Feeling the lack of preorder/backorder support

Let me jump in! At the risk of giving up too much information - one item from the blog post that I will share with everyone tomorrow -ish (yes, possibly stealing my thunder -> backorders are on the roadmap. There, I said it and now we have to build it. Sequencing and timing TBD but we have plans to implement backorders. If that looks good, preorders will be something we look to implement going forward, but as I’ll outline in my post, that’s a much harder thing to do as you’re betting on someone’s ability to build stuff, rather than the experience they have already demonstrated. To make that work well for buyers, it’s a touchy thing to get right. So as it stands…heard it hear first…backorders will be implemented. No promises just yet on when that’ll happen but it’s on “the list”.

Best regards,

Matt

Blog post is live at: http://blog.tindie.com/2015/09/tindie-improvements-and-bug-fixes/

Thanks Matt!

The “Continue the discussion at discuss.tindie.com” link isn’t working though.

As the forum has just helpfully told me, the last response was 190 days ago. Any news on getting backorders back?

+1 - You are losing commission Tnidie. Instead of clicking the wishlist button people are simply e-mailing us directly. At which point we send them a PayPal invoice for their pre-order. We would love the extra layer of Tindie for financial security reasons but since this isn’t a feature we do what we need to do.