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How Store Credit & Gift Cards compares
Store Credit & Gift Cards does three jobs: store credit, gift cards and Refer a Friend. The plugins below each cover one or two of them, so the tables show every job and say which plugin does what.
Store Credit Price range: $149.00 through $829.00
View in store How to read the tables
| Word | Means |
|---|---|
| Yes | Included. For a plugin with a free and a paid version: in the free version. For one sold in plans: in the plan whose price is shown. |
| Yes, paid | Only in the paid version, or with a paid add-on of the same maker. |
| Partly | Some of it; the note under the table says what. |
| No | Not offered. For another plugin we write No only where its maker’s page says so. |
| Not listed | We did not find it on the maker’s pages. The plugin may still do it. |
Price
| Store Credit & Gift Cards | PW Gift Cards | YITH Gift Cards | Advanced Coupons | TeraWallet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free version | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Paid | $149 a year (regular price) | Pro $99 | Premium €129.99 | Premium $199, Advanced Gift Cards $199 (each $99.50 the first year) | Pro $79 |
Gift cards
| Store Credit & Gift Cards | PW Gift Cards | YITH Gift Cards | Advanced Coupons | TeraWallet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sell gift cards as products | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, paid | Not listed |
| Preset amounts to choose from | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, paid | Not listed |
| An amount the buyer types in, within limits | Yes | Yes, paid | Yes, paid | Yes, paid | Not listed |
| Sent to a recipient by email, with a message | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes, paid | Not listed |
| Delivery on a date the buyer picks | Yes | Yes, paid | Yes, paid | Yes, paid | Not listed |
| Card designs or pictures | Yes (1) | Yes, paid (2) | Yes (3) | Yes, paid (4) | Not listed |
| Printable PDF or QR code | Yes (5) | Yes, paid | Yes, paid | Not listed | Not listed |
| Physical gift cards | Yes (6) | Yes, paid (7) | Yes | Not listed | Not listed |
| The code works in the normal coupon field | Yes | Yes, paid | Yes, paid | Not listed | Not listed |
| Unused cards stopped when the order that bought them is refunded | Yes (8) | Not listed | Yes, paid | Not listed | Not listed |
| Add money to an existing card or balance | Yes (9) | Yes, paid | Not listed | Not listed | Yes |
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: up to 12 pictures from your Media Library; the buyer picks one.
- PW Gift Cards: an image in the gift card email.
- YITH Gift Cards: the buyer picks a picture from your gallery.
- Advanced Coupons: built-in designs, or your own.
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: a printable card with a QR code that opens the cart with the code.
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: printed cards you ship, and holder cards that whoever holds them can spend: batches for a card printer (numbers and PINs as a CSV, or a card sheet to print), each activated when sold.
- PW Gift Cards: imports the numbers and balances of cards you already sell.
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: you choose the order action before the refund; nothing happens by itself.
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: to a gift card the customer holds, from their account.
Store credit
| Store Credit & Gift Cards | PW Gift Cards | YITH Gift Cards | Advanced Coupons | TeraWallet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A store credit balance in the customer’s account | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
| Give credit by hand, with a note | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
| Credit for an email address, without an account | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Refund an order as store credit | Yes (1) | Not listed | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
| Cashback on purchases, paid into the balance | Yes (2) | Not listed | Not listed | Yes, paid | Yes |
| Customers send balance to each other | Yes (3) | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Yes |
| Customers withdraw their balance as money | No (4) | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Yes, paid |
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: a button in WooCommerce’s refund panel records the refund and gives the amount as store credit, exactly once.
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: a percent of what was paid for products, added after a waiting time you choose.
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: when you turn it on: gift card balance only, or store credit too.
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: credit is spent in your store; it is not cash and cannot be paid out.
Spending and records
| Store Credit & Gift Cards | PW Gift Cards | YITH Gift Cards | Advanced Coupons | TeraWallet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay part of an order and keep the rest for later | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Customers can check their balance | Yes | Yes, paid (1) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Expiry dates | Yes | Yes, paid | Yes, paid | Yes, paid (2) | Yes, paid |
| Only for certain products or categories | Yes | Yes, paid | Yes, paid (3) | Not listed | Not listed |
| Held for an unpaid order, given back when the order is cancelled | Yes | Partly (4) | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Works in the block cart and checkout | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Yes | Yes |
| Works with currency switcher plugins | Yes (5) | Yes | Yes, paid (6) | Yes (7) | Yes |
| Create many at once from a CSV file | Yes | Yes, paid | Yes, paid | Yes, paid (8) | Yes, paid |
| A full history of every change | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Yes, paid (9) | Yes |
| Outstanding value (liability) report | Yes | Yes | Not listed | Yes (10) | Yes, paid (11) |
| WordPress personal data export and erase | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
- PW Gift Cards: on a balance page you place with a shortcode.
- Advanced Coupons: for gift cards.
- YITH Gift Cards: excludes categories from gift card redemption.
- PW Gift Cards: given back when the order is cancelled or refunded, as the Pro version’s page says; holding it for an unpaid order is not described.
- Store Credit & Gift Cards: with WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency and FOX – Currency Switcher: spent in the shopper’s currency, converted at the switcher’s rate at checkout, both amounts recorded; gift cards bought, cashback and refunds as credit in another currency are converted into your store’s currency at the order’s rate.
- YITH Gift Cards: with YITH’s own currency switcher.
- Advanced Coupons: Aelia, WPML and WOOCS.
- Advanced Coupons: for gift cards.
- Advanced Coupons: for gift cards.
- Advanced Coupons: a dashboard of the store credit in your store.
- TeraWallet: breakage and aging reports.
Referrals
| Store Credit & Gift Cards | PW Gift Cards | YITH Gift Cards | Advanced Coupons | TeraWallet | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reward customers who bring a friend | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Yes (1) |
| The friend gets credit or a first-order discount too | Yes | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
- TeraWallet: referral rewards paid into the wallet.
The plugins in this comparison
We chose the gift card and store credit plugins with the most active installations on WordPress.org (PW WooCommerce Gift Cards, Advanced Coupons and Wallet for WooCommerce, about 20,000 each; YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards, about 10,000), each together with its maker’s paid version.
- PW WooCommerce Gift Cards, by Pimwick. Gift cards. Free version on WordPress.org; the Pro version adds the features marked paid. Sources: WordPress.org page, Pro version page.
- YITH WooCommerce Gift Cards, by YITH. Gift cards. Free version on WordPress.org; the premium version adds the features marked paid. YITH shows its price in euros. Sources: WordPress.org page, premium version page.
- Advanced Coupons for WooCommerce, with Advanced Gift Cards, by Rymera (Advanced Coupons). A coupon plugin with store credit in its free version. Gift cards are a separate paid plugin, Advanced Gift Cards, whose cards turn into store credit when redeemed. Sources: WordPress.org page, Advanced Coupons pricing, Advanced Gift Cards pricing, Advanced Gift Cards features.
- Wallet for WooCommerce (TeraWallet), by StandaloneTech. A customer wallet: a balance customers can top up, spend, send and earn cashback on. Free version on WordPress.org; Pro adds the features marked paid. Sources: WordPress.org page, maker’s page with Free and Pro.
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Facts about other plugins as of October 2026, from their makers’ own pages and their WordPress.org pages. Their plugins change; their makers’ pages are the current word. Prices are regular yearly prices for one site, before tax, as shown then.