Description
What This Add-On Does
Bookly Gift Cards (Add-on) turns your booking calendar into a place customers can also buy gift certificates. Instead of sending clients elsewhere to purchase a voucher, they select an amount or a specific service right on your site, pay online, and receive a redeemable code by email. When that code gets used at checkout, Bookly Gift Cards (Add-on) applies it to the booking automatically and adjusts the remaining balance. No spreadsheets, no manual tracking, no guessing whether a card has already been used.
This matters most for salons, spas, and studios where gift certificates are a real revenue stream, not an afterthought. A client buying a massage voucher for a friend shouldn’t require a phone call or a paper certificate that someone has to remember to log. The add-on handles the entire cycle inside the same dashboard where you already manage staff schedules and appointments.
Key Features
- Sell gift cards directly through the Bookly booking form, styled to match your site
- Set fixed denominations or let customers choose a custom amount
- Automatic code generation and email delivery to the purchaser or recipient
- Real-time balance tracking — partial redemptions are deducted, not zeroed out
- Works with the same payment gateways Bookly already supports, including Stripe, PayPal, and WooCommerce
- Redemption applies instantly at booking checkout, no manual code entry by staff required
- Licensed under GPL, so you can adapt or extend it as needed alongside your other Bookly add-ons
Why Does This Matter for a Service Business?
Gift cards bring in cash before the service is ever delivered, and they often introduce new customers who wouldn’t have booked otherwise. Handling that process manually — tracking who bought what, checking balances by hand, honoring a discount that should’ve expired — creates room for error and lost revenue. Bookly Gift Cards (Add-on) removes that friction by tying the entire transaction to the same system already running your appointments and staff calendars.
Requirements
Bookly Gift Cards (Add-on) requires the core Bookly plugin installed and active on your WordPress site. It integrates with the payment methods already configured in Bookly, so if Stripe, PayPal, or WooCommerce is set up, gift card sales use that same connection. No separate payment setup is needed.
Can a gift card cover part of a booking and leave a remaining balance?
Yes. If the service costs more than the card’s balance, the customer pays the difference, and if it costs less, the remaining balance stays on the card for future use.
Can I restrict a gift card to a specific service or staff member?
You can configure gift cards for general use across your catalog or tie them to particular services, depending on how you want to structure your offers.
Do customers need an account to redeem a gift card?
No. Redemption happens through the code sent at purchase, so the recipient just enters it during checkout on the booking form — no login required.
