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Gift Cards
Stored-value cards your customers buy and redeem, with balances, messages and a full history of where every amount went. 3 parts.
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Where to find it:WP Admin › EasyCart › Marketing › Gift Cards
The cards
List, record and behaviour
Every card and its balance, what sits inside one, and how redemption works at checkout.
The gift card list
Every card, its balance, and whether it is behaving
no stored settingsOne row per card, showing the code, the current balance, who bought it and who it was for. A gift card is stored value rather than a discount: the balance is money the customer already paid you, and spending it is not a reduction in revenue but the delivery of something already sold.
Cards arrive two ways. Most are bought by a customer through the store, and carry the order they came from. Others are created by an administrator, typically as a goodwill gesture or a prize, and those are marked as created by an admin and not yet redeemed so you can tell issued value from sold value.
A card health indicator flags anything that looks wrong, and cards can be searched by code.
💡 Note: Gift card balances are money you have already banked. They are not discounts, and they do not appear in the discount figure on Reports.
Inside a card
Code, balance, message and the full history
no stored settingsThe code is what the customer types at checkout, a fixed-length string of letters and digits which can be generated for you. It can be changed, and if you do, the purchase and redemption history moves with it rather than being orphaned, so correcting a code is safe.
The message is the note that travels with the card, either written by the buyer at checkout or added by you.
The history is the important part. It records the purchase and every redemption, with the order each one was spent against and the amount. When a customer says their balance is wrong, this is the answer, and it is also what tells you whether a card was drained in one go or spent gradually.
Deleting a card sits in a danger zone, because it destroys the record of value you already took payment for.
⚠️ Careful: Deleting a gift card destroys the record of value a customer has already paid for. If a card is being misused, change its code instead: the history follows the new code.
How cards behave at checkout
What the balance can pay for, and where that is decided
no stored settingsWhether shoppers can redeem a card at all, and whether the balance can cover shipping and tax as well as the products, are settings on the Checkout panel rather than properties of an individual card.
That second setting is worth a moment. Allowing the balance to cover the grand total is what most customers expect from a gift card, and restricting it to the product subtotal leaves a recipient paying shipping on a present somebody else bought them, which tends to produce a complaint rather than a sale.
A partly spent card keeps its remaining balance for next time; there is no need to issue a new one for the difference.
💡 Note: The redemption box and whether a balance covers shipping and tax are set under Settings › Checkout, not on the card. Most stores should let the balance cover the grand total.
Keep going
Related panels
The redemption box and what a balance can cover.
Discounts, which reduce revenue where gift cards do not.
The orders cards are bought with and spent against.
Gift card emails and whether they carry product images.
The customers buying and holding cards.
Where gift card revenue appears, and where it does not.
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