Registry Credit: wedding registry gifts held as store credit, for Shopify stores

Registries weren't built for special orders

When a registry gift rings up as an ordinary sale, the books say it's sold and shipped the day a guest pays, even though the plates won't be ordered from the maker until the couple decides. The real story ends up in a spreadsheet. Registry Credit keeps the gift and the sale apart.

What happens to one registry gift
Step	As an ordinary sale	With Registry Credit
The order	Marked fulfilled within a day, before anything has been ordered	The gift closes on its own. The couple's order is held until the pieces arrive
Stock	Counts drop for pieces still at the maker	Counts move when the couple's order is placed
Sales tax	Charged on the guest's gift	Charged on the couple's purchase, the sale that actually happens
Who gave what	Kept by hand, separate from Shopify	On the couple's account page and your staff board, with every giver and note

How a gift moves

Shopify does the checkout, the register, the store credit and the pickup emails. Registry Credit connects them and keeps the record.

The couple builds the list

In your store with staff, scanning tags with the register or their own phone, or from your catalog online. Their registry page sits in your theme.
Guests give

Through your normal checkout or at your register, with no shipping charge. Each gift is priced at the item plus its sales tax, so the credit covers the full purchase later.
It becomes credit

As soon as the order is paid, the gift goes into the couple's Shopify store credit, recorded to the cent with the giver's name and note.
The couple chooses, you order

They pick pieces from the list or anything else in the store and pay with their credit. Special orders wait on hold until they arrive, then one tap sends Shopify's pickup email.

What it does for each person at the registry

Guests

Find a registry by the couple's names or the wedding date.
Give a whole item, or chip in toward a big one. A progress bar shows how close it is, never who gave or how much.
Give at your counter, including a gift toward the registry as a whole when you allow it.
Check out the way they would for any order in your store.

The couple

An account page with their balance, every gift and its giver, and a thank-you checklist.
Scan tags in your store with their own phone to add pieces. Nothing to install.
Emails in your store's name: the welcome with their link to share, each gift as it arrives or a Monday summary, a group gift complete, and thank-you reminders.
Pick what they'd like to take home. Your staff confirm it and place the order.

Your staff

Everything runs inside Shopify admin and Shopify POS, with the logins they already have.
A status board for every piece: Funded, Ordered, Ready for pickup, Picked up. One tap each.
A Registry tile on the register to ring up gifts and scan items onto a registry.
Your logo, cover photo and colors on registry pages, the couple's account page and emails.
Settings you control: the tax rate on gifts, whether credit expires, and what happens when a refunded gift was already spent.

Your Shopify account holds the money. The app keeps the books.

Registry money is owed to a couple, sometimes for a year or more. It has to be right to the cent.

It never takes a payment. Every gift goes through your own Shopify checkout or register and lands in your account like any other sale.
Every change is written down and never erased. The ledger is add-only, with who did what and when. The couple's store credit is set to match it, and a gift Shopify reports twice is counted once.
It checks itself every night. The ledger is compared with Shopify each night, and any difference is flagged for your staff.
Registry pages don't depend on our server. Guests can still give if the app is down. Shopify resends the order, and the nightly check catches anything left over.
Guests' details stay private. Giver names, notes and amounts never appear on public pages. You own your data and can export all of it.

Tax on the sale that actually happens

A gift is priced at the item plus an amount equal to its sales tax, and the gift line isn't taxed at checkout. When the couple spends their credit, that order is taxed at your normal rate, and it's the sale you report.

Reports give your accountant the balance owed to couples at the start and end of any period, every kind of money that moved, and CSV files of balances, the ledger and every gift.

Your accountant reviews the setup and the checkout wording before you go live. We build the software. We don't give tax or accounting advice.

Moving from Gift Reggie

Bring your open registries with you. Registry Credit reads Gift Reggie's registry export, matches each item to your products by variant, barcode or SKU, matches each couple to their customer account by email, and counts what's already been bought as given.

It also reads Gift Reggie's past orders in your store, so the givers and notes come across for your staff, and it makes a redirect file that points each old registry address in your store to its new page.

Not on Gift Reggie? Couples on paper or a spreadsheet can be entered on the staff board, item by item or by scanning.

Set up with you, on your store only

Registry Credit isn't a public App Store listing. Each store gets its own copy of the app with its own database, installed from a private link that works only for that store.

We set it up with you: your catalog, tax rate, branding and emails, the move from your current registry, and a walkthrough for your staff. After launch, a yearly care plan covers hosting, updates and support. We take on a few stores at a time so each one is set up properly.

Pricing is a one-time setup fee and the yearly care plan, quoted for your store after a call. It depends on how many registries you run, whether you're moving from another app, and how much of your catalog is special order.

What your store needs

A Shopify store with new customer accounts and store credit turned on
An Online Store 2.0 theme, such as Dawn or most current themes, for the registry pages
Shopify POS, if you want gifts and scanning at the register
Barcodes on your products, if you want scanning onto registries

No Shopify Plus and no checkout changes. Shopify keeps sending its own order and pickup emails.

Questions stores ask

Does Registry Credit ever hold our money?

No. Guests pay through your own Shopify checkout or register, and the money lands in your Shopify account like any other sale. The app keeps the ledger and sets the couple's store credit to match it.

What do guests see?

Your store, in your own theme. They find the couple, pick a gift or chip in toward one, and check out the way they would for any order. There is no shipping step for a registry gift.

Shopify limits how much store credit one customer can hold. What about big registries?

The ledger holds the couple's true balance. The app keeps their Shopify store credit under a ceiling you set and tops it up after each purchase, so a large registry never hits Shopify's limit.

Can the couple spend their credit on things that aren't on the registry?

Yes. The credit is good for anything in your store, online or at the register.

What happens if a guest's payment is refunded?

The gift comes off the couple's balance automatically. If they already spent it, a setting you choose decides whether it comes off their next gifts or the store covers it.

Can registry credit expire?

Only if you want it to. Credit can never expire, or expire a set number of months after the wedding or after each gift. Couples get reminders 30 and 7 days ahead.

Is Registry Credit on the Shopify App Store?

No. Each store gets its own private copy of the app, installed from a link that works only for that store, with its own database.

Does it work with Shopify POS?

Yes. A Registry tile on the POS home screen lets staff find a registry, ring up a gift or a chip-in, scan items onto a registry, and attach the couple to a sale so their credit pays.

Wedding registry gifts, held as store credit until the couple is ready.