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Getting started with Estimated Delivery Date
You already have a working estimate the moment you activate. Set your real delivery window, working days and cutoff in about ten minutes.
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Delivery date recipes
Complete setups for what merchants actually ask for: one window for the shop, slower categories, pre-orders, Christmas closures and per-product exceptions.
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Why is my delivery date wrong, or missing?
The causes in order, cheapest checks first: what is excluded by design, the cutoff, working days, which rule won, and the one-hour cache.
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How the delivery date is calculated
The four-step count, what "business days" means here, a worked example, and why the cutoff moves everything by exactly one day.
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Delivery rules
What a rule is made of, the conditions available, why the most specific rule wins rather than the top one, and per-product overrides.
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Display and wording
Where the estimate appears, how to position it, the message template and date format, the countdown, and the classes for styling it yourself.
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Estimated Delivery Date settings reference
Every setting, tab by tab — including import and export, and the handful of values that have no field on screen and why.
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Estimated Delivery Date FAQ and translating
Short answers to the questions we are asked most, what Pro adds, and how to translate the plugin — including the extra file the settings screen needs.
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Does it work with page caching?
Yes, with one thing to watch: a cached page freezes the countdown at the moment it was generated. What to exclude, and what is safe to leave alone.
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Getting started with Shipping Rate Builder
Install the plugin and build your first shipping rate in about ten minutes. There is no shipping-zone setup to do.
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Shipping rule recipes
Nine complete, working setups: free shipping thresholds, weight-based rates, table rates, category surcharges, remote postcodes and more.
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Why didn’t my shipping rule apply?
Work through the causes in order, cheapest check first. The Simulator settles nearly all of them, and the order decision panel settles the rest.
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How shipping rules work
WHERE, WHEN, THEN and SHOW AS; AND versus OR; how rule order sets priority; and what happens when several rules match the same cart.
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Shipping condition reference
All sixteen conditions with their operators and behaviour, plus postcode syntax and what is free versus Pro.
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Shipping costs and tiers
The four cost types, how tiered extras stack, and free-shipping thresholds — including the two behaviours that most often surprise people.
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Shipping Rate Builder settings
Rule evaluation, the free-shipping progress bar, units and the dimensional weight divisor, and what happens when you uninstall.
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Shipping Rate Builder FAQ and translating
Short answers to the questions we are asked most, plus how to translate the plugin into another language.
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Do I need to add the plugin to my shipping zones?
No, and it will not appear in the Add shipping method dialog. Here is what runs instead, and how to target particular zones from inside a rule.
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Can I set a maximum or minimum order weight?
You can control when a rate is offered by cart weight. What you cannot do is refuse shipping above a weight, and this explains why and what to use instead.
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