Gift Certificate Help Please

[wendyshirai]

The cause was because i was using the model numbers: GIFT-CARD and GIFT-CERT. Didn't realize the word GIFT would make the cart treat it like a e-cert... Now I do!

[miha25]

How to change the set of all translations of pages and sub page for
Gift Certificate ?

http://www.fightershop.si/store/inde...=3&language=en

Thanky!

[mothersanddaughters]

I guys.

Im trying to setup my gift certs and found all this thread very helpful.


At the moment If a gift cert is bought and after I release it from the admin page the amount is put straight onto there acount and there is no code for the gift cert unless they send it to a friend via e mail.

I have a stack of gift cards made up and I want to be able to send them to my clients with a redemtion code that i would wright on them before I sent it.

Not sure how to set this up?

[mothersanddaughters]

Id like them to be able to print out the picture of my gift cert and fill it in themselves with the redemtion code supplied by me.

[Ajeh]

When a Gift Certificate redemption code is generated, until it is redeemed that code is available for anyone to use for the specified amount ...

If you made a Gift Certificate and sent it via the Admin to someone or a customer buys one or you send yourself a GV code ... all of these can hand them to another person or email it or snail mail the code for later use on the site ...

If you sold, for example, $50.00 Gift Certificates on your site the normal method is that they then can send all or part of the GV Balance to another person by email ...

You want them to be able to purchase a Gift Certificate but then hand it to someone after they print out the Gift Certificate to your site and write in the GV redemption code ...

For the Printable GV, you can do that with an Attribute with a Download file of your Printable Gift Certificate, then the customer can print it out ...

Now, there has to be a way to convert the GV Purchased from their account to a GV redemption code ...

One method is to have them send a GV to a special account that you set up for this purpose ... which would then produce the GV code ... which you then send the code to the customer ...

As the Gift Certificates were originally intended to be:

1 Customer Purchases $XXX.XX

2 GV Balance is added to the customer's account

3 Customer can spend themselves or send to another person all or part of their GV Balance

but, there isn't the "extra" step built in for what you are attempting but you can make this happen with a manual step in there where you generate the GV Balance to a redemption code which removes the GV dollars from the customer's account and applies it to a GV redemption code that they can give in whatever manner to someone else ...





The problem is, they need a code for this to put on paper or send in an email or what have you ...

[cfalbro]

I sell digital products on my site and want to be able to "give away" products. I have PayPal as my only means of payment so I don't know of any other way to generate a Gift Cert. without actually paying myself to get it.

[Ajeh]

Gift Certificates are Cash ...

What would be better is to make a Discount Coupon for the Products that you want to be Free by making them 100% Discount Coupons ...

As there isn't any shipping, you should be able to enter the Discount Coupon code and hit redeem ...

You will want to test this out first ...

Which PayPal method are you using?

[ckosloff]

From the ZC FAQ How to send gift certificates:
"To send a Gift Certificate you need to go to our Send Gift Certificate Page. You can find the link to this page in the Shopping Cart Box in the right hand column of each page."
This is a tad bit cryptic for me because...I don't have a right column.
I do have the shopping cart sidebox enabled in the left column, so I suppose that the solution is simply changing the text to say "left" instead of "right".
The question is: where is that file?
Thanks.

[tatebn]

I'm having an issue with the gift card redemption where if the gift card does not cover the full amount, instead of charging the customer the difference, the gift card is used and the customer is charged the full amount anyway. Anyone know what that's about?

[Ajeh]

It sounds like the person redeemed the Gift Certificate but did not set an amount to Apply to the order ...