You can now purchase games as gifts on itch.io

March 17, 2014 · byleafo (@moonscript)Updates #payments

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Starting today you can now purchase a game for someone else onitch.io. Just click click theGive this game as a gift checkbox on the purchase popup:

itch.io gift giving checkbox example

After paying for the game you’ll be put on the gifting page where you can enter your recipient’s email and optionally include your name and a message.

itch.io gift giving page

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Talia "Elli" B340 days ago(+2)

It appears that youcan't gift sale bundles, which seems like a huge oversight!

Source: A friend tried to gift two people my bundle of two books today and couldn't. He worked things out with me so I could email the intended recipients with the files.

erico20020061 year ago

I accidently bought 2 of the same thing, I want to know if there is a way to convert it to a gift for somebody else besides me?

memphis-jak2 years ago(+2)

It's not working I just wasted 8 dollars to send a game to a friend Only, for it to not send.

FancyP1 year ago

same dawg only mine was $25 did you figure it out

chymerajade2 years ago(+4)

Where can we find gift purchases that we've given?

rmorais4 years ago

Is there a way to create a sort of bundle with games for a gift? Instead of buying each game and sending it as a gift, buying many and then sending a bundle of those as a gift.

That would be cool.

harper3 years ago

I remember there being a feature like that for developers

max levine stuff4 years ago(+4)

Would be nice to be able to set a time when the gift is sent

gustavoarcanjo4 years ago(1 edit)

(sent my comment twice by mistake/loading page error and the delete comment link is not working, so I edited it)

gustavoarcanjo4 years ago(1 edit)(+2)

If I want to send the gift for a friend on a future date (secret santa, for example), can I send the gift to my e-mail address and then forward it to them later (like people recommend doing so on GOG), or should I do it differently for them to have it on their itch.io account?

polygamouswolf4 years ago

This isn't working for me for the game Mindustry: https://anuke.itch.io/mindustry

The game is already in my library, and I want to gift it to others, but there is no "Give this game as a gift" option for me.

Anyone else having this problem?

KnivesxNeedles4 years ago

its a free game, is all

KnivesxNeedles4 years ago

you cant gift free games just send your friends the link

polygamouswolf4 years ago

That's the only option for now, yes. Thanks!

3liza5 years ago

how do i send a game as a gift when i've already bought the game for myself?

leafoAdmin5 years ago(1 edit)

You can purchase the game again from the game’s page to get a gift-able copy. You can find a “Give this game as a gift” checkbox on the dialog that appears immediately after you click the Buy button.

polygamouswolf4 years ago(2 edits)

This did NOT work for me. No where on the "purchase" page for Mindustry were any options to send/gift it to someone else.

Now I simply have a notice at the top of the Mindustry page that I have purchased the game twice, and no way to gift it to anyone else.

leafoAdmin4 years ago

It sounds like you missed the checkbox that appears on the dialog where you select your price and how you’re going to pay. Support can convert one of your purchases to a gift though,https://itch.io/admin/support

polygamouswolf4 years ago

Hi leafo!

The problem is that the gift checkbox option is there in the "Buy Now" dialogue box for games, but does not exist in the "Download Now" dialogue box for games.

An example would be Kentucky Route Zero which I already have in my library. If I click on the "Buy Now" button for that game, I see the gift checkbox option near the payment type. For Mindustry's "Download Now" button, however, there is no gift checkbox there.

Thanks for the help!

leafoAdmin4 years ago

Ah, thanks for clarification. It sounds like for free games we currently don’t show the gift option.

polygamouswolf4 years ago

Thanks for the reply! Perhaps that's an option that will come in the future.

Shmuel5 years ago

Is it possible to but a few copies of a game and sent them to a list?
Or would I have to repeat the gift process for each of the recipients?

SPOcreativ5 years ago

How I can resend the git in case the receiver did not get the email? To be honest, I find not even an information in my profile that I bought a gift. I have only a mail...

That should be corrected and I like to resend the email...

gdiasr5 years ago

Good morning, I gifted a bundle to a friend. He apparently already bought it for himself, and said to me that he rejected the bundle so that I could offer to someone else. But I don't know if it is possible to do it, or if it is I have no clue how to do it.. Does anyone one have an idea about this?

DejaDrew5 years ago(+1)

Same thing here, and I would also like to know. A friend gifted me a bundle that I'd already purchased. I want to know if I can return it to them so they can give it to someone else, or if I can pass it on to someone else myself. I emailed itch support but haven't heard back yet.

SneakyBehave5 years ago

can i buy a bundle that's happening now and save it for gifting on my friend's birthday?

iridescentclaws5 years ago

Hi, I emailed support and am still waiting on a reply. My husband had bought a bundle for me and I WAS sent a email. However that email just gave me a link which redirected me to the "give gift" page where it has you type in the recipient's email and such.

Furthermore, it took 10$ instead of 5$. Really quite frustrated.

variend5 years ago

If the default is $10, he would have to have deleted the $10 and typed in $5, to know for the future. I don't know about the rest of it, though.

iridescentclaws5 years ago(1 edit)

The default is indeed 5$. So I'm not sure why it charged him twice

Blackbaldrik5 years ago(1 edit)

If I gift a game or bundle, is it permanently locked to the one email address?

floofykat645 years ago

Can you also explain how it would work, for the giftee's end?

And what if they don't have an account beforehand?

Ghiloar5 years ago(+1)

Can you gift also bundles or only single games?