---
title: "Default hours, notifications, and tracking"
description: "Set the default trading hours for new stores, choose your notification email, and turn on Shoppy Connect tracking."
product: "Shoppy Store Locator"
section: "Settings and design"
url: https://help.shoppyconnect.com/store-locator/settings-and-design/default-hours-and-tracking
markdown_url: https://help.shoppyconnect.com/store-locator/settings-and-design/default-hours-and-tracking.md
last_updated: 2026-11-05
tags: ["settings", "default trading hours", "notification email", "analytics", "tracking", "shoppy connect"]
---

# Default hours, notifications, and tracking

> Set the default trading hours for new stores, choose your notification email, and turn on Shoppy Connect tracking.

These settings are on the **Trading hours & alerts** and **Analytics** tabs in **Settings**. Change a setting, then click **Save** in the bar at the top.

## Default trading hours

Default trading hours are the hours new stores start with, whether you add them by hand or import them. Set them before you add your stores and you'll have less to change.

![The Trading hours & alerts tab, with the Notification email field and Default trading hours for each day, each with an Open checkbox and opening and closing times, and a Copy Monday to all days link](https://help.shoppyconnect.com/_astro/01-trading-hours-alerts.DdPwOh7__ZaN4Ar.webp)

1. Go to **Settings** › **Trading hours & alerts**.
2. For each day, tick **Open** and set the opening and closing times. Untick **Open** for days your stores are usually closed.
3. To use Monday's hours for every day, click **Copy Monday to all days**.
4. Click **Save**.

Changing the defaults doesn't change stores you already have. To update existing stores, edit each one, or use [Bulk edit hours](https://help.shoppyconnect.com/store-locator/managing-stores/trading-hours-and-special-dates.md#update-hours-for-many-stores).

## Notification email

Enter the email address where you'd like to receive messages about the app, under **Notification email**. Use an inbox someone checks, such as a shared team address.

## Shoppy Connect tracking

If you also use [Shoppy Connect](https://help.shoppyconnect.com/shoppyconnect/getting-started/getting-started.md), you can see how customers use your store locator there.

![The Analytics tab, with the Shoppy Connect tracking checkbox](https://help.shoppyconnect.com/_astro/02-analytics.D5Ay1yu4_Z1Hb64d.webp)

1. Go to **Settings** › **Analytics**.
2. Tick **Shoppy Connect tracking**.
3. Click **Save**.

Your store locator then records searches and store views, so you can see them in Shoppy Connect. It's off until you turn it on.

Search engine settings, such as structured data, are on the **Marketing** page. See [Structured data for search engines](https://help.shoppyconnect.com/store-locator/online-store/structured-data.md).

## Related guides

- [Trading hours and special dates](https://help.shoppyconnect.com/store-locator/managing-stores/trading-hours-and-special-dates.md)
- [Add and edit a store](https://help.shoppyconnect.com/store-locator/managing-stores/add-and-edit-a-store.md)