Gift-of-Choice Portals
Build a branded portal where recipients pick their own gift, then share it by link, email, text, or QR code.
What it's for
A gift-of-choice portal lets your recipients pick their own gift. You curate a set of gifts, share a link, and each recipient opens it, chooses what they'd like, and enters their own shipping address. The gift is always free to the recipient — you're billed behind the scenes.
Find it under Gift-of-Choice Portals in the sidebar (/d/gift-portals).
Building a portal
Choose New Portal to open the setup wizard. It walks through five steps, with a live preview beside each:
- Set up — name the portal (for your reference), set the sender and company name, and pick your dates. Here you also choose:
- Portal type — a Shared portal (one link a whole group can use, each person choosing one gift) or a Personal portal (a one-person link that stops working after they choose). This can't be changed after the portal is created.
- Access — leave it open, or require a passcode (one shared code, or a unique code per person).
- Delivery — share the link yourself, or have Giftium email or text it for you (send now or schedule it, with an optional reminder to anyone who hasn't chosen after 7 days).
- Page & layout — your logo, headline, and welcome message, plus optional extras: a video message, a background image, a closing message, and custom questions on the shipping form.
- Gifts — choose the gifts recipients can pick from (ready-to-ship gifts and your custom gifts). Prices are never shown to recipients, and out-of-stock gifts hide automatically.
- Messages — the printed notecard that's included with every gift (pick an approved message or write your own, with an AI helper), and — if Giftium is sending the invitations — the look of the email.
- Review — create the portal. The success screen gives you the live link, the passcode or gift-code page, and a preview.
Every setting stays editable afterward from the portal's page.
Sharing a portal
However you set up delivery, each portal always gives you three ways to share, on its page:
- A link you can copy and send anywhere.
- A short link (
gft.onl/…) that's ideal for print — you can repoint it later without reprinting. - A QR code, for both the whole portal and each individual recipient. You can download a single QR or a ZIP of all of them, and export a spreadsheet of everyone's links and codes.
If you asked Giftium to send invitations, they go out by email or text automatically (on creation, on your schedule, or when you add recipients), and you can resend to anyone still waiting.
Access codes
If your portal uses passcodes:
- One shared code — everyone enters the same code.
- Unique code per person — manage these on the portal's Gift codes page, where you can generate codes, upload an email + code list, and watch redemptions. A per-person code stops working once it's used up.
A recipient who opens an invitation link never has to type the code — it's already built into their link.
What the recipient sees
The recipient opens the link, enters the access code if there is one, browses your gifts (or sees a single gift laid out on one page), picks one, and fills in their shipping address and an optional note. They never see a price or pay anything. Their choice then appears in Orders & Shipments with the source badge Portal.
Rules and limits
- Recipients can only choose from the gifts you added, and only while stock lasts.
- A personal (single-use) link stops working after one gift; a shared link keeps working until you close the portal or stock runs out.
- Portal type (shared vs personal) is locked once the portal is created.
- Text-message invitations require text messaging to be enabled for your account — ask your Giftium contact if the text option isn't sending.