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# Pre-order items

> Model pre-order items in Elevate with a positive stock value and a customJson productStatus label so they stay visible, shoppable, and recommendable.

This guide outlines best practices to ensure that pre-order items, or any other similar use cases, display correctly and remain easy to track in your product feed.

Using a positive stock value together with a clear label provides several key benefits:

* The product is **visible and shoppable** in Elevate.

* Some **recommendation algorithms only show in-stock items**, so keeping a stock value above 0 ensures your pre-order products are included in relevant recommendations.

* No custom handling of stock logic is needed — the same feed works for both regular and pre-order products.

## Positive stock value

To make a pre-order item available for purchase or visible in Elevate, ensure that the product has a **stock value greater than 0** (for example, 999).

Even if the product isn't physically in stock yet, setting a positive stock value ensures that the item is included in your product feed and visible to customers.

If the stock value is `0`, Elevate treats the product as out of stock — it may be buried or not displayed at all.

If you want to limit how many pre-orders can be ordered, set the stock value to the number of units available for pre-order.

If pre-orders are **unlimited**, assign a sufficiently large number (for example, `999`) to keep it active and visible.

## Label for pre-order or coming soon items

Use an attribute to identify pre-order or coming soon products so you can easily separate them from in-stock items.

Add a `customJson` attribute, for example `productStatus`, with a value like:

* `preorder`
* `comingsoon`
* `backsoon`

Adding it as a `customJson` attribute ensures that it is not searchable.

```json title="Product data example" icon="code" expandable theme={null}
{
  "key": "pg1",
  "productGroup": {
    "products": {
      "p1": {
        "customJson": {
          "productStatus": { "preorder": true }
        },
        "variants": {
          "p1-v1": {
            "defaults": {
              "url": "/products/p1-v1",
              "order": 1,
              "sellingPrice": 129.0,
              "listPrice": 199.0,
              "stock": 999
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
```