---
title: "Blackout dates & holidays"
description: "Block dates you can't deliver, with an optional reason, and copy your OrderRules store holidays in one click. Pickup locations can have their own blackouts."
contentType: "docs"
locale: "en"
localized: true
source: "https://orderrules.com/docs/delivery/blackout-dates-and-holidays"
slug: "delivery/blackout-dates-and-holidays"
---
**Blackout dates remove specific days from the delivery picker so customers can't book them.**

- **Manual blackouts.** Add any date you can't deliver, with an optional reason for your own records.
- **Copy store holidays.** One click imports the closed days from your OrderRules store-hours calendar as delivery blackouts — no re-typing the calendar you already maintain.
- **Per-location blackouts.** Each in-store pickup location can carry its own closed dates, independent of delivery.

Delivery blackouts apply to pickup too: a date you black out here is closed for every pickup location as well.

Blackouts also feed the [estimated delivery date](/docs/delivery/estimated-delivery-date) engine, which skips them (along with weekends and national holidays) when it counts business days.

## Three ways to blank out a date

| Source | Covers | Set where |
|---|---|---|
| Manual blackout | Any single date you can't deliver (pickup too) | Delivery Dates → More options → Delivery blackout dates |
| Copied store holidays | Closed days from your OrderRules store-hours calendar | Copy store holidays, same section |
| Per-location blackout | One pickup location only | Pickup locations → the location's closed dates |

Blackouts also feed the [estimated delivery date](/docs/delivery/estimated-delivery-date) engine, which skips them when counting business days.

## Related

- [Estimated delivery date](/docs/delivery/estimated-delivery-date) · [Availability rules](/docs/delivery/availability-rules) · [In-store pickup](/docs/delivery/in-store-pickup)