Schedule when products publish, hide, and get tagged.

Auto-publish your drop, pull it when it ends, and tag your sale section, in bulk, on a date you pick. No code. No midnight logins.

Trigger
A date you pick

Add or Remove Tags

Publish or Hide

Email Alerts

One date. Per product or in bulk.

Pick a fixed date for a set of products, or let each product's own date drive the action. Choose what happens. DateCue does the rest, on time.

Bulk scheduling

Select all products, or filter by collection, tag, or type, and schedule one action at one date and time.

Publish & auto-unpublish

Bring a drop live on launch day, then pull it when the window ends. Set an end date and walk away.

Tag on a schedule

Add a "sale" or "new" tag when a promo starts and remove it the minute it ends, even at midnight.

Per-product date triggers

Already store a launch or expiry date on each product? Point DateCue at that date field and it acts automatically, before, on, or after that date, no bulk job required.

Set it up in minutes.

1

Pick your products

All of them, or filter by collection, tag, or type. Or point at a date metafield each product already carries.

2

Pick the date

A fixed date and time you choose, or before, on, or after each product's own date.

3

Choose the action

Publish, hide, tag, untag, or email. Preview the count, then save. Done.

Built for stores that run on dates.

Whatever you sell, your dates already work this way. DateCue just acts on them.

New arrivals

Tag products as "new" on launch. Auto-remove the tag 14 days later. No more stale "new" badges.

Sales & promotions

Add a "Sale" tag when the promotion starts. Remove it the minute the sale ends, even at midnight. DateCue handles the tags and timing; pair it with your discount method for the price.

Expiry & best-before dates

Get an email before stock expires. Auto-archive products past their best-before date so they stop selling.

Limited-time drops

Auto-archive products when the drop window ends. No scrambling to pull them down manually.

Courses & events

Set a course or workshop to draft the moment it starts, so it stops appearing for sale. Get a heads-up to your own inbox when it happens, no manual midnight archiving.

Simple pricing. No surprises.

You pay for cues, not seats or workflows. A cue is one scheduled action on one product. Paid plans include a 14-day free trial.

All prices in USD

Free

$0/month
  • 100 product cues/month
  • Bulk schedule: publish, hide & tag
  • Before / after date offsets
  • Matching-products preview
  • Email support
Install free

Scale

$19/month
  • 100,000 product cues/month
  • Everything in Starter
  • Webhooks
  • Auto-retries
  • Priority support
Start free trial

DateCue schedules tags, status, and visibility, not prices. Pair it with your discount method of choice.

Frequently asked questions

Everything you need to know about DateCue.

How is this different from Shopify's free future-publishing?

Shopify's built-in scheduling only publishes one product at a future date. It cannot auto-unpublish, set an end date, schedule in bulk, tag, or email. DateCue does all of those. That gap is exactly what DateCue fills.

Can DateCue schedule many products at once?

Yes. Pick a date and a set of products, all of them, or filtered by collection, tag, or type, and schedule one action across the whole set. Publish 300 products at one launch time, or set a whole collection to draft on March 1. Before you save, DateCue shows how many products the action will affect.

Can DateCue automatically hide or unpublish products?

Yes. Set an end date and DateCue moves products to draft or archived so they stop selling, no midnight login required. This is the half Shopify's built-in scheduling can't do.

Does DateCue change prices or create discounts?

No. DateCue schedules tags, status, and visibility, not prices. For the discount itself, pair it with Shopify automatic discounts, a compare-at price, or a discount app. DateCue handles the timing and merchandising around your sale.

What actions can I automate?

DateCue supports four actions: publish or hide a product (change its status between active, draft, and archived), add or remove a tag, send an email alert, and fire a webhook to an external system. Email is included from the Starter plan; webhooks are on Scale.

Do I need metafields to use DateCue?

No. You can schedule a bulk action on a fixed date you pick, with no metafields at all. If your products already store dates in a date or date_time metafield (launch, expiry, best-before), DateCue can trigger on those too, before, on, or after each product's own date.

Does DateCue support Shopify's "Date" metafield type?

Yes. DateCue reads Shopify's date metafield type directly, no setup on our side beyond picking the field. A date metafield triggers at midnight (00:00) on the selected day, which is what most merchants use for expiry, best-before, and season-end dates.

Does DateCue support Shopify's "Date and time" metafield type?

Yes. DateCue also reads Shopify's date_time metafield type. A date_time metafield triggers at the exact time you set, which is what most merchants use for product launches or any time-sensitive action. You can use both types across different metafields in the same store.

Do I need to know how to code?

No. DateCue is a fully no-code app. Pick your products, pick a date, choose an action. No scripts, no Liquid, no developer needed.

Can DateCue trigger at a specific time?

Yes. For a bulk schedule you choose the exact date and time, and DateCue fires within a minute of it. For a per-product date_time metafield it fires within a minute of the time you set; a plain date metafield triggers at midnight (00:00) on that date.

What happens if I change a product's date after setting it up?

DateCue picks up the new date on the next sync (within 5 minutes) and reschedules automatically. The old scheduled action is cancelled and replaced with one based on the updated date. You can also hit Sync Now to pick up the change immediately.

What is a "cue", and how does pricing work?

A cue is one scheduled action applied to one product. A 300-product bulk publish is 300 cues; an expiry rule firing on 40 products this month is 40 cues. Free includes 100 cues/month, Starter 10,000, and Scale 100,000. You pay for the work done, not for seats or the number of workflows.

Is there a free trial?

Yes, paid plans include a 14-day free trial, and the Free plan is free forever. No credit card required to start.

Stop logging in at midnight to publish and pull products.

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