Shopify Delivery Date Picker for Live Animals & PlantsLive cargo can’t wait for the wrong date.
14+ live product brands run on Flare — aquatics, live plants, corals and live seafood. Weekend blackouts, carrier-specific transit windows and geographic restrictions enforced at checkout automatically.
Shipped on the wrong day, live cargo dies in transit.
Fish, corals, live plants and live seafood have the tightest delivery constraints in ecommerce. Carriers won't guarantee live arrival over weekends. Transit times vary by carrier and distance. Temperature-sensitive routing means some postcodes can't receive live cargo at certain times of year. Without enforcement at checkout, customers pick dates that put live product at risk — and your team discovers it at fulfilment, not before payment.
Five rules your checkout enforces automatically.
Set them once. Flare runs them on every order — 195ms average response, native Shopify checkout extension.
Weekend and holiday blackouts
Block Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays when carriers won't guarantee live arrival. Non-negotiable for live cargo — enforced automatically at checkout.
Carrier-specific transit windows
Different carriers have different transit guarantees. Flare calculates the earliest valid delivery date per carrier and shipping method — so customers only see dates when live cargo can actually arrive safely.
Geographic restrictions
Some postcodes can't receive live cargo reliably — distance, temperature, carrier coverage. Flare validates the customer's postcode at checkout and shows only dates (and methods) available for their location.
Per-product survival rules
Different species have different transit tolerances. Flare sets rules per product so a hardy plant and a temperature-sensitive coral show different available dates and shipping methods.
Order tagging for specialist fulfilment
Delivery date, ship date, carrier and method written to every order. Your fulfilment team knows exactly what ships when — critical for live cargo where timing is the difference between arrival and DOA.
From aquatics to live seafood.
Every one of these brands runs Flare's delivery logic at checkout — weekend blackouts, carrier transit windows, geographic restrictions and order tagging, all without a developer.
Verbatim from the Shopify App Store.
"Daniel and his team made the transition seamless. Allowing customers to pick a delivery date has genuinely changed our business — I'd recommend Flare to anyone with perishable goods or anyone wanting to differentiate from their competition."
"Having a delivery date picker is critical for our store and it's worked perfectly. Daniel helped me resolve a customer date-bypass issue very quickly via chat."
Common questions from live product brands.
Can I block all weekend deliveries for live products?
Yes. Block any combination of days globally, per shipping method, or per product collection. Most live product brands block Saturday and Sunday for all carrier-shipped live orders.
Can different live products have different shipping rules?
Yes. Rules are set per product or collection. A hardy plant with 5-day transit tolerance and a sensitive coral needing overnight shipping show different available dates and methods.
Does Flare validate the customer's postcode before showing dates?
Yes. Postcode validation runs at checkout — if the customer's location is outside your delivery zones for live cargo, they see a clear message and alternative options before payment.
How does order tagging work for live product fulfilment?
Delivery date, ship date, zone, carrier and method are written to every order as tags and attributes. Your fulfilment team or 3PL can filter and sort by ship date to ensure live cargo is dispatched on the correct day.
Shipping live products on Shopify? Try Flare free.
Bring us your carrier rules, transit windows and geographic restrictions — we'll match them. Most live product brands are live within a day. Read our guide on delivery dates for live plants and aquatics.
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