DL Gift Wallet

Description

Gift Wallet lets your customers purchase gift credit that is automatically added to the recipient’s account as store credit – no coupon codes, no manual work.

It’s perfect for stores that:

• Sell subscriptions and want giftable subscription credit
• Want a simple, Stripe/PayPal-friendly way to handle store credit
• Don’t want the admin overhead of coupon codes and manual adjustments

When someone buys a Gift Wallet product:

1. They enter a recipient email, sender name, and optional message on the product page.
2. When the order is completed, the plugin:
   • Finds or automatically creates a user account for the recipient
   • Adds the gift value as store credit to that account
   • Sends a beautiful email telling them they’ve received a gift and how to use it
3. The recipient’s store credit is:
   • Automatically applied to regular checkout
   • Automatically applied to subscription renewal orders (with WooCommerce Subscriptions)
   • Used up gradually until the balance reaches zero

✨ Key features

• Gift Wallet products

  • Mark any simple product as a “Gift Wallet” product.
  • Let the customer enter a custom gift amount.
  • Per-product minimum amount, plus a global minimum fallback in settings.

• Automatic store credit

  • Gift value = order line total → added directly as store credit balance.
  • Credit is stored per user account (no coupon codes).
  • If the recipient doesn’t have an account yet, one is created for them automatically.

• Works with subscriptions

  • Store credit is automatically applied to WooCommerce Subscriptions renewal orders.
  • Reduces the renewal total until the wallet balance is used up.

• My Account wallet widget

  • Optional widget on the My Account → Dashboard page.
  • Shows the customer’s current Gift Wallet balance and a description of how it works.
  • Can be toggled on/off in the settings.

• Gift email

  • Sends an HTML email to the recipient when the order completes.
  • Includes:
  • Sender name
  • Gift amount
  • Personal message
  • “Log in to use your store credit” button
  • Default template is clean and generic – works for birthdays, Christmas and everything in between.

• Customisable email text

  • Customize the subject, heading, intro text, and button label.
  • Supports simple placeholders:
  • {from_name} – the sender’s name (or “a friend” if not provided)
  • {amount} – the formatted gift amount, e.g. “£25.00”

• Test email tool

  • Send yourself a test gift email from the settings page.
  • Uses dummy data so you can verify layout, copy and deliverability.

• Default gift image

  • Uses a bundled fallback gift image by default.
  • Optionally override it with a custom image URL from your Media Library.
  • Used both in the email and as the fallback product image for Gift Wallet products (when no product image is set).

• Multi-Currency Aware

  • Gift Wallet is built to work seamlessly on stores that use a currency-switcher or multi-currency plugin.
  • Gift amounts always display in the shopper’s active currency, including:
  • Gift amount input on the product page
  • Live price preview
  • Store credit balance
  • Checkout application

🧩 How it works (technical overview)

• Store credit is stored in user meta as a numeric balance.
• At checkout, Gift Wallet:
  • Calculates the cart total
  • Applies up to the available wallet balance as a negative fee (“Store credit”)
  • Deducts that used amount from the user’s balance when the order is created
• On subscription renewal orders:
  • Hooks into the renewal order creation
  • Adds a negative fee for the available credit
  • Deducts that value from the balance and records a note on the renewal order

No extra payment methods, no custom order types, no coupons.
Just a wallet balance that quietly does its thing.

🧑‍💻 Perfect for developers & agencies

Gift Wallet is designed to be:

• Lightweight – no heavy options pages, just what you need
• Safe – prefixed functions and meta keys to avoid conflicts
• Compatible – declares compatibility with WooCommerce’s custom order tables (HPOS)
• Extensible – hooks and filters you can build on in your own projects

If you manage multiple client stores, it gives you a simple, reliable store credit system without another heavy plugin.