The seventh multidisciplinary workshop on advances in preferences handling has been organized by Markus Endres, Souhila Kaci, Kristen Brent Venable and Paolo Viappiani. It had been held in Beijing, China on August 4, 2013, in conjunction with IJCAI 2013. The program featured an invited talk and fourteen papers, covering topics such as conditional preferences, preference learning, game theory, voting theory, and combinatorial auctions.