Magento – Stock status and back orders in Magento 2

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I want to enable customers to be able to place backorders

In the docs its states for stock status of "Out of Stock" the following

Unless Backorders are activated, prevents the product from being
available for purchase and removes the listing from the catalog."

This then implies I should set my products to be "Out of Stock" but enable backorders so I have the following settings as shown in the screenshot below:

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The issue is that on the frontend the customer still is not able to purchase the product. See screenshot below:

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I have tried to reindex and flushed all the caches but still no luck. Could any one advise?

Best Answer

Please enable backorder from configuration also:

Stores – Configuration – Catalog – Inventory – Product Stock Options tab:

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