Who uses Preorder Now Presale Timesact?

The typical Timesact store has a focused catalog. Its median store lists 55 products, the smallest in the pre-order category we profile, close to Notify! (57), STOQ (64) and Essent (66), and far below PreOrder Globo (134). The median store runs 10 detected apps. That is a brand with a defined range, often one that launches products in drops and sells them before stock arrives.

About 7.4% of Timesact stores run Shopify Plus, roughly 1.7x the Shopify-wide rate. That sits in the middle of the category: above Essent (about 5.9%), close to Notify! (about 8.1%), and below PreOrder Globo (about 11.3%) and STOQ (about 13%). In practice Timesact serves growing direct-to-consumer brands, with a meaningful minority of larger ones.

Timesact has a larger US base than most pre-order apps: about 38% of its stores are in the United States, against about 35% for Notify!, about 32% for STOQ, about 30% for PreOrder Globo and about 25% for Essent. 62% of its stores are elsewhere, led by Australia at about 10%.

Japan is the surprise. It is Timesact's third market at about 7.3% of stores, just ahead of the United Kingdom at about 6.8%, with France at about 4.5% and Canada at 4%. Pre-orders are common in Japan for limited releases, and Timesact's Japanese share is above what we see for its rivals, which makes it a useful reference for brands selling there.

By category, business and industrial leads at about 30% of stores, the highest share in the pre-order category, and fashion follows at 22%. General shopping accounts for 9%, arts and entertainment for 7%, and about 5% of stores could not be assigned a category. The business and industrial lead suggests Timesact is used for equipment, tools and products with supplier lead times as well as for fashion drops.

The apps that show up next to Timesact describe a performance marketing brand. Its stores run Triple Whale, an ad attribution tool, 2.7x more often than the average Shopify store, Klaviyo 2.0x more often and PageFly, a landing page builder, 2.0x more often. UpPromote, an affiliate marketing app, shows up 3.0x more often and Selleasy upsells 3.4x more often.

The strongest lift is STOQ, another pre-order and back-in-stock app, at 5.0x. Some stores use one app for back-in-stock alerts and another for presales, and some have tried both. Either way, it tells you pre-orders are a core part of how these stores sell, not an afterthought.

Put together, a Timesact store buys traffic from paid social and affiliates, sends it to designed landing pages, captures emails in Klaviyo and takes pre-orders on launches. For anyone selling to Shopify brands, a Timesact install marks a store that already spends on acquisition and launches products on a schedule.

Timesact 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. Its stores are similar in catalog size (median 57 products) and Plus share (about 8.1%). Notify!'s 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%. Choose Notify! for a widely used back-in-stock tool, Timesact for presales with flexible, low entry pricing.

Timesact 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, and merchants praise its support, easy setup and how it helps manage demand. Many Timesact stores also run STOQ, at 5.0x the Shopify average. STOQ leans toward back-in-stock and demand capture, Timesact toward presales.

Timesact vs PreOrder Globo and Essent

PreOrder Globo serves the largest catalogs (median 134 products) and starts at $9.90. Essent is the cheapest entry point at $4.95 and is popular with stores that use other Essential Apps tools. Both have more of their stores outside the US than Timesact.

Other options

REZ Preorder, Back In Stock has 1,639 App Store reviews and SMART Preorder and Back in stock 655.

Timesact has a free plan for new users, then flexible plans: CORE Flex from $5 a month and PRO Flex from $7 a month, with a CORE Fixed plan at $23 a month for stores that prefer a set price. The Flex plans start low and scale with usage, which suits a store that runs pre-orders for launches rather than all year. Only Essent starts lower, at $4.95. Notify! and PreOrder Globo start at $9.90 and STOQ at $10. If you run large presales, model what a Flex plan costs at your volume against a fixed plan.