How to add gift wrapping option to WooCommerce products

Gift wrapping is a simple add-on that you can use in your shop. Not only does it make your store's brand more customer friendly, but it will also let you make more money. Gift wrapping boosts sales but it also provides a profit margin of about 50% per item. In this article, you’ll learn how to add the WooCommerce Gift Wrapping option in WooCommerce checkout.

Have you ever received repeating questions via phone or email about product features like packaging, service, or extended guarantee?

It would be great to let customers pick extra things they want for the product without your attention! You can add new fields for WooCommerce products to get this information quickly. Learn how to do that with a free WooCommerce product editor plugin!

Table of contents

1. WooCommerce Add Gift Wrapping Option
2. Gift wrapping as a customer-friendly feature
3. Gift Wrapping in WooCommerce with additional cost

WooCommerce Add Gift Wrapping Option

First, you'll need a plugin to add the gift-wrapping feature to your WooCommerce shop. In this tutorial, I will use the free Flexible Product Add-Ons plugin. The configuration is easy. Once you download and activate the plugin (need a hand?), you are ready to go.

👀  This video shows you what this plugin can do in the free version:

✅  Here, you will find configuration options in the Products menu as seen below in the screenshot.

✅  The next thing you have to do is to create a New Field Group.

Gift wrapping as a customer-friendly feature

As I said before, gift wrapping 🎁  can boost your sales. People would like to order a product as a ready-to-give present. If you want to offer such an option for free, you will need to specify the product(s) for which a customer will be able to order gift wrapping. This is easy.

The next thing you need to do is to configure the Checkbox field. Give it a label called Gift wrapping or a similar one. The label will be seen on the product page. You can also set a value. It will be shown in the order too. The customer will see it in the cart and order details and it will also be available in WooCommerce admin. The best value name for the Gift wrapping field is a simple Yes.

👀You can see below what it looks like on the cart page from your customer's perspective.

👀As an admin or a shop manager, of course, you'll see appropriate information if a customer chooses this option.

Gift Wrapping in WooCommerce with additional cost

As I stated in this article's intro, gift wrapping can provide about a 50% profit margin per item. Why not make money out of it? You can specify any price you want for a gift-wrapping service🎁 . If you want to create such a paid option in your store, you will need the PRO version of the Flexible Product Add-Ons. Here is a direct link to it:

In the field group configuration window, you'll see some new options. It will be more convenient for you to assign a group field to multiple or all the products in the store.

✅  The killer feature delivered by the PRO version is pricing: Price type and Price options. You can select either fixed price or percentage calculations. In this example, I set £3 for a gift wrapping service.

👉🏼 This is how it looks on the product page:

👉🏼 And that's how it appears in the cart:

Easy-peasy! 😉

Ready to add the WooCommerce gift-wrapping option?

In this WooCommerce Add Gift Wrapping Guide, you have learned how to add to your store a sought-after feature which is gift wrapping. We wish you boost your sales. Good luck!

Also, check out our WooCommerce Extra Product Options Guide if you want to learn more use cases for the Flexible Product Fields plugin.