How to Control Available Delivery Dates on Shopify

🧠 What You’ll Learn

• How to select which weekdays are available for customers to choose

• How to block specific delivery dates or date ranges

• How to preview changes instantly using the live calendar

• How to combine both rules for complete control

🛠 Step-by-Step: Choose Available Delivery Days

🔄 If you're still in the setup flow:

1. Open the Flare app from your Shopify admin

2. Complete Step 1: Add the date picker to your theme

3. In Step 2, scroll to Choose available delivery days

4. Use the toggle buttons to disable any days you don’t deliver
   – ✅ For example: Uncheck Saturday and Sunday to allow only weekday delivery

5. Watch the live preview update

6. Click Next to continue setup

   
   

🛠 If you’ve already completed setup:

1. Open the Flare app from your Shopify admin

2. Go to the Calendar Configuration page

3. Scroll to Available delivery days of the week

4. Use the weekday selectors to enable or disable specific days

5. Confirm changes using the preview calendar

6. Click Save in the top right corner

💡 Use weekday controls to match your courier schedules or limit delivery to business days only.

🛠 Step-by-Step: Block Specific Dates or Ranges

Need to block out public holidays, staff vacations, or delivery blackouts? Here's how:

1. Go to the Calendar Configuration page in the Flare app

2. Scroll down to the Blocked dates section

3. Click Add blocked dates

4. Choose Apply to all dates

5. To block a single day:

   • Click Pick a date, select the day (e.g. June 25), then click Add date

6. To block a date range:

   • Click Add date range, choose start and end dates (e.g. June 23–27), and click Add range

7. Check that blocked dates appear correctly in the calendar preview

8. Click Save

✅ You can add as many blocked dates or ranges as needed — perfect for holidays or limited delivery periods.

💡 Tips & Tricks

• Combine weekday selection and blocked dates for full calendar control

• Use this to:
  – Avoid weekend or Monday deliveries
  – Block bank holidays and fulfilment team closures
  – Limit delivery slots during warehouse maintenance or peak periods