Turn any product into a gift card
Tick Gift card next to Virtual and Downloadable on a simple or variable product. Offer preset amounts as buttons ($25, $50, $100, $200), let buyers enter their own amount between your lowest and highest value, or both. Buyers choose someone else or themselves, add the recipient's name and email, their own name and a message of up to 300 characters. A card sold at a fixed price is worth its regular price, so a sale price sells a $50 card for $45.
Sent the moment it is paid
One card per item bought, each with its own 16 character code made from letters and digits that cannot be confused, with an optional prefix such as XMAS. The recipient gets a WooCommerce email with the code, the amount, the message and the expiry date. The buyer sees who each card went to on the thank you page and in their order email, never the code itself. Cash on delivery orders send their cards only when you mark them Completed.
Spent like money
A gift card field sits in the classic cart and checkout and in the cart and checkout blocks, and a code typed into the coupon field works too. Applied cards show as rows in the order totals with a Remove link and the balance left. The card pays for everything on the order, shipping and tax included; when it covers the whole order no payment method is needed. Balances are taken when the order is placed, with a database check that stops two checkouts spending the same balance.
Store credit
Add or deduct credit for any customer with a note and an optional email. Credit comes off their next order automatically while they are logged in, and they can choose not to use it. Customers can also move a gift card into their store credit from My Account, so they never need the code again.
Money comes back when it should
Cancelled orders give gift card and credit amounts back automatically. Abandoned or failed payments release what they hold after an hour. For refunds, Return to card in the order's Gift cards box gives the gift card part back, so it is never returned twice. If the order that bought cards is refunded, its cards are disabled.
