Pre-Orders for a small store.
Hey everyone, I've come to pick the collective's brain.
I am an indie author and utilize Shopify to sell signed copies of my books. I am fair from a runaway success, but I do have a decently loyal following. I'm needing to find a way to do pre-orders for my next release, but I can't find a solution that sems to fit for me. If any other authors are reading this, you already know are margins are super tight and it is hard to justify spending money on something that may not work how we need it to.
The big issue I'm running into is all the apps I see with a free plan are limited to around 10 orders. I probably won't have many more than that, but I do foresee going over that, somewhere in the 20-25 range. To compound this, it seems like the release/shipping date is just out of the range that Shopify may be comfortable with me just labeling it as a pre-order and waiting for release. I can't control exactly when these will ship, I know it'll be before my release date (Mid-August), but it could be a week before or the day before. (These are printed with amazon's publishing branch, so it really just depends on how behind the printer is at any given time.)
So, what I need is:
- A way to take pre-orders
- If it through an app, one that doesn't cost too much, especially because I only run pre-orders once, maybe twice a year.
- Opinions on taking orders through a form on my website and then using an invoice to collect payment if no apps will suit my needs, and will this make Shopify mad?
I really want to do all this by the book (No pun intended) so any and all information is appreciated!