Go on holiday without losing your sales
Closing a store for two weeks does not pause your customers: it sends them to someone else. If your products are not made to order and not one-of-a-kind, there is a better option than closing — keep taking orders, and tell every customer exactly when their order will ship.
The cost of a closed store
A visitor who finds a closed store with a reopening date in ten days rarely comes back in ten days. They buy elsewhere, or they forget. For a small store, two weeks of closure in a good month is a measurable share of the year's revenue.
The alternative is what eBay calls allowing item sales during time away, and what many merchants do by hand: keep selling, and warn buyers that shipping will wait. The problem is doing it consistently, everywhere the customer looks.
Where the customer needs to see the date
A banner at the top of the store is where it starts, but it is not where the customer reads carefully. They read the product page under the buy button, they read the cart, and after paying they read the thank-you page and the confirmation e-mail — and then, a few days later, the order status page when they wonder where the parcel is.
If the shipping date is missing from any of these, you get the message you were trying to avoid: 'Where is my order?'. Shopify's own estimated delivery dates do not shift for a holiday — Shopify declined that request in 2023 — so the date has to be carried explicitly.
How Pausify's 'accept orders, ship later' mode does it
You schedule it with your return date, or switch it on by hand, in which case customers read that their order ships as soon as you are back. The storefront shows the banner and 'Ships from' under the buy button, in the visitor's language. When the customer orders, the date is written into their cart as an additional detail that Shopify copies into the order: you see it in the order details, the customer sees it on the thank-you and order status pages, and one snippet pasted into your confirmation e-mail template prints it there too.
Pausify never reads the order or the customer: the date travels with the cart, natively. When you reopen, the notice disappears everywhere at once, and your orders are waiting, each one with the date you promised.