Schedule Single Order in Advance
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I am working on a B2B website that will need to offer schedulable ordering. Example: Customer wants X style, but style is intended for Fall, so wants to schedule order to be sent in August, not now (May), when the order was placed. Customer also expects to be charged in August, just prior to expected ship date, not May, when the order was placed. In the meantime, the B2B needs to subtract that inventory, regardless of whether it is leaving the warehouse tomorrow or in 3 months.
I have considered WooCommerce Subscriptions, but that’s really geared towards repeat orders, not a single order, possibly scheduled months in advance. It also doesn’t look like it will subtract “future” inventory sales, which risks over-selling.
WooCommerce Pre-Orders doesn’t seem geared towards the customer choosing the schedule.
Any scheduling plugins I find seem geared towards scheduling the delivery, but that doesn’t seem to postpone charging the customer immediately after the order is placed. I am also unclear how it handles inventory deductions.
It looks like I can set my payment gateways to authorize charges, which puts the order “On Hold” and still takes the inventory out (ideal), but wouldn’t an authorization expire after a certain number of days? The last time that I used a system that required me to manually commit to charging the customer the authorization was only good for 72 hours.
Does anyone have any recommendations that will meet my requirements? Some novel way of using the available resources/plugins that I haven’t thought of yet?
Thanks for the help!
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