Urgency that's actually true.
Mint Urgency adds announcement bars, a live free-shipping progress bar and countdown timers to your store. Every timer counts to a real deadline you set — never a fake one that resets for each visitor.
Free plan available · Pro $4.99/month · No layout shift · No fake scarcity
The bars and timers stores actually use
Without the heavy scripts, the jumpy pages or the made-up deadlines.
Rotate up to 10 messages with links. Shoppers can close it, it pauses on hover, and it sits at the top or the bottom of the screen.
A progress bar that reads the cart and updates the moment something is added — in drawers, on the cart page, everywhere — with a clear unlocked state.
Count down to a sale's actual end, or to your daily dispatch cutoff: “Order within 3h 12m to ship today”. Weekends and holidays skipped.
The threshold converts at Shopify's own exchange rate, or you set a fixed amount per currency to match your market shipping rates.
Bar space is reserved before the page paints, the script is about 6 KB gzipped and deferred, and your storefront never calls our servers.
Start and end bars automatically in your store's timezone (daylight saving handled), target the home page or specific pages, and use custom colours.
Why we don't do fake timers
A countdown that restarts whenever someone opens the page teaches shoppers not to trust you — and breaks consumer-protection rules in many countries. Here's what Mint Urgency does instead.
| Fake urgency | Mint Urgency | |
|---|---|---|
| Sale timers | Restart for every new visitor | Count to the sale's real end, then disappear |
| Shipping cutoffs | “Order in 10 minutes” forever | Your real daily cutoff, weekends and holidays skipped |
| Stock | “Only 3 left!” made up | We don't show stock counters at all |
| Timezones | The shopper's clock | Your store's timezone, daylight saving handled |
Live in three steps
No code to paste into your theme.
Write your messages, set your free-shipping threshold or cutoff, and watch the live preview.
One click opens your theme editor's App embeds with Urgency bars ready to turn on.
Drop the Countdown timer block next to your buy buttons. It shows the right timer for each product.
Start free. Upgrade for timers and scheduling.
Flat pricing, billed through Shopify. Cancel anytime from your Shopify admin.
- 1 announcement bar with rotating messages
- 1 free-shipping progress bar, multi-currency
- Dismissible, top or bottom, sticky option
- Theme, dark or light styles
- No layout shift, no calls to our servers
- Everything in Free
- Unlimited announcement and free-shipping bars
- Countdown timers: sale end dates and daily cutoffs
- Scheduling in your store's timezone
- Page targeting and custom colours
Questions merchants ask
Do the timers restart for each visitor?
No, never. Mint Urgency doesn't offer “evergreen” timers or fake stock counters. A timer counts down to a date and time you set, or to your real daily order cutoff, and every shopper sees the same time left. When a sale ends, the timer disappears (or shows your “ended” message) — it doesn't start again.
How does the free-shipping bar know what's in the cart?
It reads the cart in the shopper's browser from Shopify's standard /cart.js and listens for cart changes, so it updates when an item is added from a product page, quick-add button or cart drawer. Nothing is sent to our servers.
Which timezone do schedules and cutoffs use?
Your store's timezone from Settings → General. A 2pm cutoff means 2pm where you ship from, for every shopper wherever they are, and daylight-saving changes are handled for you.
Will it slow my store down or make the page jump?
The bars' space is reserved by a tiny inline script before the first paint, so content doesn't jump when they appear. The main script is deferred and about 6 KB gzipped, and bar settings are stored in your store's own metafields — no requests to our servers.
Is it accessible?
Bars are labelled regions with keyboard-reachable controls, rotation pauses on hover and focus and switches off for shoppers who prefer reduced motion, the free-shipping message is announced politely when it changes, and countdowns are announced once a minute rather than every second.
Which themes are supported?
Online Store 2.0 themes, including Shopify's free themes. Switch on the Urgency bars app embed and add the Countdown timer block to your product page — no code to paste.
Honest urgency, light on your store.
Start free with an announcement bar and a free-shipping bar. Built by Mint Labs.
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