Gift registry
A list of wishes a customer creates and shares by link with their guests. Unlike the wishlist Shopware brings along, it is meant to be bought from: every wish carries its state, and what is taken is visible to everyone at once.
Glossary
Twenty words that appear on this site and in the plugin, each explained in one sentence. Whoever looks one of them up should be able to read on without having to look up a second.
Wish list
The same thing as a gift registry in everyday speech. Careful with the word in Shopware: the shop system calls its own built-in feature "wishlist" as well, and that one is something else - see the next entry.
Shopware wishlist
What Shopware brings along, called Merkzettel in its German storefront: a list for yourself, not for sharing and without any reconciliation. Two guests could buy the same thing without noticing.
Wish
One entry on a gift registry, with a desired quantity. It can be a product from the shop, a freely written text, or a pointer to another retailer.
Display name
The name a list appears under in public, for instance "Max & Marie". It stands wherever the real name and address would otherwise be.
Share link
The address a list is reachable at. It is never indexed by search engines; whoever does not have it will not find the list.
Short link
A short, readable form of the share link, such as /wishlist/anna-and-ben. The shop sets the prefix, the owner picks the part after it.
Visibility
Public or private. Public only means that whoever knows the link can open the list. Private means the shared link leads nowhere for as long as it is set.
Reservation
A guest holds a wish for themselves without buying it. The wish is blocked for others and becomes free again on its own after a deadline.
Purchase detection
The rule saying from which order state a wish counts as truly given, and at which one it is released again. Without it the list would never know what is taken.
Address masking
The recipient's address is replaced by placeholders for the giver. Delivery still goes directly; country and empty postcode stay real so shipping and tax hold.
Surprise guard
On request the owner sees in their activity only that something was bought, not what. Nothing changes for the guests, or the point of the list would be gone.
Thank-you note
A word of thanks from the owner to a giver. The shop delivers it without the two having to show each other their mail addresses.
Theme
A template giving a list its accent colour and symbol, for a wedding or a birthday. The customer picks it while creating the list.
Gift option
An extra the giver books at checkout, such as wrapping paper or a greeting card. On request for a surcharge, fixed or as a percentage.
Word filter
A list of terms that send customer-written texts to review. A hit blocks nothing, it files a report in moderation.
Moderation
The shop's review list. Reported lists land there, and lists the word filter flagged; the decision is made by hand, with a reason and a record.
Mixed cart
A cart carrying gifts and the buyer's own purchases at once. Because an order has exactly one delivery address, both then go to the same place.
Wish outside the shop
A wish the shop does not sell. It is on the list anyway so that nobody gets it twice, and a guest can take it over.
Acceptance end
After a list's date it takes no more gifts. The cart says so and asks for the gift to be taken out.