Who uses Essent Preorder Back in Stock?

The typical Essent Preorder store is a mid-sized brand with a busy app stack. Its median store lists 66 products, in line with STOQ (64) and Notify! (57) and a little above Timesact (55). PreOrder Globo stores are the outlier, at 134. The median Essent store runs 11 detected apps, second only to PreOrder Globo's 12 and above the 9 or 10 that most pre-order apps see. As the stack section shows, much of that comes from other Essential Apps tools.

About 5.9% of Essent stores run Shopify Plus, a little above the Shopify-wide rate. That is the lowest Plus share among the pre-order apps we profile: Timesact sits at about 7.4%, Notify! at about 8.1%, PreOrder Globo at about 11.3% and STOQ at about 13%. In practice Essent serves growing independent stores more than large brands, which fits its low entry price.

Essent is the most international pre-order app we profile: 75% of its stores are based outside the United States. The US accounts for about 25%, then the United Kingdom at about 13%, Australia at 11%, the Netherlands at about 7%, and Canada and Germany at about 5% each. The UK share is the highest in the category, and with the Netherlands and Germany it points to a strong European following.

Australia's 11% matches the wider pattern in pre-orders. STOQ has about 15% of its stores there, PreOrder Globo about 12.5% and Notify! about 10.5%. Selling stock before it arrives is common practice for stores that face long lead times from suppliers.

By category, business and industrial leads at about 22% of stores. Fashion follows at 13%, lower than for most pre-order apps, where fashion often leads with a quarter or more of stores. Arts and entertainment is unusually strong at about 11%, and general shopping and food and drink account for 7% each. The arts share fits print runs, collectibles, music and books, products that are often sold ahead of release.

The Essent stack is dominated by its own family. Essent stores run Essential Upsell and Cross Sell 13.5x more often than the average Shopify store, Essent Cart Drawer 9.9x more often, Essential Trust Badges 9.3x and Essential Free Shipping Bar 7.9x. Essential Apps builds a suite of small, low-cost tools, and many merchants install several of them together.

Outside that family, Section Store and Cart Drawer shows up 5.9x more often and Bundler, a product bundles app, 4.3x more often. Taken together, the stack is about raising order value: upsells, a cart drawer, free shipping thresholds, trust badges and bundles all aim to make each order bigger, and pre-orders keep revenue coming in when products sell out.

For anyone selling to Shopify brands, an Essent Preorder install usually signals a store that has standardised on Essential Apps for its conversion tools, often in the UK, Australia or Europe.

Essent Preorder vs Notify! Back in Stock

Notify! is the most reviewed app in the category, rated 4.9 across 3,897 reviews, with a free Lite plan and paid plans at $9.90, $19.90 and $39.90 a month. Notify! stores are a similar size (median 57 products), more US-based (65% outside the US against 75%) and more often on Plus (about 8.1%). Its critical reviews focus on cost: price increases come up in 28% of recent 1 to 3 star reviews, pricing seen as too high in 24% and unexpected charges in 20%. Essent starts at $4.95, about half Notify!'s entry price.

Essent Preorder vs STOQ

STOQ is rated 5.0 across 3,800 reviews and has the highest Plus share in the category, about 13%. It has a free plan, then $10, $29 and $69 a month. Merchants praise its support, easy setup and how it helps manage demand. STOQ suits larger brands that need more control; Essent suits stores that want a simple, low-cost pre-order tool that matches their other Essential apps.

Essent Preorder vs Timesact

Timesact is rated 5.0 across 2,127 reviews and also competes on price, with flexible plans from $5 a month. Its stores are more US-based (62% outside the US) and slightly more often on Plus (about 7.4%). The two are the budget picks in this category.

Other options

PreOrder Globo serves the largest catalogs (median 134 products) and a Plus share of about 11.3%, from $9.90 a month. REZ Preorder, Back In Stock has 1,639 App Store reviews and SMART Preorder and Back in stock 655.