Offer Countdown Timer for WooCommerce

Offer Countdown Timer for WooCommerce adds a fast, readable sale countdown to your product pages, so shoppers always see how long a promotion lasts. It is built for flash sales, seasonal campaigns, clearance events, and limited-time pricing without touching code.

The timer prints on the storefront hook woocommerce_before_add_to_cart_form. Scripts and styles load only when a product actually has an active countdown and timers are enabled globally—keeping unrelated pages light.

Why merchants use this plugin

• Clear urgency — A live clock reinforces ethical scarcity (deadline visibility, not fake stock counts).

• Native WooCommerce workflow — Works alongside your products and optional automatic sale-price cleanup when an offer ends.

• Operator-friendly — Global switches, per-product overrides, and optional offer start date so the banner stays hidden until go-live.

Free plugin features (this package)

• Global enable/disable — Pause every storefront countdown from Offer Countdown → Settings without editing products.

• Configurable sale cleanup — When the countdown ends, optionally remove the WooCommerce sale price or leave pricing unchanged.

• Five countdown templates — Circular, gradient, pill, and more; preview under Offer Countdown → Templates (Template 1 opens first).

• Default template + per-product override — Store-wide default with optional template choice per product in the Offer Countdown Timer meta box.

• Custom promo message + placement — Short headline-style message above or below the digits.

• Optional offer start date — Set Offer start date (optional) on the product; the banner appears only after that moment (uses WordPress timezone handling via current_time / localized datetime inputs).

• Accessibility-oriented display — Optional role="timer", aria-label, dedicated aria-live region, and periodic screen-reader announcements (toggle under Settings).

• Expired banner behavior — Choose whether the banner hides when time hits zero or remains visible at zero (paired with frontend expiry logic and optional AJAX-driven cleanup).

• Responsive layouts — Timer blocks adapt across breakpoints defined in bundled CSS.

• Developer hooks — Filters/actions include offct_resolve_end_time, offct_banner_html, offct_banner_root_attributes, offct_before_render_banner, offct_after_render_banner, offct_countdown_labels, offct_oct_data_localize, offct_product_meta_box_fields, offct_template_ids, and offct_template_label.

• Translation-ready — Text domain offer-countdown-time.

Admin hub (free plugin UI)

From Offer Countdown in the WordPress admin you get Settings, Templates, Campaigns, Analytics, Template Maker, Import / Export, and Upgrade Pro. Core saving works everywhere this plugin controls (global/product timers).

Screens such as Campaigns, Template Maker, and related workflows surface live previews in the free plugin; creating or saving advanced campaign data, custom Template Maker designs, analytics persistence, and other Pro-only mutations require Offer Countdown Timer for WooCommerce Pro with a valid license (see below).

Offer Countdown Timer for WooCommerce Pro (optional add-on)

Pro extends the same codebase with licensed-only features, including:

• Campaign-driven end times — Assign schedules and recurrence patterns to products or categories; active campaigns override fixed product end timestamps via offct_resolve_end_time.

• Evergreen timers — Per-product visitor windows ( _oct_timer_mode ) coordinated through Pro services.

• Extra placements — Shop/archive compact timers ( woocommerce_after_shop_loop_item ), cart/checkout reservation timers, [oct_countdown] shortcode, and the offct/product-countdown Gutenberg block (WooCommerce block category).

• Analytics — Lightweight storefront tracking with configurable retention (see Pro settings).

• REST API — Namespaced routes under offct/v1 for authenticated store managers (list/update products tied to countdown meta).

• Visual customization — Additional preset templates (IDs 6–15), Template Maker–built custom templates with generated CSS, sticky banner mode, colour tokens, custom digit sizing, custom unit labels, and optional custom CSS inlined when scripts enqueue.

• Bulk tooling & expiry actions — Bulk editors plus configurable expiry behaviours (redirects and related flows exposed through frontend JSON).

Install Offer Countdown Timer for WooCommerce Pro only alongside this free plugin and WooCommerce; Pro declares Requires Plugins: offer-countdown-time and validates dependencies on bootstrap.

Privacy

The free countdown does not profile visitors for marketing retargeting. Standard WordPress, WooCommerce, and hosting logs apply. Pro analytics (when licensed) store merchant-facing metrics according to Pro settings—review those screens before enabling in regulated industries.