Setting up

The plugin brings an assistant that walks through everything that should be settled before the first list. This page goes through it step by step and says at each one what actually matters.

Where everything lives

Three places the plugin shows up

The daily work and the base settings sit apart. That is deliberate: settings apply per sales channel, the lists themselves do not.

Customers → Gift lists
The working area: dashboard, all lists, reservations, orders, moderation, thank-you notes, and the configuration of themes, gift options and the word filter
Extensions → Configuration
The settings of the plugin, separate per sales channel
On the customer account
A tab of its own with that customer's lists

The wizard itself sits at the very bottom of the submenu under System. You can call it again at any time; everything it sets can also be changed later in the settings.

The wizard, step by step

1. Purchase detection

The most important step, and the only one the wizard verifies itself. Two order states decide when a wish counts as given and when it becomes free again.

A wish counts as bought at
Completed out of the box. Only with this state does the wish disappear from the list for good
The check
Below the field it says how many orders of the last ninety days ever reached that state. If it says zero, no wish will ever count as given
A wish is released again at
Cancelled out of the box
A reservation expires after
14 days. Until then the wish is blocked for others but does not yet count as given. 0 means no expiry

With prepayment or long payment terms, set the deadline higher. Otherwise the wish becomes free again while the money is still on its way, and a second guest buys it a second time.

2. The giver's anonymity

How a giver appears who explicitly wanted to stay anonymous when buying.

Where it applies
Only where the owner would otherwise see the giver: in the thank-you notes
Never visible
The giver's mail address, under any setting

3. What givers may do

Two rights you can grant on top. Both are off to begin with.

Reserving without buying
A guest holds a wish for themselves without buying it right away. Only for logged-in customers, never for guests, with a deadline of its own
Own products alongside gifts
Whether a cart may carry gifts and the buyer's own purchases at the same time

With a mixed cart the effect depends on the list. If the list delivers to the owner, an order has exactly one delivery address, and that is the masked one of the recipient. The self-added products then go to them as well, never to the giver. The cart points that out on every line, and each owner has to agree to it per list. If the list delivers to the giver, nothing changes, because everything goes to them anyway.

4. Appearance in the shop

Where customers come across the gift registries, and which accent colour the areas carry that belong to no single list.

Product page
A button below the buying area, as soon as the customer has a list
Cart
A button on every cart line, as soon as the customer has a list
Accent colour
Three preview tiles to choose from. It applies to everything that belongs to no list; a single list gets its colour from its theme

5. and 6. Themes and gift options

Two lists the wizard only shows so that you know they exist. They are created and changed in the submenu under Configuration.

Theme
Gives a list its accent colour and symbol. 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

8. Shipping to the list owner

The step that explains address masking. The wizard puts the real address and what the giver sees side by side.

What stays real
Country and empty postcode. Everything else is replaced by placeholders whose wording you set
What the giver sees
The display name of the list instead of a name and address
The exception
If the recipient's country differs from the shipping country, nothing is masked – that would otherwise open a tax side channel
Delivery note
The real address may appear on it, but only if the note stays strictly internal

Delivery note yes, invoice no. Masked gifts go to the owner. If the invoice were in the parcel, they would know the giver's name and address.

9. Mails

The plugin sends in the name of your shop. Two switches decide whether it may at all.

Notification to the owner
As soon as a wish is marked or given
Reminder mails
The date, a reservation running out, a reminder to say thank you
Wording
All mails run through the Flow Builder and are freely adjustable there

10. Word filter and reports

The last step. The word filter checks customer-written texts such as list titles, display names and stories for unwanted terms.

Shipped with it
50 terms, from insults to typical spam words, in German and English
What a hit triggers
No block. The list lands as a report in the moderation queue, and the decision is made by hand
Extending
Under Gift lists → Word filter
Report link
Visitors can send an unsuitable list to review themselves

What is still open after the assistant

Masking and uninstall

The one card of the configuration that holds no setting but an action. It sits right at the bottom under Masking and uninstall.

Why it exists
The recipient address is masked at runtime by this plugin. With the plugin gone the protection is gone – and past gift orders would show the giver the real address again
What the card shows
How many masked orders still carry the real recipient address. Once none are left it says that all of them are sealed
The button
Bake masking in permanently. After that the order holds nothing but the placeholder
Cannot be undone
The real address is overwritten and cannot be recovered. That is why it asks first

The assistant points this out itself at the end. Before an uninstall this is the last step – after it the masking no longer depends on the plugin.

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Common questions

Where do I find the gift registries in the administration?

Under Customers, Gift lists. The area has a submenu of its own with thirteen entries in five groups. The settings of the plugin sit separately under Extensions, My extensions, Gift Registry & Wishlist, Configuration, and apply per sales channel.

Do I have to go through every setting by hand?

No. Under Gift lists, Setup assistant, an assistant walks you through everything that should be settled before the first use in ten steps. It also confirms the defaults that are otherwise easy to miss, and checks whether your shop meets the requirements.

Why does the wizard check the order state?

Because a wrong choice only shows up when somebody gifts twice. The wizard therefore counts how many orders of the last ninety days ever reached the chosen state, and shows the result under the field.

What happens if I change the link prefix later?

Every link already shared breaks. The prefix stands in front of the readable part of the address, so /wishlist/anna-and-ben. Fix it before the first lists are shared.

Are gift registries found by Google?

No. The links to individual lists are never indexed by search engines. A list is reachable through its link and nowhere else, not even through the shop search.

Which words does the plugin filter out of the box?

Fifty terms ship with it, from insults to typical spam words. A hit does not block a list, it files it as a report in moderation - the decision is yours. You extend the list under Gift lists, Word filter.

Does the plugin send mails without me doing anything?

Two switches decide: notifications to the owner and reminder mails. All mails run through the Flow Builder and are freely adjustable there.