🚀 Feature availability
Gift registry is available for Growave 2.0 users starting from the Growth plan.
Overview
The Gift Registry program is an advanced wishlist feature that allows logged-in customers to create, manage, and share personalized gift lists for specific occasions. This enables shoppers to turn your store into a gifting destination for events like weddings and birthdays, making it easier for friends and family to find and purchase the perfect gifts.
This article covers enabling the feature, adding the Add to Registry button, and configuring registry settings. It also explains how customers can create and manage their gift registries, and how gifters make purchases via shared links.
Key benefits / use cases
Registry creation: Allow shoppers to build personalized gift lists tied to specific life events directly from your store.
Easy sharing: Registrants can share their list via a unique link, directing family and friends to purchase from your store.
Gifting-driven traffic: Gift registries bring new visitors to your store — gift buyers who might not have discovered you otherwise.
How to enable the Gift Registry: Admin setup
To turn on the Gift Registry feature:
In the Growave admin panel, go to Wishlist → Settings.
Scroll to the Gift Registry status section → click Enable.
Install the "Add to Registry" button
Once activated, you must manually add the button to your product pages so customers can start building their registries.
Go to your Shopify admin → Online Store → Theme → Edit theme.
In the Theme editor, open the Product page template.
Click Add block → Apps → Growave custom liquid.
Paste the following placeholder code into the liquid field:
<div class="gw-gr-add-to-registry-product-page-widget-placeholder"
style="display: block"
data-gw-product-id="{{ product.id }}"
data-gw-variant-id="{{ product.selected_or_first_available_variant.id }}"
data-gw-button-class="button add-to-cart-button button-secondary"></div>
Configure Gift Registry settings
In Growave admin panel, navigate to Wishlist → Settings to fine-tune how the registry behaves:
Require address for gift registry creation: A setting that mandates customers to input a delivery address when setting up a new gift registry.
Gift Registry event types: A configuration that defines the available categories or themes (e.g., Birthday, Wedding) customers can select for their new registries.
Share Gift Registry: A setting to select which specific channels customers can use to distribute their gift registry links.
Track gift registries performance
To view how gift registries are performing, go to Wishlist → Gift registry activity in the Growave admin panel.
Use the date picker to set a specific period and track:
Items added to gift registries
Items purchased by gifters
Orders placed
Sales generated from gift registries
Below the summary tiles, you will find two tabs:
Orders: Displays detailed information about orders placed through gift registries (Order No, Date and time, Price, Registrant email, Gifter email, Registry ID).
Registries: Shows a list of all registries. You can search by registrant name, email, or registry name, and filter by type. You can also click Archive registries, select the registries you want to archive, and confirm by clicking Archive.
✅ Tip
You can view an individual customer’s registry activity by opening their profile in the Customers section of the Growave admin and clicking the Gift registry tab.
Storefront experience: Registrants
To create a gift registry, customers must log in to an existing store account or sign up. If a guest user clicks the Add to Registry button on a product page, a pop-up will prompt them to sign in or create an account.
How to create a Gift Registry
When a logged-in customer clicks Add to Registry on a product page:
If no custom gift registry has been created yet: An item will be added to an automatically generated default registry named:
{customer's first name} event.If a customer already has two or more registries: A modal window will appear prompting them to select an existing registry. The customer must click the Heart icon next to the gift registry title to add the item.
⚠️ Important
If you have enabled the "Require address for gift registry creation" setting and the customer does not have an address in their Shopify account yet, the default gift registry is not created for them. Clicking the Add to Registry button will trigger the new gift registry creation form, where they must add their address.
To create a brand new registry from the Wishlist floating widget:
Click the Wishlist launcher button from any page (except the dedicated Wishlist page, where the launcher is hidden). Note: On the Wishlist page, you can proceed directly to step two.
Click Add a new list link.
Select the Gift Registry option.
Fill in the details in the Gift registry creation form and click Create wishlist.
The Gift registry creation form includes the following options:
Gift registry data:
Event type dropdown: Displays options selected in the Gift registry settings (Birthday, Wedding, Baby shower, Newborn, House warming, Christmas, Graduation, Other).
Event date (dd/mm/yy).
Registry name.
Registrant's information:
Delivery details: Country, state, postal code, city, and address (this exact address will be applied at the gifter's checkout).
Name: First and last name.
Co-registrant details (optional):
Name: First and last name.
📘 Note
Customers can create multiple gift registries and delete them as needed, allowing flexibility for different occasions.
Customer view and behavior
After creating a gift registry, this new registry will appear in the Wishlist floating widget and Wishlist page. Customers will see:
Header: The Wishlist title and a link leading directly to the Wishlist page.
Add a new list: A link to create new lists.
List display area: Displays wishlists and gift registries as clickable thumbnails with subtitles.
Gift registries have a small Gift icon in the bottom-left corner of the thumbnail with item counter.
Empty (or default) lists use placeholder thumbnail images. Lists with items added use the image of the first added product as the thumbnail.
The currently selected list title and Pen (edit) icon are displayed under the thumbnails. If a gift registry is selected, a green Gift registry badge will be displayed next to the list title.
Clicking Pen (edit) icon opens the Gift Registry editing modal where customers can change list details or delete the list.
Sharing block: Contains options to share the list by copying the link, via email, or social networks.
Sorting: Gift registries, unlike Classic wishlists, do not support item sorting.
Product cards: Displays the product image with three dots menu and badges, product title, average rating with review count (if the Reviews app is enabled), selected product variant (if any), and product price.
Three dots menu: Opens additional options:
Delete: Removes an item from the list.
Add tag: Adds a green badge with custom text overlaying the product image.
Move to: Moves the item to another gift registry (if more that one gift registry has been created).
Image badges:
Available (grey): Means the product has not been purchased by gifters yet.
Purchased (blue): Means the product has already been purchased by gifters. May include a counter (e.g., Purchased 1/3) depending on the number of items added to the gift registry.
Custom badge (green): Displays custom text added using the Add tag option.
Quantity selector: Customers can increase/decrease the number of items in the git registry.
Add to cart button: Turns into Show in cart for items already added to the cart.
Storefront experience: Gifters
After following the link shared gift registry link, gifters are directed to the dedicated registry page.
Buying a gift
The gifter reviews the items on the registry, noting which are "Available" and which are already "Purchased."
The gifter adjusts the quantity if needed and clicks the Add to cart button on the item they wish to buy.
A Gift Cart Summary side drawer opens. This drawer confirms the total gift value and displays a message stating who the gifts will ship to (e.g., "Your gifts will ship to [Registrant's Name]'s address").
From the drawer, the gifter can click Add More Gifts to continue browsing the registry or click Checkout.
During checkout, the Delivery section is automatically pre-filled with the registrant's saved shipping details.
FAQs
How is the status of items in a gift registry updated?
How is the status of items in a gift registry updated?
When an item from the gift registry is purchased (i.e. order is marked as Paid in the Shopify admin), its status on the gift registry page will automatically update to "Purchased". The registry creator and any user with access to the shared gift registry will see this status change.
Who receives order notifications?
Who receives order notifications?
Order notifications are sent directly from Shopify to the gifter (the customer who made the purchase) so they can track the delivery status. If the purchaser enters the registry creator's email address at checkout instead, the registry creator will receive the Shopify order notifications.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact us at [email protected] or via the chat icon in the bottom-right corner of your Growave admin. We’re here to help! 🤗