Gift cards will become a permanent MyCashflow feature on 1 June 2021. At the same time, all old discount coupons of the Gift card type will be converted into new gift cards.

Discount coupons of the Gift card type had settings that will no longer be supported. The following settings will be disabled when discount coupons are converted into the new gift cards:

  • Discount:
    • only selected products or
    • only shipping costs
  • Minimum order
  • Setting the start date of the validity period

Discount coupons with these settings are set to expire when converted to gift cards. You can update the gift card validity period on the Orders > Gift cards page.

Optionally, you can enable the new gift cards yourself before they've been officially released.

New gift card features

Gift cards function as the online store's payment method:

  • The customer can use multiple gift cards to pay for the order.
  • Gift cards cannot be limited to specific products, they always apply to the order total instead.
  • Using a gift card does not reduce the order total (nor taxes) but only the sum to be paid.
  • If the gift card's value covers the order total, the customer doesn't need to select a payment method at all.
  • If the gift card's value covers only a part of the order total, the customer can pay the outstanding balance with any of the online store's payment methods that is available.
  • It is also possible to use one discount coupon or campaign code in the online store.
  • If there is value left on the gift card after it has been used to pay for an order, its code can be reused at checkout.

You have the option to set custom gift card codes instead of using the automatically generated ones. You can also import gift cards created elsewhere to your online store with CSV tools or MyCashflow API.

You may also want to check out the gift card product feature that enables you to sell gift cards in your online store.

Enabling the new gift cards

The new gift cards will be automatically enabled on 1 June 2021 in all MyCashflow stores, but you can also enable the feature before that yourself.

When the feature is enabled, all gift cards of the old type will automatically be converted into new gift cards.

So, first you need to make sure that your online store's discount coupons of the Gift card type don't use settings that aren't supported by the new gift card – otherwise enabling the new gift cards won't be possible:

  1. In the admin panel, go to Orders > Discount coupons.
  2. Search for discount coupons of the gift card type by using the relevant search filters.
  3. Make sure that the following settings are not enabled for the discount coupons:
    • Discount:
      • only selected products or
      • only shipping costs
    • Minimum order
Once the old gift cards have been updated, you can enable the new gift cards experimental feature:
  1. Go to Settings > Experimental features.
  2. Enable the New gift cards feature.

The new gift cards are now enabled in the online store, and the old discount coupons of the Gift card type have been converted into the new type of gift cards.

You can manage gift cards on the admin panel's Orders > Gift cards page.

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