# Gifting Membership
Gift Membership lets a customer (the **gifter**) buy a membership for someone else (the **recipient**). The recipient is notified by email and is enrolled in the correct membership tier—either on a new account created from their email or on an existing account if they already shop with your store.
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This is only available on the Shopify Plus plan (checkout extensions run on Plus checkout)
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### What customers experience
1. The gifter adds the **gift membership product** (created by Inveterate for that tier) to the cart and checks out.
2. At checkout, customers enter the **recipient’s** name and email, and can add an optional **message**.
3. **Immediately after the order is placed**, Inveterate **creates a customer** for the recipient’s email if needed (or uses their existing customer record) and **enrolls them** in the tier that matches the gift product. **After the order is completed**, the **recipient receives an email**.
### Configure Gift Membership
### Add the checkout extension
Merchants must add Inveterate’s checkout extension so recipients can be collected at checkout.
* In Shopify, open the **theme editor**.
* Go to the **checkout** area and open **Checkout** (or the checkout customization experience your store uses for Plus).
* In the **checkout extensions** section for the checkout page, **add** the **Gift Membership Checkout Extension** (Inveterate).
Without this extension, checkout will not show the recipient fields when a gift membership is in the cart.
#### Enable Gift Membership on tier
Gift Membership is configured **per paid tier**, not globally. For each paid tier you can turn it **on** or **off**. Only tiers with the feature enabled get a gift product and can be sold as gifts.
* In the Inveterate app, open **Membership programs**, then open the **tier** you want to offer as a gift and go to its **edit** page.
* Scroll to the **Gift Membership** section.
* Use the toggle to **enable** or **disable** Gift Membership for that tier.
When you **enable** Gift Membership for a tier, Inveterate **automatically creates the gift product** in your Shopify store. You do not need to create that product manually. The product name is the **same as the tier name**, ending with **Gift** (for example, tier **Gold** → product **Gold - Gift**).
### Correct a wrong recipient email
If the gifter mistyped the recipient’s email at checkout, **only you can fix it in Shopify admin**. Recipients (and gifters) **cannot** change the recipient email themselves.
#### **What Inveterate does when you update the email**
Saving a new recipient email takes effect **immediately**. Inveterate **cancels the membership** for the customer tied to the **previous** email, then **creates or matches** a customer for the **new** email and **enrolls them** in the same gift tier.
**How to update the recipient email in Shopify**
* In Shopify admin, go to **Orders** and open the order that contains the **gift membership** product.
* In the right column, find the **Additional details** section.
* Click the **pencil** icon to open **edit** dialog.
* Update the **recipient email** in the `giftRecipientEmail` field, then click **Save**.
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