Common use cases
Every recipe below uses only what the module has: slots with a capacity, Days bookable ahead, and the calendar rules shared with Delivery Window.
1. Grocery — four slots a day
One local-delivery shipping method and four slots, each created with Monday to Saturday ticked: 08:00–11:00 "Morning", 11:00–14:00 "Midday", 14:00–17:00 "Afternoon", 17:00–20:00 "Evening". Every tick makes its own slot, so four forms give you 24 slots. Set the capacity to what one route carries on one date, for example 25.
With 1 processing day and a 14:00 cut-off, a shopper ordering at 10:00 on Monday can pick Tuesday; at 15:00, Wednesday.
2. Furniture and large items — two slots, low capacity
Two slots per weekday, 08:00–12:00 and 13:00–17:00, with a capacity of 6: your crew is the limit, not your warehouse. Give made-to-order products their own processing days (for example 5) — the calendar waits for the slowest product in the cart. Raise Days bookable ahead to 30 so shoppers can plan.
3. Same-day delivery — hourly slots
Set processing days to 0 and the cut-off to the last moment you still take a same-day order, for example 18:00. Before the cut-off today is bookable; after it, tomorrow is the first date. Create hourly slots from 11:00 to 21:00 and keep Days bookable ahead at 1 or 2.
A slot of today stays on offer until it starts, and slots that have started disappear on their own. There is no minimum notice in hours, so the cut-off is your safety margin.
4. Separate capacity per shipping method
"Standard delivery" and "Express" can each have their own slots. A shopper who picks Express sees only Express slots, and its bookings never use Standard's capacity, even on the same date and time. Shipping methods without slots check out exactly as before.
5. Closed days and short weeks
- Public holiday — add it under Calendar rules → Holidays, once or every year. Shoppers see the date greyed out, and it does not count as a processing day.
- No Sunday deliveries — create no Sunday slots. Working days decide how processing days are counted; your slots decide which days you deliver.
- A driver off for a week — switch those slots off in the slot list and back on afterwards. Orders already booked keep their time.
6. Marketplaces
A booking needs a cart that ships as one package. A cart with products from several sellers shows no calendar and is ordered without a slot. Slots belong to shipping methods, not to sellers: sellers who use the same shipping method share its slots and capacity.