Schedule Menus and Items

Show a menu or a single item only between a start and end date.

Scheduling lets you prepare content in advance and have it appear and disappear by itself. You can schedule:

• A whole menu, for example a Black Friday menu that replaces your regular menu for one weekend.

• A single menu item, for example a Flash Sale link that shows only while the sale runs.

Schedule a Whole Menu

Scheduling a whole menu is available on the Pro Navigation plan. On other plans, the Schedule publishing checkbox is disabled with the note This option is only available to PRO plan.

1

Open the Publish dialog

In the menu editor, click Save if you have unsaved changes, then click Publish in the top-right corner. You can also click Publish on a draft menu's row in Menu Manager.

2

Choose the theme

Under Choose theme (1), select the theme the menu should appear on. Your live theme is marked (Live theme).

3

Set the dates

Tick Schedule publishing (2), then fill in one or both pairs of fields:

Field	What it does
Start date / Start time	When the menu starts showing. Leave the start date empty to show it from the moment you publish.
End date / End time	When the menu stops showing. Leave the end date empty to keep it live with no end.

Dates use the YYYY-MM-DD format. You pick times from a list in 30-minute steps, and past times are greyed out. All times use your store's time zone (Settings > General in Shopify admin).

(1) Choose theme, (2) Schedule publishing with start and end, (3) Publish

4

Publish

Click Publish (3). The menu becomes Active, and a calendar icon appears next to its badge in Menu manager. Hover over the icon to see Publish on: and Unpublish on:.

Rules and error messages

Message	What to do
You must set at least one of publish from or publish to	Fill in at least a start date or an end date.
Start date must be in the future / End date must be in the future	Pick a date and time later than now.
Publish from must be before publish to	Make the start earlier than the end.

Change or remove a schedule

• Change the dates: open the menu, click Publish and edit the dates. The dialog shows the current schedule. Click Publish again.

• Remove the schedule but keep the menu live: open the Publish dialog, untick Schedule publishing and click Publish.

• Take the menu down now: click Disable. This also clears the schedule.

After the end date, the menu is hidden, but it isn't disabled. In Menu manager it still shows as Active until you Disable it. If another active menu is set up for the same place, that menu shows instead. See Which Menu Is Shown?

Campaign tip: keep your regular menu active with no schedule, and publish the campaign menu with a start and end date. During the campaign the scheduled menu wins, and afterwards the regular menu comes back on its own. See Multiple Menus and Campaigns.

Schedule a Single Item

1

Open the item

In the menu editor, click the item in the Elements tab (or click the pencil icon on it in the preview). Edit Item opens.

2

Turn on Schedule publishing

Scroll down to Visibility and tick Schedule publishing. Set the Start date / Start time and/or the End date / End time. The end must be in the future and after the start.

Visibility options in Edit Item

3

Save and publish

Click Save, then Publish again so the storefront gets the change.

The Visibility section also has other options you can combine with a schedule:

Option	Effect on the storefront
Hide on desktop	The item doesn't show on the desktop menu.
Hide on mobile	The item doesn't show on the mobile menu.
Hide when logged in	The item shows only to visitors who aren't logged in (for example a Sign up link).
Only show when logged in	The item shows only to logged-in customers.

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