PluginCity Delivery Estimates for WooCommerce

Description

Every customer asks the same question before they buy: when will it arrive?

PluginCity Delivery Estimates for WooCommerce answers it on the product page, in the cart, at checkout, on the thank-you page and in your order emails. It also gives your team the other half of that promise: the dispatch date, the day an order has to leave you for the estimate to hold.

Both dates come from one working-day calculation. A product with 1 working day of dispatch time and 2 days in transit, ordered on Monday, has to leave you on Tuesday and is estimated to arrive on Thursday. Your working days, your carrier’s delivery days and your WordPress timezone are all taken into account, so a Friday afternoon order never quietly promises a Sunday arrival.

Dispatch time is simply how long an order takes to get out of the door. Set it to 0 and you are quoting same-day dispatch; set it to 5 and you are quoting made to order. It fits a shop shipping from stock as comfortably as one making each piece by hand.

The free version is permanent. It does not expire, needs no licence key, and never contacts PluginCity.

What you get

• Estimates on product pages, shop and category listings, in the cart, at checkout, on the thank-you page and in customer emails
• Block cart and checkout support, plus a [ddwc_estimate] shortcode and an editor block
• Dispatch time and delivery transit time, counted in working days
• Your own working days, separate carrier delivery days, and WordPress timezone handling
• Delivery windows, to show a range like “arrives 12–14 March” instead of a single day
• An optional “Dispatched by” line alongside the arrival date
• Extra days for out-of-stock and backordered items, so those quotes stay honest
• Your own wording for the estimate, with a live example of the dates today’s orders would get
• The dispatch date and estimated delivery stored on every order
• Settings import and export
• High-Performance Order Storage compatibility

Pro

Most shops do not have one dispatch time. A stocked t-shirt and a made-to-order table cannot honestly quote the same date, and a shop that closes for two weeks in August should not be promising deliveries through it. Pro is for quoting dates that match how you really ship.

Dates per product, not per shop. Give any product or variation its own dispatch time. Anything you leave alone keeps the default, so you only describe what actually differs.

Real shipping times. Set transit times per shipping method and per shipping class, and show the arrival date beside each shipping choice at checkout, so paying for next day visibly buys something.

A calendar that matches your year. Closed dates take bank holidays and shutdowns out of the maths, and a daily cutoff time rolls late orders on to the next working day.

Wording and styling. Write the estimate differently for each place it appears, then style it: colour, size, weight, icon, alignment, and a pill, rounded box or outline around it.

Running the orders. Dispatch date columns and filters on the orders screen, so you can see what has to go out today, plus manual overrides and recalculation for the orders that need a human decision.

Pro is a separate product, available from PluginCity rather than from WordPress.org. Your settings and stored order dates carry across untouched.

How the dates are worked out

Dates use the WordPress timezone, not the server timezone.

1. Take the order datetime, or “now” for a live estimate.
2. If that day is not a working day, start from the next one. Pro also applies your cutoff time and skips closed dates here.
3. Dispatch by = start date + dispatch working days.
4. Estimated delivery = dispatch date + shipping transit working days.

A dispatch time or transit time of 0 leaves that date unchanged, and orders that do not need shipping use 0 transit. Where a cart holds several products, the longest dispatch time wins, so the promise stays realistic.

A note on names

WooCommerce is a trademark of Automattic Inc. This plugin is an independent extension for WooCommerce. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Automattic or the WooCommerce project, and “WooCommerce” appears in its name only to say which shop software it works with.

Configuration

1. Check the Current calculation example at the top of the settings screen.
2. Set the default dispatch time and default delivery transit time.
3. Choose working weekdays.
4. Enable the product-page estimate and set the display text.