How to Use Time Slots

Overview

Time slots define the weekdays, hours and increments of time when an order can be picked up or delivered. This can be used for In-Store pickup or a table rate carrier, configured as Local Delivery for example. You can assign time slots to pickup locations or table rate carrier methods configured for local delivery.

Platform Specific: Time slots functionality is currently available on Magento 1, Magento 2, Zoey, and BigCommerce (with Calendar & Pickup Feature enabled). This feature is unavailable Shopify, WooCommerce and Salesforce Commerce Cloud at this time.
For Time Slots to display (on Magento or Zoey) you will need to install the module-calendar module. Steps for installing this module are here.

Examples of Time Slots

  • Only allow In-Store Pickup on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays between 10:00AM and 2:00PM every 30 minutes and allow pickup every 15 minutes between 2:01PM and 8:00PM
  • Offer Local Delivery to customers in Columbus between 2:00PM and 5:00PM every 30 minutes
  • Offer Home Delivery to customers in Ohio in either a morning or afternoon time slot, between 9:00AM and 1:00PM or  2:00PM and 5:00PM every weekday

Creating a New Time Slot

You will need to turn on Date/Time as an advanced feature to use Time Slots. To do so, go to the Advanced Features tab in the lefthand nav and toggle Delivery Date & Time Feature to ‘Enabled’.

When Date & Time is Enabled, there will be a new Time Slots tab in the left-hand navigation.

  1. Go to Time Slots in the left navigation
  2. Enter the name of the time slot – this should explain what the time slot does. For Example: In-Store Pickup MWF
  3. Set the time slots you have for the shipping options. Enter the Start Time, End Time and Time Slot Interval.
  4. Proceed to the This Time Slot Applies To section, and select a carrier or carriers your time slot applies to. You will only see table rate or store pickup carriers in the list. These are the only carriers that allow you to use time slots.
    If you select an in-store pickup carrier, the time slot will automatically apply to all pickup locations associated with that carrier. However, If you would like the time slot to apply only to specific pickup locations you can select those pickup locations ONLY.
  5. If you only want the rule to apply to certain Zones, you should specify this under Zones (optional).
  6. Under Days of the Week, select which days you want this rule to cover
  7. Then Save the time slot.

Advanced

Note: Advanced settings for Time Slots are only available on Pro and Enterprise ShipperHQ plans.

Under the Advanced panel, you can set a Valid To and Valid From date, if applicable. You can optionally set this Time Slot to override other time slots, and also set the Display as 12-hour rather than 24-hour time.

Conclusion

You have now set a time slot to only allow pickup or delivery during certain times on specified days.

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