WooCoupon provide a powerful, “all-in-one” solution for gift cards, store credits, discount coupons, and vouchers extending the core functionality of WooCommerce coupons.
This doc article explains how you can sell fixed denomination gift cards – $10, $50, $100, $200…set within a fixed lower and upper limit. Offer a versatile gift card system allowing your customers to select from a list of fixed denomination.
WooCoupon does not introduce a dedicated product type. Instead, it allows you to use Simple or Variable products as a basis for selling gift cards.
How to create a gift card
To allow customers to purchase fixed denomination gift cards of their choice in quantities, you need to first create a coupon and then a product.
Creating a gift card coupon
- Go to your WooCoupon > Add new coupon.
- Click on Generate coupon code or enter your own code.
Important: Coupon code should not have any spaces. - Select ‘Store Credit / Gift Certificate’ as Discount type from the drop-down.
Important: Leave coupon amount blank. - Enable ‘Coupon Value Same as Product’s Price?’ option.
- Publish the coupon.
Creating a product
- Add a new Variable product or edit an existing Variable product.
- Associate the above-created coupon with this product under General > Coupons.
- Add attributes to a variable product.
- Create product variations, where each variation has a unique and fixed price.
- If you do not want to charge shipping for this product, mark product variations as Virtual.
- Publish/Update the product.
Important: If you have any coupon in your store, which can be used to buy this store credit/gift certificate, make sure to set ‘Usage limit per user’ under ‘Usage limits’ to 1. Otherwise, your customer will get real credit at a discounted rate for multiple times. It may result in the overall loss for your store.
How customers can purchase fixed denomination gift cards
When a customer purchases any product variation, a coupon with the same price as the variation will be created and will be emailed to him/her.
- A customer visits the product page, which allows them to purchase credit in the available fixed denominations.
- They select the amount of credit and quantity they want to purchase. For example, $5 credit in quantity of ten and $30 credit in quantity of five. Customers would choose $5 from the dropdown menu and set the quantity to 10 and add them to cart. The customer would then choose $30 from the dropdown, set the quantity to five, add them to cart and then proceed to checkout.
- On the checkout page, the customer will have two options to send the coupons.
1. Send to me
2. Gift to some one else - Clicking on ‘Gift to someone else’ will give 2 options “Send to one” (default) and “Send to many”. This option will provide 2 fields: Email address of recipient & Message for the recipient.
- The customer might also get an option to schedule the sending of store credit/gift card to different people.
- The customer then makes the payment.
That’s it.