Turn your products into gifts: charge for gift wrap, ask for a gift message only when the shopper wants one, price engraving per letter, and let shoppers pick the day it should arrive. All with Advanced Product Options, and every extra charged in the cart.
Gift options are product options like any other. You put them in an option set (the options, their prices and the rules between them) and apply the set to the products you sell as gifts. Every option you add is saved on the product as a real product option, so the cart, the checkout, the order and the invoice show the gift wrap, the message, the engraving text and the date, and charge their prices. "Your choices" under the price lists each extra with its price while the shopper picks.
New to option sets? The step-by-step guide shows how to create one, add options and apply it to products. Below are the gift options, one by one.
Open your option set on 1. Create options and add an option of the type Checkbox, titled for example "Gift wrap". Give it one value, "Wrap it as a gift", and open the value: under Price modifier set the price, as an amount (for example $4) or as a % of the product price. Shoppers tick it, and the price on the page goes up by that amount.
Want several wraps? Use Radio Button or Image/Color Swatch instead, with a value per paper ("No wrap", "Red paper", "Gold paper"), each with its own price and image. A Badge on a value (Sale, New, Popular or your own text) points shoppers to the one you recommend.
Add a Text box (one line) or a Multi-line text box (for a longer note), titled for example "Gift message". In its settings:
Under More settings you can add a description, shown as a tooltip (?) next to the title or as text under it, for example "We write it by hand on a card".
A product page with a message box nobody needs looks long. Go to 2. Set rules, click Start from a template and pick Show an option when a value is picked. Then make the sentence: "When Gift wrap is Wrap it as a gift → show Gift message". The message field is hidden until the shopper ticks gift wrap.
Should every gift have a message? Add a second action to the same rule, require Gift message. A required option is only asked for while it is shown, so shoppers who don't want wrapping are never blocked. An option a rule hides goes with the order as "Not selected".
The live preview on the right runs your options and rules while you edit. Tick gift wrap there and the rule shows "met now", so you can see the message box appear before shoppers do.
Add a Text box titled "Engraving". In its settings, under Price per character (for engraving, embroidery...):
Spaces aren't counted. "Your choices" shows the count and the price ("Engraving: 6 characters"), and the order shows the number too. For names and initials, set Shoppers can type to Letters only and turn on Turn the text into capitals as shoppers type: the product can't be added to the cart until the text is right, and the message shows at the field.
A font choice next to the engraving (a Button / Size option with Classic and Script) can cost extra with a rule: "When Font is Script → add to the price $5". Rules work on text options too: "When Engraving is filled → show a note Engraving adds 2 days to the delivery time."
Add a Date picker titled for example "Deliver on". Its settings, under Dates shoppers can pick, keep the dates to ones you can really do:
For your shipping cut-off dates and time off over the holidays, see holiday shipping deadlines and vacation mode.
A value can add another product of your store to the cart. Open the value, click Add-on product and enter that product's ID. When the shopper picks the value, the product goes to the cart too, at its own price and with its own stock. Turn on Shoppers choose how many for a − / + counter, for example for 3 gift boxes. This is how the gift box in the demo above adds the gifts to the cart.
When you are done, press Save all changes, then pick the products on 3. Apply to products: by hand, or Automatically, by conditions (for example a category "Gifts"), so new gift products get the options too.
Engraving as a Text box with Letters only, capitals, 3 free characters and a price per character; a Font button with a rule that adds $5 for Script; a Gift wrap checkbox.
A required "Deliver on" Date picker with the earliest day 1, your closed weekdays and holidays; a Multi-line text box "Card message" with a 200-character limit and a counter.
A Gift wrap checkbox (+$4), and a rule: when Gift wrap is picked, show and require "Gift message". Apply the set automatically to every product over a price, or to a gift category.
Image cards for the box size, each with a price; values with add-on products for the gifts; a message field and a delivery date. That is the box in the demo GIF.
Yes. Every option and charge is saved on the product as a real product option, so the cart, checkout, order and invoice show it and charge it.
In the order, next to the product, like any other option the shopper picked.
Yes. Under an option's More settings, choose who sees it: everyone, signed-in customers, or customer groups you name.
Yes. The tab Sales Analytics shows what your options added to your paid orders (value prices, price rules, per character), and for text and date options how often they were filled in.
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