=== Delivery Date for WooCommerce – Local Delivery Scheduler & Shipping Calendar by KrishnaDas ===
Contributors: krishnadas8119
Tags: woocommerce delivery date, delivery schedule, delivery date picker, woocommerce checkout, delivery time
Requires at least: 6.0
Tested up to: 7.1.1
Requires PHP: 7.4
Stable tag: 1.0.1
License: GPLv2 or later
License URI: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html

Allow customers to select a preferred delivery date during WooCommerce checkout. Configure shipping delays, block holidays, and manage local logistics.

== Description ==

Take absolute control of your local order fulfillment. **Delivery Date for WooCommerce** is a high-performance scheduling plugin built specifically for e-commerce stores offering local delivery, grocery services, florists, bakeries, pharmacies, and regional logistics.

Engineered by a Senior Systems Administrator with 16+ years of enterprise architecture experience, this plugin integrates natively into your billing flow without introducing database weight or slowing down checkout processing.

The plugin injects an interactive shipping calendar directly onto your WooCommerce checkout page. Customers can effortlessly select their preferred timeline for receiving packages, while store owners gain a streamlined dashboard to restrict specific weekdays, block holidays, enforce handling buffers, and eliminate logistics bottlenecks.

### 🚚 Essential Features for Smart Local Logistics:
* **Interactive Checkout Calendar:** Adds a fluid, mobile-responsive date-picker window seamlessly into the billing flow.
* **Fulfillment Buffer Rules:** Configure minimum and maximum delivery day offsets to give your warehouse team time to process orders.
* **Holiday & Weekend Blackouts:** Easily disable specific shipping days of the week or add custom block dates for holiday breaks.
* **Order Tracking & Account Logs:** Displays chosen delivery schedules clearly on the WooCommerce order confirmation screen, customer account dashboards, and purchase receipt emails.
* **Full HPOS Compatibility:** Built from the ground up to support modern High-Performance Order Storage architecture for rapid processing.

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== Features ==

* **Fluid Checkout Integration:** Native calendar injection that adapts instantly to your active theme's styling and CSS layout.
* **Fulfillment Management:** Complete control over setting processing preparation windows and managing active order pipelines.
* **Detailed Order Metadata:** Saves selected delivery timelines as native WooCommerce order metadata for easy accounting exports.
* **Zero Database Friction:** Lightweight coding architecture that operates smoothly without relying on heavy external JavaScript frameworks.
* **Email Template Hooks:** Automatically injects delivery details directly into standard WooCommerce automated customer notifications.
* **Translation Ready:** Follows clean internationalization standards with local security nonce structures built in.

== Installation ==

1. Upload the plugin directory to your server's `/wp-content/plugins/` directory path.
2. Navigate into **Plugins → Installed Plugins** inside your WordPress dashboard and click **Activate**.
3. Go to **WooCommerce → Delivery Date** to open the options screen.
4. Set your mandatory preparation buffer, choose your custom calendar label, and click **Save Settings**.

== Screenshots ==

1. Clean administrative settings dashboard to configure delivery calendars, checkout holiday blackout dates, and handling rules.
2. Responsive WooCommerce checkout calendar layout allowing buyers to choose their delivery day easily.
3. Order completion overview screen showing detailed, timestamped delivery parameters for the customer.
4. Injected logistics metadata panel display inside the standard backend administrative WooCommerce order editor view.

== Security ==

The plugin follows strict WordPress security best practices:
* Complete data sanitization on inputs
* Secure output escaping contextually
* Safe nonce verification strings
* Direct file access execution blockades

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Does this plugin require WooCommerce? =
Yes. A running layout of WooCommerce must be installed and activated for the tax and metadata configurations to store correctly.

= Does this plugin support WooCommerce Checkout Blocks? =
Currently, the plugin hooks cleanly into standard WooCommerce Classic Checkout templates.

= Can I disable specific delivery weekdays? =
Yes. You can disable weekends or specific delivery days directly within the main configuration panel.

== Upgrade Notice ==

= 1.0.1 =
Optimized directory indexing parameters, updated keywords for better search engine discovery, and verified database query speeds.

== Changelog ==

= 1.0.1 =
* Enhanced search engine display titles for repository optimization.
* Corrected layout descriptions within documentation and metadata files.
* Verified database query compatibility loops for modern PHP 8.x environments.

= 1.0.0 =
* Initial public repository launch.
* Native checkout date-picker integration engines.
* Complete order tracking metadata and account logs framework.
