Descrição
PromoTimer lets you plan time-boxed promotions for WooCommerce products with start/end date and time, display a live countdown on the product page, and customize all texts, emojis, and colors.
Works for simple products and product variations — each variation can be scheduled independently.
Perfect for: flash sales, limited-time offers, seasonal discounts, and product launches.
Highlights
– 🕒 Schedule sales precisely: start/end date + hour:minute
– 🔥 Pre-promo message: “Promotion starts on DATE at TIME”
– ⏳ Live countdown during promo: “Hurry up! Promotion ends in: 12:02:45”
– 💸 Under-price message during promo: “Take advantage! This product is on promotion.”
– 🧼 Auto-cleanup after expiry: removes promo meta and resets sale price
– 🎯 Full support for variable products (per-variation scheduling)
– 🎨 Admin settings to customize texts, emoji, and colors
– 🌍 Fully translatable (.pot included)
– 🧰 Clean architecture, no template overrides
Requires WooCommerce to be active.
🚀 PRO Version Available
Looking for more power? PromoTimer PRO adds:
- 🔥 Bulk Promotions by Category — apply discounts to entire categories at once (% or fixed amount)
- 📋 Campaigns Manager — manage all your promotions in one table with name, category, dates, status
- 📊 Admin Product List Column — see active/scheduled promotions directly from the Products list
- ⚡ Batch Processing — handles large stores without timeouts (20 products per batch)
Features
- Schedule sale prices with date + time (start and end)
- Show pre-promo notice with start date/time
- Show countdown and under-price promo message while active
- Countdown disappears automatically when promo ends and resets sale price
- Works with simple and variable products (independent per variation)
- Admin settings page: customize emoji, colors, all texts (placeholders supported)
- Promo badge in shop/category/archive pages
- Cache compatibility: LiteSpeed, WP Rocket, W3TC, WP Super Cache and more
- Internationalization ready (
/languages/promo-timer.pot)
Ecrãs
Plugin settings page — customize emoji, colors and text messages 
Frontend product page — countdown timer with Promo badge in action
Instalação
- Upload the plugin folder to
/wp-content/plugins/or install the ZIP via Plugins Add New. - Activate PromoTimer from Plugins.
- Make sure WooCommerce is active.
- Go to WooCommerce PromoTimer to customize emoji, colors, and texts.
- Edit a product:
- Simple products: Product data General Pricing set Promo Start/End Date and Time
- Variable products: Variations tab set the same fields per variation
Perguntas frequentes
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Does it require WooCommerce?
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Yes. The plugin hooks into WooCommerce product/variation edit screens and the single product template.
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Will it work with variable products?
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Yes. Each variation has its own start/end date and time. The frontend countdown and messages update when a variation is selected.
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Does it change my theme templates?
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No template overrides. It uses standard WooCommerce hooks only.
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Can I customize the texts and emoji?
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Yes. Go to WooCommerce PromoTimer. You can customize the emoji, main color, and 3 text messages (before promo, during promo, under price). Placeholders
{date}and{time}are supported. -
Is it translatable?
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Yes. Fully internationalized with a
.potfile included in/languages. Use Loco Translate or Poedit. -
What happens when the promotion ends?
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A WP-Cron task runs hourly to clean expired promotions: removes promo meta fields, resets the WooCommerce sale price, and clears cache. The countdown also disappears automatically on the frontend.
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Is there a PRO version?
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Yes! PromoTimer PRO adds bulk promotions by category, a campaigns manager, and an admin product list column. Learn more here.
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Registo de alterações
1.0.5
- Fix: PHP Fatal Error on LiteSpeed Cache servers — removed static call to LiteSpeed\Purge::purge_post() which is not a static method in newer LiteSpeed versions; replaced with do_action hook for compatibility with all versions
- Fix: Emoji icon could not be saved on servers where MySQL uses utf8 (3-byte) charset — replaced text input with a dropdown selector; emoji keys are stored as ASCII identifiers and mapped to HTML entities at display time
- Fix: Settings form failed silently when emoji field contained a 4-byte UTF-8 character, preventing all other settings from saving
- Fix: Cleanup cron skipped products with empty End Time field; now defaults to 23:59 matching frontend behavior
- Improvement: Emoji now displays correctly in all contexts — single product page, shop loop, product variations, and page builder widgets (Elementor, Divi, Gutenberg etc.)
- Improvement: Date format in promo messages now follows WordPress Settings General Date Format instead of hardcoded Romanian format
1.0.4
- Fix: Sale price was recreated in database after cleanup cron ran
- Fix: Price not fully reset to regular price after promotion expiry
1.0.3
- Fix: After promotion expiry, product price was not displaying correctly on the product page
- Fix: Sale price was not fully removed from database after cleanup cron ran
1.0.2
- Fix: Sale price was showing on variable product parent even when promotion was not active
- Fix: Sale price was incorrectly applied in cart and checkout before campaign start time
- Fix: WooCommerce price cache was not cleared after promotion expiry
- Fix: Countdown was displaying “0d” and “0h” — now hidden automatically when value is zero
- Fix: Incorrect timezone on servers running UTC — replaced time() with wp_timezone()
- Fix: Product page was showing cached content after promotion expiry on LiteSpeed/WP Rocket/W3TC
- New: Promo badge now appears in shop/category/archive pages
- New: “Campaign starts on…” message now also displayed in product listing pages
- CSS: Badge forced onto new line regardless of price width
1.0.1
- Initial release on WordPress.org