# Serving Schedules
> Source: https://development.fuze-store.com/docs/store/product/serving-schedules

# Serving Schedules

A **serving schedule** is a named set of hours, like **Breakfast** or **Weekend Specials**. Attach it to the items it covers, and your online menu offers those items only while the schedule is open. Outside it, customers see them as unavailable, then they come back on their own. One schedule can cover many items, so changing breakfast hours is one edit, not one per dish.

## Before you start

- A plan with serving schedules (Starter or up, or the free trial).
- **Products · Modify** to create, edit, switch off, reorder, or duplicate; **Products · Delete** to delete; **Products · View** to see the list.

## Steps

Open the main menu and tap **Serving Schedules** in the **Catalog & Inventory** section. Tap **New schedule**. You can also reach it with **Manage schedules** in the product form.

Under **General**, pick a name customers will understand, such as **Breakfast** or **Weekend Specials**. Customers see it on your online menu. The **Enable** switch decides whether the schedule is in effect. Leave it on.

Under **Weekly hours**, tap **Add hours** on each day it is served and fill in **Opens** and **Closes**. A day can have up to four sets of hours, for example 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM. A day with no hours is not served. Leave every day empty and the schedule is open all day, every day. Leave both times of a set empty to serve all day on that day. An end earlier than the start runs overnight. Set one day up, then tap **Copy hours** to copy to **Mon–Fri**, **Sat–Sun**, or every day. Copying replaces what those days had, so you confirm first.

Under **Specific dates**, tap **Add a date** for a holiday or a one-off. A new row is set to the next free date and already **Closed all day**. Switch that off to give the date its own hours. A date replaces that weekday's usual hours for that one day. You can add up to 120 dates.

Under **Active dates**, set **Starts on** and **Ends on** for a seasonal menu. Outside those dates the schedule is closed. Tap **Clear** to remove a date.

Tap **Save**. The schedule appears with its live status: **Serving now · until 2:00 PM**, **Next: 5:00 PM**, or **Next: Sep 24, 2026, 6:00 AM**. Then open an item in **Products**, and on the **General** tab open **Serving schedules** and tick each schedule it follows. Each shows when it next opens. Tap **Save**.

## What happens next

- The register's cached items and schedules and your public menu are refreshed. Other devices are told only on plans with live sync.
- Your online menu groups items by schedule and says when each opens. Schedules serving now sit with your categories, and customers can tap one at the top. Schedules that open later move to a **Coming up** list beside the menu, or behind a **Coming up** button on smaller screens.
- Each switched-on schedule gets its own button in the register's category bar, marked with a clock. On a phone it is a tile right after **All Products**, in the order you arranged.

## Edge cases

- **Schedules never stop a sale at the register.** A customer in front of you can buy an item at any hour. Only an item you marked **unavailable** or switched off cannot be rung up. An online order placed during serving hours can still be rung up after the schedule closes.
- **An item on several schedules** is offered whenever **any** is open. **An item on none** is offered whenever it is available.
- **Marking an item unavailable always wins.** A schedule never brings back something you marked sold out on [Today's Menu](/docs/store/product/todays-menu).
- **Times are your store's local time,** whatever time zone the phone showing the menu is in.
- **Hours cannot overlap** on one day. The second set is flagged and **Save** stays off until you fix it. Back-to-back hours are fine.
- **A name another schedule has** is refused, in any letter case. A last day before the first day is refused.
- **Manage:** switch a schedule off with its switch (items ignore it while off, and nothing is deleted), reorder by dragging, **Duplicate** from the **⋯** menu (the copy keeps hours and items and opens for renaming), and **Delete**. Deleting detaches it from its items. An item left with no schedule is offered whenever it is available. A schedule whose **Ends on** has passed shows **Ended**, and its items stay off your online menu until you attach another or extend the date.
- **Leaving the form unsaved** asks whether to discard. **Keep editing** returns with everything you typed.
- **After a downgrade to Basic** while the list is open, the list shows the upgrade notice, but **Add** can still open the create form, whose save is refused.
- **Reordering** must name every schedule the store has, or it is refused.

## Works with

| Add-on or plan | What changes on this page |
| --- | --- |
| Basic plan | The screen is hidden and schedules are ignored. Items are offered whenever they are available. Your schedules are kept and return if you upgrade. |
| Starter and up, and the free trial | Serving schedules are available. |
| Online store | Schedules narrow only what customers can order online. See [Taking Orders Online](/docs/store/share-store/online-ordering). |

## Related guides

- [Product Overview](/docs/store/product/overview)
- [Today's Menu (Availability)](/docs/store/product/todays-menu)
- [Online Ordering](/docs/store/share-store/online-ordering)
- [Roles and Permissions](/docs/store/roles-and-permission/overview)