Can you designate an order as a gift?

[gkrehbiel]

Is there a way to designate an order as a gift so that the fulfillment company knows to treat it differently?

Here's what I mean. We take orders through our Shopsite store and have a separate company that picks and packs. We would like to allow our customers to give an item as a gift, and we'd like the package to arrive with a note to that effect. E.g., here's your gift from so and so.

The pick and pack people will need to know that the order is a gift. Of course the billing and shipping info will be different, but I'd rather have some other way to designate it as a gift.

How can I do that?

Also, is it possible for the purchaser to include a gift message, like, "Joe, I thought you could use this, love Grandpa" or whatever.

[Jim]

If you have a Pro level store you could use the Custom Checkout fields to add form fields to the checkout page where the shopper could indicate that it is a gift and a text field for the message they would like to have sent with the gift.
Commerce Setup > Order System > Checkout > near the bottom of the screen.
Help has some examples of gift wrapping, gift note etc. at http://www.shopsite.com/help/12.0/en-US/sc/pro/custom.checkout.fields.html

[lbohen]

I've got two custom checkout fields that currently present like this:

[TextArea] I need my order by:

[TextArea] Include this gift message:

I would like the two fields to present like this:

I need my order by: [TextArea]

Include this gift message: [TextArea]

How do I do that?

[Jim]

Change your custom html code to put the text before the input field.

For your custom checkout fields you currently have this code:

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<div class="custom1"><p align="left"><input type="textarea" name="field01" />
<font color="#0000CC" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
 I need my order by:</font>
</p>
<p align="left"><input type="textarea" name="field02" />
<font color="#0000CC" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Include this gift message:</font>
</p></div>

Simply move the placement of the text area fields to after the text.

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<div class="custom1"><p align="left"><font color="#0000CC" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
 I need my order by:</font><input type="textarea" name="field01" />
</p>
<p align="left"><font color="#0000CC" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Include this gift message:</font><input type="textarea" name="field02" />
</p></div>

You might need to tweak that a bit for spacing but it shouldn't be hard to do. You edit this on Commerce Setup > Order System > Checkout in the Custom Checkout Fields section near the bottom of the screen.