YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards

Want to add a revenue-boosting feature to your WooCommerce store that customers will love? YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards is the perfect solution! This plugin simplifies selling and managing digital gift cards.

The YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards plugin enables you to offer gift cards in your store. Every gift card includes a distinct code that the gift card recipient can input on the Cart page to apply that credit towards their purchase.

• How To Create A Gift Card Product
• How To Create Image Galleries For Your Gift Cards
• How To Create A Gift Card Code Manually
• How To Add Your Store Logo To The Gift Card
• Delivery Options For A Virtual Gift Card
• Gift Card Redemption
• Premium Features
• Summary

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How To Create A Gift Card Product

The gift card is a WooCommerce product. To sell a gift card in your shop, you have to create a new product (Products > Add new) and then, in Product data, select the Gift Card product type (1).

Then, if you want to sell a virtual gift card that will be sent by email to the recipient, you have to check the Virtual option (2).

In the Gift Card Options panel, you can set the gift card’s amounts (3). The customer will be able to choose one of the amounts you set.

And in the option below, you can set an optional expiration date for this gift card (4). This option overrides—for this specific gift card—the global rule related to all the gift cards’ default expiration, which you can find in the General tab of the plugin options panel.

Now, you can add a description, upload a nice product image to represent your gift card, and publish the product. Your customers can start buying gift cards from your store!

When a customer buys a gift card, a code is automatically generated, and in the Dashboard tab, you will be able to check all the codes, their balances, and other useful information.

How To Create Image Galleries For Your Gift Cards

With this plugin, you can create all kinds of gift cards to sell in your store. You can, for example, create a “Christmas" gift card, a “Birthday” gift card, and so on. For each gift card, you can create a specific gallery of images so users can customize the gift cards they want to send to their families or friends.

For example, if you want to create a “Christmas” gallery of images and show this type of images on your gift card product page, you must:

1. Create a “Christmas” category in the Image Categories tab (5)
   
2. Upload the images you want to assign to the Christmas category in Media > Add new, and then click on Edit on each image you uploaded. Then, you will be able to associate the image with a category (6).
   
3. Open the gift card product and assign the same category (7).
   
4. Then, in the General tab, enable the image gallery (8) and choose how many images to show on the gift card page (9).
   

How To Create A Gift Card Code Manually

If you want to share a gift card code without asking the user to purchase the gift card in your store, you can create a code manually in the Dashboard tab.

1. Click on the Create code button (9)
   
2. Fill in the fields with the information needed (10). You can enter a custom code or generate it by clicking on the related button. This code is the one the user must enter in the Cart field to use the gift card credit on his purchase.
   

How To Add Your Store Logo To The Gift Card

If you are not able to insert your store logo in the images that the users can use to customize their gift cards, you can enable an option to automatically put the logo above these images.

In the General tab, in the Email options section, enable the Add your shop logo on gift cards option (11) and then use the uploader below to upload your logo image. This image will be automatically added to the gift card images.

Delivery Options For A Virtual Gift Card

In the General tab, in the Recipient & delivery section, you will find some options related to virtual gift card delivery.

• Choose if you want to make the recipient’s name and email address mandatory, forcing users to fill in that information (12)
• Decide if you want to allow users to choose the delivery date or not (13). If the option is enabled, users will see a calendar where they can pick a date to deliver the gift card. If disabled, it will be automatically sent right after the purchase.
• If you decide that users can choose a delivery date, you can then decide if you want to schedule the gift card's delivery at an hourly or daily time interval (14). If you choose to send the gift cards only once a day, you can then decide the time to send them (15) (for example, every day at 4 PM).
  

Gift Card Redemption

In the General tab, in the Cart & Checkout section (16), you can:

• Choose the position of the Apply gift card code field on the Cart page.
• Choose the position of the same field on the Checkout page.
  

Need more options? Check the premium features:

This version of our plugin works like a charm, but the premium one is an even more powerful tool to increase sales and conversions. By upgrading to the premium version, you can:

• Manage the stock of each gift card product.
• Enable an optional QR code in gift cards.
• Import and export gift cards into a CSV file.
• Allow users to enter a custom amount (and set a minimum and/or maximum amount).
• Allow users to upload a custom image or photo to customize the gift card.
• Choose to attach a PDF version of the gift card to the related email.
• Notify the sender via email when the gift card is delivered to the recipient.
• Allow users to enter the gift card code into the standard coupon code field (instead of showing two different fields in the cart and checkout).
• Create a custom page where users can check their gift cards’ balance.
• Enable the “Gift this product” option on product pages to sell gift cards linked to specific products.
• … And so much more!

Summary

With YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards, you have all the tools you need to create a successful gift card program. Explore the plugin's features, customize your gift cards, and watch your sales soar!