Chronos – Opening Hours & Scheduling
Chronos – Opening Hours & Scheduling helps store owners control exactly when WooCommerce can accept orders.
It is built for restaurants, fast food delivery, local pickup, small retail shops, and service businesses where orders must follow real opening hours. Set your weekly schedule, add breaks, mark days as closed, enter manual holidays, and let Chronos automatically block ordering when the store is closed.
The FREE plugin focuses on the essentials: clear store status, reliable order blocking, customer-friendly notices, and a clean admin workflow without unnecessary bloat.
Why store owners use Chronos
- Stop WooCommerce orders automatically when the store is closed
- Show customers a clear closed-store notice instead of allowing failed orders
- Display reopening information and a weekly opening-hours dialog
- Handle daily breaks, closed weekdays, overnight hours, and manual holidays
- Keep staff in control with Auto, Open, and Closed modes from the admin bar
- Use WordPress timezone, date format, and time format settings
- Keep the storefront light: no tracking scripts, no external front-end assets, and no unnecessary services
Main features
- Weekly opening and closing schedule
- Optional daily break intervals
- Support for overnight opening hours
- Full-day closed setting for each weekday
- Manual holiday dates using the site's regional date format
- Automatic purchase blocking while the store is closed
- Protection for product pages, product loops, carts, checkout and the WooCommerce Store API
- Customizable closed-store notification bar
- Dismissible closed-store notification bar with SVG close control
- Reopening information and weekly store-hours dialog
- Automatic status refresh on storefront pages
- Closed product buttons with customer-friendly text
- Manual Auto, Open and Closed controls in the WordPress Admin Bar
- Copy Monday's hours or break to all other days
- Tabbed settings screen for faster navigation between plan, holidays and notice settings
- Declares compatibility with WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS)
- Translation-ready and compatible with 12-hour and 24-hour time formats
Privacy and performance
Chronos FREE does not contact external services during normal use and does not add tracking or analytics scripts. Store status is calculated locally using your WordPress settings.
Optional PRO add-on
Chronos PRO is a separate add-on distributed outside WordPress.org. It extends the FREE plugin with deadline countdown notices, automatic public holidays, a live dashboard widget, a dedicated mobile staff app, and whitelabel tools for agency/client installs.
Tested Compatibility
Tested with WordPress 7.0 and WooCommerce 10.8.
Chronos is designed for standard WooCommerce product, cart and checkout flows, including classic templates and WooCommerce Store API validation. Compatibility with heavily customized themes, checkout builders or third-party add-to-cart replacements may vary.
Multisite compatibility has not been verified yet.