How do I set up Gift Certificates?
| To sell Gift Certificates in your store, you need to create them as specific products (according to special requirements, outlined below): 1. In the Admin, make a new category called Gift Certificates. Add a product to the category called Gift Certificates. 2. On the Product Information Page fill in the blanks as follows:
4. Now go to Modules->Order Total and click Install to install and/or Edit to configure the ot_gv Gift Certificate module. HOW DOES IT WORK THEN ? After the Administrator has approved the Gift Certificate (There's a "release" button in admin area if someone buys one), THEN the Gift Certificate funds are made available to the customer. Upon release/approval, they are sent an email with a redemption code. When they redeem that code either by clicking on the link or by keying in the code on the checkout-payment page (or the gv-redemption screen), then the customer will have GV funds available to them for use in that or future transactions. The customer can then USE those funds for themselves, OR they can email them to friend(s) via the links provided automatically in the store (esp shopping cart sidebox). They can email as much as they want, to various people, up to the amount they've purchased. Whoever they email it to will receive a new redemption code and will follow the same redemption process ... and can email the funds again if they wish. How do I sell Gift Certificates? 1. Create Gift Certificate products as described above 2. Enable the Gift Certificate order-total module, as described above 3. Draw attention to gift certificates on your store, perhaps by creating a home-page graphic with a link to your gift-certificates category. Sometimes people will create a new sidebox just for drawing attention to this sort of thing. 4. When Gift Certificates are purchased, be sure to log into your Admin area and release them if you've configured it to queue them rather than auto-release them. |