Gift cards

A gift card in Shopify is a special product. You create it in Shopify admin, and Fine Print shows it like any other product, with a form for sending it as a gift. After purchase, Shopify emails a link to the gift card page, which Fine Print also designs.

Create a gift card product

In Shopify admin, go to Products > Gift cards.
Click Add a gift card product.
Add a title, description and images, as you would for a product.
Set the denominations. Each one becomes a value the shopper can pick on the product page.
Click Save gift card product.

See Shopify’s guide to gift card products.

Fine Print has no separate product template for gift cards. A gift card product uses your product template, and its denominations show in the Variant picker block.

The recipient form

On a gift card product, the Buy buttons block adds a “Send as a gift” checkbox and four fields before the “Add” button. There is no setting for it. It shows on every gift card product, wherever the block is.

The fields are:

“Recipient email”
“Recipient name”
“Message”, up to 200 characters
“Send on”, a date

When the shopper ticks “Send as a gift”, Shopify emails the gift card to the recipient on the chosen date, or right away without one. When the box is not ticked, the theme leaves the four fields out of the cart and the gift card goes to the buyer. See Shopify’s guide to gift card recipients for the emails and send times.

The block hides accelerated checkout buttons on gift card products, whatever Show accelerated checkout buttons says, so every gift card goes through the add to cart button and the recipient form.

The gift card page

The email that delivers a gift card links to its gift card page. Shopify hosts that page, and Fine Print supplies the design. It has no header or footer, and uses your fonts and the Page color scheme from Theme settings > Colors.

The page shows:

your store name at the top, linking to your store
the balance, and the initial value when it differs from the balance
the expiry date, if the card has one
the gift card code, with a “Copy” button that copies it and reads “Copied”
the line “Use this gift card at checkout”
a QR code of the gift card
an “Add to Apple Wallet” button, when Shopify offers a wallet pass for the card
a “Print” button and a “Shop now” link back to your store

A gift card that has expired or has been disabled shows “This gift card has expired” or “This gift card is disabled” in place of the expiry date. The code and the QR code still show.

Preview the gift card page

Go to Online Store > Themes > Customize.
Open the page selector at the top of the editor.
Under Templates, click Others, then Gift card.

The page has no sections, so there is nothing to add or move. To check a real card, go to Products > Gift cards, click Create gift card, enter your own email under Customer, save, then click Send gift card > Send email and open the link in the email. A card issued this way is real store credit, so give it a small value or disable it afterward.

Change the text

The page has no editor settings. Its wording lives in the theme’s default content. Go to Online Store > Themes, open the three-dot menu next to the theme, click Edit default theme content, then search for “gift card”.

The emails that deliver gift cards are Shopify notifications, not part of the theme. See Shopify’s guide to gift card pages and notifications.