BrainlessITC Gift Cards for WooCommerce

BrainlessITC Gift Cards for WooCommerce lets you sell digital gift cards in minutes. Customers choose an amount, write a personal message and the recipient receives a beautiful email with a unique code. The code is redeemed on the cart or checkout page, any remaining balance stays on the card for the next order.

Gift cards work like a payment, not like a coupon: they are applied after taxes and shipping, so your tax reports stay correct.

Free features

• Gift card product type with as many preset amounts as you like ($25, $50, $100 …)

• Recipient name and email, sender name and personal message — or “This gift card is for me”

• Live preview of the gift card on the product page

• Secure, unique codes (80-bit random, optional prefix such as GIFT-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX)

• Gift card email to the recipient when the order is paid — customizable in WooCommerce > Settings > Emails, with live preview and an optional blind copy to the buyer

• Redeem link: the “Shop now” button in the email remembers the code and fills it in on the cart and checkout

• Redeem on the classic cart and checkout and on the Cart and Checkout blocks

• Partial use — the remaining balance stays on the card; combine several gift cards in one order

• Pay the whole order with gift cards (no payment method needed when the total is zero)

• Optionally prevent paying for gift cards with gift cards

• Gift Card Balance block and [bitcgc_balance] shortcode

• Gift card manager: list with search and status filters (active, fully redeemed, disabled), bulk enable/disable/delete

• Gift card screen with the full usage history, balance adjustment with a note, enable/disable, edit recipient and message, resend email

• Create gift cards manually (giveaways, store credit, replacements) with a generated or custom code

• Cancelled or refunded orders automatically return the used balance to the card, and disable gift cards bought with that order

• Balances are updated atomically, so a gift card can never be spent twice at the same time

• Brute force protection for code lookups

• Compatible with High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS), Cart & Checkout blocks and block themes

• GDPR: personal data export and erasure through the WordPress privacy tools

• Translation ready, template overrides from your theme, developer friendly hooks

• Your data stays yours: gift cards and settings are never removed unless you choose so

BrainlessITC Gift Cards Pro

BrainlessITC Gift Cards Pro is a separate, premium plugin. It is not included in this plugin; it replaces it and keeps all your gift cards and settings. It adds:

• Custom amounts chosen by the customer (with minimum and maximum)

• Scheduled delivery: the customer picks the date the gift card is sent

• Gift card designs: a gallery of card images customers choose from (birthday, thank you, holidays …)

• PDF gift cards with QR code, attached to the email and downloadable

• Expiry dates (per store or per product) with automatic expiry reminder emails

• My Account > Gift Cards: customers see their gift cards and balances and add cards to their account

• Multiple recipients in one purchase

• Physical gift cards that are shipped instead of emailed

• Redemption rules: minimum order amount, excluded categories, use for shipping or not

• Bulk generation, CSV export and import of gift cards

• Refund to a gift card (store credit) from the order screen

• Reports: sold, redeemed, outstanding balance and expired value

• Email notification to the buyer when the gift card was delivered

How it works

• Create a product and choose the product type Gift card. Enter the amounts, for example 25, 50, 100.

• Customers buy the gift card and enter the recipient’s email and a message.

• When the order is paid, a unique code is created and emailed to the recipient.

• The recipient enters the code on the cart or checkout page. The balance is used for the order; whatever is left stays on the card.

Shortcode

• [bitcgc_balance title="Check your gift card balance"] — gift card balance checker (the “Gift Card Balance” block does the same)

For developers

Templates can be copied to yourtheme/brainlessitc-gift-cards-for-woocommerce/. Actions and filters include bitcgc_card_issued, bitcgc_card_created, bitcgc_issue_card_args, bitcgc_validate_card_for_cart, bitcgc_cart_eligible_total, bitcgc_max_cards_per_order, bitcgc_generated_code and bitcgc_code_groups.

External services

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• Opt-in usage data: after activation you can choose to share basic, non-sensitive data (site URL, WordPress / PHP / plugin versions, admin name and email, plugin events such as activation and deactivation). Nothing is sent unless you opt in, and you can opt out at any time. This helps us improve compatibility and send important security notices.

• Upgrade / checkout: when you open the upgrade page, pricing of the Pro plugin is loaded from Freemius, and purchases are processed by Freemius.

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The plugin does not use any other external service.