PreOrders for WooCommerce – PreCart
by tasin07 · eCommerce
Easily enable preorders for your WooCommerce store. The best free WooCommerce preorder plugin — let customers pre-order out-of-stock, upcoming, and ba …
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Health
B 83/100
Few reviews
Active installs
70+
≈70 estimated
Momentum
+6%
downloads vs prior 30d
Biggest opportunity: Swap “woocommerce pre order” for “backorders”. “woocommerce pre order” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “backorders” sits at #19 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
83 health vs 71 average across 9,752 eCommerce plugins
Install conversion
How it's measured →4.3%
of downloads still active
At least 70 of 1.6K lifetime downloads are still running, above its category: the median eCommerce plugin keeps 1.4%, across 5,144 plugins.
Downloads count every update, not just first installs, so older and more frequently released plugins read lower. Compare against other eCommerce plugins, not across the directory. wp.org reports active installs as the bottom of a band, so the real rate is this or higher.
This plugin shipped 5 releases in the last 12 months, and every existing install that updated counted as another download. wp.org publishes no split between first installs and updates, so we show the raw rate rather than guess at one.
Details
Directory ranking optimization
How it's scored →How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.
Excellent listing optimization
Most to gain: Rating quality
Updated today
Tested up to WordPress 7.1.4, the current branch or newer
4.3★ over 4 reviews, smoothed to 4.11★ and held back under 25 reviews
5 of 5 tags set · short description in place
1 of 1 support threads resolved in the last 2 months
To rank higher: Too few reviews to rank on quality — nudge happy users to leave one.
Get the full rank-higher report →Search visibility
How it's tracked →Directory searches this plugin turns up in, and which way each one is moving. WordPress.org publishes no history of search positions, so this starts the day we first tracked a keyword and never backfills.
47
Momentum
Holding steady
+0.7
Velocity
places per keyword, 25d
35%
Breadth
of keywords climbing, 25d
+0.3
Acceleration
recent half vs earlier
wp.org is where the directory puts the plugin for that search. On merit is where it would sit if results were ranked on rating, support and updates, without the install boost. The last column is how far the wp.org position moved, from our first reading in the last 90 days to the latest.
| Keyword | wp.org | On merit | wp.org move, 90 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| preorder plugin your tag | #1 | #6 | up 4 |
| preorders | #1 | #6 | up 8 |
| preorder your tag | #2 | #12 | up 8 |
| pre order your tag | #11 | #21 | 0 |
| pre orders | #11 | #20 | up 1 |
| backorder your tag | #20 | #23 | down 2 |
| pre | #24 | #24 | down 2 |
| backorders | #19 | #23 | 0 |
| woocommerce pre order your tag | Not in the top 24 | ||
22 searches this plugin appeared in over the last 90 days, 8 listed. 14 left out as unrelated or noise (years, numbers, stray words). 1 of its tags isn't in the top 24 for their own search.
What to do about it
- Swap “woocommerce pre order” for “backorders”. “woocommerce pre order” isn't earning its slot: you're not in the first 24 results for its own search. “backorders” sits at #19 untagged, close enough for a declared tag to move it up. All five slots are taken, so one has to go.
- One page off on “pre order”. #11 puts you just past the first ten results, where almost all the clicks stop. The gap to close is small.
Daily downloads
Since 28 Feb 2025 · 611 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive
30-day downloads
Rolling 30-day volume · peak 262 · peaks are release surges
Directory rank
Ranked about #18,200 to #19,000, alongside the other plugins at 70+ installs. Plugins with the same install count swap places between wp.org requests, so this is where most of them sit. Checked monthly, last on 21 Oct 2026.
Rating trend
Star average over time · dips mark rough releases
Health trend
Composite health score, snapshotted daily
Update activity
Downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites.
Not enough installs to measure. This needs at least 100 active sites; below that, a handful of downloads reads as tens of thousands.
Release cadence
Actively maintainedHow often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.
5
releases in the last 12 months
today
latest release · v0.8 · 31 Oct 2026
8
tagged releases on record
Recent releases
What its installed base runs
via wordpress.orgShare of active installs on each version of this plugin. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.
Estimated active installs
The public count shows “70+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.
Crossed into this band 10 days ago and a band this size takes about a year or more to cross, so the real count is still just over 70.
At the current install trend, crossing 80+ in roughly 31 days.
Install history since 27 Feb 2025
Recent reviews
All reviews on wp.org ↗- ★★★★★ eriksb4mo ago
Works great on simple products, but can’t handle variable products at all. This topic was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by eriksb.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ fxman15mo ago
Easy to use and free. A perfect pluging.
Read on wp.org ↗ - ★★★★★ dsawyers5mo ago
It did exactly what i needed, changes the Add to Cart to a Pre-order button and displays our “ship after” date. It does add a custom shipping status which we didn’t need, we have a fulfillment house that only pulls our “processing” orders because we sell a mix of physical and virtual products. we were able to write a function to automatically move the order status and everything worked exactly like we needed it to.it does add a pre-order banner that conflicted with our sale banner (we’re running a sale during our pre-sales period) but we hid it with some simple CSS. I had everything working the way I wanted to in less than 15 minutes. Make sure you actually set your Pre-Order Limit. It defaults to 0 which I assumed was no limit, but when I placed my second test order it said the sale limit was reached, so I just set it to a ridiculously high number.
Read on wp.org ↗
Behavioral tests
via WP HiveAutomated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0
AI assistants
How it's measured →Whether ChatGPT and Claude name this plugin when asked the category question, and whether the readme gives them something to quote.
Not measured yet for this plugin’s topics. Its tracked searches are not among the measured topics. See the topics measured so far.
Readme readiness
8 of 8 pass · checked 28 Oct 2026Can an assistant quote this readme? Eight deterministic checks over the wp.org listing, no model involved.
- ✓ Says what it does "Easily enable preorders for your WooCommerce store. The best free WooCommerce preorder plugin — let custome..."
- ✓ Has a FAQ 9 questions in the FAQ.
- ✓ FAQ asks real questions 9 of 9 read like questions a user would type.
- ✓ Names who it is for Names its audience or use cases ("perfect for", "use this").
- ✓ Names what it works with Mentions WooCommerce.
- ✓ Headings and lists 7 headings and 1 list.
- ✓ Enough to quote 3,706 characters of description.
- ✓ Tags match the text 4 of 5 tags appear in the text; "pre order" does not.
Growth timeline
Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow
- 2026-10-21 60+ → 70+ up after 9 days in tier
- 2026-10-12 50+ → 60+ up after 27 days in tier
- 2026-09-15 40+ → 50+ up after 15 days in tier
- 2026-08-31 30+ → 40+ up after 24 days in tier
- 2026-08-07 20+ → 30+ up after 26 days in tier
- 2026-07-12 10+ → 20+ up after 23 days in tier
- 2026-06-19 20+ → 10+ down after 3 days in tier
- 2026-06-16 10+ → 20+ up after 4 days in tier
Competes with
The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).
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PreOrders for WooCommerce 10+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B -
PluginCity Advanced Pre-Orders for WooCommerce — installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags -
PreOrder Pilot – Pre-Orders for WooCommerce — installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags -
WpDevArt Pre-Orders for WooCommerce — installs · 3.6★ · 3 shared tags -
Pre-Orders for WooCommerce 7K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags B -
YITH Pre-Order for WooCommerce 6K+ installs · 3.4★ · 2 shared tags B
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