Selling Paper Gift certificates

[jplanet]

I've created a paper Gift Cert. product, on which I would like to charge shipping. I've created it as a Product-General with a weight of .5. But at checkout, there are no shipping options on Step 1, and if you click to move to step 2, you get redirected back to Step 1...

[DrByte]

I would probably just treat them as regular products then ... by changing the "Model" number to not start with "GIFT".

[jplanet]

I would probably just treat them as regular products then ... by changing the "Model" number to not start with "GIFT".

That does the job perfectly, I can just generate a redemption code in the admin and use the redemption code to print the certificate.

I can also use attributes for to, from, message, which will be nice (thinking out loud here).

Now my new issue is thta I could use a different shipping pricing structure for this item, since the same shipping rules used for the other items comes up very high...and free shipping shouldn't be the only option, in case customers need the certificate to be rushed via Fedex...

[Absolute]

One way to do this would be to change the product type to something new, using the products-books addin. You can then have your shipping module custom coded to check if the gift cert is the only type of product of in the cart, and if it is, then offer standard posting as a shipping method.

Absolute

[jacdesigner]

That does the job perfectly, I can just generate a redemption code in the admin and use the redemption code to print the certificate.

I can also use attributes for to, from, message, which will be nice (thinking out loud here).

Now my new issue is thta I could use a different shipping pricing structure for this item, since the same shipping rules used for the other items comes up very high...and free shipping shouldn't be the only option, in case customers need the certificate to be rushed via Fedex...

Another thing I thought of is maybe you can add a new attribute name for "CERTIFICATE TYPE" and have options for Online or Mailed. Then assign this attribute to your gift certificate and assign a small postage/shipping value to the Mailed option. This way you could keep the same built in gift cert features combined with your tracking for the printed ones.

Hope this helps.

[jplanet]

Another thing I thought of is maybe you can add a new attribute name for "CERTIFICATE TYPE" and have options for Online or Mailed. Then assign this attribute to your gift certificate and assign a small postage/shipping value to the Mailed option. This way you could keep the same built in gift cert features combined with your tracking for the printed ones.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for your reply. What I eventually did was very similar, if you want you can view it here:

http://readandclick.com/store/index....=index&cPath=8

The printable and email certificates are really the same, the client just wanted it listed as a seperate product for clarity...But the printed certificate has a required attribute that costs $1...

[woodlandsprite]

jplanet -
looks very nice in your store. How did you wind up doing your set up?

[padiel]

Thanks for your reply. What I eventually did was very similar, if you want you can view it here:

http://readandclick.com/store/index....=index&cPath=8

The printable and email certificates are really the same, the client just wanted it listed as a seperate product for clarity...But the printed certificate has a required attribute that costs $1...

JPlanet
Still wondering how you did this (the website). Specially then printable gift certificate.
How is the PDF generated?
Really need help to setup something similar.

[Ennyaa]

JPlanet
Still wondering how you did this (the website). Specially then printable gift certificate.
How is the PDF generated?
Really need help to setup something similar.

I too would like to know how this was accomplished. I get that you can sell a paper gift certificate as a regular product. What I don't get is how the redemption code is generated and how the system recognizes it once it is. I saw something earlier in the thread about generating the redemption code manually but I didn't see any place in the admin config that could do this. Can anyone help?

[supersnow]

Did anyone find out how this can be done so people can choose printable or email a git certificate? We have a lot of customers that want to actually want to give a gift certificate for Christmas but don't want it to be sent via email but rather a printable version they can give on Christmas day.