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# 🚀 Location How to Set Time Slots and Order Limits

Time slots decide **when** customers can schedule their delivery or pickup ⏰

With the **Time slots & limits** tab you can offer simple date-only selection, exact times, or time ranges — and cap how many orders fit into each slot so your team never gets overwhelmed.

In this guide, you'll learn how to:

* 🔘 Choose a slot type (date only, time, or time range)  
* 🗓️ Configure slots per day of the week  
* ⚡ Generate a full day of slots in one click  
* 🔢 Limit the number of orders per slot

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# **📋 Before You Begin**

* You've created a location and enabled at least one fulfillment method (see *Location: How to Configure Fulfillment Type*)  
* You know your operating hours per day

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# **⚙️ Step 1 — Open the Time Slots & Limits Tab**

→ Go to **Settings → Delivery & Pickup** → Click **Edit** on your location → Open the **Time slots & limits** tab

You'll see a **Local Delivery** section and/or a **Store Pickup** section — one for each method you enabled on the **Fulfillment type** tab.

💡 If both methods are enabled and they share the same schedule, tick **Same as Local Delivery** in the Store Pickup section — Store Pickup will reuse your Local Delivery configuration and its own slot settings disappear.

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# **🔘 Step 2 — Choose the Slot Type**

In the **Slots & Order Limits** card, pick one of the three radio options:

* **Only Date** → customers pick just a day — no times at all 🗓️  
* **Date & Time** → customers pick a day and a single time (e.g. 2:00 PM) ⏰  
* **Date & Time Range** → customers pick a day and a time window (e.g. 2:00–3:00 PM) ⏳

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# **🗓️ Step 3 — Configure the Days**

## **Same Slots for Every Day**

Tick **Use same time slots for all days** to manage one schedule that applies to the whole week — one set of slots, zero repetition.

Leave it unticked to edit each day separately using the **Mon – Sun** tabs.

## **Only Date Mode**

If you chose **Only Date**, each day shows a single option:

* **Enable for pickup or delivery** → tick the days this location is open for orders. Done ✅

## **Date & Time / Date & Time Range Mode**

For each day you can add slots manually:

→ Under **Add time slots for \[day\]**, pick a time (or a start and end time for ranges) → Click **Add**

Each existing slot appears under **Time slots**, where you can adjust its time(s) with the dropdowns or remove it with the 🗑️ icon.

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# **⚡ Step 4 — Generate Slots Automatically (Date & Time Range Only)**

Don't add every slot by hand — the generator builds a whole day in one click.

→ Select **Starts at** (e.g. 9:00 AM) → Select **Ends at** (e.g. 5:00 PM) → Set the slot length with the **− / \+** stepper — it moves in **15-minute** steps (15, 30, 45, 60…) → Click **Generate**

A popup asks: **Do you want the Generated time slots to**

* **Add to existing slots** → keeps your current slots and appends the new ones  
* **Override existing slots** → replaces the day's slots with the generated ones

### **Example**

Starts at `9:00 AM`, Ends at `12:00 PM`, gap `60` → generates 9:00–10:00 AM, 10:00–11:00 AM, 11:00 AM–12:00 PM ⚡

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# **🔢 Step 5 — Limit Orders per Slot (Optional)**

Tick **Limit number of orders per slot** to prevent overbooking.

Once enabled, every slot gets its own number field (with the **orders** suffix):

* Set `10` → up to 10 orders can be booked into that slot  
* Set it per slot, so busier times can have tighter caps than quiet ones

💡 Perfect for small kitchens or limited delivery vans — a few popular slots can't swallow your whole day.

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# **💾 Final Step — Save**

→ Click **Save** in the save bar at the top of the page.

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# **🎉 Final Result**

Once saved:

✅ Customers can pick exactly the kind of slot you chose — date, time, or time range ✅ Each day of the week can run its own schedule (or share one) ✅ Order limits keep every slot within your capacity ✅ Next up: control how far ahead slots appear — see *Location: How to Set Prep Time and Availability*