Scheduling item availability
Show an item only during a set window — a one-off date range or a repeating daily, weekly, monthly or annual schedule. Out-of-window items are hidden from shoppers.
Scheduling lets an item appear on your storefront only during the times you choose — ideal for a daily special, a weekly market stall, a monthly drop or a seasonal product. Outside its window, the item is automatically hidden from shoppers but stays fully visible to you in your dashboard.
Turn scheduling on
- Open the item in the editor from your Items list.
- Find the Availability section and switch on the schedule toggle.
- Set a Start and (optionally) an End using the date-and-time pickers.
- Choose a Recurrence (see below).
- Save.
Tip: If you leave scheduling switched off, the item is treated as always available — any old dates left in the boxes are cleared on save, so toggling off is a clean reset.
One-off vs recurring windows
The Recurrence setting decides whether the window happens once or repeats:
- One-off — the item is visible just once, for the single Start → End range. After the end time it's hidden for good.
- Daily — the same time-of-day window every day (e.g. a lunch special from 11:00 to 14:00).
- Weekly — the same weekday and time every week (e.g. a Saturday market).
- Monthly — the same day-of-month and time each month.
- Annually — the same date (month and day) and time each year, perfect for seasonal items.
For recurring schedules, the Start sets when the pattern begins and fixes the time-of-day (and weekday / day-of-month / date) that repeats. If you don't set an End, each occurrence runs for one hour from the start time by default.
Stopping a recurring schedule
Recurring items can be capped with a repeat until date. After that date the item stops appearing even though the pattern would otherwise still match. Leave it blank to repeat indefinitely.
How hiding works
- On the public storefront and category pages, items outside their current window are simply not shown.
- If a shopper opens a direct link to an out-of-window item, they get a not found page — the listing reveals itself again only when its window comes round.
- Your own dashboard ignores scheduling entirely, so you always see and can edit every item regardless of its window.
Warning: A scheduled item still has to be Active (published) to appear. Scheduling controls when a live item shows; it doesn't publish a draft for you.