Early Bird: Preorder & Restock

Run preorder campaigns, take deposits, backorder & send alerts

by Shopside · Launched: June 2024 · Free plan available.

4.9 (67) on Shopify Used by 892 Shopify stores Built for Shopify

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Run preorder campaigns with partial pay, take backorders & send back-in-stock alerts to secure sales

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About Early Bird: Preorder & Restock

Avoid lost sales with flexible preorder campaigns & backorders. Accept partial pay or $0 deposits. Send back-in-stock alerts to convert waitlists into pre-sales. Auto-collect deferred payments. Email customers about shipment delays/early arrivals. Track real-time performance by product & variant. Perfect for coming soon launches, seasonal drops, presales & made-to-order items with long lead times. Trusted by brands to forecast demand, secure early revenue & avoid inventory holding costs. Campaign-based preorder manager & backorder for launches, waitlists & restocks Mixed cart support: choose to split ship preorders or hold & ship all together Accept split/partial payments or $0 deposits with auto-collection & discounts Capture waitlist interest & auto-send back in stock alerts to convert into sales Email customers about shipment delays/arrivals & display expected delivery dates Show more Show less

Last verified: July 15, 2026 · Fresh

App details

Developer: Shopside
Category: Marketing & conversion
Pricing: Free plan available
Launched: June 2024
Rating: 4.9 (67) on Shopify

Key features

Keep 100% of your sales. No commission
Unlimited products & email signups
5 preorders/backorders/month
5 back-in-stock emails/month
Track pre-sale performance by campaign

Integrations with:

Customer accounts, Flow, Shopify Admin, Shopify Flow

4 plans · starts free

Free: Get Started

Free

Launch

$19/month

Grow

$49/month

Scale

$99/month

Plans and prices as listed on the Shopify App Store.

Ratings & reviews

based on 67 Shopify App Store reviews

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Fantastic app and very attentive developers. We previously used a different app for pre-orders, but Early Bird is by far easier to use, more intuitive and integrates natively in our store theme. I will keep this on our store regardless of items on pre-order, as it also allows us to work ahead for purchase orders, so we can cut out a lot of manual stock-management. The developers helped me wit...

— Hall of Flame

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— The Athletic Community

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— chickenORB

good

— SourSalt.co

Super happy with how easy and intuitive this app was to set up. Finding an app that only applied the notify when back in stock to select products was key, and this was so easy to implement and manage. We ran into an a user issue on our theme, however customer support replied within 24 hours and helped us launch it seamless with no steps needed on our end. Great app!

— MAI

App is good, support crew even better :)

— SARAJEVO DISK MUSIC SHOP

Works as promised, created good income during the time we awaited restock of our products again. Would highly recommend this Shopify app.

— North Aura

An excellent app that enables us to continue selling whilst we're waiting for more stock! It is 10/10

— The Happiest Hound

Customer service is excellent, but the app does not work with other upsell apps we typically use and does not push through to our warehouse as we wish it would. Definitely works and is user-friendly, just doesn't fully fit our needs.

— Weylyn Apparel

Very useful app to help you manage preorders and backorders. World class support form the founding team. They help you with the set-up and quickly respond if an issue arises. Thanks a lot Josiah!

— Compagnon chic / Chic Companion

So far so good, haven't used it in real world experience yet though!

— Broadway Limited Imports

It will let the customer purchase into zero and negative amounts without indicating that any purchase of an item when the inventory goes from zero or below will be a backorder. Basically, if a product has an inventory of 1 it will allow the customer to purchase 4, in a single order, without indicating that 3 will be a backorder. The customer is left unaware that 3 items are not in stock, and we...

— MPM Hobbies

"Your products are marked as unavailable for the Buy Button channel." "Error enabling availability. Try again" Here is a direct quote from the two week Shopify investigation into a full lost week of sales in the lead up to Christmas (aka the best time for ecommerce in the year): "The issue you encountered with your store was related to the Early Bird app. As previously shared, based on our lo...

— The Poop Coffee

Very app Useful and easy to manage, highly recommend

— Spapartsonlineau

Excellent product and EXCELLENT customer service! The founder went above and beyond to answer my questions and help me find a custom solution. Highly recommend!

— Glitterland

Excellent, just what we needed.

— Prepper Disk

great and very easy to use

— warrioraddict.com

Josiah has been wonderful to work with and is super helpful! Great app! They go above and beyond providing information along with videos to better help you understand how everything works.

— Upstate Elevator

I tried 3 other preorder apps before finally finding Early Bird. I LOVE that there is a FREE plan available for those of us with minimal/low preorders. Josiah was incredibly helpful. He reached out to us personally (using our names) and was prompt with his responses. Through email help with Josiah, I was easily able to get the app working and set up on our website within a very short period of tim...

— MISH Fashion and Swim