WooCommerce Pre-Orders stores pre-order state on the order and product as meta: pre-order status, release date, and charge mode (upfront vs on release). The default WooCommerce Orders list does not surface any of it, so questions like which pre-orders release this Friday or which pre-orders are still awaiting charge stay invisible until each order is opened.

SleekView Charts reads pre-order meta directly and presents the launch pipeline as a dashboard. A Number card sums the total pending charge amount, a Donut splits pre-orders by status (active, completed, cancelled), a horizontal Bar ranks release dates by pre-order count, and an Area chart tracks new pre-orders per week so a marketing push shows as a visible spike.

The dashboard sits on the same WooCommerce order meta the plugin owns. Pre-order processing keeps running through the plugin's own scheduled action, the dashboard just turns the meta into an aggregate read.

Pre-orders are a launch product before they are an order product, and the launch view does not exist in default WooCommerce reporting. A dashboard fixes that. Pipeline by release date tells operations what to ship on which Friday, pending charge total tells finance what hits the gateway when scheduled charges run, and weekly acquisition tells marketing whether the campaign actually built demand.

The plugin already writes the meta, the dashboard just makes it readable.