Shopify App

Delivery Date Estimator — tell buyers the date, not "3 to 5 days"

Show a real expected delivery date on product, cart and checkout pages, calculated from the buyer's city, your courier transit times, dispatch cut-off, handling time and the holiday calendar. The same date repeats in order confirmations.

Product page showing an expected delivery date message calculated from city, courier transit time and dispatch cut-off

What Delivery Date Estimator does

Vague shipping copy costs conversions and generates support messages. This app replaces it with a date. You define transit days per courier per city or region, a dispatch cut-off time, handling time per product, and which days count as working days. The app applies those rules to the visitor's location and renders a dated message: order in the next two hours and it arrives Thursday. The identical calculation is written into the order confirmation.

What you get

City and region rules

Set transit days for Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, secondary cities and upcountry separately, because a two-day promise does not hold everywhere.

Courier transit tables

Maintain a table per courier, so a TCS route and a Leopards route on the same city produce different dates when they genuinely differ.

Dispatch cut-off

Orders after the cut-off roll to the next working day. A live countdown shows how long the buyer has to make today's dispatch.

Holiday calendar

Mark weekends, Eid holidays and public closures. Those days are skipped in the calculation rather than quietly promised as transit days.

Per-product handling time

Made-to-order, stitched or preorder items carry their own handling days, added before transit, set per product or per collection.

Notification variables

Insert the same estimate into order confirmation and dispatch messages so the number the buyer saw is the number they are reminded of.

How it works

  1. 1

    Enter transit days per courier and city group, your dispatch cut-off time and your working-day calendar.

  2. 2

    Set handling time on products or collections that take longer to prepare than your standard stock lines.

  3. 3

    Place the theme block on product, cart and checkout pages and choose the wording and date format.

  4. 4

    Add the estimate variable to your confirmation notifications, then review accuracy against actual delivery dates monthly.

Why merchants run it

Higher add-to-cart rates

A specific arrival date removes the main hesitation on time-sensitive purchases like gifts, Eid clothing and event wear.

Fewer "where is my order" messages

Most tracking enquiries arrive before the parcel is even late. A stated date sets the clock and stops the early WhatsApp queue.

Cut-off drives urgency honestly

A countdown to same-day dispatch is a real deadline, not a fake timer, so it pushes conversion without damaging trust.

Fewer refusals at the door

COD buyers who expected two days and waited eight often refuse the parcel. Accurate promises reduce that share of RTO.

Pricing

Starter

[PRICE] per month. One transit table, dispatch cut-off, holiday calendar and the product page estimate block.

Growth

[PRICE] per month. Adds per-courier tables, per-product handling time, cart and checkout display and notification variables.

Scale

[PRICE] per month. Multi-store, accuracy reporting against actual delivery dates, API access and setup support.

Frequently asked questions

How does it know the buyer's city before checkout?

On product pages it uses an approximate location lookup, with a city selector the visitor can change. At checkout it uses the address entered, so the figure shown at the decision point is the accurate one. You can also display a default city estimate instead.

What if the courier misses the date?

The estimate is a forecast built from your own transit table, not a guarantee, and the wording makes that clear. Review the accuracy report periodically and adjust transit days per city rather than leaving optimistic numbers in place.

Does it handle mixed carts?

When a cart mixes an in-stock item with a made-to-order one, the app shows the later date for the whole cart by default, or splits the estimate per line if you prefer. Showing the earlier date on a mixed cart creates a complaint later.

Can I show different dates for prepaid and COD?

Yes. If prepaid orders skip a verification call and dispatch sooner, add that difference as a rule. It gives buyers a concrete reason to pay by Raast, Easypaisa or JazzCash instead of choosing cash.

Give buyers a date they can plan around

We will build your transit tables from real courier performance and fit the block to your theme.

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