Pre-Order

NOTE

Applies to: Sana Commerce Cloud 133 and higher in SAP S/4HANA.

A pre-order is the act of purchasing a product in the online store, which is not in stock now, because it is not released or produced yet, but it will be available in the future. Allowing customers to pre-order products in your webstore can be an efficient way to grow your online business. The pre-order feature can also help you to increase sales, revenue and profits for your business.

For more information about pre-order in Sana, see Pre-Order.

Material Pre-Order Requirements

Customers can easily pre-order materials in the Sana webstore, but there are some requirements which should be fulfilled for a material to be available for pre-order.

  1. A material must be orderable. A material must be correctly configured in SAP S/4HANA.

  1. Pre-order must be allowed for a material in SAP S/4HANA.

  1. The option Availability depends on stock should be enabled in Sana Admin: Setup > Products > Stock and assortment.

  1. The pre-order will work only if the quantity of a material is less or equals the number set for the Out of stock level. To set up stock levels, in Sana Admin click: Setup > Products > Stock levels.

Enable Pre-Order for Materials in SAP S/4HANA

Open the Catalog Overview Sana app in the SAP Fiori Launchpad and select a webstore. Enable the Pre-Orderability option for the necessary materials.

You can also make multiple materials available or unavailable for pre-order at once. To do this, click the More actions button in the Catalog Overview Sana app and select the necessary option.

  • If you select the option Enable Pre-Orderability for all, you can make all materials available for pre-order in the webstore at once.

  • If you select the option Disable Pre-Orderability for all, you can make all materials not available for pre-order in the webstore at once.

  • If you select Enable Pre-Orderability for range, you can make materials within a certain range available for pre-order.

  • If you select Disable Pre-Orderability for range, you can make materials within a certain range not available for pre-order.

When a material is made available for pre-order in SAP S/4HANA and other requirements are also fulfilled, then a customer will be able to pre-order a material in the Sana webstore.