Theme publishing
Pick a theme and a moment. It goes live then, whether or not anyone is watching.
Theme automation
Publish a theme, show a section, hide a banner — at a date and time you pick, on a schedule that repeats. Set the campaign up once and let it run while you are asleep.
Installs in a minute. Nothing to add to your theme code.
The problem
A sale that starts at midnight means someone publishes it at midnight. Every seasonal change is the same manual job, done under time pressure.
Publishing a theme by hand at 3am for a launch
Schedule the publish and go to bed
A Black Friday banner still up in December
Set the end time when you set the start time
Duplicating a theme for every promotion
One theme, sections that come and go on a schedule
Retyping the same promotion every week or every month
Recurring schedules that repeat hourly, daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly
Features
Everything you would otherwise change by hand in the theme editor.
Pick a theme and a moment. It goes live then, whether or not anyone is watching.
Show or hide any section or block on a schedule, down to the minute.
Swap banners, images, slideshows and promotional copy automatically.
Hourly, daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. Set the pattern once and it keeps running.
Schedules run in your store's timezone, so 9am means 9am to your customers.
Every scheduled change is recorded with its outcome, so you can see exactly what ran and when.
How it works
Choose the theme, section or block you want to appear, disappear or go live.
A one-off date and time, or a pattern that repeats. End times are optional but usually the point.
The schedule fires in your store's timezone. You get a record of what ran.
Use cases
A sale section that appears at midnight and is gone by breakfast, without anyone setting an alarm.
Holiday theme up on the first, down on the last — both times set when you build the campaign.
The launch theme goes live at the exact minute the campaign email lands.
Content that changes on your store's clock rather than whichever timezone you happen to be in.
FAQ
No. It works through Shopify's theme APIs, so nothing is injected into your theme and nothing is left behind if you uninstall.
The change is applied through Shopify the same way a manual publish is. There is no storefront script and no impact on page speed.
Your store's timezone, taken from your Shopify settings — so a schedule set for 9am fires at 9am for your customers.
Yes. A schedule can repeat hourly, daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly, either for a set number of occurrences or until you stop it.
Yes. Every scheduled action is written to a history log with its outcome, so you can confirm a change ran and when it ran.
Set the schedule once. It runs whether or not you are at your desk.
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