AIFORYA Gift Cards: WooCommerce Gift Cards with AI Message Writing

AIFORYA Gift Cards: Your WooCommerce Gift Cards, Enriched by AI Message Writing

Turn WooCommerce into a reliable digital gift card machine. AIFORYA Gift Cards protects the most sensitive part — prepaid money — with a solid, deterministic transactional core: a product flagged as a "gift card" generates, on order, a card with a 16-character unique code, emails it, allows a balance lookup via shortcode and redemption at checkout (discount capped at the balance, transactional decrement that prevents double use). On top of this sits a layer of AI message writing that no mainstream gift card plugin ships, helping your customers find the right message and the right amount. You keep full control of your data and your costs thanks to the BYOK model — your own API key, no commission, no quota.

Technical specifications: Compatible with WordPress 6.0+, WooCommerce 7.0+, PHP 8.0+. Multilingual (.pot files included).

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Included in the AIFORYA subscription, unlimited AI usage via your own API key.

The Challenge: Gift Cards That Inspire Trust

Setting up a gift card program on a WooCommerce store seems simple in theory. In practice, two requirements collide. On one side, accounting rigour: a prepaid balance tolerates no approximation. A card used twice, a balance wrongly decremented or a guessable code, and it's your cash flow and your credibility that suffer. On the other side, the customer experience: an impersonal gift card, an amount chosen at random, a message left blank at the moment of payment — all sources of friction that lead to cart abandonment.

E-commerce industry analyses show that gift card recipients tend to spend beyond the initial value of their voucher. Not offering a smooth and reliable solution means letting this potential revenue evaporate.

Existing solutions lean to one side only. Some are excellent transactional tools but leave the customer alone facing the blank message page and the choice of amount. Others polish the presentation but stay vague about how robust redemption really is. AIFORYA Gift Cards takes an integrated approach: an inviolable WooCommerce core (generation, balance, locked redemption, export) and a layer of AI that removes the friction points at purchase, without ever overselling.

Key Features

AIFORYA Gift Cards combines a solid WooCommerce transactional foundation with a layer of AI message writing that you control via your API key. Here is what the extension really does, with no empty promises.

WooCommerce Core: Generation, Balance & Redemption

• Description: Tick "gift card" on any WooCommerce product. On order (processing / completed), the extension automatically creates one card per quantity purchased, with a 16-character unique code and a lock against double generation. The recipient (email, name, personal message) is entered at checkout when the cart contains a card. The holder checks their balance via the [aiforya_gift_card_balance] shortcode, and applies their card directly at payment: the discount is capped at the subtotal, then the balance is transactionally decremented with a double lock when the order is completed.
• Concrete benefit: The part that touches money is handled with the rigour it deserves. No double use, no phantom balance, no predictable code. It's this robust foundation that makes the program genuinely usable in production.

AI Message Writer (with mood reading of the visual)

• Description: From the occasion, the recipient and the desired tone, the AI proposes three message suggestions ready to personalise, in structured output. If a visual is chosen for the card, image analysis (Vision) reads its mood and colours to match the tone of the three proposals — with a clean fallback to text only if image reading is not available.
• Concrete benefit: Blank-page syndrome disappears at the most critical moment — just before paying. Your customers offer a fitting, personal word rather than a field left empty, which strengthens the perceived value of the gift.
• BYOK Integration: Generation relies on your own API key (Anthropic, OpenAI or Google), with no per-call surcharge imposed by AIFORYA.

AI Amount Advisor

• Description: The extension computes the price percentiles of your actual WooCommerce catalogue, then asks the AI for three relevant amounts (economical / balanced / generous). If the AI is not configured, a deterministic fallback proposes coherent round tiers. The advice is therefore always anchored in your real prices, never in generic amounts.
• Concrete benefit: The hesitant buyer receives a credible amount suggestion, aligned with what you actually sell. Less hesitation, fewer abandonments, a better-oriented average basket.
• BYOK Integration: The suggestion goes through your API key; the price calculation stays local to your WooCommerce database.

Reliable Email Delivery

• Description: The card (code, amount, message) is sent by HTML email via Resend if a key is configured, with automatic fallback to wp_mail otherwise. Deliverability is prioritised without imposing a dependency.
• Concrete benefit: The recipient receives their card reliably, with or without a third-party emailing service. You choose the most solid route for your store.

Dashboard & Card Management

• Description: A dashboard aggregates your indicators: issued and active cards, amount issued and used, remaining balance, usage rate, average basket. The card list is paginated and filterable (status, search, dates), with resend or cancellation of a card in one click. A signed CSV / JSON export (nonce, UTF-8 BOM ready for Excel) covers cards and redemptions.
• Concrete benefit: You steer your program with figures, not impressions, and you keep an exportable trail for your accounting or an audit.

Multi-Provider BYOK with Encrypted Keys

• Description: Connect your API key from several providers (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google in particular). All keys — AI as well as email service — are encrypted at rest and decrypted only at the point of use.
• Concrete benefit: You choose your provider, change your key whenever you want, and your credentials are protected. No dependence on an intermediary, no content data passing through AIFORYA.

Concrete Use Cases

For the WordPress Freelancer

Julie administers several WooCommerce stores for SMEs. With AIFORYA Gift Cards, she sets up in under an hour a genuinely reliable gift card program — unique codes, locked redemption, accounting export — where her clients dreaded double uses. The AI message writer and the amount advisor become her differentiating argument: her clients offer a premium experience with no per-card surcharge. Because the model is BYOK, each client pays directly for their own AI calls — a few euros a month — with no commission or quota.

For the Digital Agency

An agency manages a portfolio of WooCommerce stores (Agency licence). The dashboard and the signed export have become its reporting tools: cards issued, amounts used, usage rate, all consolidated per client. White-labelling on the Agency tier lets it integrate the tool seamlessly. The result: a tangible deliverable that proves the value of the service and cements maintenance contracts.

For the E-commerce Owner

Marc runs his own store and every euro counts. Gift cards bring him immediate cash flow (collected at purchase, spent later) and new customers (the recipient discovers the brand). The amount advisor steers buyers towards a credible amount aligned with his catalogue, and the message writer turns a field left blank into a personal word. The transactional core guarantees that no balance is used twice — the trust brick on which everything else rests.

Clear and Predictable Pricing

AIFORYA offers its extensions in a bundled subscription, with no hidden fees, no commission on your sales and no AI usage quota. You pay for the software and its support; you keep full control of your AI costs.

Important note on the BYOK model: The subscription covers the software licence, updates and support. Your AI calls (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google) are billed separately and directly by the provider you choose, via your own API key. For standard usage, this cost is generally between €2 and €8 per month. AIFORYA applies NO margin on your AI consumption, and no commission on your revenue.

Frequently Asked Questions

General AIFORYA Questions

1. How do I create my Anthropic (or OpenAI, Google) API key? The process takes under 5 minutes. Create an account on the provider's platform, add a payment method, then generate a key in the "API Keys" section. Step-by-step guides are available in the AIFORYA documentation.

2. Can I cancel my subscription at any time? Yes. Subscriptions have no minimum term. You can cancel at any time from your client area. The extension keeps working until the end of your current billing period.

3. How does the BYOK (Bring Your Own Key) model work? You paste your own API key into the extension settings. AI calls are then made directly from your WordPress server to the provider, with your key. This guarantees full cost transparency and better privacy: your data never passes through AIFORYA's servers.

4. What are the actual costs of AI? They are very low. Gift Cards only calls the AI for occasional, lightweight actions: suggesting three messages, or proposing three amounts. Writing hundreds of messages costs a few cents. For most stores, the monthly bill from the provider is between €2 and €8. These estimates vary with usage intensity and the rates of the chosen provider.

5. Is my data stored by AIFORYA? No. The extension data (codes, balances, redemptions) stays in your own WordPress database. AI requests are sent directly from your server to the provider, via your key. No data passes through AIFORYA.

6. Is the extension compatible with Elementor / Divi / Breakdance? Yes. AIFORYA Gift Cards relies on WooCommerce standard hooks. It is therefore independent of your page builder or theme, as long as they respect WordPress standards.

7. Is there a trial period? No. The Free plan's free extensions let you evaluate the catalogue with no commitment, and every paid plan comes with a full 14-day money-back guarantee.

8. What happens if Anthropic or OpenAI changes its prices? That is an advantage of the BYOK model. If prices drop — which is frequent — you benefit immediately. If a provider becomes too expensive, you switch to another compatible one simply by changing your API key.

9. Can I use my subscription on multiple sites? Yes. The Pro and Agency plans are designed for professionals managing several sites. Licences are managed from a single dashboard.

10. Does AIFORYA provide technical support? Absolutely. Responsive email technical support is included in all subscriptions. Response times vary depending on your plan.

Specific Questions for AIFORYA Gift Cards

11. Are the AI features genuinely operational? Yes — and we only sell what is. Two AI features are fully wired today: the message writer (three suggestions, with mood reading of the chosen visual) and the amount advisor (aligned with the real prices of your catalogue). AI design image generation is not offered as a delivered feature: we prefer to announce less and deliver for real.

12. Can I schedule the card to be sent on a future date? No, not in the current version. The card is sent as soon as the order is completed (immediate). Scheduled sending is part of our roadmap; in the meantime, the extension delivers the card reliably via Resend or wp_mail.

13. Can customers reload their gift cards? This feature is not included in the current version, for the sake of simplicity and accounting compliance in many jurisdictions. Each card has a single initial balance. Your customers can, however, purchase new cards at any time.

14. How are card codes generated? Are they secure? Each code is unique, 16 characters long, generated unpredictably and verified as non-existent before assignment. The risk of guessing a valid code is statistically negligible, and a double lock prevents the same card being used twice.

15. What happens to existing cards if I deactivate the extension? The data (codes, balances) is kept securely in your database. If you reactivate the extension, the cards work again. While it is deactivated, customers cannot use their balance. Data is only deleted if you choose "complete deletion" at uninstall.

AIFORYA Commitments

Customer Sovereignty The BYOK model is a guarantee. You control your data, your costs and your dependencies. AIFORYA provides the tool, you keep the power. Your data never leaves your server to pass through us.

Radical Transparency No hidden margins, no opaque credit systems, no commission on your sales. We announce what the product does today — not what it might do one day. The transactional core and the two AI features are really delivered; what belongs to the roadmap is announced as such.

Guaranteed Service Continuity AIFORYA is built to last. In the event of an interruption of activity, a patrimonial mechanism seals the release of the source code. Your extensions will keep working, guaranteeing the durability of your investment.

GDPR Compliance by Architecture Privacy is built into the architecture. AI calls go directly from your server to the provider via your key, no content data passes through AIFORYA, and keys are encrypted at rest. GDPR compliance is a prerequisite, not a checkbox.

Uncompromising Quality The software is a living product. AIFORYA commits to providing regular updates for security, compatibility with the latest versions of WordPress and WooCommerce, and the continuous enrichment of features — including the progressive activation of new capabilities.

Launch a Gift Card Program on Solid Foundations

Stop choosing between a cold transactional utility and a pretty but unreliable storefront. AIFORYA Gift Cards brings together an inviolable WooCommerce core — generation, balance, locked redemption, export — and a layer of AI that helps your customers offer the right message for the right amount. All in BYOK, with no commission or quota.

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