How to Schedule Gift Cards in WooCommerce?

This article explains the step-by-step process to schedule gift cards in WooCommerce. By the end of this article, you will learn how to create a gift card on your WooCommerce store and let your customers schedule gift card deliveries for their loved ones.

Selling gift cards on your eCommerce store is a great way to improve the shopping experience of your customers. You are providing them with flexibility and convenience when choosing gifts for their loved ones.

However, gifts are meant to be delivered on a specific day. So, simply selling gift cards will not be enough to improve your customers’ gifting experience.

The ideal solution is to let customers choose a delivery date for their gift card. This way, the gift card is automatically emailed to the recipient on the chosen date, be it a birthday, anniversary, or holiday. Shoppers can relax, confident they won’t forget an important occasion.

Selling gift cards is not available by default in WooCommerce, so you need a third-party plugin to create and sell gift cards. The WebToffee’s WooCommerce gift cards plugin is the right solution for you.

It lets you create and sell unlimited number of physical and digital gift cards on your WooCommerce store. With this plugin, you can allow your customers to purchase, redeem, or send gift cards. 

Now, let’s see how to schedule gift card delivery in WooCommerce.

Step 1: Install and Activate WebToffee WooCommerce Gift Cards Plugin

WebToffee WooCommerce Gift Cards is a premium plugin, so you need an active license to use this plugin. After purchasing the gift card plugin, you will get a download link to download the plugin zip file. You can also download the plugin file from the My Accounts page.

Once you have the plugin file, install and activate the plugin on your WordPress admin account.

Step 2: Create a Gift Card Product on Your WooCommerce store

The next step is to create a gift card product on your WooCommerce store. After installing the plugin, head over to the Gift cards menu in the WordPress dashboard.

• Go to the Gift card products tab and click on Add new. This will take you to the Gift card product edit page.
• Enter a name for the gift card product. Then, add a product description.

• Now go to the Product data meta box. Choose a purchase option for the value of the WooCommerce gift card. You can either choose predefined amounts for the gift card or allow your customers to choose any preferred amount. 

For this example, we’ll choose predefined amounts, and add $10, $50, and $100 as the predefined gift card values.

• If you want to provide an additional discount for the gift card, you can do that as well with this plugin. Add the discount value to the Apply discount field.
• Next, choose a Tax status and class for the WooCommerce gift card.
• You can also set up various usage restrictions for the gift card from the Usage Restrictions tab. Additionally, you also have the option to offer customers different templates for the gift card. 
• After choosing the necessary option, click on Publish to save the WooCommerce gift card product. The gift card product is now live on your WooCommerce store.

Step 3: Schedule Gift Cards Using Webtoffee’s WooCommerce Gift Card Plugin

In order to allow customers to schedule gift card delivery in WooCommerce, follow these steps,

• Go to the General settings tab of the advanced gift cards plugin.
• Make sure you have checked the Enable gift card product checkbox.
• Then, choose Allow users to email gift card option. You can also let your customers print or send physical gift cards too.
• Now, enable the Allow users to schedule option to let your customers schedule the gift card delivery.

You can either explore the other advanced gift card settings or keep it as it is. Then, click on Save to activate the changes.

Now, let’s go to your WooCommerce store’s front end and choose the gift card from the Shop page.

This way, your customers can delay gift card delivery and choose a future date to automate gift card emails in WooCommerce.

Scheduling gift cards in WooCommerce has several advantages. By allowing your customers to schedule the gift card delivery, you can improve the shopping experience and gifting experience of your customers.

They love the convenience of planning ahead and scheduling the delivery of gift card coupons on specific dates, such as birthdays, anniversaries, or special occasions. By scheduling gift cards, they can ensure that the gift cards will be delivered on time and avoid the risk of forgetting important dates. 

The scheduled WooCommerce gift card delivery feature also encourages recurring transactions, customer engagement, and referrals for online stores.

By providing the scheduling option, you can attract more customers, especially the ones who prefer sending gifts online. We believe that this is a must-have feature for every eCommerce store selling gift cards.

Yes.

The WooCommerce Gift Card plugin provides an easy solution to enhance customer engagement by allowing you to create, sell, and manage WooCommerce gift cards in your store.

The plugin comes with a free version available in the WordPress repository. The free gift card for WooCommerce plugin has only limited features. You need the premium version to access features such as, creating gift card products and scheduling gift cards for a future date.

Some of the key features of the gift card for WooCommerce plugin are:

• Create and sell unlimited gift vouchers
• Set advanced usage restrictions for gift cards
• Share digital gift cards directly to recipients via email
• Choose from 20+ predefined gift card templates
• Supports physical gift cards
• Issue store credits instead of refunds
• Set predefined and custom gift voucher amounts
• Manage user credit balances from a single dashboard

The scheduling option for WooCommerce gift cards can significantly improve the gifting experience in your store. We hope this article helped you learn how to schedule gift card delivery in WooCommerce.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them in the comments section. We’d be happy to help you.