GoalPrevail Shipping Countdown Timer

Most ”order in the next 10 minutes!” timers are fake – they reset on every page load and pressure shoppers with a deadline that doesn’t mean anything. GoalPrevail Shipping Countdown Timer does the opposite. You tell it when your shipping department actually works, and it shows a countdown to your real same-day dispatch cut-off. When the cut-off passes (or it’s the weekend, or a holiday), it quietly switches to a calm, static message.

That’s urgency you can stand behind – and shoppers can trust.

• Tied to your real shipping hours – set the timezone, working days, and the daily dispatch cut-off. The timer counts down to your cut-off.
• Order buffer – give the warehouse breathing room: ”orders must be in 30 minutes before cut-off” so you never over-promise.
• Two messages, your words – one for during shipping hours (with the live [countdown]), one for outside hours. Basic formatting allowed, so ”Fast Shipping!” can be bold.
• Self-hosted icons – a crisp truck/package/bolt drawn as inline SVG. It never loads Font Awesome, so it can’t clash with an icon font your theme already uses. Prefer your own? Paste any icon markup (e.g. a Font Awesome <i>).
• Place it where you want – above or below the Add to Cart button, under the price, after the short description, or after the product meta. Or drop the [gpsct_shipping_countdown] shortcode anywhere.
• Cache-safe by design – the countdown is recomputed in the visitor’s browser, in your store’s timezone, every second. A fully page-cached product page is always correct, never stuck on a stale time.
• Holidays & days off – list the dates your team isn’t shipping; the timer shows the ”outside hours” message on those days.
• Looks the part – accent colour, optional coloured box, alignment, font size, long (”6 hours 45 min”) or short (”6h 45m”) format, and an optional seconds counter.
• Respects stock – hide the same-day promise on out-of-stock or backordered products (on by default), so you never promise what you can’t ship.
• Live preview – the settings screen previews the exact banner, ticking on your real schedule, as you edit.

Built by Goal Prevail. No account, no upsells, no banners in your dashboard, and it makes zero external requests.