Gift cards and subscriptions

Two features that need setup outside the theme before anything appears in it.

Gift cards

Selling them

Create a product and tick This is a gift card in the product’s settings. That one checkbox changes how the theme treats it: inventory is not tracked, and the gift card recipient form appears.

The recipient form

The Gift card recipient block lets the buyer send the card straight to someone else: recipient email, name, a message, and a send date.

It renders only on products marked as gift cards, so it is already on your product page and costs nothing on the rest of your catalogue. If it is missing, check the product is actually flagged as a gift card — that is the usual cause.

Leaving the recipient fields empty sends the card to the buyer, which is the right behaviour for someone buying a card for themselves.

The card the recipient receives

The recipient gets an email with a link to their gift card page. That page shows the balance, the code, an expiry notice if the card has one, an Add to Apple Wallet button on supported devices, and a QR code a shop assistant can scan to redeem it in person.

The QR code is generated in the customer’s browser. If it does not appear the printed code above it still works — that fallback is deliberate, so a blocked script never leaves the customer with an unusable card.

The page uses your logo if you have uploaded one, and Shopify’s default gift card image if you have not.

Testing it

Issue a card from Products → Gift cards → Issue gift card, then use the preview link Shopify provides. Note that the gift card URL contains a private token, not the redemption code — you cannot construct it by hand from the code.

Subscriptions and selling plans

Setup

Selling plans need a subscriptions app: install one from the App Store, create a selling plan group there, and add your products to it. The theme has no way to create plans.

What the theme shows

The Selling plans block appears on the product page once a product has plans, and shows nothing when it does not — so it is safe to leave in place across your whole catalogue.

The customer sees One-time purchase first, then each plan with its adjusted price. Choosing a plan updates the price shown before adding to cart, and the cart and drawer both show which plan a line item is on.

One-time purchase is listed first deliberately: it is the option most customers want, and defaulting a customer into a recurring charge they did not notice is how stores get chargebacks.

The selector works without JavaScript. If scripts fail, the customer can still pick a plan and check out.

Volume pricing is not a subscription

“Buy 10, save 10%” is volume pricing and needs no app. Recurring delivery is a selling plan and needs one. They can both apply to the same product.