Change "Sold Out" text for specific products

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Hello,

My store is https://noveltyrecords.us. I want to change the “SOLD OUT” label on some of my products to show “COMING SOON” – when I edit the language for the theme, it changes ALL of my sold out products to “COMING SOON.” Is there any way to only have the “COMING SOON” flag on the product that is actually coming soon, while keeping the sold out products marked as such?

I currently have all sold out products saved as drafts for now until I find a solution. Thanks in advance.

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  1. Under Themes, click the drop down menu “Actions” and select “Edit code”
  2. Scroll down to the bottom and open the folder “Locales”
  3. Select “en.default.son”
  4. Click somewhere on the code and key in CTRL+F. This will bring up the search bar.
  5. Search the term “sold”
  6. It should bring you to a portion of code that reads “sold_out”: “Sold out”,
  7. Change to this: “sold_out”: “Coming Soon”,
  8. Next, select the products you want to be “Coming Soon” items.
  9. Allow Shopify to track Inventory on these products. Change the Inventory to “0”.
  10. Check your webpage to see if this worked!

This will work for your store if you do not have Shopify track your inventory. We manually track our inventory, as many of our products are made to order. If you also run your store this way, this solution will work for you.

I hope this helps someone who is in a similar situation!

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You would need either to make an alternate template, or change the liquid logic and javascript logic for variant information that reads some flag indicating when a product should show “coming soon”. And or also update the locales file to have a translation string that holds that text similar to how the “sold out” text works.

For the alternate template you would need to make that alt template then find where the sold out text is output and either replace it with the static text “coming soon” or it’s own translation key.

If you need to get this customization done you can contact me directly using info in my signature.