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Create and Sell Store Gift Certificates

CoreCommerce makes it easy to create gift certificates for your store and sell them on your website. This is great for birthdays, holidays, and many special occasions!

note: This is typically used along with Rewards Points. Click Here!

Enabling Gift Certificates

  • Go to Settings → Payment Settings → Continue
  • You can display which will allow you customize your gift certificates such as:
    • Set the minimum and maximum amounts for gift certificates.
    • Set the increments the customer can choose from when buying a gift certificate.
  • If you do not want the mail option to display to the customer, enable Email Only and the gift certificate will be sent via email only.
  • Set an expiration if desired.
  • When done, click the Save.

Adding Gift Certificates to your Store

  • You have a variety of options, such as inserting the link in the footer, or creating a new content page and inserting the link within a page.

Inserting a link in the footer

  • Go to Site Content → Footer Widget Settings → Promotions
  • Set Gift certificates to ON
  • The words “Gift Certificates” will now display in the footer with a link to the order form.

Inserting a link in a content page

  • Go to Site Content → Pages → click on a page Title → Body
  • Make sure that somewhere on the content page you include the following link to the gift certificate order form:
  • Customers whom have purchased gift certificates can check the balance of their certificate at

Once gift certificates have been enabled and added as a product on your site, you can now manually create and distribute gift certificates to your customers who buy them. To create a gift certificate and send it to a customer:    

  • Go to Marketing→ Gift Certificates → Add New Gift Certificates → Input the Gift Certificate Number

note: This can be any combination of letters and numbers and is what the customer will input when placing an order or click Auto-generate for a random string of letters and numbers. 

  • Enter a From and To name and message, if desired (these are not required).
  • Input the gift certificate amount into the Total section.
  • If you want to set an expiration, enter the number of days you want the gift certificate to be valid.
  • Choose to send the gift certificate via email or by mail (optional).
  • If you want to send the gift certificate to the customer via email right now, check Send Email Now and when you save, the email will be sent. 
  • When done, click Save.
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