Early Bird
Shopify pre-orders app by Shopside by Piric Group·Run preorder campaigns with partial pay, take backorders & send back-in-stock alerts to secure sales
Snapshot
Ongoing.AI tracks Early Bird daily — category rank, keyword positions in App Store search, install footprint, listing changes, and reviewer sentiment — back to when we first observed the listing.
Rating
4.90
72 reviews
Pricing
From $19/mo
freemium
Built for Shopify
Yes
Years live
2
launched Jun 20, 2024
Last updated
Jun 30, 2026
Shopify listing
Recent activity
Review trajectory.
Daily review count and rating drift. The blue line is cumulative review count; the dashed amber overlay is the rating on the right axis. Boring is good — sudden swings stand out against an otherwise stable curve.
New reviews
7-day Δ
+1
28-day Δ
+1
Rating change
7-day Δ
+0.00
28-day Δ
+0.00
Category rank over time
Where Early Bird sits day-by-day in Pre-orders.
Position across the Pre-orders page, snapshot daily. Lower is better — the Y axis is inverted so the strongest ranks sit at the top of the chart. Open the full Pre-orders leaderboard →
Catalog position
Where Early Bird sits in the App Store.
Rank and percentile inside the Pre-orders category — the competitive shape of the niche around this app.
Rank in Pre-orders
#24
of 96 active apps
Review count percentile
76th
vs category siblings
Rating percentile
60th
vs category siblings
Years on App Store
2
since 2024
Listing change cadence
What Early Bird has changed lately.
Every pricing tweak, tagline refresh, and Shopify-side listing ping. Captured from Ongoing.AI’s per-scrape diff log — the cadence and the content of changes, in one strip.
Shopify Lastmod · Jul 1
2026-06-29 → 2026-06-30
Shopify Lastmod · Jun 30
2026-06-28 → 2026-06-29
Shopify Lastmod · Jun 29
2026-06-27 → 2026-06-28
Reviews
What merchants are saying
- 97%positive74
- 1%neutral1
- 1%negative1
Popular mentions
- missing feature
- ease of use
- customer support
- inventory management
- backorder handling
- product visibility
- pos integration
- payment options
Top themes
- missing feature2
- ease of use2
- customer support2
- inventory management1
- backorder handling1
- product visibility1
- pos integration1
- payment options1
What merchants praise
“Early Bird saved the day! Highly recommend. Easy to install, no coding needed. We were in a tough spot with a delayed shipment right before one of our busiest sales days. We had run out of stock of our most popular upsell, which could have made us lose sales. Setting up Early Bird was quick and simple, especially with the support team's help. We managed to recover over $100K+ in sales over which kept our customers happy and accountant happy. Best of all, Early Bird doesn’t charge a commission on sales, unlike other apps in this category. Highly recommend it.”
Plans
Early Bird pricing tiers.
Free: Get Started
Free
- Keep 100% of your sales. No commission
- Unlimited products & email signups
- 5 preorders/backorders/month
- 5 back-in-stock emails/month
- Track pre-sale performance by campaign
- Send preorder shipment timeline emails
- Mixed cart split shipping support
- No app branding
Launch
$19/month
- Keep 100% of your sales. No commission
- 200 preorders/month
- 500 emails/month
- Partial/Split payments & $0 Deposits
- Auto-collect deferred final payments
- Custom email domain and templates
- Shopify Flow triggers
- All Free features included
Grow
$49/month
- Keep 100% of your sales. No commission
- 500 preorders/month
- 5,000 emails/month
- All Launch features included
- Partial/Split payments & $0 Deposits
- Auto-collect deferred final payments
- Custom email domain and templates
- Shopify Flow triggers
Scale
$99/month
- Keep 100% of your sales. No commission
- 1,000 preorders/month
- 10,000 emails/month
- All Grow features included
- Partial/Split payments & $0 Deposits
- Auto-collect deferred final payments
- Custom email domain and templates
- Shopify Flow triggers
Capabilities
What Early Bird can do.
The 38 capabilities Early Bird lists across each of its 2 categories, in Shopify’s own taxonomy. Pulled directly from the App Store listing.
Pre-orders
Order type
6- Coming soon
- Back orders
- Out of stock
- Made-to-order
- Product drops
- Pre-sales
Customization
7- Buttons
- Badges
- Custom text
- Email notifications
- Order limits
- Availability date
- Variants
Payment options
8- Deposits
- Partial payments
- Split payments
- Deferred payments
- Payment schedules
- Discounts
- Mixed cart
- Manual payment
Stock alerts
Notifications
8- Auto-alerts
- Manual alerts
- Batch send
- Back in stock
- Pre-orders
- Out of stock
- Custom alerts
Customization
5- Alert settings
- Notification templates
- Notification button
- Pop-ups
- Waitlists
Analytics and reporting
4- Customer demand
- Inventory reports
- Performance reports
- Inventory tracking
FAQ
Early Bird — frequently asked questions.
What is Early Bird on Shopify?
How much does Early Bird cost?
Is Early Bird free?
When was Early Bird launched?
Is Early Bird Built for Shopify?
What are the best Early Bird alternatives?
What do merchants praise about Early Bird?
What complaints come up about Early Bird?
Methodology
Where the numbers come from.
Ratings, review counts, pricing tiers, “Built for Shopify”, launch date, and category memberships come from the live Shopify App Store listing — refreshed daily by Ongoing.AI’s crawler. The review-count trajectory is the diff between today’s snapshot and snapshots from 7 and 28 days ago. Topic counts and sentiment come from the review corpus, topic-tagged with Claude. Install footprint is observed via Ongoing.AI’s tech-detection pass against actively-tracked Shopify storefronts. Catalog position is computed at snapshot time against every active app sharing the primary category. Snapshot generated .
Find every brand running Early Bird.
Ongoing.AI tracks every Shopify brand’s app stack daily. Pull the full install list, filter by vertical or geography, and catch the moment merchants install — or churn off.
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