WPC Estimated Delivery Date, by WPClever, is a free WooCommerce plugin that displays an estimated delivery date to shoppers. It works on a rule-based system: you build delivery rules and assign them to products, categories, shipping methods or zones, and the plugin renders the resulting date range on the product, cart and checkout pages. It carries 7,000+ active installs and a 4.0 star rating — though from only 9 reviews, which is thin evidence either way.
It is a capable plugin. People look for alternatives to it for three fairly consistent reasons.
Setup effort. A rules engine is powerful when you need it and tedious when you don’t. Getting a basic store live means creating rules and assigning them before anything appears on the frontend — 10 to 20 minutes of configuration for an outcome some stores could express in three fields.
The premium line. The base plugin is genuinely free, but the more advanced rule sources — targeting by product tag, brand, collection, attribute or visibility — sit behind the premium tier. If your reason for choosing a rules engine was granular targeting, you may find the granularity you wanted is the paid part.
Wrong category entirely. A good share of people who install it actually wanted customers to pick a delivery date at checkout, not to be shown an estimate. Those are different products, and the list below covers both.
Here are the free alternatives worth comparing, with their real install counts and review numbers. One of them is ours, and it is the smallest thing on this page by a very wide margin — stated up front rather than hidden in a footnote.
The alternatives at a glance
| Plugin | Pricing model | Active installs | Rating | What it actually does |
| Order Delivery Date for WooCommerce (Tyche Softwares) | Free core, paid tier | 10,000+ | 4.3 stars (61 reviews) | Customer picks a delivery date at checkout |
| WPC Estimated Delivery Date (WPClever) | Free core, paid tier | 7,000+ | 4.0 stars (9 reviews) | Rule-based estimated delivery date display |
| Delivery & Pickup Date Time for WooCommerce (CodeRockz) | Free core, paid tier | 5,000+ | 4.9 stars (279 reviews) | Customer picks a delivery or pickup date and time slot |
| QuickShipD | Fully free, no paid tier | 30+ | 5.0 stars (6 reviews) | Automatic delivery estimate plus a cutoff countdown |
The fastest way to narrow this down: if you want the customer to choose a date, you want Tyche’s or CodeRockz’s plugin. If you want to show a date, you are choosing between WPC and QuickShipD — depth of rules versus speed of setup.
1. Order Delivery Date for WooCommerce (Tyche Softwares)
The most established plugin in this space: 10,000+ active installs, 4.3 stars across 61 reviews. It solves a different problem to WPC — rather than displaying an estimate, it adds a delivery date field at checkout so the customer selects the day they want their order to arrive. You control lead times, minimum delivery intervals and non-delivery days.
Like WPC it runs a free core with a paid upgrade, and the deeper scheduling controls sit in the paid tier.
Choose it if: you installed WPC hoping customers could choose a delivery date and discovered it only displays one. This is the mature, well-trodden option for that job.
2. Delivery & Pickup Date Time for WooCommerce (CodeRockz)
At 5,000+ active installs it is smaller than both WPC and Tyche’s plugin, but it carries the strongest satisfaction signal on this page by some distance: 4.9 stars from 279 reviews. Volume and score together make that the most trustworthy number in this comparison.
It handles date and time slot selection, and treats in-store pickup as a first-class option alongside delivery rather than an afterthought. Free core, paid upgrade, same as the others.
Choose it if: you need time slots, or you run both local delivery and click-and-collect and would rather not run two plugins to do it.
3. QuickShipD
Full disclosure: this is our plugin, and it is the newest and smallest option here — 30+ active installs and 6 reviews (all 5-star). Against WPC’s 7,000 installs or CodeRockz’s 279 reviews there is no contest on maturity, and if a proven track record across thousands of stores is what you are shopping for, one of the three other options is the sensible pick.
Its niche is deliberately narrow. It is the direct counterpart to WPC — it displays estimated delivery dates with QuickShipD rather than collecting a date from the customer — but it trades the rules engine for three settings screens and adds a live countdown to your daily order cutoff. It is also fully free with no paid tier and no license key, which is the one thing on this page nobody else offers: WPC, Tyche and CodeRockz all monetise through an upgrade.
- Delivery date range on product, cart and checkout pages
- Live order cutoff countdown (“Order within 3h 22m”) — WPC has no equivalent
- Per-product delivery day overrides
- Weekend exclusion plus recurring yearly holidays (xxxx/MM/DD), so Christmas is set once rather than re-entered each year
- Under 1KB frontend footprint; block checkout compatible out of the box
What it does not have is WPC’s targeting depth. There is no rule builder, no filtering by tag, brand or collection, and no per-zone rule sources — just global settings plus per-product overrides. For plenty of stores that is the entire requirement; for some it is a hard stop.
Choose it if: you want a delivery estimate plus urgency messaging running in a couple of minutes, your delivery logic is simple, and you are comfortable being an early adopter.
4. When WPC Estimated Delivery Date is still the right answer
Switching away from WPC is not automatically an upgrade. Its rules engine is the most flexible targeting system of the four, and there are stores that genuinely need it.
If your delivery windows differ per shipping zone, or you need to target estimates by product brand, collection, tag or visibility, WPC does that and the simpler plugins here do not. Its 7,000+ installs also mean it is well past the stage where you are the one finding the bugs. The trade-off is time in the settings screen — and accepting that the most granular rule sources are premium.
Put plainly: WPC is a solid plugin for stores with complex, rule-driven delivery logic across multiple zones and shipping methods. For most WooCommerce store owners, it is more machinery than the job requires.
Which alternative should you pick?
- You want customers to choose a delivery date → Order Delivery Date for WooCommerce (Tyche). Largest install base of anything here.
- You need time slots or in-store pickup → Delivery & Pickup Date Time for WooCommerce (CodeRockz). 4.9 stars from 279 reviews, the best-supported score on this page.
- You want a fast, free estimate with urgency and simple logic → QuickShipD. Smallest and youngest option by a long way; fully free with nothing held back.
- Your delivery rules really are complex → stay on WPC Estimated Delivery Date. Nothing else here matches its targeting depth.
Frequently asked questions
Is WPC Estimated Delivery Date completely free?
The base plugin is free on WordPress.org. However, advanced rule sources such as filtering by product tags, brands, collections, attributes, and visibility require the premium version. QuickShipD has no premium version; every feature is free.
Which plugin is easier to set up?
QuickShipD is significantly easier. Three tabs, a handful of toggles, and you’re live. WPC requires building delivery rules and assigning them, which takes considerably longer — especially if you’re setting up zone-specific or method-specific rules for the first time.
Does WPC have a countdown timer?
No. WPC Estimated Delivery Date displays delivery date ranges but does not include a live countdown timer. If urgency messaging is important to your conversion strategy, QuickShipD is the better choice.
Can I use QuickShipD if I have many different product types?
Yes. QuickShipD’s per-product override feature lets you set a different delivery window on any individual product. The global settings handle your standard inventory, and the override handles everything else. This covers the majority of mixed-inventory stores without needing a full rule engine.