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Delivery estimates ​

NXCart can tell shoppers how long they have to order for the earliest dispatch, and when their order should arrive:

Order within 2 h 15 min to ship today Estimated delivery to Germany: Wed 30 Sep – Fri 2 Oct

It shows on product pages, under the cart and at checkout, where it follows the shipping method the shopper chooses.

Setting it up ​

  1. Go to NXCart → Settings → General → Delivery estimate and tick Show delivery estimates.
  2. Fill in:
    • Handling time: business days you need to get an order ready. 0 means it ships the day it is ordered.
    • Daily order cut-off: orders after this time count from the next business day.
    • Time zone of the cut-off: leave it on the site's time zone unless you ship from somewhere else.
    • Product pages estimate delivery to: the country product pages show the estimate for, usually where most of your customers are.
    • Days you do not ship: holidays, one date per line as year-month-day, for example 2026-12-25.
  3. Save.
  4. Go to Shipping and give each shipping method its Transit time: how many business days the carrier takes, fastest and slowest. A method without one shows no delivery date.

Business days are Monday to Friday, minus the days you do not ship.

How the dates are worked out ​

  • An order placed on a business day before the cut-off counts from today; otherwise from the next business day.
  • It ships after the handling time, and arrives after the method's transit time, both in business days.
  • Product pages use the fastest method that ships to the country you chose and takes the product's weight.
  • The cart and checkout use the longest handling time among the products in the cart, since the parcel leaves in one go.
  • Digital products have no delivery estimate.

The countdown updates by itself each minute, and moves the dates on when the cut-off passes.

A product that takes longer ​

In the product editor, Handling time on the General tab replaces the store's for that product, for example for items made to order. Leave it empty to use the store's.

Google ​

When you choose a country, product pages tell Google the shipping price and the handling and transit times in their structured data, which Google can show in search results.