

For example, customers can’t pre-order a subscription product. You can set up multiple purchase options on a product, but customers can’t combine different purchase options on the same product in a single checkout.Pre-order products are only supported on the Online Store and Custom Storefront sales channels.Customers can't use local payment methods such as Klarna, mollie iDEAL, and Sofort to purchase pre-orders.Customers can't purchase pre-orders by using the following accelerated checkouts: Shop Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, or Meta Pay.Pre-orders aren't supported on stores with customized checkouts.If you’re unable to ship within the promised time, you must provide a revised shipment date and explain the customer’s right to cancel or obtain a refund.If no date is clearly specified, you must have a reasonable belief that the product will ship within 30 days of purchase.You must have a reasonable basis for saying that a product can be shipped within a certain time.To use pre-orders on your store, review the following requirements and restrictions: If you have a pre-order app installed, then pre-order information becomes available in the following areas of your Shopify admin: To see information about your pre-orders, you must be using a pre-order app. Īfter you set up pre-orders, your customers can pre-order and pay for products before they are ready to ship. “If you have (COVID-19), you’re going to put it on the casket, and we have cemetery gentleman who have to touch it,” Lindsay said.This page was printed on Apr 29, 2023. Woodward Funeral Home in Brooklyn, director Kendall Lindsay is asking mourners not to touch caskets. Bergen Funeral Service is limiting wakes to immediate family only, its manager said.Īt the Lawrence H. Green-Wood is asking mourners, no more than 10 per funeral, to stay in their cars until casket-carriers have left the grave site to try to prevent the spread of the virus. New York’s ban on public gatherings means families must curtail goodbyes to their loved ones.

The pandemic is taking a toll on the funeral industry’s clientele, too - an emotional one. Kersten referred questions about causes of death to OCME, which did not respond. But the number of burials on Hart jumped in the last week of March to 72, according to Jason Kersten, a spokesman at the Department of Correction, which oversees the island. In normal times inmates from city jails each week bury some 25 New Yorkers there. The island is home to the city’s potter’s field, a cemetery for people with no next of kin or whose families cannot arrange funerals.


Hart Island, off the Bronx’s east shore in Long Island Sound, may also serve as a site for temporary interment, according to an OCME planning document for dealing with a surge of deaths from a pandemic. We do have plans in place if there needs to be release of capacity from the city to more outlying areas,” Fleming said. Some cemeteries may set aside land for temporary interments. Still, in interviews with Reuters this week, the crematory directors reported phones ringing off the hooks and days busier than any in decades.įor the first time, the New York State Division of Cemeteries is requesting daily reports from cemeteries on the number of cremations and burials each day, according to David Fleming, legislative director for the New York State Association of Cemeteries.įleming has been working with city and state emergency planning officials to survey cemeteries and crematories in upstate New York that could ease the strain if the death rate surges higher. New York state has relaxed air-quality regulations to allow crematories to burn for longer hours. Directors at two of those locations said their daily workload has jumped from around 10 bodies to 15 or more, straining resources. city has only four crematories: one in the Bronx, one in Brooklyn and two in Queens. “We’ve been preparing for a worst-case scenario,” said Mike Lanotte, executive director of the New York State Funeral Directors Association, “which is in a lot of ways starting to materialize.”Ī majority of New Yorkers choose cremation over burial, but the most-populous U.S. The destructive spread of the coronavirus through New York has not yet reached its peak, but those who put the dead to rest have never been busier.įuneral homes and cemetery directors described a surge in demand unseen in decades from COVID-19, the respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus that has infected tens of thousands and killed roughly 1,400 in New York City. FILE PHOTO: A hospital worker attempts to block visual access as a deceased person is tended to in a temporary morgue outside of Brooklyn Hospital Center during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, U.S., April 1, 2020.
