Setup guide · 5 minutes

Your first scheduled section, live in five minutes.

Four steps, mostly pictures. By the end, a sale banner on your store will turn itself on and off while you do literally anything else.

Find it on the Shopify App Store
Install the app Flip one toggle Pick a template Watch it work
01

Install Section Control

Find Section Control on the Shopify App Store and hit Install. The free plan covers two scheduled sections, and there's no card, no trial timer, nothing to cancel.

Section Control's listing on the Shopify App Store, with the Install button
Where you'll be: the App Store listing. One click and Shopify drops you straight into the app.
02

Flip one toggle in your theme

Sections can't schedule themselves until your theme lets the app in. On the app's dashboard, click Enable app embed. Shopify opens your theme editor with the Section Control toggle already switched on. All you do is press Save.

The theme editor's App embeds panel with the Section Control toggle switched on and the Save button top right 1 2
① The toggle arrives already on. ② Press Save and you’re done here for good.
03

Pick a template, set your dates

Don't build from scratch. Open Templates, pick Black Friday Banner, and the rule arrives with its dates already filled in. You pick the section, check the page, and press Save.

Section Control's Templates page with six ready-made schedules, Black Friday Banner first
Six ready-made schedules. Each one opens as a pre-filled form.
The rule editor filled in by the Black Friday Banner template: rule name, homepage, the banner section and the dates 1 2 3 4
① Name it anything. ② Pick the page. ③ Pick the section. ④ The dates are already in. Then Save, top right.
04

Watch your store do the work

That's setup finished. When the start time hits, the section appears on your storefront by itself. When the end time passes, it leaves. No midnight logins, and nobody touches your theme.

The Ember and Oak homepage before the scheduled time, with no promo bannerBefore
Before: a normal Tuesday. No banner, nothing to ignore.
The same homepage during the scheduled window, with The Weekend Burn promo banner showingDuring
During the window: the banner showed up on its own. It will leave the same way.
The Results page: the changes the app made recently, and page views while each one was live
The Results page keeps receipts: every change the app made, plus the page views your section got while it was live.
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Make it repeat every weekend

Running the same promo every Friday to Sunday? Tick Repeat on a schedule, tap the days, set the hours. The rule re-arms itself every week until you tell it to stop. Recurring schedules are part of Pro, $9.99 a month with a 7-day trial.

The recurring schedule: weekly, with Friday, Saturday and Sunday ticked
Fri, Sat, Sun. Set once in April, still running in December.

Three things people ask

I saved a rule and my storefront didn't change.
Two usual causes: the theme embed toggle from Step 2 isn't saved, or you checked within the first minute. The storefront updates within about 60 seconds of a rule kicking in.
Will it slow my store down?
No. One tiny script decides show-or-hide and gets out of the way. There's no app code in your theme files, and uninstalling leaves nothing behind.
What does free actually cover?
Two active rules, both show and hide, on any single page type. Unlimited rules, recurring schedules, and site-wide scope are Pro.

Five minutes, remember?

The clock's already generous. Most merchants beat it.

Find it on the Shopify App Store