Business days calculator template

Free build guide: Business days calculator for WordPress

This guide rebuilds the Business days calculator from this site in Gravity Forms: 4 inputs, 5 live results and no submit button. Expect about 27 minutes by hand. The template above is the same form as an import file, and the bundle adds a PDF version of this guide with a screenshot of every setting, plus the stylesheet.

You will end up with:

• Business days
• Calendar days
• Weekend days
• Weeks
• Working hours (8 a day)

What you need

• Gravity Forms (any license) — Calculation fields and radio values are in core; datediff(), floor() and min() need GP Advanced Calculations.
• GP Advanced Calculations (Gravity Wiz) — Exponents, functions and date math in calculation fields. The formulas in this template use its syntax. Part of Gravity Perks; needs the Spellbook plugin active as well.

The formulas below use GP Advanced Calculations syntax: exponents, functions or date math that core calculation fields cannot do. Install and activate it, with its Spellbook parent plugin, before you start; without it every result shows 0.

1. Create the form

1. Go to Forms → New Form and name it Business days.
2. In Form Settings → Form Layout, set the CSS Class Name to fo-live-only. Step 3 uses it to hide the submit button.
3. Leave the form open in the editor; the fields come next.

2. Add the fields, in this order

Field IDs are assigned as you add fields. If yours come out differently, change the {Label:ID} references in the formulas to match your IDs. Settings not mentioned stay at their defaults.

1. Start date · Date · ID 1
Date Input Type Date Picker; Date Format mm/dd/yyyy; Default Value 10/20/2026; Layout: half width, on the same row as its neighbor (drag the field beside it in the editor; no CSS class needed).

2. End date · Date · ID 2
Date Input Type Date Picker; Date Format mm/dd/yyyy; Default Value 11/20/2026; Description “On or after the start date.”; Layout: half width, on the same row as its neighbor (drag the field beside it in the editor; no CSS class needed).

3. Count the end date · Radio Buttons · ID 3
Custom CSS Class (Appearance tab) fo-segmented.

Choices (tick show values and enter each value):

• No (deadline is that day) — value 0 (selected by default)
• Yes (work through that day) — value 1

4. Public holidays in that span · Number · ID 4
Number Format 9,999.99; Default Value 0; Description “Weekday holidays only; the tool already skips weekends.”.

5. Business days · Number · ID 5
Number Format 9,999.99; Description “Mondays to Fridays, less the holidays you entered.”; Custom CSS Class (Appearance tab) fo-result; tick Enable Calculation, Rounding 0.

( floor( ( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) + ( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} ) ) / 7 ) ) * 5 + min( ( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) + ( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} ) ) % 7 ), 5 ) ) - ( floor( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) / 7 ) ) * 5 + min( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) % 7 ), 5 ) ) - {Holidays:4}

6. Calendar days · Number · ID 6
Number Format 9,999.99; Layout: half width, on the same row as its neighbor (drag the field beside it in the editor; no CSS class needed); Custom CSS Class (Appearance tab) fo-result fo-result--sub; tick Enable Calculation, Rounding 0.

( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} )

7. Weekend days · Number · ID 7
Number Format 9,999.99; Layout: half width, on the same row as its neighbor (drag the field beside it in the editor; no CSS class needed); Custom CSS Class (Appearance tab) fo-result fo-result--sub; tick Enable Calculation, Rounding 0.

( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} ) - ( ( floor( ( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) + ( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} ) ) / 7 ) ) * 5 + min( ( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) + ( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} ) ) % 7 ), 5 ) ) - ( floor( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) / 7 ) ) * 5 + min( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) % 7 ), 5 ) ) )

8. Weeks · Number · ID 8
Number Format 9,999.99; Layout: half width, on the same row as its neighbor (drag the field beside it in the editor; no CSS class needed); Custom CSS Class (Appearance tab) fo-result fo-result--sub; tick Enable Calculation, Rounding 1.

( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} ) / 7

9. Working hours (8 a day) · Number · ID 9
Number Format 9,999.99; Layout: half width, on the same row as its neighbor (drag the field beside it in the editor; no CSS class needed); Custom CSS Class (Appearance tab) fo-result fo-result--sub; tick Enable Calculation, Rounding 0.

( ( floor( ( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) + ( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} ) ) / 7 ) ) * 5 + min( ( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) + ( datediff( {Start:1}, {End:2} ) + {Include:3} ) ) % 7 ), 5 ) ) - ( floor( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) / 7 ) ) * 5 + min( ( datediff( "1970-01-05", {Start:1} ) % 7 ), 5 ) ) - {Holidays:4} ) * 8

3. Hide the submit button

The results are live, so nothing needs submitting. Add this filter to your theme’s functions.php or a code-snippets plugin; it hides the button on any form carrying the fo-live-only class:

add_filter( 'gform_submit_button', function ( $button, $form ) {
	return str_contains( (string) rgar( $form, 'cssClass' ), 'fo-live-only' ) ? '' : $button;
}, 10, 2 );

Or with CSS alone: .fo-live-only_wrapper .gform_footer { display: none; }

4. Put it on a page and make it look like this

Add the form to any page with the Gravity Forms block, or the shortcode [gravityform id="X" title="false" ajax="false"]. The form inherits your theme’s styles; the classes you set in step 2 are hooks for the look you see on this site:

• fo-result on a calculation field makes it the big teal result panel.
• fo-result fo-result--sub makes the smaller secondary figures.
• fo-segmented on a radio field turns it into a segmented switch.
• Two fields on one row is the editor’s own column layout: drag a field beside another and the row splits in half. No CSS class is needed, and the old gf_left_half Ready Classes are deprecated.

The bundle includes the two stylesheets that implement those classes, with notes on matching your brand colors. Without them the form still works; it just looks like your theme’s default Gravity Forms styling.

How the math works is explained under “How it’s calculated” on the live Business days calculator.