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Best Shopify Estimated Delivery Date Apps for 2026

Looking for the best estimated delivery date app for your Shopify store? We compared 9 top Shopify ETA and EDD apps (also called delivery date or shipping time apps) on cut-off times, holidays, shipping zones, placements and price.

  • Updated 19 Oct 2026
  • 9 apps compared
  • By the Essential Apps team
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🥇Best Shopify Estimated Delivery Date app

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Estimated Delivery Date

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Essential Estimated Delivery Date shows a real-time delivery date or date range on product pages, in the cart and at checkout, calculated from your cut-off hour, processing time and shipping time, with blocked dates for holidays and weekends and a dispatch countdown. Every feature is included on every plan, including Free: Markets and geolocation targeting for different shipping zones, translations, countdown timers and 50+ widget templates, where most alternatives lock zone rules, holidays or cart placement behind a paid tier. Paid plans only add monthly views. It's the most-reviewed dedicated delivery date app on the Shopify App Store: 5.0 ★ from 1,039 reviews (98% five-star), Built for Shopify, 24/7 support.

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Our picks at a glance

  • Best overall: Essential Estimated Delivery Date. Every feature free, including Markets and zones, cut-off times, holidays, countdowns, and cart and checkout placement. Free up to 1,000 views, then from $4.99/mo. ⭐️ 5.0 (1,039)

  • For Shopify Plus stores shipping from several warehouses: Estimated Delivery Date ‑ ETA by SetuBridge. Warehouse-based ETAs and Plus checkout dates on its $19.99/mo plan; the free plan stops at 100 views. ⭐️ 4.9 (512)

  • For stores that want shipping protection bundled in: S Estimated Delivery Date Plus. Includes a shipping protection quota; cut-off times and holidays start at $4.99/mo. ⭐️ 4.9 (450)

  • For catalogs under 100 products with one closure day: C‑EDD. The free plan covers 100 products and 1 holiday; more needs $4.98/mo. ⭐️ 4.9 (379)

  • For stores that also want a tracking page and accept per-order fees: NS Estimated Delivery Date. From $7.99/mo plus a fee per extra tracked order. ⭐️ 4.9 (93)

  • For showing the estimate as a timeline graphic: Estimated Delivery Date & ETA by CodeRagon. Cart and checkout start at $4.99/mo. ⭐️ 4.7 (87)

  • For single-market stores under 5,000 monthly views: WowETA. Location detection needs the $5.99/mo plan. ⭐️ 5.0 (25)

  • For trying out a delivery date widget: XB Estimated Delivery Date EDD. Free, launched January 2026, product and cart pages only. ⭐️ 5.0 (22)

  • For post-purchase tracking only: 17TRACK Order Tracking. No product-page dates; delivery dates appear on its tracking page from $49/mo. ⭐️ 4.9 (4,509)

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Estimated delivery date app comparison: what you get for free

Most delivery date apps have a free plan, but the features that make a date accurate (cut-off times, holidays and shipping zones) and the places it can appear are often locked to paid tiers. This table shows what each free plan includes.

App Free plan limit Cut-off & holidays on Free Zones / Markets on Free Cart & checkout on Free Paid from Rating
Essential Estimated Delivery Date 1,000 views/mo, all features ✅ Both ✅ Markets + geolocation ✅ Both $4.99/mo ⭐️ 5.0 (1,039)
Estimated Delivery Date ‑ ETA by SetuBridge 100 views/mo ❌ Paid (from $6.99) ❌ Paid (from $14.99) ✅ Both $6.99/mo ⭐️ 4.9 (512)
S Estimated Delivery Date Plus 3 rules ❌ Paid (from $4.99) ❌ Paid (from $4.99) Cart only (checkout from $18.99) $4.99/mo ⭐️ 4.9 (450)
C‑EDD: Estimated Delivery Date 100 products 1 holiday ❌ Paid (from $4.98) Not listed $4.98/mo ⭐️ 4.9 (379)
NS Estimated Delivery Date 100 products Holidays only (cut-off from $7.99) ✅ Zip code, shipping method ❌ Paid (from $7.99) $7.99/mo ⭐️ 4.9 (93)
Estimated Delivery Date & ETA (CodeRagon) 5 rules Holidays only ❌ Paid (from $8.99) ❌ Paid (from $4.99) $4.99/mo ⭐️ 4.7 (87)
WowETA Estimated Delivery Date 5,000 views/mo Cut-off and workdays ❌ Paid ($5.99) ✅ Both $5.99/mo ⭐️ 5.0 (25)
XB Estimated Delivery Date EDD Free app ✅ Both ✅ Geolocation Cart only – ⭐️ 5.0 (22)
17TRACK Order Tracking 50 shipments/mo n/a (post-purchase) n/a n/a (EDD on tracking page from $49) $9/mo ⭐️ 4.9 (4,509)

Ratings, review counts, prices and plan features are taken from each app's Shopify App Store listing on 19 October 2026. "Not listed" means the listing doesn't say whether the free plan includes it.

How we ranked these apps

Disclosure: Essential Apps makes Essential Estimated Delivery Date, our top pick, and SetuBridge is an Essential Apps partner. Every claim on this page comes from each app's public Shopify App Store listing, checked on 19 October 2026.

We started from the top results for "estimate delivery date" on the Shopify App Store and ranked apps on five things:

  1. Delivery rules: cut-off times, processing time, holidays, shipping zones and product rules

  2. Placements: product page, cart and checkout

  3. How much of that is on the free plan

  4. Paid pricing and what limits it (views, rules or products)

  5. Rating, number of reviews and Built for Shopify status

How Can Estimated Delivery Date Apps Help Me?

"When will it arrive?" is one of the last questions a shopper asks before buying. If the answer is buried in a shipping policy page, many leave to find it, and some never come back. An estimated delivery date app answers it right next to the Add to cart button, with a specific date or range instead of a vague "3-7 business days".

The same date keeps working after the sale. Customers who saw a clear arrival date are less likely to email asking where their order is, which cuts "Where is my order?" tickets. And a cut-off countdown ("Order within 2h 15m to ship today") adds honest urgency without a fake discount timer.

Delivery dates matter most for made-to-order products, dropshipping and other long lead times, holiday gifting, and stores shipping to several countries, where one generic shipping time is wrong for most visitors.

Shopify's Built-In Delivery Dates vs. an App

Shopify can show delivery dates natively: you can add delivery date ranges to your shipping rates, and some stores can turn on automated delivery dates in their shipping settings. Those dates mainly appear at checkout, and what's available depends on your store's country and shipping setup.

An app is the better choice when you want the date in front of shoppers before checkout, on product pages and in the cart, or when you need cut-off hours, holiday and weekend blocking, different processing times per product, different estimates per market, a dispatch countdown or a widget designed to match your theme.

Choosing The Best Estimated Delivery Date App

Start with the rules your delivery dates depend on (cut-off times, holidays, shipping zones and per-product lead times) and where the date needs to appear, then check which plan unlocks them: on many apps the free plan looks generous until holidays, geolocation or cart placement turn out to be paid. Still unsure? The FAQs below cover the most common questions.

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Essential Estimated Delivery Date. It's rated 5.0 from 1,039 reviews, is Built for Shopify, and includes every feature on the free plan: cut-off times, holiday and weekend blocking, Markets and geolocation targeting, product page, cart and checkout placements, countdown timers and translations. Most other apps on this list lock cut-off times, holidays, shipping zones or cart placement behind paid plans.
Partly. Shopify lets you add delivery date ranges to shipping rates, and some stores can turn on automated delivery dates, but these mainly appear at checkout and depend on your store's country and shipping setup. To show a delivery date on product pages and in the cart, before checkout, with cut-off countdowns, holiday rules and per-product processing times, you need an app such as Essential Estimated Delivery Date.
You don't need custom Liquid or JavaScript. Install an estimated delivery date app, set your processing time, minimum and maximum shipping time, daily cut-off hour and blocked dates, then add the app's widget to your product page in the theme editor. With Essential Estimated Delivery Date the range (for example "Arrives Oct 24 – Oct 28") recalculates automatically every day, skipping weekends and holidays, and is free up to 1,000 monthly views.
Yes. Essential Estimated Delivery Date handles all three on every plan, including Free: cut-off hours, blocked dates for holidays, weekends and non-working days, and Markets and geolocation targeting so shoppers in each shipping zone see their own delivery estimate. Most alternatives only cover all three on paid plans, for example SetuBridge from $14.99/month.
It's the most-reviewed dedicated estimated delivery date app on the Shopify App Store: 5.0 stars from 1,039 reviews, 98% of them five-star, Built for Shopify, and used by brands such as Nestlé, Sony and Lush. Every plan has the same features; you only pay for more monthly views: Free (1,000 views), Starter $4.99/month (5,000), Essential $9.99/month (15,000) and Professional $24.99/month (unlimited). Most alternatives gate holidays, geolocation or cart placement behind paid tiers.
Yes. Essential Estimated Delivery Date uses Shopify Markets and geolocation targeting, so a shopper in Germany and one in the US see different estimates, on every plan including Free. In most other apps, country, zip code or geolocation rules start on a paid plan: SetuBridge from $14.99/month, S Estimated Delivery Date Plus from $9.99/month and CodeRagon from $8.99/month.
Most have a free plan, but each caps a different thing. Some limit monthly views (Essential Estimated Delivery Date 1,000, WowETA 5,000, SetuBridge 100), some limit rules (S Estimated Delivery Date Plus 3, CodeRagon 5), and some limit products (C-EDD and NS Estimated Delivery Date 100). Check which features the free plan actually includes: Essential Estimated Delivery Date is the only one here with every feature free and 1,000+ reviews.
Most apps add up three things from the moment the shopper views the page: whether the order will make today's cut-off, your processing (handling) time, and the minimum and maximum shipping time for the shopper's location, skipping weekends, holidays and other blocked dates. For example, with a 2pm cut-off, 1 day of processing and 3-5 days of shipping, an order placed Monday at 10am ships Tuesday and arrives Friday to the following Tuesday.
An estimated delivery date app tells shoppers when their order should arrive, based on your rules. A delivery date picker lets shoppers choose a delivery or pickup date themselves, which suits local delivery, flowers, food or furniture. Most online stores that ship by carrier need an estimated delivery date app; if your customers need to book a specific day, a picker such as Buunto is the right tool.
It removes one of the most common reasons shoppers hesitate, so it usually helps, and merchants consistently report fewer "Where is my order?" questions after adding one. The impact depends on your products and shipping times, so the best way to know is to test it: run a split test with and without the delivery date widget using an A/B testing app such as Essential A/B Testing.