Getting started with BackorderPRO

BackorderPRO automates delivery-time, stock and pre-order communication for your Shopify store. It imports your supplier feeds, matches them to your Shopify variants by SKU or barcode, and automatically keeps the inventory policy, delivery dates, stock status and pre-order buttons up to date — both on the storefront and in the admin.

What you need

• A Shopify store (any plan).
• At least one supplier feed (CSV, Excel or XML) — by URL, file upload, or FTP/SFTP and browser-rendered feeds on the Business plan.
• SKU or EAN/barcode values on your variants so the feed can be matched.

Install in four steps

1. Configure a feed — upload or link your supplier feed.
2. Map the columns — connect SKU/EAN, stock and delivery-date columns to your Shopify products.
3. Set your rules — decide when a product becomes a backorder or pre-order.
4. Automate — schedule a daily sync (or run it manually) and let it run.

Turn on the storefront display

The delivery and pre-order elements are delivered through the theme app embed block. In your theme editor, open App embeds and enable the BackorderPRO delivery message block. No theme code changes are required — all copy and colours are controlled from the app's settings.

Once enabled, your customers can see three elements:

• A lead-time badge on the product page (for example "Delivery in 5–8 days").
• An expected-stock message with the exact restock date from your supplier.
• A pre-order button that replaces Add-to-cart for products with a known restock date.

The same badge can optionally appear on collection cards and in the cart drawer.

The Customer Account widget — which shows backorder and delivery status inside the Shopify customer account — is storefront-facing and is included on every plan.

Next steps

• Importing & mapping a supplier feed
• Setting up pre-orders & backorders