Customers Want to Know When It Arrives Before They Reach Checkout.
Flare’s delivery date picker works on your product page, in your cart and drawer, and inside Shopify Plus checkout — so customers see accurate delivery dates at the moment they decide to buy, wherever that moment happens.
Why the delivery date question costs you sales when it goes unanswered
A customer is looking at a birthday gift. They need it by Saturday. Without Flare, there’s no delivery date on the product page — they add to cart, reach checkout, and only then discover Saturday isn’t available. They abandon. With Flare, the delivery date picker on the product page shows Saturday is available before they add to cart. They buy with confidence. The sale doesn’t depend on a checkout surprise.
“When will it arrive?” is the question that determines whether a purchase happens — particularly for time-sensitive gifts, perishable products and anything where the occasion drives the purchase. A customer who can’t answer that question on the product page either emails to ask, searches your FAQs, or abandons. All three outcomes cost you the sale at the point of highest intent.
Showing a delivery date picker on the product page answers the question at the moment it’s asked — before the customer adds to cart, before they reach checkout. For products where delivery timing is material to the purchase decision, moving date certainty earlier in the journey is one of the highest-impact changes you can make to conversion.
For Shopify Plus merchants, a native checkout date picker using Checkout Extensibility brings the same accuracy and validation inside checkout itself — fast-loading, forward-compatible, and calculating date, method and rate from the same rule set simultaneously. The placement that’s right depends on your store. Flare supports all three.
Date selection at every point in the purchase journey.
Product page picker — accurate dates, no theme code
The Flare product page picker shows available delivery dates calculated from your full rule set — the customer’s location, product lead times, cut-off times and blocked dates — before they add to cart. Added through the Shopify theme editor by drag and drop, no theme code required. Works with any Shopify 2.0 theme. Shows only dates you can actually fulfil for that specific product. For merchants who want date certainty at the earliest possible point in the purchase journey, the product page is where it belongs.
Cart and drawer picker — date visible and editable before payment
The Flare cart picker shows the selected delivery date in the cart and cart drawer, with the option to change before checkout. Customers who add multiple items see a combined date valid for everything in the cart. The cart picker reduces abandonment from checkout date surprises — the customer already knows and has confirmed their date before they commit to payment. For stores where the cart is the primary pre-checkout moment, this is the right placement.
Checkout date picker — native block for Shopify Plus
For Shopify Plus merchants, Flare’s Checkout Extensibility block places the date picker natively inside checkout — loading at native speed, calculating date, shipping method and rate simultaneously from your full rule set, and validating orders before payment. Added through the checkout editor by drag and drop. A date selected at the product page or cart carries through to checkout automatically — the customer doesn’t re-select. For non-Plus stores, the date is stored as an order attribute through to placement.
Three conversion moments that improve.
The delivery date question gets answered on the product page
A customer who sees an accurate delivery date before adding to cart has one fewer reason to hesitate, one fewer reason to email support, and one fewer reason to abandon. For products where delivery timing drives the purchase decision — gifts, perishables, time-sensitive occasions — answering the question earlier in the journey is one of the highest-impact changes available.
Cart abandonment from checkout date surprises reduces
A customer who discovers at checkout that their desired date isn’t available is more likely to abandon than one who already knew and chose an available date on the product page or in the cart. Moving date certainty earlier in the journey means checkout is a confirmation — not a decision point with the potential for a disappointing outcome.
One rule set — consistent dates across every placement
Configure once in Flare. The same rules — cut-offs, zones, lead times, blocked dates — apply to the product page picker, the cart picker and the checkout picker automatically. One rule change updates everywhere. No separate configuration per placement. No risk of different placements showing different dates.
“Daniel and his team do an amazing job. Very responsive, very helpful and have made the transition to Flare seamless. For Flare, what a game changer. To allow my customer to pick a delivery date, it has changed our business. I would highly recommend Flare to anyone who has perishable goods or anyone who is willing to differentiate from their competition.”
Picker placement — answered.
It depends on where your customers make the delivery date decision. For products where timing drives the purchase — gifts, perishables, event-driven purchases — the product page picker answers the question at the moment of highest intent. For general retail where date confirmation before payment is the priority, the cart or checkout picker is the right fit. For Shopify Plus merchants who want native checkout integration with full validation, the checkout Extensibility block is the most complete solution. Flare supports all three — most merchants use a combination.
Yes. Flare’s cart picker works in both the full cart page and cart drawer. The selected delivery date is visible and editable in both contexts. For themes with cart drawers, the picker appears inside the drawer — customers can see and change their date without leaving the current page.
No. A date selected on the product page or in the cart carries through to checkout automatically. For Shopify Plus stores using Checkout Extensibility, the selected date appears in the checkout picker and can be changed there. For non-Plus stores, the date is stored as an order attribute and carries through to placement without re-selection.
Yes. Control which products show the delivery date picker — all products, specific collections, or individual products with specific lead time rules. Products without delivery date selection configured don’t show the picker. Products with specific lead time rules show only the dates valid for that product’s preparation or production time.
Answer “When Will It Arrive?” Before the Customer Has to Ask.
Flare’s delivery date picker works on your product page, in your cart and at Shopify Plus checkout — showing accurate dates from your full rule set, wherever your customer is ready to commit.
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