Shipdate Documentation

Overview

“Order within 2h 14m and get it Thursday 6 November”: a real delivery estimate from your shipping rules, on product pages, in the cart and at checkout.

• Customers know when their order will arrive
• Order cut-off and holidays handled for you
• Fewer “where is my order?” emails

Best for: Any store shipping physical products

Installation

1. Download shipdate-delivery-date.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.
3. Open a product page: the estimated delivery date appears above the Add to cart button.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+, WooCommerce 7.0+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• Order cut-off time: orders placed before it are prepared the same day
• Processing time, shipping days and carrier delivery days
• Transit time as a range (e.g. 2 to 3 days): "between Thursday 6 and Friday 7 November"
• Holidays and closures: fixed dates (12-25), one-off dates or ranges, skipped automatically
• Countdown "Order within 2h 14m", shown only when the cut-off is near (you choose how many hours)
• Extra preparation days per product (made to order, personalised) and a "hide" option
• Products on backorder: extra days, or no date at all
• Virtual and downloadable products are ignored; out-of-stock products show nothing
• Estimate for the whole order in the cart and at checkout (classic and block cart / checkout)
• Calculated again in the visitor's browser, so dates and countdown stay correct on cached pages
• Your date format, your texts (with placeholders), soft box or simple line, your accent color
• `[shipdate]` shortcode for any page or product template
• Compatible with HPOS
• Lightweight: no jQuery, no external service, no tracking
• Translation-ready

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [shipdate]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• shipdate_extra_days

add_filter( 'shipdate_extra_days', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions