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How to create a gift certificate
What you will learn here
What is a gift certificate
How to create a gift certificate
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1What is a gift certificate
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A gift certificate is an e-card with a monetary value which is presented as
a gift to someone
A buyer buys it as per his choice of amount, which he can gift to someone
The recipient can then buy anything within that amount from your store
A gift certificate is an inbuilt functionality provided on your eshopbox site
Creating a gift certificate means configuring or managing the settings as
per your need and wish
What is a gift certificate
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2How to create a gift certificate
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Step 1:
Log in to your store admin panel with your login id and password
Click on the ‘Promote’ tab and then select ‘Gift certificates’
How to create a gift certificate
Promote tab
Gift certificates
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Step 2:
Click on the ‘Continue’ button or the ‘Manage Gift certificates’ tab
How to create a gift certificate
Gift certificates
Manage Gift Certificates tab
Continue button
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Step 3: Offering gift certificates at your eshopbox site
You will be redirected to the ‘Manage Gift Certificates’ page
On the ‘Manage Gift Certificate’ page, select ‘Yes’ from the drop down
menu if you want to offer gift certificates on your site
This will enable the sale of gift certificates on your site
How to create a gift certificate
Select Yes for enabling the sale of gift certificates
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Step 4: Setting an expiry date for a recipient to redeem the
gift certificate
Select ‘Yes’ from the drop down menu to set an expiry date for a
recipient to redeem a gift certificate
The recipient can only redeem the gift certificate before the expiry date
How to create a gift certificate
Select Yes for setting expiry date
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Set expiry period
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Step 4.1:
Select ‘No’ from the same drop down menu ,if you do not want to set an
expiry date, so that the recipient can redeem the certificate any time as it
won’t ever expire
How to create a gift certificate
Select No if you don’t want to set an expiry date
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Step 5: Providing an option to buyer for redemption
Select ‘Yes’ from the drop down menu if you want to provide an option to
the buyer to redeem the certificate at a later date
This allows the buyer to buy a gift certificate today and choose any later
date to send it within the mentioned time duration
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Select Yes to set later date
Setting later date
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Step 5.1:
Select ‘No’ from the drop down menu if you do not want to provide an
option to the buyer to send the gift certificate on some later date
The purchased gift certificate will be sent to the recipient as soon as the
sender completes the checkout process
How to create a gift certificate
Select No if you don’t want to set a later date
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Step 6:
On the ‘Manage Gift certificates’ page, you will find different gift
certificate design templates under certain categories
By default all of these will be visible on your site
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Different categories
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Step 7:
You can choose to disable any of the templates by un checking the
checkboxes
Disabling any of them will hide that template on your site
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Unselected category
Selected category
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Step 8:
You can select the category of templates you want to make visible on
your site by selecting it from the drop down menu
Select the status of templates as ‘enable’, ‘disable’ or ‘all’ from the drop
down menu to enable or disable their visibility on your site
How to create a gift certificate
Select category Select status
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Step 9:
Click on the ‘Set price for this category’ link to set a price for all the gift
certificate templates under that particular category
You can set or change the price for a particular gift certificate by clicking
the ‘set price’ & ‘Change price’ links respectively
How to create a gift certificate
Set price for entire category
Set price for a template
Change price for a template
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Step 10:
A pop up message box will appear
You can specify the price range for each gift certificate by specifying the
minimum & the maximum amount & click the ‘Save’ button
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Minimum priceMaximum price
Save button
500
1000
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Step 11:
Click on the ‘Save’ button found at the top of the ‘gift certificate’ page to
save your settings
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Save Button
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