Fixed minutes per visitor

Fixed minutes gives every shopper their own personal countdown. Instead of one shared deadline, the timer starts at the number of minutes you set the first time that shopper sees it, and runs down from there — the app describes it as “Individual fixed minutes countdown for each purchase session.”

Use it when you want urgency without a real end date: a “reserved for you” offer, a first-visit discount window, or a nudge on a high-consideration product.

Caution

Because every visitor has their own clock, two people looking at the same product at the same moment see different numbers. Don’t pair this mode with copy that implies a shared, storewide deadline.

Steps to set it up

1. Create the countdown

   Click Create countdown from the dashboard or the Countdowns page.

2. Pick a Countdown timer template

   Leave the type tab on Countdown timer, pick a design, and click Select.

3. Name it

   Name it something that tells you the mode later, like “15-minute offer timer”.

4. Write the text

   On the Settings tab, open Content and set the Title, Subtitle, and timer labels. Wording that fits this mode talks about the shopper, not the shop — “Your offer expires in:” rather than “Sale ends in:”. See Timer text and button.

5. Choose Fixed minutes

   In Setting timer, set Time type to Fixed minutes.

   

   Fixed minutes replaces the date fields with a single Minutes value.

6. Set the number of minutes

   Enter the length of the window in the Minutes field. The default is 15.

   Keep it short enough to feel urgent and long enough to be plausible — most stores land between 10 and 30 minutes.

7. Choose what happens at zero

   Set When countdown timer end:

   • Hide countdown block — the timer disappears once their window closes.
   • Repeat the timer — it immediately restarts for another full window, so the shopper always sees a running clock.
   • Do nothing — it sits at zero.

   See When the timer ends.

8. Style it on the Design tab

   Adjust colors, fonts, and spacing on the Design tab, or keep the template’s look. See Design a countdown.

9. Choose where it shows

   On the Display tab, tick Product page, or copy the Shortcode for a custom position. Narrow it with Conditions if it should only apply to some products — see Display conditions.

10. Save it as Active and check your storefront

    Save with the status set to Active, then open a matching page on your live storefront. The timer starts at the full number of minutes.

    To see what a returning shopper sees, reload the page — the timer picks up where it left off rather than restarting. To see a brand-new visitor’s view again, open the page in a private or incognito window.

How each visitor’s timer is remembered

The first time a shopper sees the timer, the app records their personal end time in a cookie in their browser. On every later page view it reads that cookie back, so the countdown continues instead of starting over.

What follows from that:

• Per browser, per device. The same person on their phone and their laptop gets two separate timers.
• Clearing cookies resets it. So does a private window, or a browser set to block site data.
• Changing the Minutes value resets everyone. If you edit the number and save, every visitor’s timer restarts at the new length the next time they load a page. Decide on a length before a campaign rather than tuning it mid-flight.

Note

Testing repeatedly in the same browser will keep showing you your own expired timer. Use a private window for each fresh test.

Next steps

• When the timer ends
• Count down to a date
• Timer text and button
• How it works