If you KNOW you want our walnuts and you can WAIT to get them, pre-ordering can save you money and really help us with planning and cash flow. On check out, you can select to go ahead and pay now for the walnuts or to have us contact you for payment later, right before we ship the walnuts. Please note that IN-SHELL walnuts typically ship out by late OCTOBER and SHELLED walnuts ship out by late NOVEMBER.