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The Perfect Holiday Gift: Giftable Subscriptions with Stay AI

How to Set Up Giftable Subscriptions Ahead of the Holiday Season

As the holiday season approaches, finding the perfect gift can be a challenge. Often overlooked, gifting a subscription to a friend, family member, or someone special can provide a thoughtful yet practical gift from the convenience of your Customer Portal. 

Instead of a one-time gift, a subscription delivers value month after month, ensuring your loved ones enjoy something special long after the holidays are over. Even better, your gift may inspire the recipient to continue their own subscription (or pass the gift forward!) after yours runs out. 

Whether it’s a wellness product, a favorite snack box, or a niche hobby kit, a giftable subscription provides endless opportunities for personalization. With Stay AI’s powerful subscription management system, gifting subscriptions is a seamless and stress-free process giving subscribers the option to choose from available plans, while recipients have the flexibility to customize their deliveries to match their preferences.


How to Gift a Subscription Using Stay AI

Stay AI offers merchants the ability to implement gifting functionality, meaning that your customers can now both subscribe to your products for themselves or send a set amount of shipments to others. 

For instance, if you would like to offer a monthly prepaid subscription as a gift for two shipments, three shipments, and or even shipments, these can all be configured within the Stay AI portal. This enables customers to select an option directly within their Customer Portal to select a prepaid subscription as a gift. The customers will then go through the gifting flow on the Customer Portal.

For a detailed, step-by-step guide on setting up giftable subscriptions for your Shopify eCommerce store this holiday season, read our setup guide available here.

Some things to consider when setting up giftable subscriptions – 

  • Gifts will be configured directly within the Stay AI merchant portal
  • Only prepaid selling plans can be configured as gifts
  • The out-of-the-box gifting option will populate into the buy box, but customizations can be made per by merchant request

Give the Gift of Subscription on Black Friday & Cyber Monday

Black Friday/Cyber Monday is the busiest shopping period of the year for Shopify eCommerce storefronts. This means that your brand should be setting up exclusive promotions for customers and subscribers alike to capture additional recurring revenue this season. Giftable subscriptions are a perfect promotion to run or advertise to subscribers around this time, including setting up a giftable subscription banner ad directly within the Customer Portal. 

The holiday season is also a great opportunity to offer new, limited-time bundled products or offer exclusive deals can drive engagement, elevate brand loyalty, and excite new and old subscribers alike. For more about bundles, read more here.

Our friends at Angler’s Coffee Co. offer prepaid coffee gift subscription options using a unique, customized giftable subscription landing page:

Using these strategies, your products can serve as a memorable gift or surprise to your existing customers’ friends and family this holiday season.


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