Setting up delivery dates

You can display delivery dates instead of an estimated transit time at checkout. Delivery dates are specific dates, such asWednesday, October 27 – Thursday, October 28. Delivery dates can encourage your customers to complete the purchase and result in more sales. Customers also don't need to look for estimated delivery dates in other pages of your online store.

Delivery dates are displayed to your customers in the following places:

• checkout and accelerated checkout such as Shop Pay
• order status page
• order confirmation email
• 谢谢你u page

Considerations and requirements for setting up delivery dates

Before you start setting up delivery dates, review the following considerations:

• Delivery dates are only available in certain countries depending on which shipping rate type you set up. To learn more, refer toDelivery dates availability.
• Delivery dates don't work with shipping rates provided by third-party apps.
• If you're using negotiated carrier-calculated shipping rates with Canada Post or UPS, then some mail services might not support delivery dates. To learn more, refer toSupported mail services.
• Delivery dates don't work withnegotiated FedEx-calculated rates.
• If your checkout shows a mix of eligible and ineligible shipping rates, then delivery dates aren't displayed for your eligible rates.

To display delivery dates in your online store, you need to do the following:

• If you use legacy shipping settings, then you need toupdate your shipping settings.
• Set up processing time.
• Set up any of the following shipping rates:
  • flat shipping rateswithtransit time.
  • Shopify Shipping calculated rates
  • negotiated carrier-calculated rates

Delivery dates availability

Delivery dates availability depends on the shipping rates type that you set up in your store. Review the following table to learn more:

Calculating delivery dates

Your processing time is added to the transit time of the carrier, and then the estimated delivery date range is displayed instead of an estimated transit time range in your online store.

For example, if you usually process your orders within 1 business day and shipping takes 2 to 3 days, then a specific delivery date range is displayed at checkout.

Review the following considerations on how the delivery dates are calculated:

• Weekends and statutory holidays are included in the estimated delivery dates calculation.
• Business days are considered Monday to Friday.
• The business day cutoff time is 12 pm in the local timezone of the shipping origin.

Delivery dates calculation example

Review the following example how processing time and delivery dates are calculated:

• Order comes in Wednesday, January 22 after 12 pm.
• Store's processing time is set to 2 business days.
• Estimated delivery is Thursday, January 30 - Friday, January 31.

Add delivery dates to custom order confirmation notification

If you customized your order confirmation notification, then delivery dates might not be included in your order confirmation notification by default.

To add delivery dates to your custom order confirmation notification, you need to edit your template and make sure that it has a specific Liquid variable.

Steps:

1. From your Shopify admin, go toSettings>Notifications.
2. In theOrderssection, clickOrder confirmation.
3. Make sure that your template has the following liquid variable after the{% if requires_shipping %}variable:

{%ifconsolidated_estimated_delivery_time%}
 Estimated delivery {{consolidated_estimated_delivery_time}} 
{%endif%}

1. ClickSave.

Supported mail services

If you're using negotiated carrier-calculated shipping rates with Canada Post or UPS, then some mail services might not support delivery dates.

Review the following list of mail services that support delivery dates: