Flare

Flare is a delivery date picker for Shopify. It lets a customer choose their delivery date at checkout, supports product-specific lead times so a made-to-order item shows different dates to a same-day one, and sets available dates and rates by postcode or region. Flare runs as a native checkout extension on Shopify Plus and as a cart or product page picker on every other Shopify plan.

Why does the delivery date matter more for a gift?

Gifting is the only kind of online shopping where arriving early is a failure. A birthday present that turns up four days before the birthday has spoiled the surprise. A Christmas gift that lands on 19 December sits in a hallway where somebody finds it. Every other order in a store wants to arrive as fast as possible. A gift wants to arrive on one specific day, and most Shopify stores give the customer no way to say which one.

How do Giftnote and Flare work together?

Flare decides when the parcel lands. Giftnote decides what happens at that moment. A Giftnote gift message is held until the carrier confirms delivery, tracked across more than 1,200 carriers, so it reaches the recipient as they are picking the box up rather than days beforehand.

Put those together and a merchant controls the whole moment. The gifter picks the date, the parcel arrives on it, and the branded message lands at the doorstep with the recipient's name on it. Merchants can also add the chosen delivery date to the Giftnote confirmation email the gifter receives, so the sender knows exactly when their gift will land without contacting support.

Do I need to connect the two apps?

No. Giftnote and Flare run alongside each other with no integration and no developer work. No merchant, customer, or gift recipient data moves between them.