Which plan do I need to show an estimated delivery date?

The estimated delivery date display is part of the Advanced plan delivery suite. A 14-day free trial applies when you upgrade on the Subscription Plan page, and no Shopify Plus is required.

How is the estimated delivery date calculated?

It's today plus the min and max days from your transit lanes. The product page doesn't know where the shopper is, so the range runs from your fastest lane to your slowest. With business days on (the default), the count skips weekends, blackout dates, and national holidays, so lanes of 2–3 days seen on a Monday show 'Arrives Wednesday–Thursday.' Build your dispatch time into the min and max.

Is the estimated delivery date a guarantee?

No — it's a prediction based on your normal shipping times, not a promise. Carrier delays, stock, or a late dispatch can move it. See what an estimated delivery date means for the full explanation.

How is this different from a delivery date picker?

The estimate is a date the store calculates and displays; the customer doesn't choose it. A delivery date picker is the opposite — the customer selects the date they want and the store enforces it with cutoffs, capacity, and lead time.

How accurate is an estimated delivery date?

As accurate as the min and max days you enter for your lanes. They're averages, so keep a range rather than a single day and pad it slightly — a range that holds beats a precise date that slips. The estimate is a forecast, not a commitment, and carrier delays will move it.

Can I show an estimated delivery date on Shopify without an app?

Not reliably. Shopify has no native estimated delivery date on product pages. You can hard-code static text in your theme, but it can't count business days or skip your blackout dates and national holidays — so it drifts out of date the moment your schedule changes.

Does the estimated delivery date account for holidays?

Yes. With business days on (the default), the count skips weekends, your blackout dates, and your country's national holidays for roughly the next four months. This matters most in peak periods, which is exactly when a wrong estimate costs the most.

Can the estimated delivery date differ by country or region?

Not yet. You can enter transit lanes by origin and destination zone, but the product page doesn't know the shopper's destination, so every shopper sees one range: your fastest lane to your slowest. Keep the lanes close together, or keep just the lane most of your orders use.

Estimated delivery date

3 min read · Facts checked October 12, 2026

The estimated delivery date shows shoppers when an order will arrive — for example "Arrives Jul 10 – Jul 11" — right on the Shopify product page. It's the quickest delivery feature to turn on, and it answers the first question every shopper asks: when will it get here?

How it works

Transit lanes. Each lane has an origin zone, a destination zone, and the min and max days shipping takes. The product page doesn't know the shopper's destination, so it shows one range: your fastest lane to your slowest, counted from today.
Holiday-aware business days. With business days on (the default), the count skips weekends, blackout dates, and national holidays.
Pure display. It's a display feature — nothing to enforce at checkout, so it's quick to enable and safe to run store-wide.

It reads the same blackout dates as your delivery picker. It doesn't use your availability rules, so lead time and cutoff don't move it: put your dispatch time into the lane's min and max days.

Set it up

On the Advanced plan, open Delivery Dates, make sure delivery dates are turned on, expand More options, and find Estimated delivery date (optional).
Click Add transit lane and set the origin zone, destination zone, min days and max days. Pick Any for a catch-all lane.
Confirm your blackout dates — the estimate skips them, plus weekends and national holidays, automatically.
Add the Delivery estimate block to your product template (use Add the estimate block → in the app), then check the range on a product page.

Estimate vs. delivery date picker

An estimated delivery date is a date you calculate and display — the customer doesn't choose it. If you instead want customers to pick the delivery date (with cutoffs, capacity, and lead time enforced at checkout), that's the delivery date picker. Many catalog stores just show an estimate; made-to-order and scheduled-delivery stores want the picker.

New to the term? Read what "estimated delivery date" means for the plain-language explainer, and estimated delivery dates that account for Japanese holidays for the holiday-aware detail.

	Estimated delivery date	Delivery date picker
Who chooses the date	The store calculates it	The customer selects it
Enforced at checkout	No — display only	Yes, via Shopify Functions
Capacity limits	Not applicable	Per date and per slot
Best for	Catalog and stocked goods	Made-to-order, perishables, scheduled delivery
Setup effort	Minutes, safe to run store-wide	One rule per product group
Plan	Advanced	Advanced

Scoping Rules In-Store Pickup Setup