Advanced Gift Card

Installation

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  1. Download the .zip file from your WooCommerce account.
  2. Go to: WordPress Admin > Plugins > Add New and Upload Plugin the file you have downloaded.
  3. Install Now and then Activate Plugin.
More information at Install and Activate Plugins/Extensions.

Initial Setup

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After activating the Advanced Gift Card extension, you can see gift card settings under WooCommerce > Settings and view the dashboard under WooCommerce > Gift Card.

Creating a new Gift Card

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Go to All Products and create a new product. Select “Gift Card” from product type dropdown and you will see gift card settings. While creating a new gift card you can customize using the following options:
  • Make it a virtual e-gift card or sell physical gift card
  • Add gift card value (The gift card coupon will be generated using this amount)
  • Allow customers to upload custom gift card image (Applicable to virtual gift card only)
  • Allow custom amount input by users
  • Option to add discount on gift card
  • Add fixed or percentage, discount (Note: Discount option does not work with custom amounts at the moment)
  • Add gift card coupon expiry date
  • Restrict gift card by user roles
  • Choose to apply discount code to specific products and categories (Leave empty for all)
For virtual cards, you can attach specific gift card galleries to your gift card. See the “Gift Card Gallery” section below on how to create these galleries.

Gift Card Gallery

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Go to WooCommerce > Gift Card > Gift Card Galleries in order to add new images for gift cards.
  • Add gift card gallery name and slug
  • Keep gallery as parent of child
  • Add description and upload gift card images images

Dashboard

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The dashboard shows all important information about your gift cards.

Gift Card Log

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Go to WooCommerce > Gift Card > Gift Card Log tab to see the gift cards that customers have purchased. Click on any gift card to see its details:
  • Issue date and redeemed date
  • Issued amount and remaining balance
  • Order id where the gift card is used
  • Recipient info
  • Expiry date
  • Coupon log showing the usage of coupon code

General Settings

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In general settings, you can choose to override the default theme styling to customer gift card,
  • Background color
  • Fields border color
  • Text color and text hover color
  • Background hover and border hover color
  • Coupon prefix (The gift card coupon code)

Shortcode to list all gift cards:

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You can copy and use short codes on any page to list all of your gift card products.

Virtual Gift Card Settings

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You can customize virtual e-gift card with the following settings:
  • Enable gift card gallery (If unchecked, the additional galleries won’t appear on any gift card product)
  • Customize Gift card gallery section heading
  • Customize Delivery and Sender Section headings
  • Customize 2 virtual gift card delivery method labels “Email” and “Print at home” (The email method sends email to recipient where as Print at home does not sent email, the sender has to manually share the gift card with the recipient.)
  • Accept multiple recipient emails and customize add recipient link

Physical Gift Card Settings

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You can customize the following settings for Physical Gift cards:
  • Enable / disable sender and recipient name fields
  • Allow customers to add special message with gift card

PDF Settings

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The extension generates PDF for gift cards. Here, you can enable/disable the following data from PDF files:
  • Enable and add store name
  • Add store logo
  • Add gift card image and name
  • Add gift card price and gift card coupon
  • Include message in gift card PDF
  • Enable and add disclaimer