# How to enable the pre-order product to your store

## What is a pre-order?

When you sell out of a quantity of an item, by default Shopify won’t allow customers to purchase that item until you adjust the inventory levels to add more stock. You can change the default to allow customers to buy out-of-stock items from the **Inventory** section of a product.

**You might want to allow customers to buy out-of-stock items for any of the following reasons:**

{% hint style="success" %}

* You have products available for pre-order.
* You have stock coming soon and want to continue selling before it arrives.
* You want to sell first and then order supplies later.
* You aren’t tracking the actual inventory quantity in Shopify.
  {% endhint %}

## Enable the pre-order

### Step 1

* Go the product

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### Step 2

* Enable the continue selling when out of stock

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## Step 3

* Enable the show pre-order button on the product page

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## Step 4

* Enable the show pre-order button for the specific section

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