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Essent Preorder Back in Stock review

Ranked 7 of 8 among Shopify back-in-stock & pre-order apps by merchant reviews.

Best for: Stores standardised on the Essential suite.
5.0 (1.2k) Free plan available by Essential
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Listing data checked 23 August 2026

Strengths and trade-offs

What it does well
  • Consistent admin with the rest of the Essential apps
  • 5.0 across 1,200+ reviews
Trade-offs
  • Little reason to choose it over Kbite or STOQ if you are not already on Essential
  • Waitlist reporting is basic

What "Free plan available" actually means

A free tier with usage or feature caps, and a paid upgrade above them. The most predictable model in this category: you can see the wall before you hit it, and the free tier is usually enough for a small store.

Whatever the label says, the calculation is the same: a back-in-stock & pre-order app has to lift revenue by more than it costs. Our break-even calculator works out the lift you would need against your own orders and margin — for most stores it is a fraction of a percent, which means the subscription is rarely the real question. The payload the app adds to every page load usually is.

Head to head

Essent Preorder Back in Stock vs our category pick

How it lines up against Back In Stock, Notify Me: Kbite, which we rank first for back-in-stock & pre-order apps.

AppRating ReviewsPricingBest for
Essent Preorder Back in Stock 5.0 1,208 Free plan available Stores standardised on the Essential suite
Back In Stock, Notify Me: Kbite 5.0 3,882 Free plan available Pure restock waitlists without pre-order complexity
Alternatives

The closest alternatives to Essent Preorder Back in Stock

Every back-in-stock & pre-order app we index, ranked by the weight of merchant feedback behind it. Variant-level waitlists is usually the axis that decides between them.

AppRating ReviewsPricingBest for
Back In Stock, Notify Me: Kbite 5.0 3,882 Free plan available Pure restock waitlists without pre-order complexity
Notify Me! Back in Stock Alert 4.9 3,575 Free plan available Getting a wishlist alongside waitlists and pre-orders
Preorder, Back In Stock — STOQ 5.0 3,523 Free plan available Stores that need waitlists and pre-orders from one app
Preorder Now Presale Timesact 5.0 1,957 Free plan available Structured presale campaigns with deposits and clear ship dates
PreOrder Globo | Back in Stock 4.9 1,840 Free plan available Merchants already running other Globo apps

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FAQ

Essent Preorder Back in Stock: common questions

Is Essent Preorder Back in Stock free?
Free plan available on the Shopify App Store. A free tier with usage or feature caps, and a paid upgrade above them. The most predictable model in this category: you can see the wall before you hit it, and the free tier is usually enough for a small store.
How well rated is Essent Preorder Back in Stock?
5.0 out of 5 from 1,208 ratings, checked 23 August 2026. That is 7% of merchant reviews across the 8 Shopify back-in-stock & pre-order apps we index, and 31% of the category leader's total. Ratings in this category cluster tightly between 4.9 and 5.0, so the size of the review base tells you more than the average does.
What are the best alternatives to Essent Preorder Back in Stock?
The closest alternatives in the same category are Back In Stock, Notify Me: Kbite, Notify Me! Back in Stock Alert, Preorder, Back In Stock — STOQ. If you want the safest default, Back In Stock, Notify Me: Kbite is our pick for this category.
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