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Bartosz Gajewski

Gift a product with purchase & 3 FREE plugins to sell gifts in WooCommerce

Updated: February 17, 2023 / Plugin Tutorials

56% of people buy gifts Just Because. That's quite a lot! You need to think about giving gifts in your store. Without it, your sales may drop. I'll show you how to configure the WooCommerce free gift for a product or coupons with a purchase. Also, you'll learn 3 ways to offer and sell gifts in your WooCommerce store!

More than half of consumers purchase at least 25% of gifts online. You do not want to miss that opportunity!

Learn about selling a product as a gift, adding a free product with a purchase, and more ways to increase your income in WooCommerce.

Table of contents

  • Why sell gifts on WooCommerce
  • Gift options for a WooCommerce product
  • Add a free WooCommerce product with a purchase
  • WooCommerce Free Gift Coupons
  • Wishlists for WooCommerce

Why sell gifts on WooCommerce

Let's start with some statistics as a motivation. Gift-giving is a year-round business and this infographic tells you that.

gift giving statistics

Gift options for a WooCommerce product

So, let's add some options for a WooCommerce product to let customers purchase it as a gift.

1️⃣ First, you need the free Flexible Product Fields plugin.

Flexible Product Fields WooCommerce

Create a product wizard to sell engravings, gift wrapping, gift messages, business cards, stamps and optionally charge for it (fixed or percentage).

Download for free or Go to WordPress.org
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10,000+ Active Installations
Last Updated: 2023-03-13
Works with WooCommerce 7.1 - 7.5.x

You can download it for free from WordPress.org or install it right from your store's plugins section searching for flexible product fields:

WooCommerce gift plugin
Follow these steps to add Flexible Product Fields for free

👉🏾Once you have the plugin installed and activated, let's configure it. Choose Products → Product Fields in your WordPress menu. Then you need to add a new field group:

WooCommerce free gift plugin
Product Fields - Fields Groups - Add New

👉🏾You need to specify the product(s) for which your customers will be able to order gifts. This is easy.

Gift products for WooCommerce
Flexible Product Fields (gift plugin for WooCommerce) settings
💡 In the free version of the Flexible Product Fields, you have to specify products one by one while in the PRO version, you can select either all products from a category or all products in the store.

Three gift options for the WooCommerce product

What may customers want if they decide to buy a product as a gift online? I see three needs:

  1. They may want your store to deliver a wrapped gift.
  2. Or to print their message as a letter added to the gift.
  3. Also, to redirect just this one product to a different address.

Let's start with visualization. We want to create a checkbox called Gift a product. If a user clicks on it, then other options pop up. On the mind map, it would look like this:

WooCommerce free product with purchase
WooCommerce gift a product - mind map

I previously wrote about how to configure the gift message and gift wrapping features in a WooCommerce store:

  • Woocommerce Gift Message – Quick and Simple Guide →
  • Woocommerce Add Gift Wrapping – use case with a free plugin →

👉🏾 Let's combine these two options and add one more: Another address. You can see the configuration in the video below as well as the options on the product page at the end of the video clip:

We used some conditional logic in this configuration. It may look difficult in the beginning but you can't fail as long as you follow the video🙂.

💡Note: Conditional logis is available in the PRO version of the plugin.

Additional product fields when customers need gifts

You now know how to add more options for a WooCommerce product sold as a gift.

I hope the method with Flexible Product Fields will boost your sales and generates some additional profit for you.

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

Add a free WooCommerce product with a purchase

Add a free product

👉🏾 The easiest way of adding a free product with purchase is to use a $0 simple product in WooCommerce.

Then, you can choose that product to be visible as an up-sell or cross-sell product.

Customers will see the free gift product in the cart when they purchase the main product with the Linked products options. But, please remember that they will also be able to buy the product alone!

💡 The cross-selling and up-selling options may vary between WordPress themes. I'm using the default WooCommerce theme - Storefront.

Add a free hidden product programmatically

👉🏾 You can also hide the product from the store.

Then, you will have to add a custom code to your theme's functions.php file using WooCommerce built-in functions and hooks to add a free product as a gift automatically when a certain product or specific conditions are met.

💡 You may start by checking the add_to_cart() function of the WC_Cart class.

WooCommerce Free Gift Coupons

2️⃣ The second free plugin will help you create and sell gift cards in WooCommerce.

👉🏾 WooCommerce lets you use discount coupons, and with the Flexible PDF Coupons WooCommerce plugin, you may sell PDF vouchers with coupon codes in your store!

Flexible PDF Coupons WooCommerce

Design your own PDF coupons and sell them as gift cards, tickets or service vouchers by using Flexible PDF Coupons for WooCommerce.

Download for free or Go to WordPress.org
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Last Updated: 2023-03-08
Works with WooCommerce 7.1 - 7.5.x

🎁 The plugin allows you to offer personalized gift cards in your WooCommerce, which can be sent to the specified email address. If you're interested in creating PDF tickets, go ahead and create and sell tickets online that your customer can use at a location near them.

 WooCommerce free gift coupons
PDF gift card WooCommerce

Voucher for a service? That's possible too! Offer online vouchers for services that you redeem online or locally.

💡 You may also use Flexible Coupons with Flexible Product Fields! Learn how to show the Flexible Product Fields on the PDF gift cards!

Wishlists for WooCommerce

3️⃣  Finally, there is the 3rd free plugin that lets your customers create product wishlists in WooCommerce.

Flexible Wishlist for WooCommerce

Allow customers to save their favorite products for later. Gain their loyalty and boost your sales!

Download for free or Go to WordPress.org
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500+ Active Installations
Last Updated: 2023-03-22
Works with WooCommerce 5.6.0 - 6.0.x

👉🏾  The plugin will let your customers create personalized gift wishlists and make buying gifts easier.

WooCommerce Gift
Flexible Wishlist - encourage customers to buy gifts later
💡 You may also use the PRO add-on to create and send customized promotional e-mails to users for popular products from their wishlists to boost gift sales.

Summary

Ok, I hope you've found today a lot about WooCommerce gift options in this article.

  • First, I've shown you how to sell WooCommerce products as gifts using custom fields that personalize the products!
  • You've also seen how to add a free WooCommerce product as a gift when customers purchase in your store.
  • Then, you've learned how to sell gift cards so that recipients can use free coupons for future shopping.
  • Finally, I've used the free plugin to let customers create product wishlists to make your WooCommerce more gift-friendly!

Let me know if you have any questions!

More about WooCommerce gift plugins

  • Adding gift wrapping with Flexible Product Fields FREE

    woocommerce gift wrapping for free
    Adding gift wrapping for free. In this article we will teach you how to add the gift wrapping checkbox in FPF FREE.

  • Everything about WooCommerce Gift Cards

    woocommerce gift card plugin
    Gift card plugins. In this post we tell you everything there is to know about WooCommerce gift cards.

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Bartosz Gajewski

Content Specialist in WP Desk. He tries to increase the number of plugin users with useful content. Privately an enthusiast of mountains and European cinema.

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