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PW WooCommerce Gift Cards
Perfect for traditional stores but a total headache for Blocks users.
HealthyGrowing
66/100
It provides useful gift card features but misleads customers about Blocks compatibility and enforces strict no refund policies.
Active installs
~52,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.7★
194 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
+11%
Growing
275 → 304 installs/day
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Growing · +11% in the last year
275/day a year ago→304/day today
Reviews
what people actually sayPW WooCommerce Gift Cards is a capable and generally well-regarded gift card solution, but it carries a significant caveat: it does not work with WooCommerce Blocks checkout, and users report slow or unresponsive support alongside rigid no-refund policies.
What people like
- +Plugin is considered easy to use and flexible for setting up gift card functionality×3
- +Support is praised as thorough and responsive by some users, including handling of custom requests×4
Common complaints
- −Does not work with WooCommerce Blocks checkout — customers cannot redeem gift cards in a Blocks-based store×3
- −No refunds issued for incompatibility or dissatisfaction, and the company does not proactively disclose the Blocks limitation before purchase×2
- −No renewal reminder emails sent before auto-renewal charges, combined with a strict no-refund policy on renewals
- −Multi-currency support is broken — gift card credit amounts are calculated incorrectly when purchased in a foreign currency, with the bug persisting for months despite support contact×2
- −Support is slow or unresponsive for several users, with some waiting months without resolution×4
- −UX bug: removing the single amount option from a gift card setup silently breaks the add-to-cart flow with no warning
- −Email templates are considered low quality and not sufficiently editable
- −A 502 error was triggered by the plugin's auto-generated product image on product and archive pages
Review trustReviews look organic
- 4.37★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.70★
- 13%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2023-08-192025-01-102026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 194 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-02-10★★★★★Very thought trough plugin, easy to use, good supportdmwc
- 2025-11-30★★★★★No Renewal Reminder & Strict No-Refund Policy – DisappointingChristian Saborio
- 2025-11-17★★★★★No blocks support since monthspierrebrezel
- 2025-08-31★★★★★Not work in Woocommerce BlocksKille
- 2025-07-30★★★★★Quick supportRonaldt
- 2025-06-25★★★★★Awesome support and developmentDeepVoid
- 2025-05-22★★★★★Very good plugin and incredible support!deniscdmv1-shot
- 2025-05-16★★★★★502 error after installingprimerpizza
- 2025-01-30★★★★★Good supportstanf
- 2025-01-21★★★★★good customer support experiencepmcelwee
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNAlternatives to PW WooCommerce Gift Cards
Top WooCommerce plugins, ranked by score.For developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
343
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
282
Prior 7-day baseline
511
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
8,402
Mean release-day peak (30d)
443
Latest day · 2026-06-03(organic)
+21.6%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
11%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
1.22
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
81%
5★ share in analyzed sample
13%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
-80%
Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.37 → 4.37★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered