Early Bird: Preorder & Restock

Sometimes you just have to pay for the good apps. This one is one of those in this vertical. The team is super responsive, great support and the app works as intended, the founders seem to be hands on. ...and it is "built for Shopify" #winning. Have been using and recommending to clients for our CRO agency. Show more

This app is almost perfect... was easy to install, has great functions for setting up pre-orders and back in stock notifications and the support team is super responsive. However, the only way for customers to place pre-orders is through our website - there is no straightforward way to take phone or in-person pre-orders and all pre-orders must be paid for using credit card (gift cards are blocked and debit cards are not a payment option through our website). The app does not work with the order creation tools in Shopify admin nor does it work with Shopify POS. As a result, we've had customers annoyed as they don't understand how we are not able to take their phone or in-person pre-orders. To be fair, the Early Bird developers say these are Shopify system limitations. So, Shopify, if you are listening: stores that have both online and in-store sales channels need to be able to serve their customers properly. Limiting apps like this is very frustrating, since it is clear that many Shopify customers use the POS app alongside the web tools. Show more

"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 logs, this is the only app that was installed and modified your product. This app changed the subscription settings for your product, which affected its availability across different sales channels, including the Buy Button channel." THIS APP IS MALWARE - STAY AWAY FROM IT ONE DEFINITION OF RANSOMWARE: "a type of malware that permanently blocks access to the victim's personal data unless a "ransom" is paid." Didn't work as required, changed all my product settings (without me knowing) and when I uninstalled it found a way to make the settings permanent and cost me way more in sales by disabling customer checkout and payments than it promised to make unless I signed up to their subscription even though it doesn't bloody work. Show more

Impressive in its simplicity and functionality. Wish it were more affordable. We're just starting out and the profit margins on our products would require us to sell 20-30 products before we break even. But if you have a store that's already selling well, this is a great product to go with. Show more

Early Bird is so wonderful and has been extremely supportive! They help us to solve the problems right away with speedy reply. Really appreciate their efforts! Show more