<p>Did you know that 72% of customers experience frustration when they are unable to purchase a desired product? In the fast-paced world of e-commerce and retail, timing is crucial. That’s why we are excited to introduce our Product Availability Scheduler for WooCommerce, the ultimate tool for managing limited-time product availability.</p>
<p>Koala’s Product Availability Scheduler for WooCommerce features a real-time countdown timer and dynamic availability status, allowing you to create a sense of urgency, increase conversions, and keep customers informed. Whether you are launching a flash sale, managing event tickets, or restocking high-demand items, our scheduler ensures transparency, engagement, and ultimately, increased sales. Say goodbye to customer frustration and missed opportunities – never let uncertainty cost you a sale again.</p>
<h2>Features</h2>
<ul>
<li>Display a real-time availability timer showing the product’s available date and time</li>
<li>Add global product scheduling rules</li>
<li>Add product availability schedule on product level</li>
<li>Hide price and replace it with custom text</li>
<li>Add custom availability text for product availability and unavailability</li>
<li>Add availability schedules based on:
<ul>
<li>Product level</li>
<li>Categories and tags</li>
<li>User roles</li>
<li>Specific countries</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Show the timer on both the single product and listing pages</li>
<li>Enable email notifications to inform customers about product availability</li>
<li>Customize the timer by adjusting:
<ul>
<li>Text and number color, font size, and weight</li>
<li>Set the background colors of the counter and the digit</li>
<li>Set the label format and template</li>
<li>Schedule cron jobs by days, hours, or minutes</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Maintain comprehensive email logs for product availability emails sent</li>
</ul>
<h2>Keep Customers Updated with Product Availability Status</h2>
<p>Merchants often struggle with selling limited-time-only products in their e-commerce stores. The majority of the struggle comes from adding availability and unavailability schedules. Now, with a product availability scheduler for WooCommerce, merchants can easily schedule product availability and unavailability statuses, show an availability timer on product and listing pages, and let customers add their emails to get notified on product availability.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147324" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-1-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="792" /></p>
<h2>Show Availability Status & Timer on Product and Listing Pages</h2>
<p>Apart from displaying the availability scheduler on product pages, merchants can also display all the availability information like availability status, countdown timer, and messages on listing pages. This ensures that customers can see the availability status without visiting the product page.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147330" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-2-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="766" /></p>
<h2>Create Global Product Availability Scheduling Rules</h2>
<p>Easily apply the product availability scheduler to multiple products and categories at once using global product rules. Choose whether to create a product availability or unavailability schedule and add the days, start & end date/time for the availability schedule. Hide the price and add availability and unavailability messages.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147337" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-3.png" alt="" width="980" height="1030" /></p>
<h3>Restrict Availability Status by Product, Category, and Tag</h3>
<p>Merchants can apply and restrict the availability scheduler to all or specific products, categories, and product tags. This ensures that limited-time-only products have availability scheduling only.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147333" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-6-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="630" /></p>
<h3>Offer Availability Scheduling to Specific User Roles</h3>
<p>Merchants can hide or show product availability scheduling for specific user roles or users only. This ensures that only customers or customer types that are needed to be targetted for limited-time-only products, are targetted.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147380" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-7-2.png" alt="" width="980" height="630" /></p>
<h2>Add Availability Scheduling at Product Level</h2>
<p>While the rules are helpful in adding an availability scheduler to multiple products and categories at once, product-level settings enable merchants to add scheduling for specific products. All the rule-level settings are easily applicable to each product.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147256" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-4.png" alt="" width="980" height="817" /></p>
<h2>Detailed Log for Emails Collected</h2>
<p>Merchants are provided with a complete log of all the customer emails collected for availability notifications. The product availability emails are sent automatically, and merchants can customize these email templates easily.<br />
<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734005147346" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/woocommerce-product-availability-scheduler-5-1.png" alt="" width="980" height="693" /></p>

Product Availability Scheduler

<p>Keep customers in the loop with real-time product availability countdown timers and notify them instantly via email when they’re available.</p>

<h2>Stop losing money on returns</h2>
<p>Resell returns that can’t be sold as new in your WooCommerce store. A link to the Open Box Deal is displayed directly on the original product page, so customers immediately see that a discounted option is available.</p>
<p>The Open Box Deal page automatically reuses all content from the original product, while giving you the option to add a product condition description and upload specific photos of the returned item. This way, customers know exactly what they are buying, and you can offer the product at a reduced price to boost sales and recover value from your returned inventory.</p>
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<p>Not only does this help you increase revenue, it also reduces waste and supports more sustainable ecommerce.</p>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li><strong>Automatic Open Box Deal link</strong> on the original product page</li>
<li><strong>Condition notes and custom photos</strong> for each returned item</li>
<li><strong>Automatic content inheritance</strong> from the original product (title, description, gallery)</li>
<li><strong>Dedicated Open Box Deal page</strong> with discount pricing</li>
<li><strong>Optional loop visibility</strong> (enable or exclude from shop, widgets, shortcodes)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Benefits for your store</h3>
<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li><strong>Generate extra revenue</strong> from returned items that can’t be sold as new</li>
<li><strong>Save time</strong> with automatic content reuse and simple overrides</li>
<li><strong>Build trust</strong> with clear condition details and labeling</li>
<li><strong>Delight bargain-hunters</strong> with clear discounted deals</li>
<li><strong>Support sustainability</strong> by giving products a second life 🌱</li>
</ul>
<h3>Free vs Premium</h3>
<table style="width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse;font-size: 15px">
<thead>
<tr>
<th style="text-align: left;padding: 10px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd">Features</th>
<th style="text-align: center;width: 20%;padding: 10px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd">Free</th>
<th style="text-align: center;width: 20%;padding: 10px;border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd">Premium</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Add an automatic “Open Box Deal” link on the original product page</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: included">✅</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Automatically inherit content from the original product</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: included">✅</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Support for Simple products</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: included">✅</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Support for Variable products (variations)</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: not included">❌</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Set custom product conditions (e.g. Refurbished, Demo, etc.)</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: not included">❌</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Show product preview image</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: not included">❌</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Add informational links (Return Policy, “What is Open Box Deal?”)</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: not included">❌</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Control visibility of Open Box Deal panel & internal links</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: not included">❌</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Control visibility of Open Box Deals in the shop catalog</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: not included">❌</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Display Open Box Deals in shop loops</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: not included">❌</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td style="padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee">Priority Support & updates</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Free: not included">❌</td>
<td style="text-align: center;padding: 10px;border-top: 1px solid #eee" aria-label="Premium: included">✅</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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<h3>Did you know?</h3>
<p>Over 5 billion pounds of returned goods end up in landfills worldwide every year. <strong>By reselling returns, you’re helping to reduce waste related to returns, CO₂ emissions, and unnecessary production, while turning returns into a profit.</strong></p>
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<h3>How it works</h3>
<ol>
<li>Create a new Open Box Deal product.</li>
<li>Link it to an existing product.</li>
<li>Add a product condition and photos (optional) and expose returned stock at irresistible prices.</li>
</ol>
<p>Done! The deal automatically appears on the original product page. Because content is pulled directly from the original product, you save time and avoid duplicate uploads.</p>

Open Box Deal Premium

<p>Open Box Deal lets you sell returns that can’t be sold as new. Create deal pages with photos, condition details, and discounted pricing.</p>

Product Availability Scheduler vs Open Box Deal Premium