :

Case 1 – Complete Payment

The customer can make the full payment including the shipping cost then place the order. Once the product comes back in stock, the customer will receive an email notification.

Case 2 – Partial Payment

In partial payment, the customer needs to pay some percentage of the product’s price with the shipping cost.

Once the product comes back in stock, the customer receives an email notification for making the remaining payment.

As per the above image, the customer will click on the Preorder button to add the product to the cart.

The pre-order percentage shows that the customer has to pay 40% of the product price (Partial Payment).

Shopping Cart

Adding the product to the shopping cart, now the customer only needs to pay the $120($119.99 rounder to 120) which is 40% of the product price ($299.99).

Pre-Order Shipping Price

In the case of Pre-Order, the customer will pay the shipping price only one time.

Once the customer’s order is placed, the customer can also check their order information from the My Accounts>Orders section.

Also, if want to display an order success message with their order ID on the checkout page to your customers, then you can check the Laravel Ecommerce Order Checkout AI Message.

Product In-Stock Email Notification

An email notification will be sent to the customer to complete the preorder, Once the product is in-stock.

After clicking the link in the email, the customer order page will open. Here, the customer will see the ‘Complete Preorder‘ button as shown in the below image.

Pay Remaining Amount

The remaining amount will be added to the shopping cart when the customer clicks on the Complete Preorder button.

Note** The customer does not need to pay the shipping price again.

Remaining Amount Paid

Once the remaining amount is paid for the pre-order product, customer can also see the second-order information from My Account>Orders.

If the item is out of Stock and an invoice is generated then “Available Soon” button will be visible as shown below:-

Now, Guest customers can also pre-order the product from the website even without logging into the store.

Guest User – Order Placed

Now the guest users will select the payment, and shipping method to place the order. The order ID will be created for guest users as well.

The guest users can also check the pre-order details using their email address.

Pre-Order List of Guest user

The admin can check the pre-order details of the guest users as well, by clicking on the Order ID.

Email notification of products for Guest user

Whenever the product is back in stock, the guest user will get an email notification to complete the preorder by paying the remaining amount.

Completing Pre-Order for Guest User

By clicking on the link shown in the email, the guest user will be redirected to the order information page for completing their preorder.

Guest users can also check the remaining amount to pay for completing the preorder when added to their shopping cart page.

After successfully filling in the order information, the guest user needs to select the payment method and then place the order.