Setting-up Gift Cards

With Occasion's Gift Cards feature, you can easily sell Gift Cards (or Gift Certificates) online. The first step to selling gift cards is to set them up in your Occasion account. In this article, we will show you how you can set up Gift Cards in your Occasion account:

Set up Gift Cards for online sales

This is the most common way of setting up a gift card for online sales. Here is how you can create a Gift Card:

1. After logging into your Occasion Workspace, click on "Gift Cards"
2. Click the "Edit Gift Card Listing" button on the top-right corner.
3. Finish each of these steps:
   1. Under the "Basic" tab - make sure you provide a title and a description explaining to customers what they are buying.
   2. Under the "Image" tab - make sure you upload a good image that makes it exciting for customers to buy a gift card.
   3. Under the "Pricing" tab - click the "Add pricing question" button. From the pop-up, select - Dropdown > Pricing.
      1. Enter "Select Gift Card Values" as the title.
      2. Check the first box that makes it "required".
      3. Under options, your gift card values. For example - enter the description as "$100" and the price as "$100". Similarly, keep adding your gift card values. You can add as many gift card values as you wish.
      4. Click "Save" to save changes.
   4. Under the "Email Receipts" tab - make sure to customize the first three sections and include correct instructions on how to redeem the gift card.
   5. Click "Share" on the top-right corner to obtain the link for the Gift Card.

Setting Expiration Date for Gift Cards

You can set the number of days after which a gift card expires in your Account Settings.