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Our Instant Gift Certificate, Gift Card, and Daily Deal Shopping Cart Features!

Here are just some of the core features that make our Instant Gift Certificate & Gift Card Shopping Cart System one of the easiest to use and highly recommended by business owners nationwide.

Turn-Key Instant Gift certificate and gift card Shopping Cart System
Turn-Key Shopping Cart System - Video

We provide you with a branded, ready to use, professional shopping cart system for selling both Instant Gift Certificates & Physical Gift Cards online which can be added to your website in minutes with a simple link or button. No development costs!


Offer Instant Gift Certificates or Physical Gift Cards
Offer Instant Gift Certificates or Physical Gift Cards

With the click of the mouse you can decide to offer Instant Gift Certificates that are easily printed out or offer your physical gift cards that you ship out when you get an order. You can also offer both and let your customers decide which option they prefer.




Physical Gift Card Ship Tracking
Shipment Tracking for Physical Gift Cards - Video

Easily track which physical gift card orders you shipped out. Keep a history of ship dates and tracking numbers. Alerts remind you of orders that need to be shipped out. With the click of a button you can also send your customers professional shipping confirmation emails.


Offer Gift Certificate Special Packages
Offer Packages or Services - Video

In addition to the standard purchase by dollar amount, you can also offer bundled packages or services. We provide easy to use controls to add all of your packages with pricing, descriptions, and a sorting feature to prioritize your most popular packages first. You can add, edit, or delete packages at any time so offering promotions and holiday specials can be done in a snap. You can even disable the dollar amount option to offer packages only.


Offer Promotional & Holiday Discounts
Offer Holiday or Promotional Discounts - Video | Video

Great for boosting sales! Easy to use controls allow you to offer an across the board discount for all purchases or require a Promo/Discount Code. You can also trigger discounts based on a specific dollar amount. For example offer discounts like: Get 10% off when you order $100 or more! or Get 10% off all orders!



Phone Order Instant Gift Certificates
Phone Order Instant Gift Certificates - Video

Collect payment over the phone and then use our system to easily email an Instant Gift Certificate in just a few seconds. All for a fraction of the cost of mailing out physical gift certificates or gift cards. You can easily print out gift certificates for in-store orders too!


Easy Setup of Shipping & Sales Tax
Easily Setup Shipping Fees & Sales Tax

You can choose a shipping fee when selling physical gift cards or certificates. Our system will also handle any required sales tax based on your states's tax rate.




Export Customer Marketing Data
Export Customer Marketing Data

Quickly export a comma delimited .CSV file with the purchaser or gift recipient email and mailing address. This feature is perfect for importing into another database or third party application. We also offer managed email marketing services for an additional fee.


Customize With Your Brand/Logo
Customize with Your Brand/Logo - Video

Once your application is approved, our design team will customize the shopping cart and instant gift certificate to match the design and brand of your website. If you would like to change the images that appear on your shopping cart or instant gift certificate you may upload new images at any time.
  Real-Time Secure Credit Card Payments
Real-Time Secure Credit Card Payments

Your customers can purchase online with confidence because all transactions are protected with up to 256-bit Secure Sockets Layer encryption. You can rest assure knowing that all payments are collected in real-time secure environment.


Offer Special timed deals like Groupon
Offer Special Daily Deals like Groupon - Video

Similar to the popular Groupon or Deal of the Day websites you can use our system to offer special timed promotional deals. It's the perfect marketing tool to help drive new customers through your doors. Even if you don't use our system for Instant Gift Certificates you can still use this as a stand alone feature.
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Manage Instant Gift Certificate Balances
Manage Instant Gift Certificate Balances - Video

Our system has easy to use tools to manage your Instant Gift Certificate redemptions. If you have a partially redeemed certificate you can quickly print out an updated certificate with the remaining balance or email a copy to the customer with just a click of the mouse.


Support for Multi-Location Tracking & Reports
Support Multi-Location Tracking & Reports - Video

This feature enables retailers with more than one physical location to track when, where, and by whom the instant gift certificates are redeemed. This feature will also provide a greater understanding of which stores are performing better and help to identify which could benefit from additional marketing initiatives or promotions.



Complimentary Instant Gift Certificates
Complimentary Instant Gift Certificates - Video

Need to make an unsatisfied customer happy? Want to get a good customer to come back? How about sending a customer or friend a birthday gift certificate? Easily send a Complimentary Instant Gift Certificate for what ever occasion or reason....without charging your credit card. You can manage comp orders just like other orders in our system.


SMS Text Message Order Alerts
Text Message Order Alerts

In addition to the detailed email notices you receive with every order we also provide an option to send a text message alert to your mobile phone when you receive an online order. Perfect for quick heads up to that "On The Go" business owner or manager.



Sales & Redeemptions Reports
Sales & Redemptions Reports - Video

Our system offers easy to use sales reports that can be run monthly or by a specific date range. We also offer and annual summary reports for instant and physical gifts, shipping, sales tax, and redemption values which are useful for end of year accounting purposes.


Easy to Integrate Online Scheduling with Schedulicity
Integrate Online Scheduling with Schedulicity

Boost sales with online scheduling & instant gifts. We make it easy to add online scheduling via Schedulicity to your instant gift certificates. You can also add instant gift certificates to your Schedulicity scheduling pages. Don't have online scheduling? Try it FREE for 30 days.


Easy integration with 3rd party or custom systems
Optional integration with 3rd party or custom system

TheGiftCardCafe.com is a stand alone system however we can post instant gift certificate order data to a specified URL once a successful transaction has been completed. This method allows you to feed instant gift certificate order data into your existing Point of Sale, online cart, or back office systems in real-time for easy management. View integration details here.


View the Personal Demonstration Video:

View the Personal Demonstration VideoOne of the best ways to learn about how our system works is to have one of our consultants give you a personal tour...but an even better option is to watch our detailed demonstration video whenever you like.