I’d love to use Shopify’s native Estimated Delivery Dates feature, but I need to be able to vary the Processing (handling) days. For example, if someone is choosing FedEx overnight or 2 day, we prioritize those to ship within 1 business day, versus 3 business days for our economy shipping option. We also offer a “rush” upcharge for the economy option to get it out the door sooner.
And certain products (if drop-shipped) require an extra day of handling time too.
Ideally, there would be a setting within each shipping profile for the Processing Days, not a single global setting that applies to all shipping methods. And a global setting for what days of the week we ship, ability to add holidays, and a time cut-off for what can make it out the door same day vs next day. We had to build our own custom code solution to make this work. But there’s definitely a need in the community for more customization of Processing Days.
Thank you for your question!
The automated delivery date option uses your store’s actual processing time and delivery history to predict when an order will arrive. Because these predictions learn from your operations over time, they automatically adjust if your processing times change based on order characteristics or during seasonal periods. This helps ensure buyers always see the most accurate and up-to-date delivery expectations.
The manual delivery date options give you more control over your processing time expectations. They generate a delivery date range by adding your selected processing time to the transit times defined in your shipping rates. However, processing time can only be set at the store level, and cannot be configured for shipping profiles.
If you prefer a delivery date option that adapts to your shipping operations and dynamically adjusts processing time expectations based on your order history, we recommend using automated delivery dates.