Gift Card receipts

Posted by Philip Gass on November 7, 2007, 12:33 pm

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I use the serialized system generated gift vouchers currently. When someone
purchases a gift vocuher for a present, they receive their transaction
receipt which may include other items purchsed along with the voucher.

When they give the voucher as a present, the problem is that - the person
who receives the gift voucher does not know how much is on the card unless
they have a gift receipt or something. You could do a duplicate of the
transaction receipt, but that means the person receiving the gift card will
see all the other things the purchasing customer has bought in the
transacion...

does anyone have a solution for this? some retailers produce a second
receipt containing only the voucher value...

Ta

Posted by Craig on November 7, 2007, 1:02 pm

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We get around this by having different cards for each amount with the amount
printed on the gift card($5, $10, $25, $50). Each amount has it's own item#.
Craig

>I use the serialized system generated gift vouchers currently. When

>someone purchases a gift vocuher for a present, they receive their

>transaction receipt which may include other items purchsed along with the

>voucher.

> When they give the voucher as a present, the problem is that - the person

> who receives the gift voucher does not know how much is on the card unless

> they have a gift receipt or something. You could do a duplicate of the

> transaction receipt, but that means the person receiving the gift card

> will see all the other things the purchasing customer has bought in the

> transacion...

> does anyone have a solution for this? some retailers produce a second

> receipt containing only the voucher value...

> Ta

Posted by convoluted on November 7, 2007, 6:34 pm

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Do you provide as well a paper gift certificate that references the voucher
number? If so, there's a function key at POS (I think its ctrl - alt f3)
that allows you to lookup the voucher which shows current balance.

"Philip Gass" wrote:

> I use the serialized system generated gift vouchers currently. When someone

> purchases a gift vocuher for a present, they receive their transaction

> receipt which may include other items purchsed along with the voucher.

> When they give the voucher as a present, the problem is that - the person

> who receives the gift voucher does not know how much is on the card unless

> they have a gift receipt or something. You could do a duplicate of the

> transaction receipt, but that means the person receiving the gift card will

> see all the other things the purchasing customer has bought in the

> transacion...

> does anyone have a solution for this? some retailers produce a second

> receipt containing only the voucher value...

> Ta

Posted by Danny on November 10, 2007, 10:11 am

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Is it possible to edit the xml receipt to print two receipts - regular
receipt and a second one with Gift certificate information (i.e.: if ILC =
xxxx print second part of receipt) I don't know enough about the xml receipt
logic - to see if it allow printing two separate receipt from one
transaction.

Dan

> Do you provide as well a paper gift certificate that references the

> voucher

> number? If so, there's a function key at POS (I think its ctrl - alt f3)

> that allows you to lookup the voucher which shows current balance.

> "Philip Gass" wrote:

>> I use the serialized system generated gift vouchers currently. When

>> someone

>> purchases a gift vocuher for a present, they receive their transaction

>> receipt which may include other items purchsed along with the voucher.

>> When they give the voucher as a present, the problem is that - the person

>> who receives the gift voucher does not know how much is on the card

>> unless

>> they have a gift receipt or something. You could do a duplicate of the

>> transaction receipt, but that means the person receiving the gift card

>> will

>> see all the other things the purchasing customer has bought in the

>> transacion...

>> does anyone have a solution for this? some retailers produce a second

>> receipt containing only the voucher value...

>> Ta

Posted by news.microsoft.com on November 13, 2007, 3:21 pm

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Danny - that solution would be ideal! I dont particularaly want to have
cards with defined amounts on them as inevitably you will run out of the £10
ones, and have too many £5 ones etc, it would be nicer just to have a
generic seriailized card, and when that item is sold, an additional receipt
with the opening value of the gift voucher should be printed which can be
put into the card wallet for the recipient!

does anyone know of a solution for this?
I will try the ctrl-Alt+F3 function and see if that gives an option to print
the voucher balance!

Thanks all!

> Is it possible to edit the xml receipt to print two receipts - regular

> receipt and a second one with Gift certificate information (i.e.: if ILC =

> xxxx print second part of receipt) I don't know enough about the xml

> receipt logic - to see if it allow printing two separate receipt from one

> transaction.

> Dan

>> Do you provide as well a paper gift certificate that references the

>> voucher

>> number? If so, there's a function key at POS (I think its ctrl - alt f3)

>> that allows you to lookup the voucher which shows current balance.

>> "Philip Gass" wrote:

>>> I use the serialized system generated gift vouchers currently. When

>>> someone

>>> purchases a gift vocuher for a present, they receive their transaction

>>> receipt which may include other items purchsed along with the voucher.

>>>

>>> When they give the voucher as a present, the problem is that - the

>>> person

>>> who receives the gift voucher does not know how much is on the card

>>> unless

>>> they have a gift receipt or something. You could do a duplicate of the

>>> transaction receipt, but that means the person receiving the gift card

>>> will

>>> see all the other things the purchasing customer has bought in the

>>> transacion...

>>>

>>> does anyone have a solution for this? some retailers produce a second

>>> receipt containing only the voucher value...

>>>

>>> Ta

>>>