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Enable / Disable Delivery Dates for Virtual Products & Featured Products

In our last post, you saw how you can apply a tax on delivery charges. Now in this post, we will be discussing on how you can Disable Delivery Date and Time Slot on Checkout Page for Virtual Product and Featured Products.

WooCommerce allows you to set your products as Virtual and Featured Products. From our Order Delivery Date Pro for WooCommerce plugin, you can disable the Delivery Date and Time Slot Fields for such products. You can setup this in the admin dashboard, under Order Delivery Date -> General Settings -> Additional Settings.

General Settings
General Settings

Admin experience to hide delivery date and time slot on the checkout page for Virtual Products

Virtual products typically refer to non-physical products. Examples of this would be downloadable games, phone applications, software upgrades, digital books, online music, online movies, etc. Products might be in both the ways virtual and downloadable and sometimes it can be only virtual, for example:

  • a membership would be virtual but not downloadable
  • a consulting would be virtual but not downloadable
  • an e-book would be both virtual and downloadable

If you are selling a virtual product like EBooks and you want to hide delivery date and time slot field on the checkout page so you have to check Disable the Delivery Date and Time Slot Fields for checkbox.

Disable and Enable Delivery Date and Time Slot field for Virtual Products
Disable and Enable Delivery Date and Time Slot field for Virtual Products

Disable delivery date and time slot on the checkout page for Virtual Products

Once the above checkbox is checked then if the customer visits your website to purchase an Ebook so they will find the delivery date and time slot fields are not shown on the checkout page.

Disable Delivery Date and Time Slot on Checkout Page for Virtual Product
Disable Delivery Date and Time Slot on Checkout Page for Virtual Product

But if above checkbox is unchecked then the customer will find the delivery date and time slot field is shown on the checkout page.

Enable Delivery Date & Time Slot on Checkout Page for Virtual Product
Enable Delivery Date & Time Slot on Checkout Page for Virtual Product

Admin experience to hide delivery date and time slot on the checkout page for Featured Products

Featured products are a great way to promote specific items on your website and are easy to setup in WooCommerce. Once you setup some featured products, you can either display them throughout your website with a shortcode or with a widget.

Similarly as above, if you are selling Ebooks where have set Famous last words book as featured book. In this featured book you want to hide Delivery Date and Time Slot then you have to check Disable the Delivery Date and Time Slot Fields for checkbox.

Disable and Enable Delivery Date and Time Slot field for Featured Products
Disable and Enable Delivery Date and Time Slot field for Featured Products

Disable delivery date and time slot on the checkout page for Featured Products

Once the above checkbox is checked then if the customer visits your website and purchase a Famous last words book which is featured product then they will find the delivery date and time slot fields are not shown on the checkout page.

Disable Delivery Date and Time Slot on Checkout Page for Featured Product
Disable Delivery Date and Time Slot on Checkout Page for Featured Product

But if above checkbox is unchecked then the customer will find the delivery date and time slot field is shown on the checkout page.

Enable Delivery Date and Time Slot on Checkout Page for Featured Product
Enable Delivery Date and Time Slot on Checkout Page for Featured Product

Conclusion

In this post, you saw how you can hide Delivery Date and Time Slot for Virtual & Featured Products. By default, both the checkbox are unchecked when the plugin is installed. The setup will take less than 5 minutes.

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