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# Gift orders
> Let customers send an order to someone else, with a message, a delivery date and a reveal date.
With gifting turned on, a customer can send an order to somebody else, with a message, a date not to deliver before, and a date the recipient is told about it.
Turn it on with **Let customers buy gifts** under [Settings > Cart & Checkout](/settings/cart-and-checkout#gifting).
## At checkout
The delivery step opens with **Who is this for?**, offering **Myself** or **Someone else**. Choosing Someone else collects the recipient's delivery address, then asks **This is a gift**.
Answering yes adds a step for:
* **The recipient's name**, and who the gift is **from**
* **A gift message**
* **Their email address**, where the gift is something the recipient needs to hear about
* **Tell them on** - the date the recipient is contacted
* **Deliver after** - the earliest date the parcel may go
All of the wording on these steps is yours to change, under **Settings > Branding & Web Components > Checkout**.
"Who is this for?" is deliberately broader than "is this a gift?", because it also covers sending something to your own office. The gift question comes second, and only once the customer has said the order is for someone else.
### What's collected, and when
* **A gift of physical goods alone** needs no recipient email. Nothing is sent to the recipient and no account is created for them. The message travels in the box.
* **A gift subscription** does need one, because an account is created for the recipient so they can manage their deliveries. Checkout refuses a gift subscription with nobody to send it to.
* **A gift voucher** carries its own recipient and send date on the voucher itself. See [Selling vouchers](/gift-vouchers/products).
### Billing and delivery
Billing stays with the **buyer** and delivery goes to the **recipient**. The buyer is the order's customer, so your order list, exports and reporting still show who actually paid.
An order goes to one destination. The recipient details and the end-of-term choice are asked once, for the whole order, rather than per line.
## The recipient as a customer
Where a gift needs one, the recipient is created as an ordinary customer, with the delivery address attached to them.
An existing customer gifted a case at their office **never** has their own default delivery address repointed. The gift address is only made their default when they had none at all.
## Deliver after
**Deliver after** becomes the order's shipping date, so it holds the parcel everywhere a shipping date is honoured: order processing, courier submission and held-order releases.
Only physical dispatch is held. A gift voucher defers itself through its own send date, so a voucher-only order takes no shipping date at all.
Where a gift subscription's first shipment already has a dispatch day, the **later** of the two dates wins. The shipment schedule says the soonest a parcel *can* go, and the gift date says the soonest it *may*.
## Tell them on
The reveal date is when the recipient hears about the gift, and nothing reaches them before it: not at purchase, and not when the order is confirmed. A gift bought in November for Christmas stays quiet for six weeks.
The email goes out at **eight in the morning** in the shop's own timezone, rather than whenever the overnight jobs happen to run.
A reveal date can't land after the delivery date. There's no point telling somebody about a gift that has already turned up on their doorstep, so checkout refuses the combination.
## On the order
A gift order carries a **Gift options** block on its [detail page](/orders/details):
* **For** and **From**
* **Their email**
* **Tell them on**
* **Deliver after**
* **When it ends** - for a gift subscription, what the giver chose to happen at the end of the prepaid term
* **Gift message**
## Turning gifting off
Turning **Let customers buy gifts** off only stops new gifts being bought. Gift subscriptions already running keep delivering for the rest of their term, and the people receiving them still get their emails.
## Next steps
Prepaid terms, reveal dates and what happens when a gift runs out
Sell stored-value codes customers can spend later
Turn gifting on and set the delivery date option