Manual toggling is how Black Friday sales linger into December, how product launches miss their 9 AM window, and how support popups show up at 3 AM in someone else’s timezone. Scheduling solves all three.
Popup Maker Pro handles scheduling natively. Five modes cover every real pattern — one-time launches, ending dates, date ranges, specific-date lists, and recurring rules — with timezone and DST handled correctly.
Each mode is configured per-popup, under the popup’s Scheduling tab. You can use any mode alongside Popup Maker’s 42 advanced targeting conditions — schedule and audience work together.
One popup can hold multiple schedules, combined with OR logic — the popup is active if any schedule matches. This replaces the pattern of cloning a popup for every promotional window.
- Recurring holiday sales on one popup — Black Friday range + Cyber Monday range + Boxing Day range + Valentine’s Day range, all stacked. The popup self-activates across every window, stays dark between them. One library entry instead of four.
- Seasonal + event hybrid — “Free shipping” popup using Office Hours (Mon-Fri 9 AM – 5 PM) plus a Range Schedule for Black Friday weekend. Active during business hours year-round AND continuously through the holiday window.
- Multi-phase launch — Pre-launch teaser + launch week + post-launch push, stacked as three Range Schedules. One popup, three phases, no cloning.
- Irregular recurring events — Chosen Dates for webinar days + Range for registration windows, combined so the same CTA handles both.
Schedules also layer with Popup Maker’s 42 targeting conditions via AND logic — so you can build “active during Black Friday OR Cyber Monday, AND only on product pages, AND only to non-subscribers.”
Timezone logic is where most scheduling tools get thin. Popup Maker Pro handles it two ways, per popup:
- Server Time (default) — uses your WordPress timezone. Every visitor sees the popup activate at your time. Right for coordinated launches and business-hours messaging aligned to your office.
- Local Time — uses the visitor’s browser timezone. Every visitor sees the popup in their local time. Right for office-hours popups that should be 9 AM-5 PM everywhere, or time-of-day greetings that actually land when they should.
DST is handled automatically via IANA timezone identifiers — 9 AM local stays 9 AM local through every spring-forward and fall-back. Office Hours and Chosen Dates evaluate the day in your chosen timezone first, so “Monday 9 AM EST” means Monday-in-New-York, not whichever day the server thinks it is.
Scheduling works best as one layer in a full campaign setup:
- Exit Intent — run a scheduled exit-intent offer only during a promo window. Black Friday popup fires on exit, only during the Black Friday range.
- Advanced Targeting — 42 conditions let you combine schedule + audience. Black Friday popup, only on product pages, only to non-subscribers, only with items in cart.
- Cookie controls — limit frequency so the same visitor doesn’t see the scheduled popup on every session.
- Analytics Dashboard — Pro reporting shows scheduled-popup impressions, conversions, and rate, so you know which scheduled campaigns earned their slot.
