Picker visibility, out-of-stock and non-physical items

Updated 23 July 2026

Three layers control when the date picker appears at all.

1. Built-in behaviour (no setup)

• Non-physical carts: the picker only renders when the cart contains physical, shippable products. Gift cards and digital goods alone never trigger it.
• Make sure products you do deliver are marked "This is a physical product" in Shopify — unticked shipping settings are the most common "picker missing" cause.

2. Out-of-stock items

Turn on Hide date selector for out-of-stock items (in Date selector settings) and the picker steps aside when the cart contains an out-of-stock line — useful when backorders follow a different, manual schedule.

• Works everywhere, including checkout. For Shopify native bundles, stock is checked against the bundle's component variants.
• Orders arriving without a date because of this are expected — schedule them from the order page when stock lands.

3. Your own visibility rules

Use Product & customer rules with the Hide date picker / Show date picker actions to control visibility by product, collection, cart contents, or customer:

• Hide for a "ships whenever" collection.
• Show only when the cart contains items from your scheduled range.
• Hide for wholesale customers who follow a fixed calendar.

Hide always beats show when rules overlap.

You can also switch scheduling off for individual products from the product list inside Flare — the per-product equivalent of a hide rule.

What a hidden picker means downstream

When rules hide the picker, checkout proceeds dateless for that cart by design: the required-date guard knows the difference between "shopper skipped the date" and "Flare chose not to ask". Orders arrive untagged and simply don't appear on the shipping calendar.