About this plugin
CardV Gift Cards connects your WooCommerce store to your CardV merchant account. You pick the gift cards you want to sell, the plugin creates the products, and when a customer pays, the codes are bought from CardV and delivered on the order page and in the order e-mail.
What it does
- Browse the CardV catalog from your WordPress admin and import products with one click.
- Fixed-value cards become one product with a choice of amounts, from lowest to highest face value. Cards with a custom amount get an amount field with live price preview.
- Products are filed under CardV categories (or your own) and WooCommerce brands, with the brand logo and product image from CardV.
- Works with any WooCommerce theme. Themes and other plugins can read gift card data through a documented function and the WooCommerce Store API.
- Prices follow your markup, for the whole store or per card, and never go below your minimum margin. If the cost rises, the plugin protects you from selling at a loss.
- Catalog, cost and stock are synced on a schedule you choose (default every 6 hours).
- After payment, codes are delivered automatically, or held for your review based on rules you set: payment method, order size, orders per customer and per IP, first-order limit and country checks.
- Codes are stored encrypted and shown only to the customer who bought them. Admin e-mails never contain codes.
- Sandbox mode for testing with no real money.
What you need
- A WooCommerce store.
- An approved CardV merchant account with API keys. Apply at cardv.net.
- A prepaid CardV balance. Orders are paid from this balance.
You are the seller of record to your customers. You set your prices, decide which orders are delivered automatically and handle your customers’ support and refunds.
External services
This plugin connects to the CardV Merchant API, operated by CardV, to work. It cannot function without it.
- What it is used for: reading your account and balance, reading the product catalog and prices, getting price quotes, placing gift card orders and reading their status and codes.
- What is sent and when:
- When you test the connection, open the Products page, or the scheduled sync runs: your API key ID and signed request, plus catalog filters (no customer data).
- When a paid order is fulfilled: the products, amounts and quantities, the expected unit price and an order reference made from your site and WooCommerce order number. No customer name, e-mail, address or payment data is sent.
- When you open the Products page, import, sync or fulfil an order: price quotes for the cards involved.
- On every sync, only if your store does not sell in USD: your store currency code, to read the exchange rate from USD. CardV checks its rates against several public sources; the plugin contacts no other service for it.
- Every hour: your balance. Every few minutes while an order is waiting for its codes, and when a notification arrives: the order status, by CardV order number.
- Every request carries the plugin, WordPress and WooCommerce version numbers (User-Agent) and comes from your server’s IP address. The order reference contains a short hash of your site address and the WooCommerce order number.
- While you browse CardV > Products, card logos are shown directly from CardV image hosts ( *.cardv.net ), so your browser loads those images from CardV. When you import a product, and when CardV changes an image the plugin added, the product image and the brand logo are copied into your Media Library. Images you set yourself are never replaced.
- Incoming: CardV may send signed order-status notifications to this site’s REST endpoint /wp-json/cardv-gift-cards/v1/webhook. Requests that are not signed with your webhook secret are rejected.
- Endpoints: https://b2b.cardv.net/api/v1/ (live) and https://sandbox.cardv.net/api/v1/ (sandbox).
- Service provider: CardV, https://cardv.net/
- Terms of service: https://cardv.net/terms/
- Privacy policy: https://cardv.net/privacy/