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If you're looking for a quality Shopify preorder app without spending a dollar, Dibs and Vicify are two of the strongest options available today.
At first glance, the apps appear very similar. They both help merchants continue selling products that are sold out, coming soon, or not yet available for fulfillment. The real difference becomes apparent once you start managing preorders and backorders at scale.
We installed both apps and compared live features. This guide helps you decide which app fits your store by comparing real features, pricing, and reviews side by side.
Answer these honestly, and the right app becomes obvious.
Dibs offers flexible payment options along with discounts to increase conversions. Also sends automated payment reminder emails to create a smoother buying experience.
Scenario: Furniture store accepting preorders for high-value products
A customer wants to preorder a $1,000 sofa but isn't comfortable paying the full amount upfront. Another customer prefers to pay in full to secure an early-bird discount.
With Dibs, you can offer two options: full payment and partial payment. You can also encourage purchases with discounts. You can automatically send payment reminder emails to customers with the payment link. This gives customers more flexibility while helping you improve conversions and reduce manual follow-ups.
With Vicify, you can offer full or partial payment. Only one option will be shown to the customers so the merchant will be deciding what terms to show.
Vicify lets you add a product to multiple active campaigns. You can set campaign priority so the product automatically stays on whichever plan is ranked highest.
Scenario: Boutique running the same hoodie through multiple campaigns
Suppose you want a hoodie to be part of a holiday campaign for five days and then transition to a restock plan.
With Vicify, you can automate this by assigning the holiday campaign a higher priority. Once the holiday campaign ends, the product automatically switches to the restock plan, and the product page updates accordingly. However, this works only when the holiday campaign ends as scheduled. If you want to switch before it ends, you'll need to manually change the plan priority.
With Dibs, you can add the product to the holiday campaign. After 5 days, remove it from the holiday campaign and add it to the restock plan. It takes just a few minutes to do.
Dibs makes preorder management easier with an Analytics dashboard with details on revenue, pending payments, and pending fulfillments. Dibs also offers a detailed order dashboard with bulk editing options and the ability to send bulk shipment update emails.
Scenario: Growing store processing hundreds of preorders every month
Initially, for a few sets of orders, you can manage it manually. But as your preorder volume grows, keeping track of payments, fulfillments, and customer updates quickly becomes time-consuming.
Dibs offers an orders dashboard that lets you perform bulk actions such as sending shipment update or delay emails, rescheduling fulfillment dates, and releasing hold products in bulk, making post-order management faster and reducing manual effort. You can also view preorder revenue, pending payments, and pending fulfillments in one place through the Analytics dashboard.
These are the features merchants actually ask about before switching preorder apps — not every setting in either app.
We've highlighted the top customer reviews below. To explore all customer reviews, view them on the Shopify App Store’s reviews page.
Migrating your preorder plans, settings, and storefront configuration takes a few steps, so we've covered the entire process in a separate guide. Read the Vicify to Dibs Migration Guide for the full walkthrough.
For most Shopify stores selling preorders, backorders, or made-to-order products, Dibs is the better all-round choice.
From product page badges and flexible payment options to reminder emails, it builds trust and increases conversions.
On the operations side, the analytics tab, bulk actions like release hold, and automated shipment updates and payment reminders make managing preorders simple and efficient.
Vicify lets you add a product to multiple plans and set a priority between them. With Dibs, you can do this manually in just a few minutes by removing the product from one plan and adding it to another.
Since both apps are free, there's no real risk in trying one out on a single product first to see what fits.
For most merchants, yes. Dibs provides flexible payment options, automated payment reminder emails, a detailed analytics dashboard, and an orders tab with bulk actions to simplify day-to-day operations.
Vicify offers a preorder-now button, an order confirmation email, and the ability to add a product to multiple campaigns and sort it based on priority.
Dibs offers clear preorder badges, flexible payment options, and automated payment reminder emails. Vicify focuses on backend campaign management — a product can sit in multiple campaigns, but only the top-priority one shows on the storefront.
As of July 2026, both apps are listed as free on the Shopify App Store with no published paid tiers. Check each app's live pricing page before you install, since the apps may update their plans.
Switching from Vicify to Dibs typically takes 1–2 hours. The setup is straightforward, and Dibs support is available to help configure your preorder plans for a smooth migration.
The Dibs team at Logbase wrote this comparison. We’ve tried to keep it honest, including the cases where Vicify is the better choice, because a comparison you can’t trust isn’t worth reading. If any information is outdated or misinformed, feel free to email us at vishnupriya@logbase.io
All app ratings and reviews are sourced from the Shopify App Store - July 2026.
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