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E-commerce vocabulary · Inventory and Stock

Backorder

Meaning in e-commerce, with examples

/ˈbækˌɔːrdər/nounCommon term

In e-commerce, backorder means: An order for a product that is temporarily out of stock, accepted by the store and shipped when new stock arrives.

In Turkish: stok bekleyen sipariş, bekleyen sipariş

How it is used

Used as a noun and a verb: an item is on backorder, or customers can backorder it. Stores allow or disable backorders and must tell customers the expected shipping date clearly.

Example sentences

  1. This model is on backorder and will ship in about three weeks.

  2. We turned off backorders for sale items to avoid angry customers.

Common collocations

  • on backorder
  • allow backorders
  • backorder items
  • ship backorders
  • out of stockNot available to buy at the moment because the seller has no units left; the opposite is in stock.
  • inventoryAll the products a business has available to sell, and the records that show how many of each item are in stock and where.
  • stock levelThe number of units of a product that a seller currently has available, usually tracked per SKU and per warehouse.
  • reorder pointThe stock level at which a new purchase order should be placed, so that new stock arrives before the current stock runs out.

This word in other fields

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