Progressive gifts: rewards that unlock at higher offers

Progressive gifts in Bundlex Bundles reward customers for picking a bigger offer. You set up a row of gifts, each one unlocking at a chosen offer, and shoppers see a progress tracker below your offers showing what they've earned and what's still locked. Unlocked gifts are added to the cart free.

Unlike the free gifts you attach to a single offer, progressive gifts are set up once for the whole bundle and shown as their own block. That's what lets a shopper watch the next reward come into reach as they move up your ladder.

Turn on progressive gifts

1. Open your bundle and go to the Add-ons tab.
2. Switch on Progressive gifts.
3. Click Add gift and pick one or more products or specific variants. You can configure up to 10 gifts.
4. In the Progressive gifts wording group, give the block a Title and optional Subtitle, for example "The more you add, the more you unlock". This group appears once the first gift is added.

Setting up each gift

Every gift has its own settings:

• Product and, optionally, a specific variant. Choose a specific variant when the reward must be a particular color or size. Otherwise Bundlex Bundles uses an available variant.
• Gift quantity, how many units the customer receives.
• Unlock at, which offer earns this gift. The dropdown reads "At offer #2 (Buy 3) quantity or more".
• Title and Title when locked, so a gift can read differently before it's earned.
• Badge text (usually "FREE") and a Crossed-out value showing what the gift is worth.

How unlocking works

For a plain quantity tier, a gift unlocks when the customer reaches the quantity of the offer you tied the gift to. With the Bundlex Bundles quantity selector enabled, the actual stepped quantity also counts. It follows quantity, not the position of the offer in your list, so you can reorder your offers freely without changing which gift unlocks when.

With offers Buy 1, Buy 3, and Buy 5, and gifts set to unlock at Buy 3 and Buy 5:

• Selecting Buy 1: both gifts stay locked.
• Selecting Buy 3: the Buy 3 gift unlocks.
• Selecting Buy 5: both gifts unlock, because Buy 5 is past both thresholds.

In the example below, Buy 3 earns one Soft Lip Balm. Buy 5 earns the balm and one Quilted Cosmetic Bag in Ivory / Small. The creams remain at their normal $28 price; the free gifts are the reward.

If the gift unlocks at a bundle offer

When the offer you've tied a gift to is a bundle rather than a plain quantity tier, the customer has to select that exact bundle to earn the gift, and any mix and match slots in it must be filled. A different offer with a higher quantity won't unlock it.

Layout and the mobile bubble

Choose Grid or List for the gift cards. List layout adds a progress bar and stepper showing how far along the customer is.

On mobile you can also enable the Mobile gift bubble, a floating progress ring that appears when the gift block scrolls out of view. Tapping it scrolls back to the gifts. It fades away once everything is unlocked and comes back if the customer drops to a smaller offer. You can place it on the left or right.

Styling

The Gifts style group controls the accent color, the selected and locked card backgrounds, and the colors and fonts of the header and card titles. The gift cards take their corner radius from your widget's offer cards, so the two read as one design.

What customers are charged

Use Add to cart to add the main items and unlocked gifts together. Qualifying gifts receive 100% off at checkout. In this example, three creams and one free balm total $84; five creams, the free balm and the free bag total $140.

When the cart drops below a threshold, Bundlex Bundles attempts to remove gifts that no longer qualify. A theme can temporarily show stale gift rows or totals after a quantity change. Refresh the cart and check checkout before treating that display as the final charge. For this example, reducing five creams to four should leave only the free balm; reducing to two should leave neither gift. Test both reductions in your theme and confirm the result at checkout.

Buy it now is normally hidden when extra gift items need to travel with the purchase. Stores with additional-items support enabled in Bundlex Bundles can keep it visible. Test that path separately if you use it; the examples here use Add to cart.

Gift quantity is a flat amount per cart. It doesn't multiply if the customer uses a quantity stepper to buy several sets. Extra gift units added beyond the configured free quantity are not automatically free.

If the same product is both an offer-level free gift and a progressive gift, the two rewards are separate and can add together. Avoid configuring both unless you intend to give both quantities.

Sold-out and deleted gifts

A gift whose product is sold out or deleted is hidden from the storefront completely, rather than showing as a broken or unavailable card. The progress tracker counts only the gifts customers can actually see, so a hidden gift does not leave an extra visible step.

A note at the top of the preview names sold-out gifts, and the editor shows a warning for a deleted gift. A deleted product requires a replacement; a sold-out product needs its availability restored. Be aware the dashboard preview can occasionally show a gift your storefront hides, because availability depends on the market, sales channel, and fulfillment location a shopper is browsing in. Your live storefront is the accurate view.

If you delete an offer

Gifts tied to an offer you've since deleted can never unlock. The editor shows a warning naming those gifts so you can point them at a different offer. They stay locked in the meantime rather than causing an error.

Before you publish

• Save at least one gift before leaving Progressive gifts enabled. Confirm each unlock offer still exists.
• Test the lowest offer, each reward threshold, and a reduction below a threshold.
• Verify gift products, pinned variants, quantities and free prices in the actual checkout.
• Check your target market and mobile storefront, including the floating reminder.

Related

• Free gifts on a single offer, for a gift attached to one tier rather than a progression.
• Upsells on an offer, for optional paid extras rather than free rewards.