Estimated delivery date overview

Show shoppers when their order will be dispatched and delivered, before they buy.

An estimated delivery date answers the question shoppers ask right before they commit: when will this actually arrive? Instead of a ticking clock, it shows a calculated delivery window — "Order within the next 4h 12m for delivery between Mar 14 – Mar 16" — and optionally an order-progress bar from Ordered through Dispatched to Delivered.

A delivery date on a product page: message above, progress bar below.

What it's made of

Part	What it does	Guide
Layout	Which of the message and progress bar appear, and in which order	Create an estimated delivery date
Message	The sentence shoppers read, built from text and variables	Delivery variables
Progress bar	The Ordered → Dispatched → Delivered strip, with icons and labels	Create an estimated delivery date
Date ranges	How many working days dispatch and delivery each take	Date range settings
Cut-off time	The daily deadline for today's orders to count	Cut-off time

How the dates are worked out

The app doesn't read your real fulfilment data. It calculates a window from the rules you give it:

1. Start from today — or tomorrow, if the cut-off time for today has already passed.

2. Add the dispatch range, counting only the weekdays you marked as dispatch working days.

3. Add the delivery range, counting only the weekdays you marked as delivery working days.

4. Skip any dates you've listed as holidays.

5. Format the result using the date format you chose.

The minimum and maximum of each range give you the two ends of the window, which you place in the message with {delivered_min_date} and {delivered_max_date}.

These are estimates you control, not tracked shipping promises. Set the ranges to reflect what your store can actually do — an over-optimistic window costs you more in support tickets than it gains in conversions.

Where to start

If you're setting one up for the first time, follow Create an estimated delivery date — it runs from creating the countdown through to checking it on your storefront.

Come back to the other pages when you're tuning it:

• Date range settings — dispatch and delivery ranges, working days, holidays, and date formats.

• Cut-off time — the daily deadline, including setting a different one per weekday.

• Delivery variables — the seven tokens you can put in the message.

Next steps

• Create an estimated delivery date

• Date range settings

• Cut-off time

• Delivery variables