Hi - we are looking to do the same thing. Did you ever receive any help setting up the metafield to do this?
Topic summary
Goal: show longer processing times for specific products so customers don’t expect 2–4 day delivery when certain items take 1–2 weeks to dispatch. Notes in product descriptions are being missed.
Developments:
- Since only three products are affected, a manual approach is feasible.
- Suggested solution: use Shopify metafields (custom per‑product data) and display them on the storefront via theme code. The original poster is unfamiliar with coding and asked for step‑by‑step guidance, which wasn’t provided.
- Another suggestion: create a shipping-related metafield and sync it to Google Merchant Center using a third‑party app (e.g., Nabu for Google Shopping Feed). This addresses shopping feeds, not clearly the on-site checkout messaging.
Key terms:
- Metafields: custom fields attached to products to store extra info (e.g., processing time) that can be rendered in the theme.
- Frontend: the customer-facing storefront.
- Google Merchant Center: platform for product feeds used in Google Shopping.
Status:
- No concrete implementation steps or code snippets were shared.
- The original poster later confirmed they never managed to set it up.
- Unresolved; practical guidance to display per-product processing times at checkout/product page remains outstanding.