How to send the gift card to an specif email

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I have had customers by 10-15 gift cards for family and friends during the
holidays. I had to cancel each card and manually create new card so that I
could send them to each recipient with the desired message and that took me
a couple of hours to do. I was highly annoyed at the time waste especially
at Christmas! I also tried a couple of the gift card apps that promise to
send the card and a message to the recipient and those were a flop.

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Has anyone had any luck with a solve here? looking to just add the ability to allow a customer to send a gift card to a another email. Not looking for a full loyalty platform

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Bumping this since it still isnā€™t resolved. Just had a customer call and say how unprofessional it is to have to forward a gift card to the recipient, and I have to agree. Itā€™s embarrassing.

Shopify, please add a ā€œrecipient emailā€ field when customers purchase a gift card. It canā€™t be that difficult, and shouldnā€™t require purchasing another monthly paid app.

Thank you.

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Shopify please fix this soon! i may move onto another platform if this cant be resolved. It seems bizarre that this basic functionality is not an option..

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Itā€™s been 5 years since the original post and I canā€™t believe Shopify has not fixed this basic thing until now.

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There is a way, inside the add to cart form you need to put two optional inputs in case of gift card:

This will pass the properties to the product and the product being a gift card will be sent to the given email address.

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Hi Luizhenrique, Thanks for providing your code however I was hoping you could help to expand/explain in more detail? I know shopify recently add the send to recipient feature but I am one of the unlucky few who is using a really old theme that is so customized that I can not update. So Iā€™m trying to find a way to hard code this into my theme. I did successfully add your above code to my product-form.liquid (I made a new one specifically for gift cards)ā€¦ and I see the input fields on the product page and I also see the inputted information on the checkout page. However, once I checkout it does not send the giftcard to the the recipientā€™s email that was entered. It also does not show the entered details on the backend in the order details. Can you tell me where exactly I should add the code so that it triggers the action to automatically send to the recipientā€™s email? Any insight you can offer would be greatly appreciated as Iā€™ve spent HOURS trying to find something like this for vintage themes and I feel like Iā€™m so close to solving!!

This is the gift card product page
This is the gift card product page1208Ɨ518 18 KB

This is the information I entered shown at checkout (I used "testing" just for the sample photo - but to test, I used one of my real emails and i received nothing).
This is the information I entered shown at checkout (I used "testing" just for the sample photo - but to test, I used one of my real emails and i received nothing).1172Ɨ570 51.5 KB

Here is where I entered your code - just above the add to cart button.
Here is where I entered your code - just above the add to cart button.2078Ɨ1084 334 KB

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Hi Billy,

Could you explain in more detail where you see the option to enable email delivery for gift card products? I just checked and I donā€™t see it in the gift card settings or on the gift card product page.

If youā€™re saying for the customer to enter the recipientā€™s email instead of their own as the main contact email when checking out, I donā€™t think thatā€™s a good solution as it isnā€™t intuitive for a customer to do.

Thanks in advance.