• Allows users in blocking catalogs to enter quantities based on future availability and choose whether shipments should ship together or separate.
  • Elastic treats the catalog as a backorder catalog during quantity entry but as a blocking one in the cart and at the checkout.
  • Users can reconcile any blocked placeholder allocations automatically with split shipments or shipping everything together.
  • Contact your Account Manager to update your setting.





  • Products with future Inventory quantities available.
  • User enters total desired quantity.
  • Opportunity to enter more units than currently showing available at requested ship date.





  • Warning label to inform user that there are more units on the order than available at ship-date in Cart Screen.
  • User can resolve to determine how to send shipment.




  • Summary of Total Order Qty and Unavailable Qty.
  • User chooses to ship units separately when available.