very cool of ya for the quick response, thanks a lot, really appreciate it. 

all the best
ron

Hello.
Status shown on product page - see Description TAB (image attached)

So to allow preorder if quanity 0  -  set Stock Checkout: ON and Out Of Stock Status: Pre-order on product edit pge
to disallow product purcharse if quanity 0 - set Stock Checkout: OFF

Also You can create new stock status like  "Pre-order/Out of stock" go to Admin-System-Localization-Stock statuses

To disable your product or option value for view if stock drops to 0 enable No Stock Auto Disable setting in Admin-System-Settings-General Tab. Message notification will be send to admin message manager

for more info read manual

Greetings - unable to get the "pre-order" to show in the description tab.  I believe that I followed the above instructions (screenshots attached) but obviously missed something - would you be kind enough to advise what I am doing wrong?  Would be much appreciated. 

SOLVED - turned off "No Stock Auto Disable" - knew I missed something!  Thanks for this thread and all the assistance. 

All the best,
Ron

Thank you xbusymom for sharing that as a solution - mine are paid for at this point but I will be putting up some free stuff as well and found that if I assign a cost of $0.00 then it can still be processed and will get the customer info and possibly a newsletter subscription - but you never know, I just may incorporate this solution as well depending on what develops so thanks much. 

Additionally, I thank you for the great book that you are giving away - it is excellent information of relevance, very kind of you.  Have sent the link to your website to friends as well for they will also be interested. 

All the best,
Ron

Thanks again - I'll get back to this one over the weekend - calling it a day for now, been at it since early morning and my ever so humble brainpower is fading on me! 

I really do appreciate all the feedback, thank you. 

All the best,
Ron

JunkYard wrote (in part):
" it could be related to memory_limit = 134217728÷1024÷1024 = 128M"

memory upped to 196m and tried but bummed out after about 2/3 - error log:

2013-10-31 9:27:38 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.1.7 Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in <b>/home/xxxx/public_html/AbanteCart/admin/controller/pages/design/blocks.php</b> on line <b>552</b>

2013-10-31 9:28:15 - warning:  AbanteCart core v.1.1.7 Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in <b>/home/xxxx/public_html/AbanteCart/admin/controller/pages/design/blocks.php</b> on line <b>552</b>

In the AbanteCart php.ini there are 2 lines that I just noticed:
memory_limit = 64M;
max_execution_time = 18000;

wonder if changing memory limit to the 196m as the server side php.ini would help? 
if execution time is in seconds then that is 300 minutes and more than enough time be tons. 

Any thoughts? 

Thanks again
Ron

Thanks Junkyard -

" it could be related to memory_limit = 134217728÷1024÷1024 = 128M" - I'll check that out but I think it is already set to that value, but not sure. 

"... upload_max_filesize is larger than post_max_size, you must increase ..."
Both are set for 600mb as is the AbanteCart php.ini and the system > settings > system field also indicates a 600mb capability rather than the previous 100mb. 

"... max_input_time  or max_execution_time..."  don't think there are but will check it out just the same. 

Thanks for the advice, I'll do some more investigating and see - will post results here nonetheless. 

All the best
Ron

Thanks for your help once again llegrand - got it now.  Love this cart, so much to learn but one of the best community and admin supports around. 

You wouldn't have any insight into my large file upload size issue would ya?  http://forum.abantecart.com/index.php/topic,1265.0.html

Appreciate your taking the time for me. 

All the best,
Ron

Greetings - it may be a good option to have the "save" and "cancel" buttons on the new or edit product page also at the top of the page and not just at the bottom. 

Thank you
Ron