Delivery Date & Pickup Stellar
A flexible delivery/pickup date picker that suits local food, flower and made-to-order shops and comes with very hands-on support, but plan on using that support for setup and theme fixes, and test that customers cannot skip the date.
Should you install it?
This is a mature, widely used delivery and pickup date picker whose reviews are almost entirely about the people behind it: support configures the calendar, moves it in your theme and builds small custom changes, usually within hours. It fits food, flower and made-to-order shops that need cut-offs, blackout dates, time slots or many pickup locations. The risks are practical: some stores have had orders slip through with no date until support added code to the theme, order tags or saved settings have occasionally stopped applying, and several features sit behind paid add-ons or are missing (no API, no picker in native checkout without Plus). Before relying on it, test that a customer cannot reach checkout without a date, ask what add-ons your rules will need, and keep a record of any code support adds to your theme.
Fair evidence. There are 554 reviews and a low negative share, but 47% come from stores under a month old and many look prompted by support chats. Real failure information rests on about 20 negative or caveated reviews, so reliability over time is hard to judge.
Right for
- Florists, bakeries, caterers, meal-prep and other perishable or made-to-order shops that need customers to choose a delivery or pickup date and time (4638, 3697, 1262, 1687)
- Stores that need cut-off times, blackout dates, lead times or different rules per product or location (6579, 1619, 3591)
- Merchants with many pickup locations or postal-code/district restrictions (8185 with 68 locations, 7607, 8929)
- Non-technical owners who want someone to configure the calendar and reposition it in the theme (8518, 7663, 4379)
- Merchants running the same setup across several stores (0308 on 5 webshops, 2214, 6168)
Wrong for
- Stores that want the date picker inside native Shopify checkout without being on Shopify Plus (6932)
- Merchants who need an API or delivery date stored in standard fields so other apps can use it (9753, 2768, 6723)
- Stores with hundreds of products that need different rules per product, because rules are set one by one (7126, 7922)
- Merchants who cannot tolerate any order slipping through without a date; enforcement sometimes needs extra theme code (2568, 3746, 1760)
- Merchants who want a fully self-serve setup with no support involvement (3939, 5530, 3083)
What will annoy you
Feature gaps: picker not in checkout without Plus, no API, date stored in custom fields other apps cannot read, no zone-based rates or global blackout dates: 11 reviews, steady, last seen 2025-07.
How the developer behaves when it breaks
Replies to almost every review, including negatives (99% overall, 85% of negatives). Replies to bad reviews are apologetic and usually point the reviewer to email, live chat, a Calendly call or WhatsApp. Often the developer says it already replied and is waiting on the merchant (6959, 4139, 5144, 5956, 0065, 4474, 2151). Sometimes the reply names a concrete cause and fix (2568: disable checkout until the calendar loads, needs theme code). Refunds were refused in one billing dispute (4535). Negative reviews rarely show a follow-up confirming resolution, though many positive reviews describe fixes made within minutes to hours.
What goes wrong 7 recurring themes
- Customers can skip the date picker and reach checkout with no delivery date (often because the calendar has not finished loading); fixed per store with extra theme code 9 reviews steady, last seen 2025-10
“Often times, it doesn't work properly. Customers are able to go to the checkout page without selecting a delivery date.” review 3746
- Order tags or saved settings (lead time, blackout dates, order limits) silently not applied, and support could not reproduce 5 reviews steady, last seen 2026-03
“AVOID. Orders were missing tags, and every time I wrote to ask why, they'd say they werent able to replicate it, etc etc.” review 8557
- Calendar intermittently not displayed, slow to load, or broken after an app update 6 reviews fading, last seen 2022-05
“Regelmatig is er een storing waardoor de kalender niet zichtbaar is.” review 6527
- Some merchants report slow or no replies from support, or not getting a fix 7 reviews steady, last seen 2025-09
“they dont answer any of my emails needing help for weeks.” review 5956
- Setup is not self-serve: settings are hard to find, per-product setup is tedious, and support is often needed to get it working 8 reviews steady, last seen 2025-12
“it is almost necessary to reach out to customer service to completely customize based on need and fix initial bugs.” review 3939
- Feature gaps: picker not in checkout without Plus, no API, date stored in custom fields other apps cannot read, no zone-based rates or global blackout dates 11 reviews steady, last seen 2025-07
“The only issue is that it the date picker does not show up on checkout unless you have Shopify plus.” review 6932
- Billing and pricing disputes: charged after uninstall with refund refused, confusion about 'free', extras sold as paid add-ons 4 reviews fading, last seen 2025-04
“me han cobrado la subscripción. he contactado con el servicio y no me quieren devolver el dinero.” review 4535
What it does well 5 themes
- Fast, human support that configures the app and edits theme code for you (live chat, email, screen-share calls) 420 reviews
“Customer service is outstanding. Worked with Hemadri today and was able to find a solution to my issue.” review 4735
- Delivery/pickup date and time rules: cut-off times, blackout dates, lead times, per-product calendars, booking far ahead 45 reviews
“allows me to set cut off timings, block out specific dates, etc.” review 6579
- Local delivery and in-store pickup for food, flower and perishable shops, including many locations and postal-code limits 40 reviews
“This app doesn't have a limit on # of locations (we're currently at 68)” review 8185
- Chosen date shows up on the order, in confirmation emails and can sync to Google Calendar or order tags 25 reviews
“The Google Calender sync is also incredibly helpful!” review 1070
- Calendar can be restyled and repositioned, and works with cart drawers and subscription apps (Seal, Bold), usually with support doing the work 30 reviews
“Another shout out to Hemadri for perfectly implementing the calendar to the modal cart for my theme.” review 7663
Red flags
- Orders can arrive with no delivery date: customers reach checkout before the calendar loads or bypass the picker. One 2025 reviewer says about 20% of purchases were affected; the developer's fix is extra code added to your theme. 2568 3746 1760 6680 4248
- Support edits your theme files. One edit broke add-to-cart on Black Friday weekend in 2021, and a 2026 reviewer says code was left behind after uninstalling. 0140 8557
- Silent breakage: order tags, saved settings or data formats stopped working or changed without notice, breaking downstream workflows, and support could not explain it. 8557 3064 3709 5839 8310
- Billing friction: a reviewer was charged after uninstalling and reinstalling and was refused a refund; another thought the app was free. Several useful features (per-slot limits, product calendar, delivery-date pricing) are reported as paid add-ons. 4535 2151 4989 6136 7126
- A minority report email silence or being ghosted, which the developer disputes with evidence that it replied. 5956 6959 5144 3083
Trend
Volume and sentiment are steady: 87 reviews in the last 12 months against 83 in the prior 12, with 3.4% negative in the last 12 months. The app was renamed from Order Delivery Date to Stellar Delivery Date & Pickup around 2023, and one long-time user says the newer version has improved a lot (8376). The old 2019-2021 complaints about the picker being bypassed or the calendar not loading have thinned out, though a bypass report still appeared in October 2025 (2568). Recent negatives are mostly setup help (3083, 5530), claims of unanswered emails (5956) and missing order tags (8557). Counts in the good_at themes are approximate tallies.
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