I spent a lot of time searching for a way to change “Sold Out” to “Coming Soon” on my Shopify website. I do not have a great understanding of HTML so I struggled to figure out how to do some of the suggested solutions I found.
The solution I came up with was to change the translation of “Sold Out”" to “Coming Soon” in the language section of code. Here are the steps to get there:
Under Themes, click the drop down menu “Actions” and select “Edit code”
Scroll down to the bottom and open the folder “Locales”
Select “en.default.son”
Click somewhere on the code and key in CTRL+F. This will bring up the search bar.
Search the term “sold”
It should bring you to a portion of code that reads “sold_out”: “Sold out”,
Change to this: “sold_out”: “Coming Soon”,
Next, select the products you want to be “Coming Soon” items.
Allow Shopify to track Inventory on these products. Change the Inventory to “0”.
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!
Thanks for that great walk-through! The research you put into this really shows. I just wanted to add another option here, for anyone who may not be comfortable working with coding! An alternative to coding would be to use the language editor itself. To get there you would go to your Online Store > Themes and then select Actions > Edit language for the theme you’re currently working on. The language editor can be a bit daunting as well, so I’ve found the easiest way to find the text that you’re looking to change is to use the search bar and type in the current text.
Once you’ve done this, it will bring up all the areas of your theme that display that text, so you can determine which one changes exactly what you’re looking for. In this case, I’ve found that the ‘sold out’ notice is under the Products/Product heading, and then the ‘Sold out html’ subheading is what you will want to change. There will be some HTML in that text bar, which may appear as <br /> - this is just showign a break in the text, so you can decide whether you want to leave that there or not! All you have to do is swap out ‘sold out’ for ‘coming soon’!
I hope this is helpful as well! Please let me know if you have any questions at all - I’d be happy to help in any way that I can!
However, when I update the Sold Out language to Coming Soon it also changes the language at the top! I have an early bird pricing structure so the current product shows as a sale. Before adding the new language it had $599 crossed out and the current price $499. Now it shows “Coming Soon” crossed out. Is there any way to show the pricing? What’s weird is when I toggle between the choices the full registration prices show just fine.
Don’t follow the original suggestion on this page. If you wish to change any languages, you should go to your language in your theme settings. Revert the changes immediately, then go to online store > theme > languages > and find the sold out bit. Change that to Coming soon. Make sure to change the other code back to the way it was. I checked your site, and it appears you have entered something in the wrong place. Coming soon is where the product msrp is supposed to be. That’s why it’s crossed out, it’s supposed to show regular price. It’s showing that the 499.99 is a sale price correctly, but the original price has been overwritten with coming soon. In the span, there should be something like
Hmmmm… I went and searched. I don’t see anything like that. Even searched for “price” alone. Nothing that comes up mirrors what you asked me to search for.
The Shopify coming soon page is very useful for keeping your customer informed and engaged. It works by setting up an attractive Coming Soon page from an elegant template of your choice. You can customize the template according to your preferences and enable different features to make it a pleasant experience for your customer.
The issue is that some items may actually be Sold Out never to return and some may be Coming Soon and some may be Back Soon. We should have a way of selecting an option for each product.
How long does it take for the page to refresh this? We only sell one-of-a-kind pieces so I’d rather it say Sold than Sold Out. I made the change but it’s still saying Sold Out on all pieces of inventory with an inventory quantity of 0. Thanks!
Thanks for the info. It did work however it caused a secondary issue. Across the product images from the Collection page now reads "TRANSLATION MISSING: EN.PRODUCTS.GENERAL.SOLD.’ Can’t seem to get rid of this through the coding and language page. Any thoughts???
