Max and Marie marry on 12 October. Eighty people want to give something, but they only partly know each other: relatives from both sides, colleagues, the circle of friends from university. Every one of them faces the same question, and none of them can talk it over with the others.
The wedding is the occasion gift registries were invented for. Nowhere else do so many givers meet one recipient, and nowhere else is the damage as visible when the coordination is missing.
Without a list a wedding goes wrong in three ways, and all three cost you as the shop real money.
A gift registry resolves all four at once, and without anybody having to make a phone call. The state sits on the wish, the quantity adds up, the address stays hidden.
This is the page behind the link on the invitation. An extract – the states sit on every wish, and they change the moment somebody buys.
| Wish | Quantity | Price | State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Espresso machine | 1 | 449.00 € | Gifted |
| Table linen for twelve | 1 | 189.00 € | Currently reserved |
| Wine glasses | 6 | 24.00 € each | 2 of 6 available |
| Cast iron roaster | 1 | 139.00 € | Available |
| Forged knife block | 1 | 229.00 € | Available |
| Towel set | 4 | 34.00 € each | Gifted |
| Voucher towards the honeymoon | 8 | 50.00 € each | 5 of 8 available |
| Trees for the garden | 1 | not in this shop | Already taken on |
Two rows say more than the others. The voucher, eight times at 50 € each, is the route by which money gifts run through your shop instead of into an envelope – every guest takes as many shares as they like. And the trees are not something you sell; they are on the list anyway, so that two guests do not both drive to the nursery.
At a wedding almost everything hangs on a single date, and the plugin takes it seriously.
The defaults already carry this case. These four are worth setting deliberately.
What a guest sees on the page and how the cart behaves is in the chapter Gifting.
Many small things, most of them wanted more than once - and the address is nobody else's business.
Ansehen → Turning 40, 19 wishesThe occasion where the recipient keeps the list themselves and is still surprised.
Ansehen → A new flat, 23 wishesThe list where the gifts are better off with the givers until the party starts.
Ansehen →The couple creates a list in the customer account, picks a display name such as "Max & Marie", enters date and place and collects wishes from your range. They send the link with the invitation. Guests open it without an account, see at once what is still free, and buy directly.
Because the list shows it. Every wish carries its state: available, partly taken, reserved or already given. As soon as an order reaches the configured order status, the wish disappears for everybody else.
No. Delivery goes straight to the couple, but the address is masked for the giver: they only see the display name of the list. The invoice and the cart show nothing else either.
For that the couple enters a voucher from your range in a suitable denomination several times, eight times 50 € for instance. Every guest takes as many shares as they like. The money then runs through your shop instead of into an envelope.
Yes, through the quantity wished for. If a wish is on the list three times, every guest can take one of them; the list counts along and shows "1 of 3 still available".
After the date it accepts no more gifts - the cart tells the guests so. The list stays in the account, and through the thank-you notes the couple thanks every giver without the two sides having to exchange e-mail addresses.
Yes, with a password. The couple sends it together with the invitation; whoever opens the link without the password only sees an input field.