Plugin Pre-order products

Hi today I made a purchase of the plugin Pre-order products . My question is because I will sell digital games, it is possible for those customers who made a pre-order when the product is available (serial key) to associate with their purchase. Such an option would save me a lot of time.

This really is a very good idea that is missing so far and saves a lot of time. Hope to work in HikaSerial in the future. I have a little criticism about the site, make it in the menu so that it can be easily found the additional HikaShop plugins.If I had not followed you to Twitter, I would never have learned about them.

Evening Jerome,

would it be possible to add one extra column `product_preordered` and output the $pre_orders value to it?

It would be helpful to have a notification if products are sold from the pre-order stock and have at least a notification through a mass action.

Regards, Rene

Afternoon Jerome,

I know, but that field is used for the pre-orde stock limit, so that value does not change if something is ordered form the pre-order stock.

You do output the used pre-order stock as:

JText::sprintf('PRODUCT_ALREADY_X_PREORDER', $pre_orders)

But I would like to have that output value in it's own column so I know that something has changed.

Evening Jerome,

yes I know but, correct me if I am wrong, there is no (direct) indication if a product is bought out of the “real” quantity or out of the pre-order quantity.

That information is only available in the product back end and not on the order or the administrator order confirmation.

As long as you work with products that are sold on an pre-order basis that is just fine, since you know that what you sell is only pre-order and have a maximum limit of products that can be pre-ordered.

If you need to use the pre-order plugin as a back order fix then it is important that you know when a product is no longer available in the shop and customers are buying trough pre-order.

I already created the new “product_preordered” column and I only need to get the “$pre_orders” value into that column any suggestion would be welcome.

Regards, Rene

Afternoon Jerome,

Nope, the function of the pre-order pluging is clear enough, but I want (need) to use it to overcome the fact that it is still not possible to have back-orders in Hikashop.

I do find some problems with the pre-order plugin as is.

For normal products, if product “real” quantity = 0 and the pre-order stock is exhausted the product stock message is still showing "No stock, pre-order available" instead of the normal “No stock” message.

For the product variants it is working as it should so in above situation the “No stock” message is displayed.

In both situations the add to cart button is no longer available, so that is okay.


From product_preorderclass.php

if($pre_order < 0)
   $pre_order = -1;
$product->product_preorder = $pre_order;

if($pre_order == -1 && $qty == 0) {
  $product->product_quantity = -1;
  continue;
}