The Best Shopify Apps for the Holidays

Gifted: Online Gift Experience

‘Tis the season for gifting! Your customers will be searching far and wide for the perfect gifts for all the important people in their lives, so why not make their gifting process especially delightful? Gifted adds a “Gift This Item” button onto the products you specify, and your customers can easily fill out details to send a surprise gift email to the recipient. The recipient gets to “unwrap” their gift on your store and view their gift message – ensuring warm, fuzzy feelings all around. It’s highly customizable, and the team is always ready to help you jiggle the button to your liking. The free plan includes the full gift experience, or you can upgrade for $9.99 / month.

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Quick Holiday Effects

Use this app to spruce up your store for the holidays. Just like window-shopping at brick-and-mortar stores, this app allows you to quickly set the mood for your customers. Quick Holiday Effects offers more than 380 stylish holiday design templates to choose from. Decorate your website for any holiday or thematic sale: Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day, Mother's/Father's Day, Easter, Canada day, July 4th, and even your local community celebration! It is completely customizable, and you can even upload your own “décor”. You can set it up in just a few clicks, and there is a set-and-forget scheduler to keep you on top of all the events. It is $4.99/month.

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GiftKart: Gift Cards and Rewards

A streamlined gift card experience is important during the holiday season, and GiftKart is an app that is very easy to set up and can supercharge your gift card process. Their hero feature is Gift Card – which allows you to create and offer gift cards as products for your customers to purchase. Not only that, you can tie it into your rewards program to give customers free gift cards once they’ve collected enough loyalty points. You can also offer store credit for customers looking to return or exchange products. Of course, you and your customers are easily able to check their gift card balance through the app. You can customise the language and email settings for the entire experience. Multiple plans available, starting at $9.99 / month.

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Social Boost Giveaways Contest

The holidays are the perfect time to run giveaways, instant-win and contests! These marketing options help increase social sharing and help to build your brand and get customers into the holiday spirit. It takes minutes to set up a contest or giveaway, with lots of customization options, including seasonal and festival templates. There are also many entry methods to choose from. You can launch daily, weekly and monthly jackpot giveaways for loyal customers, which is an easy way to create a December advent calendar. You can distribute your campaigns through email and / or display it directly on your store, and reward entrants for everything from purchases to following and sharing your content on social media. Plans range from free to $29 / month.

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