Gift Registry App (English)

eCom customers will be able to create their own registries and add items to them, from which other users can purchase items for the registry’s event.

The app handles the tracking of registries, registry items and the purchase of registry items.

Once installed, you'll be forwarded to our app management site to either login to an existing account (if you've purchased a Lightspeed eCom app from us before) OR create a new account with us to install and manage this and any future apps you may purchase from us for Lightspeed eCom.

Once you've created an account or logged into your existing account, the app installs automatically, after which you'll be forwarded to the shops list (see Exhibit A), which displays a list of Lightspeed eCom shops registered with your account and any apps installed with those shops. To manage this app, click on it's name "Gift Registry" under the appropriate shop. This will take you to the Gift Registry app’s settings form.

Settings

Under settings, you can control the following:-

Gender Options: Tell the system which gender options should be available when a customer is creating a Baby Shower registry.
Registry Type Options: Tell the system which types of registries customers can create.
'Add to Registry' Button - Target: Determines where on a product’s page to show the “Add to My Gift Registry” button.
'Add to Registry' Button - Action: Determines where the button should show in relation to the target (set above). I.e. Insert before or after, prepend, or append to the target.
Record Purchase On: Determines when the system should record a registry item as purchased. You can have it mark items as purchased as soon as the order is created in eCom (regardless of payment status) or wait to record the purchase for the registry until the order’s payment is paid.
SMTP Settings: Used for outgoing email to send email to your customers whenever a new purchase is recorded for items on one of their registries.

If you make any changes to any of these fields, be sure to click "Save Settings" button to save those changes.

Online store Pages Setup

The next step in setting up your Gift Registry app is to setup the necessary pages in your LightSpeed eCom online store. To do this, login to your eCom admin, then go to Content>>Pages. The app requires two pages exist in your online store:

My Gift Registries (you can update the title to whatever you like, just make sure the URL name for the page is “my-gift-registries”), with the following HTML content:

<div id="my-gift-registries-page" class="gift-registry-app">Loading...</div>

You can update “Loading...” to say whatever you like, or to an image, just make sure the surrounding DIV tag is unchanged.
Gift Registries (you can update the title to whatever you like, just make sure the URL name for the page is “gift-registries”), with the following HTML content:

<div id="gift-registries-page" class="gift-registry-app">Loading...</div>

You can update “Loading...” to say whatever you like, or to an image, just make sure the surrounding DIV tag is unchanged.

Once those pages are setup, you can now go to those pages on your online store to see what they load.

My Gift Registries (/service/my-gift-registries) will display an error with a link to login if you’re not logged into a customer account. Once logged into a customer account, this page will display any of that customer account’s registries (registries that account created and owns). This link is automatically added into the account menu when logged into an account (/account/).
2- Gift Registries (/service/gift-registries/) will show the public gift registries page where users can search public registries. We recommend adding a link to this page in the navigation ,somewhere prominently displayed on your online store, so customers looking for registries will be directed to this page.

Once the app is setup and customers have started using it, back within the app admin, click on the Registries tab. This will show any existing registries customers have created. You can click to view the details of a registry, see any items on the registry, or view the logs (orders placed for registry items and history log of any changes made to the registry).

Create a Gift Registry

To create a new registry, login to a customer account on your eCom online store. Once logged in, in the account menu you should see a link for “My Gift Registries”. Click that, then on the page that loads, click “Create a New Registry” button.

In the form that loads, fill in the following fields:

Registry Name: Title the registry as you like. This will show as the registry’s name to anyone looking for the registry.
Active: Check this box to make the registry active (will show in search results if Public). Leave unchecked to have the registry be inactive (won’t show in search results).
Public or Private: Determine if you want this registry to be public (available to anyone, shows in search results when searching registries) or private. Private registries do not show up in search results and require a special key (URL link provided after saving registry as private) to view.
Registry Type: Determines the type of the registry this is. Baby Shower type has a special fields for baby info, but all other types have the same fields. Type can be used when searching for a registry. The options displayed here can be controlled by the “Registry Type Options” setting in the app’s Settings tab.
Event Name: Enter a name for the event this registry is for.
Event Date: If event for this registry is occurring on a particular date/time, set that here. The registry will no longer show to public after the event date has passed.
Event Description: Describe the event this registry is for.
Registrant Name: Your name, or the name of the primary person this registry is created for.
Registrant Email: The email address that should be notified when an item is purchased for this registry.
Co-Registrant Name: Commonly used for spouses name (if wedding or baby shower). If registry type is Baby Shower…
Baby’s Name: name of the baby this shower is for
Baby’s Due Date: date baby is due to be born
Baby’s Gender: select the gender of the baby. The options displayed here can be controlled by the “Gender Options” setting the app’s Settings tab.
Is first child: check if this is the first child for the registrant.

Once you’ve filled out the required fields, click “Save Changes”. The registry will be created and you’ll be forwarded to the “Manage” page for the registry. It’s now time to add items to the registry.

Adding Items to a Registry

To add items to a registry, simply browse the catalog on the online store. When you find an item you want to add to the registry, click to view the product’s details page. Depending on the app settings, somewhere around the “Add to Cart” button will be a link to “Add to My Registry”. Clicking this will display a couple fields:

Select a Registry to Add this Item To: Choose the registry you’d like to add this item to. This field is required as you can have multiple registries setup at the same time.
How many of this item do you want?: Enter the quantity of this item you’d like. This amount will show up as the “Quantity Wanted” amount on your registry so registry users will know how many of this item you want.

Once you’ve selected the registry and entered the amount you want, click “Add to Selected Registry Now”. The item will now be listed on the registry you selected.

Managing an Existing Registry

Need to edit one of your registries? Simply login to your customer account on the online store, then go to “My Gift Registries” (a link in the account menu). This will list any registries in your account. You can delete the registries in the list using the “Delete Registry” button, or click on the registry’s name to edit it.

Whening editing a registry, you can manage the items assigned under the “Products” tab. This displays any products you’ve added to this registry. You can update the quantity wanted for each item (change the quantity, then click outside the field and change will be auto saved), or remove an item from the registry using the “Remove from Registry” button.

To edit a registry’s info, click on the “Details” tab where you can edit any of the fields you first set when creating the registry.

To view a log of items ordered from this registry, click the “Orders” tab.

To view a log of any changes made to this registry, click the “History” tab.

Helpful Video Tutorials

Buying from the Gift Registry

Create and Manage Gift Registry

Owner Administration of the Gift Registry

Frequently Asked Questions

Question: How can I account for an item purchased in store for a registry?

Answer: Login to your AdVision app account, click on Gift Registry app link, find the registry you want to manage and click on it, then click on "Products" tab, and modify the "Qty Purchase" amount for items on any registry

Question: Can order ship to the registry owner's address? Or is it just pick up in store?

Answer: The app cannot force a particular shipping address or shipping method. We recommend including instructions with each registry to direct the user where the order should ship and/or if any shipping method (like store pickup) is preferred.

Question: Once an event passes, the registry closes. Is there a way for customers to continue to purchase off the registry? Can it stay open for a year or so?

Answer: If you activate the "Show after event" setting, registries will remain active until manually closed.

Question: Public & Private URLs - are they sharable for both or do they have to search for it?

Answer: Either can be shared.

Question: Any way to offer a discount code for specific to a registry item on a specific registry.

Answer: The app cannot control discount functionality, that is handled by internal eCom logic.

Question: Product pricing or QOH in app doesn't appear correct, how can this be fixed?

Answer: If using Catalog Clone v2, please contact AdVision support. If running Catalog Clone v1: you can run a catalog sync from the Catalog Clone app in your AdVision app account. Go to the apps for the shop you're working on, click on Catalog Clone and from the products tab, click "Full Sync". Leave the page/window open while the sync runs. The cloner will listen for changes to your account and update it's data when it detects changes, but it's possible for changes to become out of sync if there's a communication issue with Lightspeed's API. If you see data issues like this, simply run a manually sync from the clone app to get data up to date.

Question: In the event that a customer purchases from the registry in store, how we adjust the quantity for the registry?

Answer: In your app account, click on the Gift Registry app, under Registries find the the registry you want to manage and click on it. Then under the products tab you can modify the Qty Purchased for any items on the registry.

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