Datesly Documentation

Overview

Customers choose a delivery date (and a time slot) at checkout, among the days you deliver: lead time, cut-off hour, days off and holidays.

• Delivery date at checkout
• Time slots
• Days off and holidays

Best for: Florists, bakers, caterers, furniture and local delivery

Installation

1. Download datesly-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.

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

Features

• Delivery date chosen at checkout, among the dates you can deliver
• Lead time, cut-off hour and number of days offered
• Days without delivery and holidays
• Optional time slots
• Classic checkout and block checkout (native WooCommerce fields)
• Shown in the order, emails, thank you page and My account
• Delivery date column in the orders list; shortcode [datesly_preview]

Shortcodes

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

• [datesly_preview]

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

• datesly_active
• datesly_dates
• datesly_sanitize

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

Actions

• datesly_admin_after_form
• datesly_admin_before_form
• datesly_admin_form_end

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