Features of WooCommerce Gift Card plugin:

• Import/ Export Gift cards
• Group Gifting Support
• Gift Cards Report for Admin
• Sell Offline Gift Cards As PDFs
• Access WP Swings’ Gifting Portal for Redeem/Recharge
• Multiple Templates For Gift Cards Customization
• Promote Product on Gift Certificates
• Price Variation
• Set Product-Wise Expiry Date
• Variable Pricing On Customizable Gift Card
• Coupon Mail Setting
• Gift Card Recharge by Customers
• Show Delivery Method on Gift Card
• Disable Fields from Gift Card Product Page
• QR Code / BAR Code Feature
• Automatic Coupon Code Generation
• Exclude Sale Items, Categories and Products

Let’s See how you can download and install both the free and pro version of the Gift Card plugin.

Automatic Installation:

Automatic installation is the easiest option for WordPress. 

Follow these steps for the installation:1) Go to the Admin panel navigate to the sidebar click on the ‘Plugins’ menu > ‘Add New’.
2) On the ‘Add Plugins’ page go to the search bar and type ‘Gift Cards For WooCommerce’.

Once you find ‘Gift Cards For WooCommerce’ by WP Swings, you can view the details about it such as the points release, rating, and description. One can install it, simply by clicking “Install Now”

Manual Installation:

The manual installation of the plugin is another option to install the plugin in the seller’s WordPress environment. 

The manual installation method involves downloading our ‘Ultimate Gift Cards Extension and uploading it to the web server via their favorite FTP application. 

The steps for manual installation are as follows:

1) Upload the ‘Gift Cards For WooCommerce’ folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
2) Activate the WooCommerce Gift Cards plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

**The best results can be viewed by using the “WooCommerce” standard theme (Storefront). Any third-party plugin might cause conflict with our plugin.**

After activation of the WooCommerce gift card plugin, it creates “Gift Cards” a custom post type. From here, you can create as many templates for gift coupons as you want. This WooCommerce Gift Card Pro version already provides 20+ templates for gift coupons, which are automatically created on plugin activation. It will help the merchant create gift certificates for various festivals and celebrations.

To create a new Gift Card product in WooCommerce you can navigate to the sidebar and click on the Products > Add New. After reaching the Add New Product page, follow these steps:

1. Enter the name and description of your product.
2. From the Product Data dropdown, select the “Gift Card” option.
3. Enter the Default price and select the Pricing Type for your gift card WooCommerce product. 

There are five types of pricing you can choose from:

• Fixed Price 
• Selected Price 
• Range Price 
• User Price 
• Variable Price 
• Selected with Price Range

Fixed Price (Default Price):  Select a fixed price for your gift coupons.

For example, look at this fixed-cost gift card on the product page.

Price Range: Give a price range between which the customers can buy the gift coupons.

They can enter their preferred price within the set range.

Selected Price: You can set multiple prices for the same gift card.

Enter the different prices and use a separator to separate them. 

For example, $50|$75|$100.

User Price: Add a minimum limit.

WooCommerce gift card product with a minimum limit on User Price.

Variable Price: Add different prices for different durations.

 Create a gift card with duration-based pricing.

Selected With Price Range Type: Define a price range for the gift cards and give specific pricing options within the range.

For example, select a price range of $10-100 and give 10|20|30|40 selectable prices for users to purchase gift coupons.

Give Discount: Enable discount on your gift card WooCommerce product.

Select Email Template: Select Email Template or multiple Email Templates.

Select the Default Template: If you use multiple Email Templates then you need to choose a default template you want to show by default.

Display Recommended Products on Gift Cards: Premium While creating gift certificates, you can add products to the recommended products field, and your selected items will be displayed on the gift certificate preview, in the email, and on the PDF.

Add [RECOMMENDPRODUCT] shortcode in the template you want to use to create gift cards for this feature to start working.

Set Expiry Date: Premium You can set the expiration date of your gift certificates individually. It will override the global expiration date you set for all WooCommerce Cards and allow you to create special WooCommerce gift cards for your marketing campaigns.

Exclude Product: Premium You can also exclude a selected product from the gift coupon discount. The customers won’t be able to redeem gift card coupons while purchasing the excluded product. 

Exclude Categories: Premium Exclude categories from gift card discounts to prevent customers from purchasing products in those categories with the gift coupon.

Overwrite Delivery: Premium With this setting, you can select different delivery methods for every individual gift card. You get three delivery options: Email to the Recipient, Download, and Shipping. You can either select all or a single one.

After making the changes, publish your gift card WooCommerce product.

Now your customer can easily purchase the Gift card from your shop.

Scheduling of Gift Card: Premium While purchasing the gift vouchers, customers can select the specific date of delivery. If they don’t select a delivery date, the email is sent instantly after placing the order.

After the successful installation and activation of the WooCommerce Gift Cards plugin, the admin can perform the following actions in the general settings:

• Enable: Toggle this to enable the WooCommerce Gift Card plugin.

• Enable Tax: Toggle this to enable the taxation on gift coupons.

• Enable Listing Shop Page: Toggle this to allow the listing of Gift Card products on the shop page.

• Individual Use: Toggle this setting if the gift card coupon should not be used in conjunction with other gift vouchers & coupons.

• Free Shipping: Toggle this setting to enable free shipping for the gift card WooCommerce products.

• Gift card Coupon Length: Enter card coupon length. The minimum size of the coupon is 5.

• Gift card Prefix: Enter the Gift Card prefix for the coupon code.

• Gift card Expiry After Days: Enter a valid number after that a purchased Gift Card will expire. Keep value 0 for no expiry date and value 1 for one-day expiry when the order is completed.

• Minimum Spend: This setting lets you set the minimum spend for gift certificates.

• Maximum Spend: Set the maximum spend on the gift certificates

• Gift card Number of Time Usage: Decide how many times a Gift Card can be used before the Gift card goes empty.

• Maximum % of Order Payable via Gift Card: Here you can set the maximum payment limit for gift cards, this way you can control how much users pay using gift cards and how much payment they need to do via any other payment method.
• Max Daily Redemptions Per User:  Here you can limit how many times a user can redeem gift cards in a single day. This helps prevent repeated usage in a short period and ensures a fair and controlled redemption process across your store. User will get a message on the frontend if they have exceeded their daily limit for gift card redemption as shown in the below screenshot

Frontend Representation:

• Premium Gift Card PDF Name Prefix: Add the prefix name to the PDF when attaching it to your gift card template using this feature.

• Enable the Sent Multiple Gift Card Feature : Premium You can allow customers to send gift coupons to multiple recipients in one go. They have to enter the recipient’s email address and separate them by a comma (,)

• Enable Date/Time Feature: Toggle this setting to allow the Gift Card products to be sent to the receiver on the selected date.
• Date Format: Select the date format that you want to show on the Gift Card.
• Time Format: Choose between 24-hour and 12-hour time format to show on the gift cards.

• Enable Date Feature : Premium Toggle this setting to allow the Gift Card products to be sent to the receiver on the selected date.

• Date Format : Premium Select the date format which you want to show on the Gift Card.

• Enable Payment Gateway For Gift Card : Premium Here choose the separate payment gateway method for Gift Card Products otherwise default payment gateways will work.

• Disable Category : Premium Toggle this box if you want to change the Gift Card Product category. You have to select the category every time you create a Gift Card product. The Default Gift Card category will not be assigned automatically.

• Gift Card Dashboard Content : Premium As we have updated our gift cards layout to provide a clean and minimal look, this option is to customize the content that will be displayed on the Dashboard.

• Hide Recharge Coupon Code : Premium The new dashboard design shows the three tabs Coupon Recharge, Group Orders and a tab to check balance. By enabling this option, you can hide the recharge Coupon Tab

• Hide Group Order Details : Premium Just like the previous option, this will hide the Group Orders tab.

• Select Color for Gift Card Dashboard : Premium With this option, you can customize the color of the dashboard.

In the Product Settings, you can include and exclude the product categories for the Gift Cards.

• Exclude Sale Items: Check this box to restrict gift card coupons from applying to the sale items.
  

  
  
   

• Excludes Products: You can limit gift cards for WooCommerce from applying to specific products. If any excluded product is in the cart, then the gift coupon will not work.

• Exclude Product Category: You can set exclusions for the gift card coupons, and if any excluded category products are in the cart, the gift coupon discount won’t apply.

  

• Include Products :Premium Add the products from your product catalog to which the gift cards will exclusively apply. The discount will only apply if the included products are present in the cart. If left empty, gift vouchers will apply to all products that aren’t excluded.

• Include Categories : Premium You can select the product categories suitable for the gift card coupon application. The coupon will apply only when the included category product is in the cart.

• Days Excluded : Here You can now set specific days when customers won’t be able to use their gift card coupons on your website.

• Disable Fields From Gift Cards Product Page : Premium Click on the check boxes of From, Message, Email, and Name fields to remove them from the gift card product page.

Selected Fields From, Message, Email, and name are hidden.

• Making Optional ‘To Email’ Field: Remove the validation from the ‘To Email’ field.
• Making Optional ‘To Name Field: Remove the validation from the ‘To Name’ field.
• Making Optional “From” Field: Remove the validation from the ‘From’ field.
• Making Optional “Gift Message” Field: Remove the validation from the ‘Gift Message’ field.
• Enable Gift Card Expiry Extension Product : Premium Toggle this option to create a product on the shop page, after enabling this option a new product will be created and shown on the shop page.

Users can add their coupon code here and purchase the extension product to extend the validity of their coupons. You can customize this expiry extension product from the product settings and set the price and extension options.

An email is sent to the recipient to notify them about their gift card coupon purchase. You can manage their templates for gift coupon emails with the given settings.

In this section, you can design your email template.

• Upload Default Logo: Upload an image that you want to use as the logo on the email template.
• Logo Height (in “px”): Set the height of the logo in pixels.
• Logo Width (in “px”): Set the width of the logo in pixels.
• Email Default Event Image: Upload the image that you want to use as the default event/occasion logo in the email template.
• Gift card Message Length: You can set the ultimate gift card message length. The default length of the message is 300. Users can check the current count of the message characters.
• Default Gift Cards Message: Set the default message for gift cards.
• Disclaimer Text: Here you can change the disclaimer text for the email template.
• Enable to notify the sender: Toggle this option if you want the sender to know when the recipient has used their gift card.

Use this email template to acknowledge the buyer for their gift voucher purchase. You can tailor the mail elements according to your needs and create custom gift card templates for sending emails.

• Gift card Email Subject: Use [SITENAME] shortcode as the name of the site and [BUYEREMAILADDRESS] shortcode as the buyer email address to be placed dynamically.

• Email Subject to Sender : Premium Write an email subject of the email template for the receiver.

• Email Notification to Sender : Premium Write the message acknowledging to the buyer that the gift card has been sent successfully. You may use the shortcode [TO] for placing the Recipient Email dynamically.

• Downloadable Gift Card Email Subject for Buyer : Premium Downloadable Gift card email subject for gift card mail when received by the buyer. Use [SITENAME]shortcode as the name of the site to be placed dynamically.

• Gift Card Email Subject for Admin : Premium You can customize the subject line for the gift card mail that’s sent to you when the buyer purchases the card. You can proceed to use the details to ship gift vouchers to the shipping address.

Use [SITENAME] shortcode as the name of the site and [ORDERID] shortcode as the order ID of the product to be placed dynamically.

Here is how the email will look in the recipient email after customizing the necessary settings.

The recipient can also download the gift card by clicking on the mail attachment.

• Enable Bcc option for Gift card Mails: BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) is a copy of an email message sent to a recipient whose email address does not appear (as a recipient) in the message. Click on the check box to enable the BCC feature.
• Enable Bcc option for Gift card Mails (Admin): Same BCC feature is also available for admin.
• Disable Apply Coupon Fields: Admin can disable the apply coupon field which is applied to each order amount.

Coupon amount to be placed dynamically.  You can utilize [SITENAME] and [COUPONCODE] as well

Here the [DISCLAIMER] shortcode would be replaced by the above Disclaimer text field.

Here is How the Coupon Mail Will Show to Users:

In this setting, you get to enable three delivery options for customers to send gift card emails to the recipient.

• Enable Email To Recipient: The email-to-recipient feature is used for sending the gift card for WooCommerce via email only to the recipient.

On the front end, you can see the normal delivery method to send the Gift Card.

• Downloadable-  In this feature, the gift card template is sent back to the buyer. The buyer will download the gift card template and send it to the recipient with the needed method.

On the front end, you can see the option of printing your gift card.

Downloadable Gift Card – Example:

• Enable Shipping on Gift Card : Premium In this feature gift card email is sent to the admin and the admin will deliver the gift card to the shipping address of the recipient.

After enabling this setting you can see the shipping option on the WooCommerce gift card.

Allow Customers to choose : Premium The customer can choose the method for gift card delivery i.e; Email to Recipient, Downloadable, and Shipping.

(i) Customers Can Select: From this section enable the delivery methods for the customers.

After enabling this feature you can allow the customer to select the delivery methods within three delivery methods for the Gift Card products.

Apply Coupon On Shipping & Tax: In this feature, the user can also apply their coupon for shipping and tax i.e, the total amount of Gift Card product.

You can overwrite delivery methods via per-product setting: This setting allows you to set the per-product delivery methods.

                                    Goto ‘Product edit page‘ and click on the ‘Product data‘ section, here you can see                                                                                                  the ‘Overwrite Delivery’ setting. 

                                            Enable this setting and select the delivery methods for the specific product.

The WooCommerce gift voucher plugin offers two additional features to control coupon redemption and preview button usage. 

• Disable Apply Coupon Fields: Admin can disable the apply coupon field which is applied to each order amount.

Frontend Representation – Before:

Frontend Representation – After:

• Enable Subscription Coupon Type: Toggle this button to enable coupon types for subscription. (Requires Subscription for WooCommerce Plugin)
• Select Coupon Type: Here you can select coupon discount. (Requires Subscription for WooCommerce Plugin).
• Enable New Layout: A refreshed design for the Gift Cards Product Page – a simple, responsive, and intuitive layout for hassle-free gifting.

Frontend Representation – Old Layout:

Frontend Representation – New Layout:

• Enable Auto-Complete Gift Card Orders : Premium Toggle this option to autocomplete gift card orders. It will automatically complete orders for gift cards delivered via email or as downloadable products (not shipped).

This only applies if the gift cards are delivered via email or as downloadable products, and the cart contains only gift card items.

Remove the bcc feature mentioned on live here.

• Disable Resend Button:Premium Resend button is used to resend the gift card product mail to the recipient. Admin can disable the resend button option.

The user can also resend the email to the receiver in case their first attempt fails. 

• Disable Quantity: Premium Toggle this option to disable quantity on the cart page, your users will not be able to send gift cards in multiple quantity if you enable this setting.

• Disable Send Today Button : Premium Send Today button is used for sending the gift card on the current day. You can disable this option for customers. The customers can select the date on which they want recipients to receive their gift certificates. They can also send the scheduled gift certificate on the current day through the order details section.
  

• Enable PDF Feature: Premium Enable this feature to allow customers to get WooCommerce gift certificates with PDF attachments along with the email.
  

After enabling the PDF feature, two library options will be shown only to old users so that they can switch to the new MPDF and WKHTMLTOPDF.

For the best experience, use MPdf, as WKHTMLTOPDF is deprecated.
Note: If you’ve been using the Gift Cards plugin for a while, after selecting the MPDF make sure to import new templates, as the old ones are no longer supported.

• Select the PDF Template Size: Premium After enabling this feature custom will get a Giftcard email along with the attached PDF.

• Enable Browse Image for Gift Card: Premium After enabling this feature customers will browse the image for Gift Card Product.

You click on the following checkboxes to enable these listed functions of the gift card for WooCommerce plugin : (All setting is available in pro)

• Manual Increment Usage Count for Gift Coupon: Allow manual increment usage of Gift Coupons.
• Enable Product for Custom Page: Display the Gift Card product on the custom page.
• Select Custom Page: Select pages to display the Gift Card Product with the shortcode product_page id =”xyz”
• Hide Gift Card Notice: Hide the Gift Card notice from the product page.
• Hide Terms and Condition: Hide the terms and condition from the product page.
• Hide Featured/Thumbnail Image: Hide the feature images from the product page.
• Enable Product for Custom Page: Toggle This Option if you want to show any gift card product on a custom page.
• Select Custom Page: Select your custom page from this dropdown and use the [product_pageid=”XYZ”] shortcode to show the products on the custom page
• Hide Recharge Coupon Code Field: Toggle this option if you want to hide the recharge coupon field from the myaccount> gift cards section

This WooCommerce Gift Card plugin will help you to grow your revenue by offering easy redeeming/recharging of gift card vouchers for your offline businesses. You can redeem/recharge all types of gift card coupons from the gifting portal.

To use the Giftcard Redeem Link on the web-store follow these steps.

Step 1: First click on the “Get Me My FREE Redeem Link“.

Step 2: Now a popup window will be displayed on your dashboard, here enter your Email Id, Name, and then click on the “Generate Link” tab.

Step 3: After clicking on the “Generate Link“, your Gift Card Redeem Link and Embedded link will be displayed on your panel with walkthrough steps and the login details will be sent to the given email id.

Step 4: Now Copy the Giftcard Redeem link or Embedded code to log in to your web-store of gifting.wpswings.com by using the credentials given in the received email. To use the embedded code first you have to create a Page and then paste the embedded code on it.

Step 5: After successful login with the dashboard, you will get the shop page of the web-store. 

Here you can see all transactions of Giftcard vouchers. The WP Swings gifting portal allows you to scan, redeem, & recharge gift cards, and view various reports related to gift card sales. 

It is an exclusive service of our WooCommerce gift cards plugin, suitable for both offline and online stores. Note: The gifting portal only works for gift cards created using our plugin.

Step 6: Now go to the “DASHBOARD“, here you can start Scan/Fetch and Redeem/Recharge the gift card coupon. You can scan or enter the coupon code to fetch the detail of the Gift card and you can also redeem/recharge the Gift card coupon easily. 

The dashboard distributed into 3 sections.

1. Scan: Click on the scan button you can scan the Gift Card Coupon details.
2. Gift Card Details: Here enter the Gift Card Coupon Code to fetch the details of the Gift Card. After entering the coupon code you can view all the details of the giftcard coupon like amount, expiry date, usage limits of the Gift Card Coupon, etc. 
3. Redeem: You can enter the amount to redeem the value from the Gift Card Coupon or add value to it.

To use the redeem link on this POS system, follow the steps below

1. Copy the embed link and paste it on any page at POS.
2. Login using the credentials given in the received email.
3. Start Scan/Fetch and Redeem/Recharge.

You can open the front-end panel to scan QR/Bar codes, fetch details from coupon codes, and redeem & recharge gift cards. Also, you can add a custom note while editing the gift card value. This panel works for both online and offline stores.

The dashboard shows an overview of the gift portal usage with Total Redeem, Total Recharge, and Transaction Comparison data. You can access the Dashboard from the admin menu on the left panel.

• Total Redeem: Number of gift cards you’ve redeemed. 
• Total Recharge: Number of gift cards you’ve recharged.
• Transaction Comparison: Show the percentage of gift card redemption and recharge compared to the total transactions.

The shop settings tab allows you to configure gift card usage, view reports, give access control to your employees, and add new stores to the gifting portal.

You can set the basic gift coupon usage limits using the settings tab. 

Follow these steps to edit the settings: 

• Currency: Enter the currency symbol to change the operational currency of your gifting portal. 
• Expiry Days After Recharge: Set the number of days after which a recharged gift card will expire. 
• Usage Limit After Recharge: Enter the limit of gift card redeem limit of recharged gift card. 

These settings will apply globally to all your recharged gift cards. So, click on Submit to implement your changes.

In the Recharge Report tab, you can view a detailed report of gift card recharge according to date, store, and employee.

SEARCH From the Search section, you can filter the gift card recharge report by following these steps: 

Date: Select a Date Range for the gift card recharge report. For example, This Month, Last Month, or Custom Range. 

Store: Select a store from the ones registered on the gifting portal. 

Employee: Select from the employees you’ve given access to the gifting portal. And click on the Submit button to render the report. 

The fetched data will display in the Recharge Report table.

The Redeem Report Table contains data regarding all gift card redemptions carried out by you across all stores. 

You can filter out the report using the following steps:

SEARCH 

1. Date: Select a Date Range for the gift card redemption report. For example, This Month, Last Month, or Custom Range. 
2. Store: Select the store whose redeem report you want to fetch. 
3. Employee: Select the employee who has access to redeem gift cards. Click on the Submit button to generate the report.

The Employee table has the following columns: Serial No., Employee Name, Email ID, Position Phone, Manager, Added Date, and Action. 

Follow these steps to add a new employee:

1. Click on the Add Employee button. 
2. Enter the following details: Employee Name, Email, Position, Manager Name, Phone, Shop, Password and Confirm Password. 

   At last, click the Add button to give access to the new employee.

From now this WooCommerce gift voucher plugin provides reporting to the admin of all gift cards, There are two ways to view the report.

1. Navigate to the dashboard click on the WooCommerce > Reports > Gift Cards. Here admin can view and edit the gift cards detail generated by the customers.
   

To view the complete description of the gift card click on the ‘View Details’ button of the specific gift card.

Here, the admin can see the full report of the gift card.

By Clicking on View on the Analytics Column you can see the detailed report for a specific coupon.

The gift Card for WooCommerce Pro plugin is compatible with the  Return Refund & Exchange for WooCommerce and RMA Return Refund & Exchange for WooCommerce Pro.

With this compatibility, the customers are able to file refunds and exchange requests for the gift card products they purchase. 

But customers must fulfill these two conditions: 

1. a) The expiration period of the gift card shouldn’t be achieved
2. b) Its usability should be equal to zero.

You can credit the refund into their RMA wallets instead of paying them back through the payment methods they used for gift card purchases.

Our Ultimate Gift Cards for WooComerce plugin is compatible with Wallet System for WooCommerce Pro and Wallet System for WooCommerce.

The WooCommerce Wallet users can redeem their gift cards to add balance to their wallets. The complete value of the gift card will be transferred to the user’s wallet upon redemption. They may use the updated balance however they like.

Our gift cards plugin is compatible with the Price Based on Country for WooCommerce plugin. With this compatibility, you can define the currency for different countries. So, based on the geolocation tracking of your users, the WooCommerce gift card currency will be different from your base currency.

Gift Cards for WooCommerce Pro helps you create, sell & manage gift cards on your WooCommerce store. It lets you share gift cards through Emails, WhatsApp, and SMS, & easy download PDFs for offline printing. WooCommerce Gift Cards come with loads of features. Here are some of them:

WHAT PREMIUM VERSION OF  GIFT CARDS  FOR WOOCOMMERCE PRO OFFERS

• Gift Card reporting
• Generates Gift Card in PDF
• 20+ pre-designed Gift Card templates
• Image gallery for Gift Cards
• Gift Card scheduling
• Import/Export Gift coupons
• Gift Card shipping to recipient’s address
• Twilio integration for SMS notification
• WhatsApp sharing for Gift Cards
• Automated balance updates
• QR/Barcode coupon codes
• Discount on gift card purchases

TAKE ADVANTAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES OF WOOCOMMERCE GIFT CARD PLUGIN

Get premium version of Plugin Gift Cards for WooCommerce Pro 

Visit the WooCommerce Gift Cards Documentation to learn more about the plugin’s Premium features and functionality.

Don’t see a feature in the Gift Cards for WooCommerce Pro plugin that you think would be useful?

We’d love to hear it: Reach out to our Support query and we’ll consider adding it in a future release.

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Features of WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card:

(1) Gift Card Product: A separate gift card type product is created in WooCommerce and the merchant can create as many products as he wants.

(2) Gift Card Template: You can create a gift card product and assign suitable Gift Card Templates from the product edit page.

(3) Price Variation: There are many types of the pricing system for Gift Card products as given below:

• Fixed Price
• Selected Price
• Range Price
• User Price
• Variable Price

(4) QR Code / BAR Code Feature: The QR Code/BAR Code is used over here for providing  security.

• ECC (Error Correction Capability) Level:  This compensates for dirt, damage, or fuzziness of the BAR Code. Valid values are “L” (low ECC), “M”, “Q”, and “H” (highest ECC). A high ECC level adds more redundancy while using more space.
• Size: Enable QR Code after selecting the ECC level to set the size of the QR Code.
• Margin: Set the QR Code margin over here.
• Code Type: You can use BARCode code types in various places for various purposes.
• Enable BAR Code with Coupon Code:  The ultimate gift card will display the coupon code and Barcode together. 

(5) Automatic Coupon Code Generation: When the gift card order is marked complete, the gift card coupon code is generated automatically and sent to the mail to which the gift card is sent.

(6) Exclude Sale Items: The merchant can prevent the gift card discounts from applying to the sales items. 

 (7) Exclude Categories:  The admin can exclude categories from gift card discount applicability. If any excluded category product is available on the cart, the gift card discount doesn’t apply.

(8) Exclude Product: The merchant can also exclude a selected product from the gift card discount. If any excluded product is available on the cart, the gift card discount doesn’t apply. 

(9) Multiple Usability: A user can spend the whole Gift card amount in multiple times.

(10) Expiry Date: The admin can set after how many days the gift card coupon is expired.

(11) Cart Total Range: The admin can set a minimum and maximum cart total amount for applying the gift card discount.

(12) Individual Use: The merchant can determine whether the gift card coupon is usable for a single user or multiple users.

(13) Email Notification: A gift card template is sent to the user to which gift card is sent. The gift card email template depends on the gift product.

(14) Gift Card Scheduling: The customers can select the date of sending the gift card to the recipients. They can also send the scheduled Gift Card on the current day.

(15) Resend Email: If, for some reason, the gift card mail is not sent to the user, then an option to resend the gift card email is available.

(16) Export Online Gift Card Coupons Details: The admin can export the Gift Card Coupon Details generated from the orders in a CSV file. 

(17) Import/Export Offline Gift Card Details: Admin can export the offline gift card coupon details from the Export Coupon Tab section. Also, they can import the Gift Card coupon details into the offline gift card table from the Offline Gift Card Section.

(18) Resend Gift Card by adding more amount to the coupon: Admin can resend the unused Gift Card Coupons to the recipients by updating their value. They can select multiple gift card coupons and assign a similar amount to all coupons.

(19) Date Formatting: The merchant can set the date format they want to display on the front end. The expiry date in the Gift Card Template will be in the set date format.

(20) Gift Card Message Length: The merchant can set the Gift card message length. By default, the message length is 300.

(21) Downloadable Gift Card: Admin can download the gift card pdf and send it to the buyer or receiver, and the buyer can also download the gift card.

(22) Browse image for Gift Card: Customer can also set their customizable gift card image.

(23) Shipping Feature: The shipping feature is used for gift card shipping to the recipient’s address. It is for the admin and the buyer.

• Coupons:  After enabling the shipping feature, you can use the coupon for gift card shipping and tax.
  

(24) Disable Category Feature: The admin can assign more than one category to the Gift Card product.

(25) Coupon Mail Setting: The user will get notified on their email upon each usage of the coupon amount. The users can also verify their remaining coupon amount. 

(26) Other Setting: In this setting, the sender has three delivery options to send their gift card email to the recipient.

(27) Delivery Method: The sender has three delivery options to send their gift card email to the recipient.

(28) Discount Feature: The admin can set the minimum and maximum discount amounts. It has two discount types; Fixed and Percentage. Admin can also enable the discount setting per product-wise.

(29) Gift Card PDF: Customers will get an email along with a PDF attachment. You can choose an A3/A4 size for the gift card PDF.

(30) Exclude Product Feature: When products are assigned any gift card (Per Product Setting), the generated coupon will not apply to the assigned product and the category.

(31) Shipping Class :  You can add a shipping class and apply it to gift card products

(32) Thank you gift coupon Feature: The merchant would be able to send Thank You gift coupons to their regular customers who have placed the required number of orders for that coupon.

(33) Validation may turn On or Off: Both merchants and customers can select from multiple Gift Cards templates. 

(34) Multiple templates for the customer: From now onwards, the merchant can select multiple templates for Gift Card and customer would be able to choose from them.

 (35) To Name Field for “Mail to Recipient Option”: Any customer who wants to send a Gift Card to their friend via the mail to recipient option can fill in their friend’s email id along with the name. 

(36) Recipients Email Editing: The admin can edit the recipient’s email address. Afterward, they have to resend it once.

(37) Tax Calculation: In this version, we provide the tax calculation for Gift Card Products.

(38) Gift Card Coupon Filter: From now on Gift Cards can be easily filtered by the provided setting, You may easily filter-out the Online/Offline/Imported Gift Cards among all of them.

(39) Email for Ship Your Card Delivery method: From now on email id can be changeable by Merchant easily, Whatever Email id has been filled in the given textbox, the Mail will get sent on that Id.

(40) The number of E-Gift Cards: The number of digital Gift Cards depends on the number of quantities mentioned.

(41) WPML/Translation: The system is fully compatible with WPML Plugin and we also come with multiple languages supported .po and .mo files like for Germany, France, Spanish, and English.

(42) Customizable Gift Card: Your customer can easily customize their Gift Card template. You can provide predefined images and upload more for your customers. It also lets customers upload their Gift Card images and make changes in real-time.

1. Automatic Installation
Automatic installation is the easiest option as WordPress handles the file transfers itself and you don’t need to leave your web browser.
Steps are as follows :
(i) Download the zip folder of the plugin WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card.
(ii) Once downloaded install the WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card plugin through browsing and activate it.

2. Manual Installation
The manual installation of the plugin is another option to install the plugin to your WordPress-environment. The manual installation method involves downloading our WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card Extension and uploading it to your webserver via your favorite FTP application.
Steps are as follows :
(i) Upload the WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
(ii) Activate the WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

Gift Cards Templates:

After activation of the plugin WooCommerce Gift Card, a custom post type “Gift Cards” is created. From here Merchant can create as many Gift Card Templates as he wants.

WooCommerce Gift Card plugin already provides some gift card templates, which are automatically created on plugin activation and it will help the merchant to create new gift cards.

To create a new Gift Card Template navigate to the sidebar and click on Gift Cards > Add New. Here you can design your template by using custom CSS. HTML and you can also use the shortcode.

Gift Card Products :

A separate gift card type product is created in WooCommerce. You can create as many products as you require. 

To create a new product, go to the sidebar and click on Products > Add New. 

(1) For creating a new Gift card, select a Gift Card as a product type and set up the product name, description, image, and other details required for a product.

(2) Here Merchant can select a different type of pricing for Gift Card products.

• Selected Price:
  

  On the product detail, page Selected Price Gift Card product is shown as:

  
• Price Range:
  

  On the product detail, page Price Range Gift Card product is shown as:

  
• User Price:
  

  On the product detail page, the User Price Gift Card product is shown as:

  
• Variable Price:
  
  

   

  On the product detail page, Variable Price of the Gift Card product is shown as:
  

  

(3) Give Discount: Enable discount on Gift Card Products.

(4) Select Email Template: Select Email Template or multiple Email Templates.

(5) Select the Default Template: If you use multiple Email Templates, you can choose a default template.

(6) Exclude Product: The merchant can also exclude a selected product from the Gift Card discount. When any excluded product is available on the cart, then the Gift Card discount is not applied.

(7) Exclude Categories: The merchant can exclude categories to which he doesn’t want a Gift Card discount. When any excluded category product is available on the cart, then the Gift Card discount is not applied.

(8) Overwrite Delivery: In this setting, set per product delivery methods for a product your customer used to send their Gift Card email to their recipient.

And the last click on the ‘Publish‘, your Gift Card product is successfully created.

Now your customer can easily purchase the Gift card from your shop.

Scheduling of Gift Card:

The customer can also schedule the time to send the gift card email to their recipient. If the schedule is left blank, the email is instantly after placing the order successfully.

Inventory: The admin can manage the inventory of gift card products.

 

• Enable: Check this box to enable the WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card plugin.
• Enable Tax: Check this box to enable the tax on Gift Card products.
• Enable Date Feature: Check this box to allow the  Gift Card products to send to the receiver on the selected date.
• Date Format: Select the date format you want to show on the Gift Card.
• Enable Listing Shop Page: Check this box to allow the listing of Gift Card products on the shop page.
• Individual Use: Enable this setting to restrict the Gift Card coupon from being used in conjunction with other Coupons or Gift Cards.
• Free Shipping: Check this box to enable free shipping for the Gift Card products.
• Giftcard Coupon Length: Enter Giftcard coupon length. The minimum length of the coupon is 5.
• Giftcard Prefix: Enter the Gift Card prefix for the coupon code.
• Giftcard Expiry After Days: Enter a valid number on which a purchased Gift Card will expire. Keep the value 0 for no expiry date and 1 for one-day expiry after order completion.
• Minimum Spend: Set the minimum spend of a Gift Card.
• Maximum Spend: Set the maximum spend of a Gift Card.
• Giftcard Number of Time Usage: Set the number of times a user can use the Gift Card before the Giftcard goes empty.
• Enable Payment Gateway For Giftcard: Choose a different payment gateway method for Gift Card Products. Otherwise, default payment gateways will work
• Disable category: Check this box if you want to change the category for Gift Card products. You must select the category every time you create a Gift Card product. The Default Gift Card category will not be assigned automatically.

You can include and exclude the product categories for the Gift Cards.

• • Exclude Sale Items: Check this box to make the Gift Card Coupon not apply to the sale items.
  • Excludes Products: You can also exclude a selected product from the Gift Card discount. If any excluded product is available in the cart, the gift card discount will not apply.
  • Exclude Product Category: You can exclude categories that you don’t want the gift card discounts to apply to. If any excluded category product is available in the cart, the gift card discount will not apply.
  • Include Products: Select products on which the Gift Card coupons will apply.
  • Include Product Category: Gift Card coupons will apply to the selected products’ categories.
    
    

You can also exclude the products and categories for the specific product. Go to the product edit page and click on the ‘Product data’ section. You can exclude the products and categories from the gift card products.

An email template is sent to the user to notify them about their Gift Card, Gift Card Coupon, etc. The merchant can manage their email templates with the following settings.

In this section, you can design your email template.

• Upload Default Logo: Upload the image you want to use as the logo on the email template.
• Logo Dimension (in “px”): Set the logo size in pixels.
• Email Default Event Image: Upload the image you want to use as the default event/occasion logo.
• Email Background Color: Merchants can change the background color of the email template.
• Custom CSS: Write the custom CSS for the Email template.
• Giftcard Message Length: The merchant can set the gift card message length. The Default length of the Gift card message is 300. Also, the customers to check the current count of the message characters.
• Disclaimer Text: You can change the disclaimer text for the email template.
  

  Here you can see the frontend email template.

  

Disable Coupon Amount Notification Email: By default, your users will get email notifications for the remaining amount after gift coupon usage. But you can disable this notification feature for the users.

• Coupon Email Subject: Write the subject of the coupon mail. Use [SITENAME] shortcode to place the site’s name dynamically.

• Email Notification to Sender:  Write a message to the buyer acknowledging that the gift card has been sent successfully. You may use the shortcode [TO] for placing the Recipient Email dynamically.

The user will get email notifications for each coupon amount usage. And the user can also check the amount left on their coupons.

• Coupon Email Subject:  Write the subject of the coupon mail. Use [SITENAME] shortcode to place the site’s name dynamically.
• Email Notification to Sender: Write the message to notify the user about their coupon amount. Use [COUPONAMOUNT] shortcode to place the coupon amount dynamically. Also, the above Disclaimer text field will replace the [DISCLAIMER] shortcode. 

Import Offline Coupons:

Through this section, the admin can import Offline Coupons.

Offline Giftcard List:

Through this section, The Merchant can create gift cards from the dashboard as per user request and send it to the recipient.
The merchant can also export the CSV of Gift Cards.

To create a new Gift Card click on the ‘Add New‘ tab, a popup window will be displayed. Here you can fill out all the details of the gift card.

After successfully created a giftcard clicking on the ‘Preview‘ button to view the Gift Card and last click on the ‘Save & Send‘ button.

You can view detail of all shipped giftcard by clicking on the ‘View List‘ tab.

Import Gift Coupons:

Through this section, you can import Gift Coupons.

In this setting, we provide some extra options i.e. BCC, Enable/Disable some option that the user needs to change.

• Enable Bcc option for Giftcard Mails: Admin can enable the BCC feature for gift card mails. BCC (Blind Carbon Copy) is a copy of an email message sent to a recipient whose email address does not appear (as a recipient) in the message.
• Disable Apply Coupon Fields: Admin can disable the apply coupon field which is applied to each order amount.
• Disable Resend Button: Resend button is used to resend the gift card product mail to the recipient. Admin can disable the resend button option.
  The user can also resend the email to the receiver to which he wants to send gift cards.

• Disable Send Today Button:  Send Today button is used for sending the gift card Admin can disable the send today button option.

The customers can select the date they wanted the gift card to be sent to the recipients. Customers can also send the scheduled Gift Card on the current day through the order details section.

• Disable Preview Button: Preview Button is for the sender that he/she views their gift card template before sending the recipient. Admin can disable the preview button as they need.
  

• Enable Pdf Feature: After enabling this feature customers will get an email along with a PDF attachment.
  

• Select the Pdf Template Size: After enabling this feature customer will get a Giftcard email along with the attached pdf.

• Enable Browse Image for Gift Card: After enabling this feature customers will browse the image for Gift Card Product.
  

Here you can change the text for the email template as:

• Text for the ‘Email To Recipient‘ section.
• Enter the description will display below the ‘Email To Recipient’ option.
• Text for the ‘You Print & Give’ section.
• The description will display below the ‘You Print & Give’ option.
• Text for the ‘Ship Your Card’ section.
• The description will display below the ‘Ship Your Card’ option.
• Making Optional ‘To’ Field: Check this box to remove the validation from the ‘To’ field.
• Making Optional ‘From’ Field: Check this box to remove the validation from the ‘From’ field.
• Making Optional ‘Gift Message’ Field: Check this box to remove the validation from the ‘Gift Message’ field.
• Manual Increment usage count for Gift Coupon: Check this box to allow manual increment usage of Gift Coupon.
• Enable Product for Custom Page: Check this box to display the Gift Card product on the custom page.
• Select Custom Page: Select pages where you want to display the  Gift Card Product with the shortcode product_page id =”xyz”
• Hide Giftcard Notice: check this box if you want to hide the Gift Card notice from the product page.
• Hide Featured/Thumbnail Image: Check this box if you want to hide the features images from the product page.
• Disable Buyer Notification: Check this box if you want to disable the notification to the buyer about there Gift Card has been sent.
• Email for Ship your Card Delivery Method: Enter a mail where you want to mail the gift card when the customer chooses the delivery method id ‘Ship your card’. by default mail send to the admin.

Here merchants can enable the discount amount on Gift Card products.

1. Enable Discount on Giftcard Products: Check this box to enable the discount on Giftcard Products.
2. Select Discount Type: Choose the discount type for giftcard products either fixed or percentage.
3. Enter Discount within Price Range: Enter discount within the maximum, minimum price range, and discount amount.

Select Discount Type is Fixed: Select discount type is fixed from the dropdown.
Set the Discount Amount with Price Range: After selecting the discount type, set the discount amount with the price range.

See the discount amount on the frontend.

Select Discount Type is Percentage: Select discount type is percentage from the dropdown.
Set the Discount Amount with Price Range: After selecting the discount type, set the discount amount with the price range.

See the discount amount on the frontend.

The merchant would be able to send Thank You gift coupon to their regular customers, who have placed the required number of orders for that coupon.

• Want to give ThankYou Gift coupon to your customers: Check this box to enable gift coupons for those customers they had placed orders on your site.
• Select the Order Status: Set the status when the Thank you giftcard coupon would be sent.
• Number of Orders, after which the thankyou giftcard would send: Enter the order number after that you want to give the giftcard coupon to your customer.
• ThankYou Coupon Expiry: Enter the number of days for coupon expiry. Keep value 1 for one-day expiry after generating the coupon keep value 0 for no expiry.
• Select ThankYou Gift Coupon Type: Choose the thank you coupon type. It either fixed or percentage.
• Enter a Thankyou Message for your customers: This message will print inside the Thank You template. You may use shortcodes [COUPONCODE], [COUPONAMOUNT] and [COUPONEXPIRY].
• Enter Coupon Amount within Order Range: Enter the thank you coupon amount with the price range.

The QR Code/BAR Code is used over the Gift Card for providing the security.

Enable Barcode Setting:

• Enable Barcode: If the user wants to generate their BAR Code with the Coupon code so here we give the option for the merchant to allow your user to generate their BAR Code with the Coupon Code.
• Display Code: Check this box to display the coupon code below the Barcode.
• CodeType: We have given some code type use for BAR Code, which is going to be used in different places for a different purpose.
• Size: set the size of the barcode.

You can see the Barcode on the frontend

Enable QRCode Setting:

• Enable QRCode: Enable QRCode to display in Email Template. QRCode displayed instead of coupon code.
• ECC Level: This compensates for dirt, damage, or fuzziness of the BAR Code. Valid values are “L” (low ECC), “M”, “Q”, “H” (highest ECC). A high ECC level adds more redundancy at the cost of using more space.
• Size: Option to enable QR Code after selecting the ECC level to select the size of the QR Code.
• Margin: Set the QR Code margin over here.

You can see the QR Code on the frontend.

In this setting, we provide three delivery options to the buyer that he send their gift card email to the recipient.

• Enable Email To Recipient:
  Email to recipient feature is used for sends the gift card via email only to the recipient.

On the frontend, you can see the normal delivery method to send the Gift Card.

• Enable Downloadable:
  In this feature, the gift card email is sent back to the buyer. The buyer will download the email and send it to the recipient with the needed method.
  

  On the frontend, you can see the option of print your giftcard.

  

• • Enable Shipping on Gift Card:
    In this feature gift card email is sent to the admin and the admin will deliver the gift card to the shipping address of the recipient.
    

    After enabling this setting you can see the shipping option on the giftcard.

    

• Allow Customer to choose:
  The customer can choose the method for gift card delivery i.e; Email to Recipient, Downloadable, and Shipping.
  (i) Customer can select: From this section enable the delivery methods for the customers.
  

  After enabling this feature you can allow the customer to select the delivery methods within three delivery methods for the Gift Card products.

  
• Apply Coupon On Shipping & Tax:
  In this feature, the user can also apply their coupon for shipping and tax i.e, the Total amount of Gift Card product.
• You can overwrite delivery methods via per product setting:
  This setting allows you to set the per-product delivery methods.
  Goto ‘Product edit page‘ and click on ‘product data‘ section, here you can see the ‘Overwrite Delivery‘ setting. Enable this setting and select the delivery methods for the specific product.
  

Your ultimate gift card plugin is equipped with a gifting portal to help you scale your WooCommerce card business. The frontend panel allows you to redeem, recharge, scan, and fetch details of gift cards. It works on online, offline, and hybrid businesses.

To use the Giftcard Redeem Link on the web-store follow these steps.

Step 1: First click on the “Get Me My FREE Redeem Link“.

Step 2: Now a popup window will be displayed on your dashboard, here enter your Email Id, Name, and then click on the “Generate Link” tab.

Step 3: After clicking on the “Generate Link“, your Gift Card Redeem Link and Embedded link will be displayed on your panel with walkthrough steps and the login details will be sent to the given email id.

Step 4: Now Copy the Giftcard Redeem link or Embedded code to log in your web-store of gifting.wpswings.com by using the credentials given in the received email. To use the embedded code first you have to create a Page and then paste the embedded code on it.

Step 5: After successful login with the dashboard, you will get the shop page of the web-store. Here you can see all transactions of Giftcard vouchers.

Step 6: Now go to the “DASHBOARD“, here you can start Scan/Fetch and Redeem/Recharge the giftcard coupon. You can scan or enter the coupon code to fetch the detail of the Giftcard and you can also redeem/recharge the Giftcard coupon easily.

The dashboard distributed into 3 sections.

1. Scan: Click on the scan button you can scan the Gift Card Coupon details.
2. Gift Card Details: Enter the gift card coupon code to display details such as the amount, expiry date, usage limits of the Gift Card Coupon, etc.
3. Redeem: Here you can enter the number of amounts to Redeem the value from the Gift Card Coupon and Add the value to the Gift Card Coupon.

To use the redeem link on this POS system, follow the steps below

1. Copy the embed link and paste it on any page at POS.
2. Login using the credentials given in the received email.
3. Start Scan/Fetch and Redeem/Recharge.

Gifting Portal Settings 

The WP Swings gifting portal is an exclusive service of our plugin that allows merchants like you to efficiently manage their gift card program.

1. Dashboard

The dashboard shows an overview of the gift portal usage with Total Redeem, Total Recharge, and Transaction Comparison data. You can access the Dashboard from the admin menu on the left panel. 

2. Shop Tab

The shop settings tab allows you to configure gift card usage, view reports, give access control to your employees, and change the gifting portal language. 

2.1. Gift Card Settings 

The gift card settings tab allows you to set the usage limit and expiry date of recharged gift cards Plus, you can customize the working currency of the gifting portal. 

• Currency

• Expiry Days After Recharge

• Usage Limit After Recharge

Enter the required details and Submit your changes. These settings will apply globally to all your recharged gift cards. So,

2.2 Recharge Report

 You can generate gift card recharge reports according to Date Range, Store, & Employee. The Recharge Report Table will show the filtered data. In the SEARCH, enter the following details:

• Set a Date Range for the gift card recharge report. 
• Choose one of the registered Stores. 
• Select the Employee.

At last, click on the Submit button to produce the report. 

2.3. Redeem Report

The Redeem Report table shows all data related to gift card redemption. You can filter the report according to Date Range, Store, & Employee. To do so, follow these steps: 

• Go to the SEARCH section. 
• Select a Date Range for the report.
• Select the relevant Store.
• Choose the Employee that redeemed the gift cards for the selected store. 

And click on the Submit button to generate the report. 

2.4. Stores

The stores you’ve registered on the gifting portal appear in the Store tab. From there, you can Edit, Delete, or Add New stores.

To edit the details of an existing store, follow these steps: 

1. Click on the edit button. 
2. You can edit the following details: Name, Owner, Location, Phone, Language Set, Design Set, and Assign Employee. 

3. Click on Update Button to save your changes.

To delete a store, follow these steps: 

1. Go to the Action Column of YOUR ALL STORES table. 
2. Click on the Delete button and confirm. 

To add a new store: 

1. Click on Add Store button.
2. Enter the relevant data in the fields. 
3. Lastly, hit the Add button. 

Language

You can translate all strings of the WP Swings gifting portal from the language tab.

1. Open the Language tab from the admin menu. 
2. Click on the Add New Language Set. 
3. You can enter the Language set name. 
4. Next, enter the translation in the text box opposite the strings. 
5. Finalize your language set by hitting the Add button. 

Employees 

The Employees tab has the list of individual(s) that manage your gifting portal. You can add or remove employees and implement passwords for each of them. Thus, adding a layer of security to ensure authorized access only.

The Employee table has the following columns: Serial No., Employee Name, Email ID, Position Phone, Manager, Added Date, and Action. 

Follow these steps to add a new employee:

1. Click on the Add Employee button. 
2. Enter the following details: Employee Name, Email, Position, Manager Name, Phone, Shop, Password, and Confirm Password. 

At last, click the Add button to give access to the new employee.

From now, this plugin provides the compatibility with Price Based on Country for WooCommerce plugin. Through this, your customers bought a gift card in their own currency, it will get converted in your base currency according to the country of the customers.

1. Zone Name: Select your zone name.
2. Countries: Select countries in which you want to convert your currency.
3. Currency: Select your currency type in which you want to convert currency.
4. Exchange Rate: Here you can enter the exchange rate of the selected currency.

WooCommerce Ultimate Gift Card is compatible with the WooCommerce Currency Switcher Plugin (Free & Pro). With this compatibility, you can convert the currency of your WooCommerce store to any of the existing currencies in the world, and the same will apply to the gift cards plugin. 

Your users can make gift card purchases in their local currency, and WOOCS will convert it into your store’s base currency.

Go to WooCommerce > Settings > Currency and choose the currency you want to apply to your store.