Pro: designs, scheduled delivery and PDFs

Gift Cards Pro adds more personal gifts on top of the free plugin: curated designs, customer photos, scheduled emails, printable PDFs and self-service for buyers. Pro 1.0.0 needs Artbees Gift Cards for WooCommerce 1.0.0 or later, WooCommerce and an active license. See Activating and renewing your Pro license.

Saved cards and card expiry are part of the free plugin. See Saved cards and expiry.

Changes to these settings apply to new gifts only. Each issued card keeps the design and schedule it was bought with, even if you change the defaults later.

Designs and customer photos

Go to Artbees → Gift Cards → Style.

Curated designs: choose the default from Signature, Celebration, Botanical and Midnight. Signature follows your Accent color. The live preview updates as you choose.
Allow customer photo personalization: buyers can add their own photo. JPG, PNG or WebP up to 2 MB. Each photo is checked, re-encoded and stored privately with that gift, never in your public media library. This needs the PHP GD extension.

On the product page, buyers then see Choose a design and Add a personal photo (optional).

To give one product its own default design, edit the product. In the Gift card tab, under Pro delivery & presentation overrides, choose a Default design, or leave Use global default.

Scheduled delivery

Go to Artbees → Gift Cards → Delivery.

Tick Offer scheduled email delivery.
Set the Default delivery timezone. New stores use the WordPress site timezone. Type to search, for example UTC or Europe/London.
Click Save delivery defaults.

On the product page, the buyer chooses Send after payment or Schedule for later. For a scheduled gift they pick a Delivery date and local time and a Delivery timezone.

Good to know:

A scheduled card can't be spent before its time. It shows as Future active until then.
Clock changes: the plugin rejects times that don't exist or happen twice when daylight saving time starts or ends, so the buyer picks an unambiguous time.
The schedule is the time the email is handed to your mail system. If background tasks are delayed, the email goes out late. See Gift email troubleshooting.
Changing a product's defaults never reschedules gifts already bought. Gifts already scheduled keep their delivery time, even if Pro is removed.

Buyers can fix details before sending

Under General, tick Purchaser self-service. The buyer can then open their gift page from the order confirmation, My Account → Orders, or their email, and:

change the Recipient email and Personal message, then Save gift details. This is open only until sending starts.
use Resend to the same recipient after sending, up to three times an hour.

Once sending has started, the recipient can't be changed from the buyer's page. "Recipient edits close when dispatch starts."

Printable PDFs

Under Style, tick Offer printable PDF cards. On the product page, buyers can then tick Include a printable PDF on the secure gift page.

The recipient downloads it with Download your printable PDF on their private gift page. The PDF is one A4 page with the design, amount, code, message and any validity date. It's meant to be printed and handed over. The code is still redeemed online.

PDFs use embedded DejaVu fonts, so accented Latin text works without extra setup.
Check a sample PDF before launch if your customers write in right-to-left or complex scripts, or use emoji. Version 1 doesn't guarantee these render correctly.
PDF downloads need Pro. If the license ends but Pro stays installed, PDFs already created stay downloadable. If Pro is removed, the download link goes away, and the digital card on the secure page still works.

If Pro is removed

The free plugin keeps every card, balance, saved card and expiry term, and gift emails already scheduled still go out at their time. Issued cards keep their design colors. Customer photos, PDF downloads and purchaser corrections need Pro.