If you sell anything that might end up as a gift, from candles to electronics to boxed food, customers ask for wrapping more often than most store owners expect. WooCommerce has no native gift wrap option, so you need a plugin. This post compares three real, actively maintained options: Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce (2,000 installs, 4.7 stars), Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce (900 installs, 5.0 stars), and Gift Pack for WooCommerce (300 installs, 4.6 stars). The short version: use Gift Wrapper if you still run the classic checkout and want wrapping treated as a real inventoried product, use Gift Wrapping if you’re on the block-based checkout and just want a simple paid fee, and use Gift Pack if you want customers picking a wrap design on the product page itself.
| Plugin | Best for | Active installs | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce | Classic checkout, wrap sold as a real WC product (taxed, inventoried) | 2,000+ | 4.7/5 (52 reviews) |
| Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce | Block-based checkout, simple paid or free checkbox fee | 900+ | 5.0/5 (7 reviews) |
| Gift Pack for WooCommerce | Per-product wrap selection with a personal greeting message | 300+ | 4.6/5 (5 reviews) |
Every one of these solves “add gift wrapping to my WooCommerce store” differently, and the differences matter more than the star ratings do. Here’s what each one actually does, how you set it up, and where it falls short. If you’ve compared narrow WooCommerce plugin categories like this before, our look at the best WooCommerce quick view plugins and plugins for hiding a shipping method by product category follow the same format.
Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce
Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce takes an unusual approach for a free plugin: it doesn’t just add a checkout field, it makes your gift wrap a genuine WooCommerce product. You create a product (or several, for different wrap styles), assign it a price, put it in a dedicated product category, and the plugin pulls that category into a wrap-selection form on the cart and checkout pages. Because the wrap is a real product, it gets taxed, discounted, and tracked in inventory exactly like anything else you sell. That’s a meaningfully different model from a plugin that just tacks a flat fee onto the order total. You can also decide whether the wrap options show as a slide-down panel, a plain checkbox, or a modal popup, and customers can leave a short gift note that shows up in the order email and on the order page in wp-admin.
Setup runs through WooCommerce > Settings > Gift Wrapper once the plugin is active. The tab walks you through picking the product category that holds your wrap products, so the first real step isn’t a settings toggle, it’s going into Products and creating at least one wrap item priced the way you want. Skip that step and the wrap selector simply won’t appear on the front end, which is the single most common support question in the plugin’s own FAQ.
The limitation worth knowing before you install it: the developer states plainly in the plugin’s own FAQ that Gift Wrapper “is not compatible with blocks (yet)” and is built for the classic, shortcode-based cart and checkout templates. If your theme or your checkout setup has already moved to the WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks, the wrap selector may not render at all, and you won’t know until you test it. Given that WooCommerce has been pushing store owners toward block-based checkout for several release cycles now, this is the first thing to check on a staging copy of your site before you commit to this plugin over the other two.
Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce
Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce takes the opposite approach on purpose. Instead of modeling the wrap as a product, it hooks into the WooCommerce Fees API and adds a single checkbox to the checkout page. Check it, and a line item for the wrap cost appears in the order totals, on the thank-you page, and in both the admin and customer emails. There’s no separate product to create, no inventory to track, just a cost, a tax class, and a checkbox position you can move around the checkout form. The plugin also lists explicit High-Performance Order Storage (HPOS) compatibility, which matters if you’ve already migrated off the legacy post-based order storage that WooCommerce is phasing out.
Setup is the shortest of the three: activate the plugin, then go to WooCommerce > Settings > Gift Wrapper, flip it on, and set a cost (or leave it at zero to offer wrapping for free). The tax class and the checkout label text are both editable from the same screen. For developers, the plugin exposes filters like tgpc_wc_gift_wrapper_cost and tgpc_wc_gift_wrapper_icon_html, so you can adjust the price dynamically or swap out the icon without touching core plugin files.
The honest limitation here is review volume, not functionality. Seven reviews at a perfect score is a good sign, but it’s a small enough sample that it doesn’t tell you much about how the plugin behaves across a wide range of themes and checkout customizations. The plugin’s own materials don’t make an explicit claim either way about compatibility with the WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks, which is worth testing on staging rather than assuming, especially if you’re running a heavily customized block checkout.
Gift Pack for WooCommerce
Gift Pack for WooCommerce moves the decision earlier in the shopping flow. Rather than asking about gift wrapping at checkout, it puts the option directly on the product page, so a customer picks their wrap style before the item ever reaches the cart. Store owners can set one global wrap price for the whole catalog or override it per product, and can turn wrapping on or off for specific categories, so you’re not forced to offer it on products where it doesn’t make sense (digital goods, say, or anything already gift-boxed). Customers pick from a gallery of wrap designs you upload yourself, and can add “To” and “From” fields plus a short greeting note, each of which you can make optional or required independently.
Getting it running takes a few more steps than the other two because there’s more to configure per product. After activating the plugin, go to the dedicated Gift Pack for WooCommerce menu item in wp-admin to set global defaults and upload your wrap images, then open individual products to set category rules or a custom per-product price if the global setting doesn’t fit. The design gallery displays in a lightbox popup on the product page, and the plugin works with both simple and variable products.
The catch is that this is a small plugin from a small developer (IT Path Solutions) with only five reviews on record, none of which is unusual for a niche add-on, but it does mean less field-tested history to lean on than the other two. It’s also built around wrapping being decided per product rather than for the whole order, which is exactly what some stores want and exactly the wrong model for others. If a customer buys three items and wants one wrap covering the whole box, this plugin won’t give you that; it tracks the choice at the line-item level.
How to pick
- If your store still runs the classic (shortcode) cart and checkout and you want gift wrap taxed, discounted, and inventoried the same way as any other product, use Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce.
- If you’ve moved to the WooCommerce Cart and Checkout blocks and just want a simple paid or free checkbox with a clean total-line fee, start with Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce and confirm it renders correctly on your specific checkout before going live.
- If you want customers choosing a wrap design and writing a gift note on the product page itself, before the item hits the cart, use Gift Pack for WooCommerce.
- If you sell wrapping only on a handful of specific categories or need it to behave differently across product types, Gift Pack’s per-category and per-product controls will save you more custom work than either checkout-only option.
- If none of the three fit how your checkout or your catalog is actually built, that’s usually a sign the logic needs to live in a small custom plugin instead of a general-purpose one. Our plugin development team builds that kind of narrow, store-specific logic directly, and our WooCommerce development team handles it when the fix needs to touch checkout or order logic more broadly.
FAQ
Does WooCommerce have a built-in gift wrap option?
No. WooCommerce ships with no native gift-wrap field on the product page, cart, or checkout. Adding one requires a plugin or custom development, since there’s no core setting to toggle.
Can I offer gift wrapping for free instead of charging for it?
Yes, with any of the three. Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce and Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce both let you set the wrap price to zero and still show the option and collect the customer’s choice.
Will a gift wrap plugin work with the WooCommerce block-based checkout?
It depends on the plugin, and you should not assume it does. Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce explicitly states in its own documentation that it does not support the Cart and Checkout blocks yet and needs the classic shortcode-based checkout. Test any of these three on a staging copy of your actual checkout before relying on it in production.
Can customers choose gift wrapping per product instead of for the whole order?
Yes, with Gift Pack for WooCommerce, which puts the wrap choice on the product page and tracks it per line item. Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce and Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce both apply their free-version wrap option at the cart or checkout level, covering the whole order rather than one item at a time.
Do gift wrap fees need to account for tax?
Usually yes, and both Gift Wrapper for WooCommerce and Gift Wrapping for WooCommerce let you assign a specific tax class to the wrap charge from their settings screens, so it’s taxed consistently with your store’s other rules rather than slipping through untaxed.
