Sell gift cards in your Shopify store (2026)

A gift card product saved in your Shopify store, with the amounts customers can choose from. Customers can buy it in your online store like any other product.

Shopify's help says that when you fulfill an order with a gift card, the customer or gift card recipient receives an email with the digital gift card code.

You’ll need

• A Shopify store on a Shopify subscription plan that you can sign in to
• A name and a short description for the gift card
• The amounts you'd like to sell it in, each greater than zero
• The currency for the gift card, usually your store currency
• Whether the gift card can be used at checkout in other currencies

What it costs. Shopify's help says gift cards are available on all Shopify subscription plans and lists no separate charge for a gift card product. For newer stores, it says orders paid with a gift card are charged third-party transaction fees on the amount paid with the gift card.

Shopify's help says "Gift cards are available on all Shopify subscription plans."

Shopify's help also says: - "By using gift cards, you are agreeing to Shopify's gift cards terms of service." - "Laws and regulations about gift cards vary based on region. To determine any regulations that apply to you, such as whether to charge tax or for how long a gift card must stay valid, consult a local tax or legal expert."

Please decide the amounts you'd like to sell. Shopify calls these denominations. Shopify's help says customers can't enter a custom amount for a gift card in your online store, and that a denomination can be any amount greater than zero, up to $10,000 USD or the equivalent in your local currency.

Please also decide whether customers can use the gift card at checkout in a currency other than the one it was issued in. Shopify's help says you can't change this after the gift card product is created.

This guide uses the Shopify admin in a web browser on a computer. It ends when you save the gift card product.

• To give a gift card to one customer without selling it, go to Products > Gift cards and click Create gift card. You enter its Initial value and the customer, click Save, and then click Send gift card. Shopify's help says these gift cards can be up to $2,000 USD or the equivalent in your local currency.
• Shopify's help says: "Gift cards created directly from your Shopify admin or from Shopify POS can't be refunded, as no payment was captured for those gift cards."
• Shopify's help says that if you refund a gift card a customer bought, it's automatically deactivated, and that "Deactivating a gift card is permanent."
• To sell a gift card in a currency other than your store currency, Shopify's help says you need markets and catalogs set up with that currency first. It says these gift cards aren't published to any catalogs by default, so you need to publish one to the right catalog before customers can buy it.
• Shopify's help says gift cards don't expire by default, because it's illegal in some countries for them to expire. The setting is in Settings > Payments, under Gift card expiration. Shopify's help asks you to check your country's rules for gift cards before you change it.
• To offer a gift card for less than its value, Shopify's help says to use a discount code or an automatic discount, and not the Compare-at price field.
• To change the gift card product later, go to Products > Gift cards and open it. Shopify's help says editing, archiving or deleting a gift card product doesn't affect gift cards already issued.