Free Opening Hours Plugin for WooCommerce

Codiffy Store Hours for WooCommerce lets your shop take orders only when you can fulfill them. Set opening hours for each day of the week, add holiday closures, or close the whole store with one tick. While the store is closed, customers can still browse your products, but they cannot add to the cart or check out, and a clear notice tells them when you open again.

It suits restaurants, takeaways, bakeries, florists, local delivery and click-and-collect shops, and any store that needs to pause orders for a holiday or a stock-take. It is free on WordPress.org.

How WooCommerce store hours work: a worked example

A bakery sets this weekly schedule and two holiday closures:

• A customer visits on Saturday at 3:00 pm. The store closed at 2:00 pm, so the Add to cart button is replaced by “Ordering is paused while the store is closed.” and the notice bar tells them you open again on Monday at 9:00 am.
• Items already in their cart stay there. If they go to checkout, it is blocked with your closed message, in both the classic and the block checkout.
• On Monday at 9:00 am everything switches back on by itself. On 25 December the store stays closed all day, whatever the weekly schedule says.

A late-night takeaway can set Friday to open between 6:00 pm and 2:00 am: a closing time earlier than the opening time runs past midnight, so the store takes orders from Friday evening until 2:00 am on Saturday. Hours follow the timezone in Settings > General, including daylight saving time.

How to set up store hours in WooCommerce

1. Install and activate WooCommerce, then install Codiffy Store Hours from Plugins > Add New (search for “Codiffy Store Hours”).
2. Go to WooCommerce > Store Hours. The top of the screen shows whether the store is open right now and the current site time.
3. Set each day to Open all day, Open between two times, or Closed. “Copy Monday to all days” fills in the week in one click.
4. Add any holiday dates, one per line: a single date or a range.
5. Write your closed message (or keep the default), choose where the notice shows, and save.

Until you change the schedule, every day is set to Open all day, so activating the plugin never closes your store by surprise. Shop managers can change the hours; no administrator access is needed. If the times look an hour out, choose a city in Settings > General > Timezone instead of a UTC offset, so daylight saving time is handled for you.

Show your hours on any page

• [codiffy_store_hours] shows your weekly opening hours as a table.
• [codiffy_store_status] shows only the current open or closed message.
• In the notice, {next_open} shows when you open again and {today_hours} shows today’s hours. You can also show a notice while the store is open, for example with today’s hours.

A free plugin, with no premium version

Codiffy Store Hours is completely free under the GPLv2 or later license, with no premium tier and no upsells. It is a rewrite of Codiffy’s own in-house “Open Close Store” plugin. It works with the classic and block cart and checkout, the WooCommerce Store API and AJAX add to cart, block and classic themes, and HPOS order storage. It passed Plugin Check with no errors or warnings and an independent security review, contacts no external service, tracks nobody, and loads its notice files only when the notice is shown.

For developers

The filter codiffy_store_hours_is_open lets you override the open or closed decision, for example for a custom rule.

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