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How to Fill Shopify Continue selling when out of stock

2026-06-21
Task

Preorder products should keep selling when stock is zero, while regular products should not.

Short answer

Create Continue selling when out of stock: default to deny, and set continue for preorder or backorder.

How to Do It in Eofferix

Method 1: How to Do It in Eofferix with Regular Expressions

  1. Open the settings of the output Continue selling when out of stock column.
    Animation showing how to open the Continue selling when out of stock column settings in Eofferix
    The click is on the settings icon of the output Continue selling when out of stock column.
  2. In Transformations, set deny by default and add a separate rule for preorder|backorder.
    Screenshot of transformation rules for the Continue selling when out of stock column
    The Transformations block shows the full rule chain for this case.
  3. Save the column settings and go to the Export step.

Method 2: How to Do It in Eofferix with Substring Search

  1. Open the settings of the output Continue selling when out of stock column.
  2. In Transformations, replace the regular expression with separate rules for each text marker.

    If the source column contains longer phrases, get the same result without a regular expression: add several rules with Contains substring, one rule for each marker.

    OrderWhat to checkConditionAction
    1Current valueAnyReplace with deny
    2sales_policyContains substring preorderReplace with continue
    3sales_policyContains substring backorderReplace with continue
    Screenshot of substring-search rules for the Continue selling when out of stock column
    In the second method, each text marker uses Contains substring; the numeric 1 marker uses an exact comparison.
  3. Save the column settings and go to the Export step.

Before / After

Before

source data
HandleTitlesales_policy
preorder-lampPreorder lamppreorder
regular-chairOffice chairregular

After

result
HandleContinue selling when out of stock
preorder-lampcontinue
regular-chairdeny

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