Ecommerce Platform

Some of you have played with this before at figure.fm. This screenshot however shows how pre-orders would be displayed.

Lets say you add two items to your cart. One item is in stock and the other is a pre-order item. Shipping would be calculated based on your shipping preferences (SAL/EMS/ETC) and the total cost + shipping is displayed under "Items available for immediate delivery."
This amount will be deducted from your Paypal or credit card just before the item is shipped.

The pre-order item will go into your pre-order list. The item is reserved for you and when the item becomes in stock, a mail informing you of the cost of the item + shipping cost will be sent to you. You will be provided with a way to authorize the payment.

As you may be ordering many pre-order items, they will stack up and be displayed in your Order History tab of your Account Management settings. Items that are released in the same month will be automatically combined so that you save on shipping.
I know that Hobby Search gives you the functionality to manually combine orders but I'm not sure if you really need that functionality - do tell me what the use case would be.

Sellers tend to buy figures in a huge batch - they pay upfront for the figures or when it arrives at their warehouse. Understandably, they want to cover the costs of the figures as soon as possible so cant hold items for months to wait for future releases to arrive in the warehouse.
For this reason, they will want to send you your stuff asap and generally wont want to let you combine an order thats released in January with an item released in March.

Once a figure becomes in stock, if none of your other pre-orders are being released in the same month, you will be sent a payment request or if you have established a Paypal Billing Agreement or have a credit card registered with a client using Mirai Gaia, payment will be deducted just before the parcel is sent out.

You will still be able to cancel any orders as long as they are not in stock. If users continuously order and cancel (I mean really going over the top) then they will be banned and will not be able to make any more purchases.

Mirai Gaia will initially accept Paypal orders for folks overseas and credit card integration will follow after.
Folks in Japan can pay by Daibiki (COD - Cash On Delivery) or Ginkou Furikomi (Bank Transfer).

Please note that not all of my clients will provide multiple shipping options and some of them may choose not to allow cancellations.

This is the current Order History screen that you can play with if you order the test products on figure.fm.
Here you will be able to see the status of each product and soon it will show pre-orders and their release date too.

Have a read through the above and lemme know if this is the flow that you expect and if not tell me what to change.

From my time as Website Manager at Amazon, I know their Order Pipeline well but rather than build it similar to Amazon, I want your feedback as a consumer who regularly buys from Japan. Many brand names that you are familiar with will be using Mirai Gaia. If you like figures, anime, apparel then the likelihood that you will buy from one of my clients is extremely high ^^;

Also, registered users on Mirai Gaia will be able to use the platform to upload and sell their products - then have payment settled by Paypal. You could even set up your own figure/anime shop on figure.fm for example.

Out of all the online shopping sites that you use to get stuff from Japan, which in your mind has the best user experience and which has the worst.

Look forward to your feedback ^o^