gift voucher...please help!

Have you had a look at how amazon.co.uk sell their gift certificates. Basically they send the recipient an e-mail with a claim code on it. I've pasted a link below to one of their sample certificates.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/subst/gifts/gift-certificates/gc-e-mail-sample.html/202-7017290-5388604

Haven't a clue how the coding behind it works as this is totally not my field.

Hope this is of help.

Regards

Joy
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Joy & Co
Chartered Certified Accountants
www.joyandco.co.uk

Hi,

I offer gift vouchers www.thecraftshop.co.uk and do this by setting the gift voucher up as a product which retails on the site.   When a customer purchases a gift voucher, the order is received as normal but we then produce a physical voucher which they can pass onto the receipient (we did have virtual vouchers to begin with but customers fed back that they wanted something they could pass on).

The coding behind the redemption is something that you would need to get your developer to add to the site, but a very simple way of offering a voucher would be to add a promotional code box to your checkout page.  When people purchase a gift voucher you give them a code to enter, keeping a manual record of what value voucher they have purchased, you could then calculate the discount manually prior to processing, but this would really only work on a small operation and could be open to abuse.

Hope my rambling helps!

Tina

Tina

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Thank you people...I have much better idea of how it works now and hopefully will be able to set it up on my site...Cheersx