The easiest way is a platform that treats a gift card as a product it can sell and deliver. You set the amounts, take payment, and the buyer gets a code to pass on. Instinctor handles this in the store, so gift cards are not a separate service to bolt on.
STEP BY STEP
1. Create the gift card
Add a gift card with set amounts, or let buyers choose a value. Give it a nice image so it feels like a present.
2. Take payment
Connect a card processor so buyers can pay by card or wallet. The money reaches your bank right away.
3. Deliver the code
After payment the buyer gets a gift card code automatically, ready to forward to the lucky person.
4. Push seasonal sales
Feature gift cards before holidays and birthdays, when people are looking for an easy present.
5. Redeem at checkout
The recipient enters the code at checkout and the value comes off their total, no manual tracking.
6. Enjoy the float
You are paid now and deliver later, and some cards are never fully spent, which is pure upside.
WHY IT WORKS
A gift card is a sale before any work, a new customer the recipient brings you, and cash flow when you need it most, around the holidays.
Money up front
You collect the payment today and provide the service later, which smooths out a quiet stretch.
New customers arrive
The recipient is often someone new to you, walked in the door by a friend who already trusts you.
Nothing to bolt on
Gift cards live in your store with your other products, so there is no separate gift card app to run.
COMMON QUESTIONS
Automatically. Once payment goes through, the buyer gets a gift card code they can forward to the recipient, so you do not hand anything out by post.
Yes. Offer set values, or let buyers pick a custom amount, whichever suits how your customers like to give.
The recipient enters the code at checkout and its value comes off their total. There is nothing for you to track by hand.
No. Gift cards are sold and delivered from the same store as your other products, so there is nothing extra to install or connect.
Around holidays and birthdays, when people want a simple present. Feature them on your homepage in those weeks to catch the demand.
The card processor charges its standard rate. Instinctor does not take a cut of the gift cards you sell.