Pre-orders auto-complete before their release date
Pre-orders are automatically marked completed or shipped before release, and some customers get shipping emails by mistake.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 6 January 2025 · last reported 22 October 2025
What's going wrong
Several site owners using Pre-Orders for WooCommerce report that on or before the release date, pre-orders were switched to completed and sometimes shipped without anyone touching them.
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 4 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.