Premium version settings

Go to the product editing page and to the “Product Countdown” section.

Enable the countdown and set the starting date and expiration date with the related times (hours and minutes) to show the countdown.

Moreover, you can add information about the product quantity already sold and the current availability. In order to do it, you need to configure the following product options:

• Discount products: initial amount of product items shown to users; enter a value if you have not enable stock management in WooCommerce (Inventory -> Manage Stock); in the opposite case, the plugin will take the value dynamically from Inventory -> Stock Qty.
• Already sold products: number of items sold for the selected product. According to the value entered, sale bar will show a proportional value. Each sale increases this counter of 1. An empty field is shown as zero.
  For variable products, you must specify values for these options for all product variations available.

The “Bulk Operations” section of the settings panel lets you set bulk actions on the products of the shop. In this way, you can use the plugin at the same time for a certain type of products, avoiding the creation of a countdown for each of them.

Selection of products

Configuration of the countdown for a specific product selection.

• Products to assign: the products for which you want to activate the countdown (add the name of the products with the ajax search field).
• Enable: activate/deactivate the plugin for the selected products.
• Sale Dates: starting and ending date of the sale.
• Discounted products: the available amount for each product (it works only if the stock management has been deactivate for the selected product).
• Already sold products: it indicates the amount of already completed sales for a product. Leave empty to start from zero.

By category

Configuration of the countdown for one category of the shop. You can configure one category at a time.

• Category to assign: product category for which you want to activate the countdown (add the name of the category with the ajax search field).
• Enable: activate/deactivate the plugin for the products of the selected category.
• Sale Dates: starting and ending date of the sale.
• Discounted products: the available amount for each product (it works only if the stock management has been deactivated for the selected product).
• Already sold products: it indicates the amount of already completed sales for a product. Leave empty to start from zero.

Recent products

Configuration of the countdown for the recent products of the shop.

• Days passed: set the time span in days (from today) to consider the most recent published products.
• Enable: activate/deactivate the plugin for the recent products of the shop.
• Sale Dates: starting and ending date of the sale.
• Discounted products: the available amount for each product (it works only if the stock management has been deactivated for the selected product).
• Already sold products: it indicates the amount of already completed sales for a product. Leave empty to start from zero.

Discounted products

Configuration of the countdown for the discounted products of the shop.

• Enable: activate/deactivate the plugin for the discounted products of the shop.
• Sale Dates: starting and ending date of the sale.
• Discounted products: the available amount for each product (it works only if the stock management has been deactivated for the selected product).
• Already sold products: it indicates the amount of already completed sales for a product. Leave empty to start from zero.

Featured products

Configuration of the countdown for the “featured” products of the shop.

• Enable: activate/deactivate the plugin for the “featured” products of the shop.
• Sale Dates: starting and ending date of the sale.
• Discounted products: the available amount for each product (it works only if the stock management has been deactivated for the selected product).
• Already sold products: it indicates the amount of already completed sales for a product. Leave empty to start from zero.

Go to the Top/Bottom Countdown bar section of the plugin settings panel if you want to highlight a product of you shop, enabling a specific countdown on every page of your site.

Style 1

Style 2

When users click on the bar, they will be redirect to the product you have highlighted.
Here follows the complete list of the options you can use to customize the bar.

• Enable Top/Bottom Countdown Bar: activate/deactivate the bar on evey page of the site.
• Title: message of the bar.
• Position: the position where you want to display the bar (top part or bottom part of the page).
• Selected product: the product of the shop you want to place in the bar (add the name with the ajax search field).
• Bar template: the template of the bar.
• Color and font size: use the default style, or customize it with the available options.

To edit the general settings of the plugin go to YITH Plugins -> Product Countdown -> General.

This is the complete list of options for this section:

• “Select type”: allows you to choose the content to show in the product page and/or in category page (timer e/o sale bar)
  
• “Select position”: Select pages where you want to show countdown and sale bar (product detail page and/or category page of the product)
• “Show timer before sale starts”: This option allows you to show a countdown for those products that you have previously enabled. For these products you must have set a date for starting sale.
  The plugin, so, informs users about the time left before the product will be put on sale and removes, until that date, the “Add to cart” button.
• “Behaviour on expiration or sold out”: select the action that the plugin has to make when a countdown ends or if the product reaches the maximum number of sales set
  • Hide the box with countdown and/or sale bar.
  • Hide product from shop and then exclude it from sale.
  • Leave the product in the shop, but it cannot be purchased because “Add to cart” button is removed.
• “Show sale summary”: when the option is active, the sale bar is not removed on countodown expiration and keeps showing the product quantity sold.

The tab “Customization” in plugin option panel includes all plugin options that allow you to edit text, layout and default colours for your timer and for sale bar.

There are three different layouts to show the timer and sale bar.

Style 1

Style 2

Style 3

Moreover, for each layout, you can customize colours and fonts:

If you are using Gutenberg, you can easily add the shortcode to your pages by selecting it from blocks.

You can choose from single product counter and multiple product counter.

Single product counter

Multiple product counter

If you are using the classic editor or a page builder, you can use the following shortcodes:

• [ywpc_shortcode] – This will print a product loop including all those products with an active countdown;
• [ywpc_shortcode id=”1,2,3,4”] – This will print a product loop including the specified products. The products with an expired countdown won’t be shown;
• [ywpc_shortcode type=”single”] – This will print the countdown of the current product page. It works only on product pages; if used on a different page, no countdown will show;
• [ywpc_shortcode type=”single” id=”1”] – This will print the countdown of a specific product. It works only on product pages; if entering more IDs, only the first one will be taken into account.

Shortcode settings

To choose the product info to show in the countdown, go to the tab General > Shortcode settings and select the elements to show.

If you want to add the products of you shop that already have a countdown in the sidebars, add the YITH WooCommerce Product Countdown widget from Appearance -> Widgets.

If you want to select the elements of the products you want to show in the sidebar, click on the General tab of the plugin settings panel and scroll the page to Widget settings.