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# 🚀 Standard Shipping How to Limit the Number of Orders per Slot

Some shipping slots can only handle so much — maybe your courier picks up a fixed number of parcels, or your packing table gets crowded after 20 orders 📦

With the **Limit number of orders per slot** option in Hoppy Delivery Dates, you can cap exactly how many orders each Standard Shipping slot can accept.

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# **📋 Before You Begin**

Make sure:

* ✅ **Standard Shipping** is turned on in **Settings → Standard Shipping**  
* ✅ The **Enable slots (Optional)** checkbox is ticked — the limit lives inside the slot configuration

ℹ️ New to the Standard Shipping tab? Start with **Standard Shipping: How to set Minimum order value and Generate Time Slots** first, then come back here.

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# **⚙️ Step 1 — Open the Slots & Order Limits Card**

→ Go to **Settings** → **Standard Shipping**

→ Scroll to the **Slots & Order Limits** card

This card holds your slot type, your weekly time slots, and the order limit option ⚙️

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# **✅ Step 2 — Enable the Order Limit**

→ Tick the **Limit number of orders per slot** checkbox.

As soon as it's enabled, every time slot in your list gets an extra number field with an **orders** suffix — right next to the slot's start and end time.

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# **🔢 Step 3 — Set the Limit for Each Slot**

For each time slot, type the maximum number of orders that slot should accept.

### **Example**

Your Monday slots could look like this:

* 9:00 AM \- 10:00 AM → `10` orders  
* 10:00 AM \- 11:00 AM → `10` orders  
* 11:00 AM \- 12:00 PM → `5` orders

💡 Give your busiest hours a higher limit and quieter hours a lower one — that way demand spreads naturally across the day.

⚠️ The limit is set **per slot, per day**. If you manage each weekday separately, remember to repeat this on every day tab (**Mon** – **Sun**). If you ticked **Use same time slots for all days**, you only need to set it once.

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# **💾 Step 4 — Save Your Changes**

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

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# **🎉 Final Result**

Once saved:

* ✅ Every shipping slot has its own order capacity  
* ✅ Customers can only book slots that still have room  
* ✅ Popular time windows can't be overbooked anymore 🎉

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# **📚 Related Guides**

* **Standard Shipping: How to set Minimum order value and Generate Time Slots**  
* **Standard Shipping: How to Set Cut-off Time and Number of Days Shown to Customers**  
* **Standard Shipping: How to manage Blackout Dates?**