Display position
Put a countdown on your product pages automatically, and understand exactly where it lands.
The Display position section on the Display tab is where a countdown gets somewhere to render. Without it, a countdown can match every condition you've set and still show nothing, because nothing on the page has told it where to go.
Show countdown on: Product page
There's one checkbox, Product page, described in the app as "Tick on checkbox to display Countdown on all product pages".
Tick it and the countdown appears on your product pages — on every product that also satisfies the countdown's conditions.
Where on the product page it lands
The app places the countdown immediately below the Add to cart area.
This is deliberate rather than arbitrary. The moment a shopper is looking at the buy button is the moment a deadline, a delivery date, or a stock warning is worth reading — and it's the one region every Shopify theme has in roughly the same place, so the countdown lands sensibly across themes without you configuring anything.
What it means in practice:
The countdown inherits your theme's product-page layout, so it moves with your content rather than floating over it.
On themes with a sticky Add to cart bar, the countdown sits with the main buy button, not the sticky one.
If your theme's Add to cart button is built in a way the app doesn't recognise, nothing renders — that's the main reason automatic placement fails. Use the shortcode instead.
Everywhere else needs the shortcode
Product page is the only automatic placement the app offers. Any other location — your home page, a collection page, a landing page, a top-of-page banner — is done by pasting the countdown's shortcode into a Samita Countdown app block. See Place a countdown with a shortcode.
Note that "which pages can a countdown appear on" and "where does it get placed" are different questions. The Page condition can allow a countdown on your collection pages, but it still needs a shortcode block on that page to have somewhere to render.
Cart countdowns place themselves
A cart countdown has no position controls. It goes to the top of the cart form on the cart page and in the cart drawer, automatically, whenever the cart has items in it. See Cart countdown overview.
Checking placement
After saving, open a real product page rather than relying on the builder preview — the preview shows the countdown's design, not your theme's layout.
Check it on a phone as well. Themes reflow product pages heavily on small screens, and a countdown that sits neatly under a desktop Add to cart button can end up somewhere less useful on mobile. If it doesn't work on mobile, device targeting can restrict it to desktop.
Next steps
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