eGift.be

eGift lets Belgian merchants sell gift vouchers (cadeaubonnen) online. Buyers choose an amount or one of your experience vouchers, pay online and receive the gift voucher by e-mail. eGift handles the payment and the delivery, and pays you out. Your customers redeem it in your shop, with the eGift app or portal.

This plugin brings that to your WordPress site, without pasting code into a page.

Connect once. Under Settings > eGift, paste the code from the “Bon op uw eigen website” page in the eGift portal, or just your merchant ID. The plugin shows which eGift account it is connected to and what is still missing before buyers can buy your gift vouchers (company details, logo, banner), with a link to each step.

Place the eGift Widget anywhere. The Widget is where buyers choose and pay for a gift voucher. Put it on a page with:

• the “Create a Gift voucher page” button under Settings > eGift, which publishes a page with the Widget, ready to add to your menu;
• the eGift Widget block in the block editor;
• the shortcode [egift] in page builders without blocks, for example [egift accent="#c0392b" experience="12"].

Make it yours. Give the Widget’s buttons the accent color of your site (in the block, the shortcode or the page button), and sell one of your experience vouchers on a page of its own.

Accept gift vouchers in your WooCommerce shop. Create an API-sleutel (API key) in the eGift portal and paste it under Settings > eGift. Buyers then get a “Gift voucher” field in the cart and the checkout, classic or block-based. A voucher pays like a payment method, not a discount: it lowers the amount to pay, shipping included, and leaves the item lines and VAT as they are. Several vouchers can pay one order; the buyer pays the rest as usual. Once the order is paid, eGift takes the amount off each voucher and shows it with the order number in your eGift portal. Refunding the order puts the voucher part back on the voucher. The shop currency must be euro.

The plugin is free. You need an eGift account, which you can create for free at egift.be. eGift charges its usual commission on each gift voucher sold. The plugin works with or without WooCommerce.

The plugin’s screens are in English. Their Dutch (Belgium) and Dutch (Netherlands) translations come through translate.wordpress.org.

External services

This plugin relies on eGift (https://egift.be), the service that sells your gift vouchers. Without it the plugin does nothing. It contacts egift.be only in these cases:

• Merchant lookup: when you save your code, open Settings > eGift or add the eGift Widget block, the plugin sends your merchant ID to fetch your company name, the steps still missing in your eGift account and your experience vouchers.
• API-sleutel check (WooCommerce): when you save an API-sleutel and when you open Settings > eGift, the plugin sends the key to check that it is still valid and to fetch its name and your company name.
• Gift voucher lookup (WooCommerce): when a buyer enters a gift voucher code in the cart or checkout, and again when they place the order, the plugin sends that code with your API-sleutel to check that the voucher is valid in your shop and to fetch its credit.
• Inwisseling (WooCommerce): once an order paid with a gift voucher is paid, the plugin sends the voucher code, the amount it pays and the order number with your API-sleutel, and eGift takes that amount off the voucher. The order number shows next to the voucher in your eGift account.
• Terugboeking (WooCommerce): when you refund such an order and put an amount back on the gift voucher in the refund screen, the plugin sends the voucher code, eGift’s reference of the Inwisseling and that amount with your API-sleutel, and eGift puts it back on the voucher.
• Status report: only while your site is connected, when you save the settings and once a day, the plugin sends your merchant ID, this site’s address, the versions of the plugin, WordPress, PHP and WooCommerce, and whether buyers can pay with gift vouchers in your shop, with your API-sleutel if one is saved. eGift keeps only the latest report, so its support can help you without asking. Deactivating the plugin stops it.
• The Widget: on pages with the eGift Widget block or the [egift] shortcode, the visitor’s browser loads https://egift.be/js/embed.js, which shows the Widget from egift.be in a frame. The Widget receives your merchant ID, the chosen accent color and experience voucher, and the address of the page, so a buyer returns there after paying. What a buyer enters to buy a gift voucher goes to eGift, under eGift’s terms and privacy policy.
• Creating an account: the “Create a free account” link under Settings > eGift opens the eGift registration page in your browser. The link tells eGift that the account comes from this plugin; nothing else is sent until you register.

The plugin itself never sends a buyer’s name, address or other personal details to egift.be.

eGift terms of use: https://egift.be/voorwaarden/algemene-voorwaarden
eGift merchant terms: https://egift.be/voorwaarden/handelaar-voorwaarden
eGift privacy policy: https://egift.be/privacy