Dispatch and delivery dates in working days, with the bank holidays of England and Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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Enter the order date, the handling time and the transit time in working days. The calculator gives the dispatch day and the delivery day, skipping weekends and the bank holidays of the UK nation you choose, and checks the date against the 30-day limit the Consumer Rights Act 2015 sets when no delivery date was agreed.
Enter the day the order is placed. If it comes in after the seller's or carrier's dispatch cut-off, tick the box: handling then starts on the next working day. An order placed on a day that is not worked, such as a Sunday or a bank holiday, is handled from the first working day after it.
Handling time is how long it takes to pick, pack and hand the parcel to the carrier: 0 if it goes the same day. Transit time is what the carrier quotes: 1 for next-day delivery, 2 for a two-day service. Each day counted moves on to the next working day.
Choose the days on which orders are packed and delivered: Monday to Friday, Monday to Saturday or every day. Bank holidays differ across the UK: Scotland has 2 January and St Andrew's Day but no Easter Monday, and Northern Ireland adds St Patrick's Day and the Battle of the Boyne. If your carrier delivers on bank holidays, choose 'Do not skip bank holidays'.
Copy the workings in one click, export them as a CSV file or save them to Priostack. Your recent calculations stay on this device. The bank holiday calendar covers 2026 and 2027; outside those two years, the calculator tells you it only skips the days off in the working week.
Handling starts = the first working day from the order date (from the next day if the order came after the cut-off).
Dispatch = start + handling time, in working days.
Delivery = dispatch + transit time, in working days.
A working day is a day of the chosen working week that is not a bank holiday.
Legal limit if no date was agreed = order date + 30 days.
With 1 working day of handling, the parcel leaves on Thursday 24 December. With 1 working day in transit, Monday to Friday, the calculator skips Christmas Day (Friday 25 December), the weekend and the Boxing Day substitute bank holiday (Monday 28 December), so the parcel arrives on Tuesday 29 December 2026, 6 calendar days after the order. If no delivery date was agreed, the legal limit is Friday 22 January 2027.
Under section 28 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015, unless a time or period for delivery was agreed, the trader must deliver the goods without undue delay and in any event not more than 30 days after the day the contract is entered into. The calculator shows that date and warns you if the delivery date falls later.
If the trader refuses to deliver, or delivery on time was essential, or you told the trader before buying that it was, you can treat the contract as at an end. Otherwise you can set a further period that is appropriate and, if the goods still do not arrive within it, treat the contract as at an end. Either way, the trader must refund what you paid without undue delay.
It depends on the carrier. Employers do not have to give bank holidays as paid leave, so a business may work through them. If your carrier delivers on bank holidays, choose 'Do not skip bank holidays'.
Each nation has its own bank holidays. In 2026 Scotland has its summer bank holiday on 3 August rather than 31 August, St Andrew's Day on Monday 30 November and a one-off World Cup bank holiday on 15 June. Northern Ireland adds St Patrick's Day on 17 March and the Battle of the Boyne, observed on Monday 13 July in 2026.
The calculator counts handling and transit in working days: the days of the working week you choose, without bank holidays. Calendar days are every day, weekends and bank holidays included. The Act sets its limit in days after the contract, with no mention of working days, so the calculator shows it 30 days after the order date.
This calculator gives an estimate and general information, not legal, tax, financial or accounting advice. Real delivery times depend on the seller and the carrier, and some of them work on bank holidays, so check their terms.
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