Shopify BOPIS — How to Add a Buy Online Pickup In Store Date Picker

BOPIS — buy online, pickup in store — is one of Shopify’s fastest-growing fulfilment methods. The customer orders online. They collect from your store. No shipping cost. No courier dependency. No delivery window anxiety.

Shopify supports BOPIS natively. You can enable pickup in store as a fulfilment method, assign it to a location, and customers see it at checkout.

What Shopify doesn’t support: letting customers choose when they pick up. No date selection. No time slots. No cut-off that prevents same-day pickup orders after your store closes.

For stores processing more than a handful of pickup orders per day, that gap creates operational chaos — orders placed at 9pm for “today” pickup, no way to spread demand across time slots, no capacity limits to prevent 50 pickups landing in the same hour.

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What Shopify’s native BOPIS is missing

Shopify’s built-in pickup option tells the customer the order is available for pickup. It doesn’t let them schedule when.

The missing pieces:

• Date selection — customers can’t choose a specific pickup date
• Time slot scheduling — no AM/PM or hourly window selection
• Cut-off times — no logic to prevent same-day pickup after store closing
• Per-location schedules — multi-location stores can’t set different pickup hours per location
• Capacity limits — no cap on how many pickups can be scheduled per slot

If you’re doing any meaningful pickup volume, those gaps show up as:

• Customers arriving before orders are ready
• Staff scrambling to prepare last‑minute pickups
• Queues at the counter because everyone turns up at the same time
• No way to prioritise or spread workload through the day

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How Flare adds BOPIS scheduling to Shopify

Flare’s store pickup and local delivery feature adds the scheduling infrastructure that Shopify’s native BOPIS setup lacks.

Instead of a vague “We’ll email you when it’s ready”, customers see a clear date and time for collection — and your team gets a predictable schedule of pickups to prepare.