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Gift Cards vs Gift Certificates: What's the difference?

Flybook has the ability to sell both Gift Cards and Gift Certificates, but knowing the difference between these two gift types is important.

Gift cards are for a specific dollar amount and can be redeemed at any time for anything sold within your Flybook account. Gift cards are a payment type in Flybook. An example of a gift card would be when you go to a store and buy someone a $50 gift card for that store that can be used to purchase anything that store sells. 

Selling Gift Certificates, on the other hand, is selling a promo code that can be used towards the purchase of a specific item or items within your Flybook account. You can also specify a certain time frame within this code would need to be used to receive the promotional value of the gift certificate. Since the code received when a Gift Certificate is purchased is a promo code, it's not considered a payment type in Flybook but rather a promo code that adjusts the base price of an item on an invoice. 
For example, if you had a gift certificate for the activity "Tour the Flybook Office," which is normally a $50/person activity when your customer applies the promo code during checkout, the price would be adjusted to $0 (assuming you have the gift certificate configured to take 100% off). 

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