Pre-order items cannot share a cart with in-stock items
Customers cannot check out pre-order items together with in-stock items, so merchants must split orders or hold shipments.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
5 public reports · first reported 2 September 2014 · last reported 2 January 2026
What's going wrong
Merchants running the WooCommerce Pre-Orders extension say shoppers cannot buy a pre-order product alongside ordinary in-stock items in one checkout.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 5 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.