Your Store Gift Cards (plastic, etc) - not working yet?

Hi Dawl,

Yeah just installed it on 1.3.9 and its fine.

Don't get me wrong this is a fantastic mod but with one drawback. The customers are unable to see what their remaining balance is, it only states it after they have made a purchase.

Is there a way to have this display? it would be great if this could be displayed in their account and also at checkout for example -

You have £40.00 of credit left on your gift card

Thanks
Matt

Thank you for this mod, it works great! one thing though, how can we prevent clients from using gift cards to purchase more gift cards or gift certificates?

Found a problem with this module. When installed on 1.3.8a it throws a includes/modules/order_total/ot_gv.php on line 49 on the Modules > Order Total page in admin. Does anyone knows the fix for this?

Can't figure out what the problem is.

Thanks.

Done extensive testing and there is something wrong with this mod. The product and category restrictions don't work, no way to restrict them from the admin area. Anyone can purchase gift certificates and other gift cards with a plastic gift card, not exactly what they are intended for.

Can anyone using this mod please report if this mod works on your end?

Hello again, apparently I'm the only one interested in this mod? :huh: or is it that this mod was dropped completely? :(

For what I can see the mod is practically a modified copy of the Gift Certificates, but the functionality to restrict certain purchases is not there. Also, this mod says in the instructions: "Note: you can prevent the use of purchasing other giftcards through product restrictions. Store Gift Cards ARE physical products." and there is no way to do this unless I'm missing something.

There is also a very important problem with this mod that needs to be addressed. The fact that Gift Certificates and the same Plastic Gift Cards can be purchased over and over again. There are no restrictions whatsoever on this mod to prevent anyone to purchase gift certificates and plastic gift cards, so if anyone can shed some light on this matter it would be greatly appreciated.
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Wow, this is a great mod. It's just what we're looking for. Too bad it looks like it has been abandoned.

Anyone else still using it?

I've installed it and we're sending out free $5 cards with every order of $50 or more this weekend. That should be a good test of it.

will this work on 1.3.9h ?

I was wondering if this mod could be used on v1.5?

morrisgiftshop:

I was wondering if this mod could be used on v1.5?

I installed this for my client in 1.3.8 and issued a bunch of gift cards, so they're quite insistent I get this working again. I'm running 1.5.1 now and gave it a shot on installing it. The Gift Card module does show up properly on checkout_payment, but it does not show up in Admin/Tools as a new Gift Card Manager menu option. So I can't get the issued card numbers back into the system for them to be redeemed by customers. Anyone with any ideas on getting it to show up in the backend? I'm sure this will fall on deaf ears but need to give it a shot. Many thanks!

...well, it shows up on checkout_payment but if I enter any number, it errors out. So it doesn't seem to work in 1.5. Even after adding a "zen_" prefix to it's "giftcards" table that it installs (when you click on Install from Order Totals). We'd be willing to pay for a developer to update this.

is there any alternative module for this that would work with 1.5.0 ? i see this module been abandoned for some reason, but it is so useful. we are having problems with our gift certificates, because our customers are "old school" and think its very complicating process (to buy, to wait for the approval, then login and send it to someone, then someone have to redeem it.. etc... we had too much complaints, so we try to make it more simplified). The idea is customer buy a gift certificate for someone, we treat it as a product, print it and mail it to whomever it was purchased for, and they redeem it at the checkout. plastic cards would be ideal module if it would show the balance on card, and would work with 1.5.0 . any advise would be very appreciated. thanks.

getyler2:

it errors out.
How exactly does it "error out"?
What's in your myDebug-xxxxxx.log files?

Hi DrByte,

I don't see any values in "Sold on Order#" column at the backend. Any thoughts?

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vivek_advsol:

Hi DrByte,

I don't see any values in "Sold on Order#" column at the backend. Any thoughts?

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Okay. I have modified the line 556 (SQL) at "\includes\modules\order_total\ot_giftcard.php" to

$giftcard_query = "update " . TABLE_GIFTCARDS . " set giftcard_balance = '" . $new_giftcard_amount . "',[B]sale_order='".(int)$insert_id."'[/B] where giftcard_code = '" . strval($giftcard_code) . "'";
```. It always adds the latest order-number the card was used against (its enough for me). Hope I am not breaking the code!!!

I have installed the files. The module order total works and is installed for the giftcard. I am using most current version of Zencart. When I go to tools, giftcard manager, I get a blank page. it is mywebiste/adminame/zencart/giftcard_admin.php. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks. Also is there a way for a customer to enter more than one gift card on one order.

Other than for people who are actually creating physical gift cards, is there any reason to use this mod instead of just the plain old built-in GV system? I'm not positive I get it.

I have this installed. Works great! I do have a question, How can I prevent a customer using their card if the total amount that is suppose to be?

For an example $25.00 gift card only for purchase of $150.00 or more. So if a customer purchase $50.00 they can't use the $25.00 Gift Card.

Can anyone help me in this area?

Greetings,

Downloaded latest (DrByte - 16 Mar 2013 ) and testing on localhost using ZC 1.5.4.

After initial install I went to the Tools -> Gift Card manager page and noticed that the top admin menus were not dropping down on mouse hover. Noticed that some code was missing in the giftcard_admin.php file. Below is the code I added to get it working.

FIND IN YOUR_ADMIN/giftcard_admin.php

<script language="javascript" src="includes/general.js"></script>

ADD AFTER

<script type="text/javascript">
  <!--
  function init()
  {
	cssjsmenu('navbar');
	if (document.getElementById)
	{
	  var kill = document.getElementById('hoverJS');
	  kill.disabled = true;
	}
  }
  // -->
</script>

FIND

<body>

REPLACE WITH

<body onLoad="init()">

How this helps others!

Greetings,
Hopefully folks are still watching this thread!

Successfully installed on 1.5.4 (localhost) using default settings. After running some test orders, I don't see the gift card numbers, masked or unmasked, on the checkout page or admin order invoice as described in the giftcard_README.txt.

4. Allows for masking of numbers on checkout pages and invoices
5. Allows for displaying any number of digits (not just 4) in masks

Does anyone know if this part is working?

Thanks :D