Find on Shopify App Store as Essential Countdown Timer Bar
Create urgency with a Shopify countdown timer
Place timers on product pages, carts, announcement bars, emails and landing pages to highlight limited-time deals: to-date, evergreen or recurring. Boost sales by up to 40%!
- conversion uplift
- 40%
- average rating
- 5.0★
- reviews
- 1,550+
- active stores
- 52,200+
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Increase sales with urgency
Countdown timer is one of the best ways to increase urgency and encourage buyers to make a decision.
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Encourage impulse buying
Countdown timer triggers fear of missing out and urgency among buyers and encourages them to act.
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Satisfaction guarantee
Your satisfaction is our #1 priority, so we will do our best to help you get the most out of our product and assist you with any issue.
Placements
Shopify Countdown Timer Widget Locations
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Product Page Countdown
Add a countdown timer to your ecommerce product page below the add-to-cart button to increase urgency and conversions.
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Cart Page Countdown
Boost your store conversions and encourage customers to buy now by adding a countdown timer to your cart page.
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Announcement Bar Countdown
Promote current sales across your store by adding a fixed or sticky countdown timer bar at the top or bottom of any page.
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Email Countdown
Create a sense of urgency, boost sales and significantly enhance the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns.
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Landing Page Countdown
Add countdown timer and a clear CTA to your promotion and add it as a block to any landing page: homepage, collection, etc.
Features
Shopify Countdown Timer Types
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To-Date Countdown Timer
Countdown timer that ends at a specific date. Best for promoting longer lasting sales, promotions or upcoming launches.
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Evergreen Countdown Timer
Individual fixed-minute countdown timer for each buyer's session. Best for creating urgency and nudging customers to act.
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Recurring Countdown Timer
Daily recurring countdown timer. (E.g. every weekday from 9 am to 11 am). Best for promoting daily shipping cut-offs.
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Templates
20 high-converting countdown timer templates
Choose from one of our 20 countdown timer styles that look awesome on any Shopify theme.
Ready the moment you install.
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Customization
Highly customizable countdown timer
Create your own Shopify countdown timer design from scratch to fit your brand perfectly.
Colours, type and layout: all yours.
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Responsive
Mobile friendly and responsive countdown
Countdown timer will look perfect in your store regardless of what device a buyer is using.
Tested on every breakpoint.
Use cases
Shopify Countdown Timer Use Cases
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Limited-time product drops
Highlight exclusive releases with a timer that shows buyers exactly how long they have before the drop ends.
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Holiday promotions
Make seasonal deals stand out with a timer that reminds shoppers the offer expires soon.
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Flash sales
Boost fast conversions by displaying a countdown that signals a short, high-impact discount window.
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BFCM urgency timers
Increase Black Friday Cyber Monday conversions with timers that push shoppers to act before stock or discounts run out.
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Product launch countdowns
Build anticipation for new products by showing a timer that counts down to the exact launch moment.
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Shipping cut-off reminders
Show customers how long they have left to place an order before the daily or holiday shipping deadline passes.
Reviews
What 52,200+ Shopify stores say
Merchants use this Shopify countdown timer app to increase urgency and conversions.
5.0 average on the Shopify App Store
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What can i say, i was blown away by the level of customer support offered by the dev team. Incredibly helpful, offering to help me with some dev work. The dashboard is very user friendly and very easy to understand. 10000% would recommend. Incredibly app considering its free!
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Really have to give kudos to this app. It set up countdowns that work perfectly, really quickly and easily. Used it for both product page and banner styles; love that it can match your site fonts and colors. Bonus is that they don’t invade your customer information files like some similar apps.
OsoPorto -
The team is very responsive to all service requests and went above and beyond to accommodate my requests. Also, I was able to use this app to put a timer on my cart page and my home page during product releases.
Rare Concepts -
Perfect app for my needs. I have it on my homepage and cart page. I needed some help and Zydrunas contacted me in 1 minute. I was shocked how fast he was with assisting me. We solved everything and I'm very happy the support
Boss Babe Vibes
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Such a great app: the one that I was looking for a long time. Easy to use/beautiful countdown interfaces. You can also choose your theme which makes it easy to fit your store design. Would recommend 10/10!
Soda Futura -
Best countdown timer on Shopify! Fits seemlessly with the web design and very easy to design and edit. The team are very helpful and responsive if you need support. Thanks so much 🙂
Geek Crate -
Very happy to have found this app. I needed some help with design and placement and the support team went above and beyond to help me create the banner exactly as needed. Responses were always quick and detailed. Fabulous!!
Studio Scribe -
The app is amazing, and super easy to set up, tech support is amazing also, Zydrunas replied immediately and help me sort out my problems, definitely recommending this app to everyone who are in a search for a good timer 🙂 Thank you guys <3
Mados Rojus
Pricing
Pricing for the Essential Shopify Countdown Timer App
30-day Money Back Guarantee, no questions asked.
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Free Plan
Free
For anyone trying out. No credit card required.
Start free- Up to 1000 views
- Unlimited Product & Top-bar timers
- To-date & Evergreen timers
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Starter
$6.99/mo
Use scheduled and recurring timers
Free 7-day trial- Up to 10 000 views
- Unlimited Landing timers
- Scheduled & Recurring timers
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Essential
$9.99/mo
Unlock the power of cart page timer
Free 7-day trial- Up to 50 000 views
- Unlimited Cart timers
- Add timer using tags
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Professional
$29.99/mo
All features and unlimited views
Free 7-day trial- Unlimited views
- All premium features
- Checkout timer (coming soon)
FAQ
Learn more about using countdowns in your store
Don’t hesitate to contact the Support if you have any additional questions.
- Using a countdown timer on your product page is one of the easiest ways to boost sales. It increases urgency, builds FOMO, and encourages buyers to act. Countdown timer is perfect for flash sales, promotions, holiday sales.
- Many merchants choose Essential Countdown because it offers product, cart, bar, landing-page and email timers in one place, along with evergreen, scheduled and recurring options. It's easy to customize, works with any Shopify theme, and is used by 52,200+ stores.
- If your theme supports Shopify Online Store 2.0, using the app blocks is one of the easiest and most reliable ways to add or re-arrange your timer's placement within the store. Read this article to see how to add a countdown timer to Shopify store as an app block.
- It's easy to set up a countdown timer bar for only 1 product in your Shopify store using the Essential Countdown timer app. Simply create a new product page timer and select the product you would like the timer to appear for under the Placement tab.
- Shopify countdown timer length depends on a lot of factors. If it's a regular sale, it usually goes from 1 to 7 days. Evergreen product page timers to increase urgency usually last from 15 minutes to a few hours. Cart timers most commonly are from 5 to 15 minutes.
- Yes. You can use the Essential Countdown timer to add a countdown timer to a Shopify password page. Simply create a new Landing page countdown timer and select the Password page under the Placement tab. Here is the detailed article on how to add Shopify countdown timer on password page.
- It's very easy to remove the Essential Countdown timer bar from your Shopify store. Simply go to the timer page and click the Unpublish or Delete button. You can also remove all countdown timers by disabling our application in your theme settings.
- Shopify doesn't include a built-in countdown scheduler, but you can schedule timed promotions using apps. Essential Shopify Countdown Timer lets you set start and end times for sales, daily recurring timers, and product-specific campaigns without custom coding.
- You can add a countdown timer to a Shopify website by using a timer app that supports Online Store 2.0 blocks. Essential Countdown allows you to place timers on product pages, landing pages, bars and carts through the theme editor with no coding required.
- For Shopify stores, the best free option is Essential Countdown because it includes product page timers, bar timers and multiple countdown styles at no cost. For non-Shopify websites, online timers exist, but they can't integrate with Shopify's theme or product data.
- In Shopify, you add a countdown widget by placing a timer block inside your theme. With Essential Countdown, you can drag a timer block into your product page, landing page, announcement bar or cart area and customize its appearance in minutes.
