The One & Only WooCommerce Lead Time Plugin

Lead time is the processing period between when a customer orders and when you ship their product - it doesn't normally include delivery time.

Customers hate uncertainty. When they can't find out how long they'll wait for their order, they often abandon their cart or flood your inbox with "Where's my order?" emails.

By displaying lead times clearly, you set the right expectations upfront. A customer who knows their custom furniture takes 3 weeks to build won't email you after 3 days asking where it is. They'll happily wait because they knew what to expect when they ordered.

The WooCommerce Lead Time WordPress plugin automatically displays these waiting times throughout your store. They appear on product pages, in the cart, at checkout, and in order emails. No more guessing games for your customers.

Stock-based lead times automatically display different WooCommerce lead times when products are in stock, out of stock, or on backorder.

Just add a WooCommerce lead time for the product, and choose whether you want it to appear for In Stock, Out of Stock or On Backorder products. If you choose Out of Stock and/or Backorder, then no lead time will appear for In Stock items. When they go out of stock, the lead time message will appear automatically.

WooCommerce Lead Time also has an option to set a different lead time for each stock status. For example, you might want to set a lead time of "1 working day" for In Stock products, and a lead time of "2 weeks" for On Backorder products. When stock runs out, the lead time message will automatically change so that customers always know what to expect.

Yes - you can use all the different lead time options together. The plugin contains advanced logic to ensure that if more than one lead time applies, then it will always show the most appropriate lead time. For example:

• If a global lead time is set, then this will only be used for categories and products that do not have their own lead times.
• The category lead time will override the global lead time, and will only appear on products that do not have individual lead times.
• A product lead time overrides the global and category lead times.
• An individual variation lead time will override all the above.

The WooCommerce Lead Time plugin comes with two types of product lead time:

• Static lead times - You add some fixed text to display on the page. For example, if you add a static lead time of "5 days" then "5 days" will always appear. This is the best option if your products always have consistent lead times.
• Dynamic lead times - You set a date when the product will become available, and the plugin automatically calculates the WooCommerce lead time based on this date. For example, if you have ordered stock to arrive on 30th November and it is currently 10th November then the lead time will be displayed as "10 days". This is the best option if a product is due to arrive on a particular date, after which it will become available. The dynamic lead time counts down to a fixed date you set in advance - it does not calculate a date relative to when the customer places their order.

You can use a combination of static and dynamic lead times for different products and stock statuses.

Yes, you can combine lead times with delivery dates using by using WooCommerce Lead Time with the WooCommerce Opening Hours & Chosen Times plugin. The two plugins work together automatically:

• WooCommerce Lead Time displays the processing time on product pages.
• Opening Hours & Chosen Times adds this lead time to calculate available delivery dates.
• Customers can only select delivery slots after the longest lead time for the products in their cart.

For example, if a cart contains products with 7-day and 14-day lead times, then customers can only choose delivery slots 14+ days in the future. This ensures all products are ready before the delivery date.

This combination is perfect for stores that want to show both lead times and delivery dates. It gives customers complete visibility of when they'll receive their order.

WooCommerce Lead Time can show lead times on the single product page, shop page, products categories, cart, checkout, order details page, and order confirmation emails. You can easily show or hide the product lead time for each of these locations.

It also comes with a lead time block. Use this if you're using blocks to create product lists and want to include the lead time on these pages.

For even more ways to display lead times, you can use WooCommerce Lead Time alongside our other plugins:

• Combine WooCommerce Lead Time with our WooCommerce Product Table plugin to list products anywhere on your site, complete with lead time column. You can use product tables to list products on any page or post, or on shop and product category pages.
• Use WooCommerce Lead Time with WooCommerce Quick View Pro to show lead times within a product lightbox, which can be accessed from the shop page, category archive pages, or related products.
• Install WooCommerce Fast Cart to allow customers to quickly complete their order in a popup cart and checkout, complete with lead time information.
• Use our developer documentation to programmatically display lead times anywhere you like.

WooCommerce Lead Time works with any well-coded WordPress theme and most plugins. It uses your existing fonts and is styled to look good with most themes. You can add lead times without a developer, custom code, or theme file edits.

The lead time shows in a generic dark grey by default. You can change that with the color picker on the plugin settings page.

WooCommerce Lead Time shows inside the stock element on the single product page. It uses the same position even when you are not managing stock, which keeps the spacing right in every theme. Because it only writes into the stock part of the product page, it works with most plugins. It is fully compatible with all Barn2 plugins and most plugins from other companies.

The Barn2 theme compatibility guide shows which themes work with Barn2's plugins.

WooCommerce Lead Time is designed to work with any WordPress translation plugin such as WPML, WeGlot and TranslatePress. This makes it easy for you to translate the lead time text into any language and use it on multilingual websites.

WooCommerce Lead Time is fully tested with the latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce. We always recommend running the most up-to-date version, but we also support older installations:

• WooCommerce 7.2 or greater (tested to 11.0.1)
• WordPress 6.1 or greater (tested to 7.0.4)
• PHP 7.4 or greater (tested to 8.5)
• MySQL 5.7.8 or greater / MariaDB 10.3 or greater

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