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Gift Cards

Create and Edit Gift Cards

Overview

This guide covers managing gift cards in the admin: viewing, editing, creating and activating, adding or spending value, and importing.

Gift cards live at Point of Sale > Gift Cards.


Viewing Gift Cards

Four tiles across the top summarize every card on your program:

  • Total Balance — value still loaded and available to spend

  • Total Spent — value fans have already redeemed

  • Total Expired — value that was loaded but never spent before its expiration date

  • Total Funded — everything ever loaded, including top-ups

Balance plus Spent plus Expired always adds up to Funded.

Below the tiles, the Gift Cards table lists your cards with columns for Code, Balance, Enabled, Expires, Created, Notes, and Actions. Click Code, Expires, or Created to sort by that column.

Use the search box to find a card by code or email — it matches card codes and e-gift card recipients.

The Enabled column is a live toggle. Click the mark to switch a card off (or back on) without editing anything else.


Editing a Gift Card

Editing happens right on the list — there's no separate edit page.

1. Open the Actions menu on the card's row.

2. Click Edit. The Edit Gift Card window opens over the table.

3. Update any of Card Code, Notes, Expiration, or E-Giftcard Recipient.

4. Click Save.

The Actions menu also offers View Transactions (the card's detail page and full ledger), Resend Email (only on cards that have an e-gift card recipient), and Delete.

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Tip: Clicking the card's code in the table goes to the same place as View Transactions — a quick way into a card's history.

Creating and Activating Gift Cards

Click + Gift Card above the table to open the Create Gift Card window. One form covers both a single card and a batch.

1. Enter the Value ($). This is required.

2. Choose a Funding Bank, or leave it on Default. Picking a specific bank is how you keep budgets separate — a renewal budget, a surprise-and-delight budget.

3. Pick an Activation Mode:

  • Single Card — enter the Card Code yourself, or click Generate for a unique code. For a physical card, type the code exactly as it appears on the card.

  • Code Range — enter a Range Start and Range End and the admin creates every card in between. The running count appears as you type.

4. Add Notes (optional) for tracking — a campaign, a recipient, a reason.

5. Set an Expiration if the value shouldn't last forever.

6. Optionally set Restrict Redemption to POS to limit the card to one point of sale system. Leave it on No Restrictions to let it work everywhere.

7. To send a digital card straight to someone, fill in Email Digital Gift Card to (optional).

8. Click Create Gift Card.

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Note: A code range is capped at 100 cards per activation. The form tells you when a range is over the limit and won't submit until you fix it.

Adding Value

Open a card's detail page (click its code, or Actions > View Transactions), then click Add Value.

1. Enter the Amount ($). Required, and greater than zero.

2. Optionally set Expires On for the funds you're adding.

3. Choose the Funding Bank. It defaults to the bank that originally funded this card, which is almost always what you want for a top-up.

4. Describe the reason in Notes.

5. Click Add Value.


Spending Value

For anything that can't run through an integrated point of sale, use Spend Value on the card's detail page.

1. Enter the Amount ($) as a positive number — the action itself takes the value off the card.

2. Choose the Bank to Send Funds, which defaults to the card's original funding bank.

3. Add Notes — what was purchased, or why the adjustment was made.

4. Click Spend Value.


Importing Gift Cards

To activate many cards at once, or to bring cards over from another system, go to Reports & Imports > Imports and choose the Giftcards import type. The upload window shows the full column guide; the short version is:

  • card_code — the gift card code. This has to be the first column.

  • amount — dollars, to two decimal places.

  • funding_account_id — the bank the card is funded from.

  • expiration_date — m/d/YYYY H:M:S. Blank means the funds never expire.

  • notes — added to the card's history.

  • pos_restricted_id (optional) — restricts the value to a single POS integration.

Cards are matched by code: a new code is created and activated, an existing one is topped up.

Upload a CSV or an Excel .xlsx workbook — either is fine — and watch the progress on the Imports page. If it errors, open the results and check your column names, order, and formats against the guide before retrying.


Summary

Gift cards are managed end to end from Point of Sale > Gift Cards. Create one card or a range from the + Gift Card window, edit any card from its row, add or spend value from the card's detail page, and use the Giftcards import for bulk work. Codes must match exactly what's printed or encoded on the physical card, so double-check them before you save.

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