Prestashop Delivery Time Slot {User-Guide}

Prestashop Delivery Time Slot: Multiple delivery attempts by courier services in order to deliver the product is very common these days.

It not only creates a problem for delivery personnel but for the customers too. The reason owing to this problem could be anything.

Hence, in order to minimize the issue arising in delivery and to ensure efficiency in the delivery of products, we bring you the Prestashop delivery time slot module.

This module helps customers to choose the time slots suitable for the delivery of the products.

The customers can simply choose a suitable slot at the time of checkout. Sometimes, it also happens that a customer wants to update the delivery slot after placing the order.

So, to help the customer in that case, an option to update the slot is also available on the order details page.

Note: The module is compatible with PrestaShop multi-store feature.

• Allow customers to select a convenient order delivery date and time at the checkout.
• Create any number of delivery time slots for each day of the week.
• Set minimum gap between start and end delivery time.
• Set the number of days (Minimum Lead Time) after which customers can select pre-defined time slots.
• Customers can update the delivery time slot even after placing the order.
• Dispay the number of available time slots on the checkout page.
• Show delivery date and time on email, invoice, and delivery slip.
• Make slot selection mandatory on the checkout page.
• Select the order status on which customers cannot change the time slot.
• Enable on disble delivery time slots from the back office.
• Customers can view the delivery date and time on the order confirmation and details page.
• View delivery time slot selected by customers in order listing and details page.
• Show delivery time in 24 or 12 hour format.
• Prestashop Delivery Time Slot module is Multishop compatible.

• Firstly, go to the module manager in the back office and click on ‘upload a module’.
• After that, drag and drop the module file or select the file from the system.
• In this way, the module installation will be successful.

After the installation of the module, you need to configure it.

Use Pre-defined slots

Enable this field to allow customers to select pre-defined delivery time slots. After enabling this field, you need to specifiy the minimum lead time and days limit.

Minimum Lead Time

Here, you need to specify the minimum number of days after which the customers can select the preferred delivery date and time. For example, You have set 3 in the Minimum lead time field.

Now, if a customer adds a product to the cart on 29/04/2024, then he can select the delivery slot for 02/05/2024.

Days limit

In this field, you need to specify the number of days from lead time for which delivery date and slots are displayed on the checkout page.

For example, if you have set 3 as minimum lead time and 7 in days limit field.

Then, the delivery slot will display from 02/05/2024 – 08/05/2024 if you have set delivery slot for all the days in a week.

Front End View

As configured by admin from the back office, customer can select preferred delivery date & time after minimum lead time. Also, delivery slots are displayed for 7 days from lead time.

In the above screenshot, it can be seen that the time slot is displayed in 12-hour format.

Time Slot

This option lets customers select the preferred delivery slot. On enabling this field, you need to set minimum time gap.

Minimum Time Gap

In this field, you need to set the minimum time gap between the start and end delivery time. For example, you have set 10 minutes in this field.

Now, while selecting the delivery slot on the checkout page, if a customer selects 12:30 in From (Start Delivery Time) field, then he need to select 12:40 in To (End Delivery Time) field.

That is, a minimum time gap of 10 minutes should be there.

If a customer selects 12:35 in To (End Delivery Time) field, then an error will display on the checkout page as show below:

Day Slot

This option allows the customers to select delivery day on the checkout page. Kindly note that on activating the day slot field, the date slot field gets disabled.

Also, you can select days for which you want to allow delivery.

If you enable “Day Slot” and disable “TIme Slot, then only delivery day option will display on the checkout page. And, the customers can select the day for order delivery.

Date Slot

This option enables customers to select the delivery date for their orders.

On enabling the “Date Slot” field, you need to set the minimum number of days after which the customers can select the delivery date for their orders.

Also, you can select days for which you want to allow delivery.

After successfully placing the order, the delivery date and time selected by a customer is visible on the order confirmation page.

The delivery time slot selected by the customer for their ordered product will be included in the order confirmation email once the order is confirmed.

Customer can change the preferred delivery time after placing the order on the order details page if the status of the order is not updated to status selected in the Delivery time slot settings.

If the status of an order is changed to the selected status say delivered, then the customer won’t be able to update the delivery time.

Kindly note that only one configuration (Pre-defined slots or Time Slot) will work at a time.

The preferred delivery time selected by a customer is also displayed in the order listing and order details pages in the back office.

Post-installation, a new tab “Delivery Time Slot” gets available under Orders in the back office. From here, you can add and manage the pre-defined time slots to display on the checkout page.

Click on “Create slot for everyday” button to add time slot of each day of the week.

While adding a new time slot, you need to select start time, end time, and available slots.

You can also add time slot for specific day of the week. Click on the Edit button given against each day under Manage daywise slot.

While adding a time slot, you can choose to show number of available slots on the checkout page.

Note: If ‘Show slots’ field is enabled in Delivery Time Slot Settings, then ‘Show slot availability’ gets automatically disabled on update slot page.

Front End View

On the checkout page, customers can view time slots and select them as per convenience.

Once the customer has placed an order, he can update the delivery date and time from the order details page.

Now, if the same or another customer adds a product to the cart, then updated time slots will be visible to him on the checkout page.

This was all about Prestashop Delivery Time Slot Module. I hope this document will help you in checking the functionality of the module in a better way.

Also, do let us know about your views in the comments.

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