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Description/Activity
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Code
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Display the code of the gift certificate. This is system generated and depends on the number series that is defined for the store. Gift cards number generation from the system is updated with Random number generation. This is done to control the redemption of unauthorized gift card with consecutive serial numbers.
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Description,
Short Description, Long
Description
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Enter the description for the Gift Certificate. A text of maximum 100 alphanumeric characters can be entered for description and short description and of maximum 200 characters for long description.
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Applicable Subsidiary
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Select a Subsidiary to which the Gift Certificate belongs from the list of Subsidiaries. Click [...] to open the Subsidiary Search screen and select the Subsidiary.
 It is visible if subsidiary is enabled. Once saved the master, assigned Subsidiary cannot be changed.
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Group
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Select a group to which the gift certificate belongs from the list of product groups. Click
to open the Group Search screen and select the group. To add a new group, press F3 or click on F3 New button in the Group Search screen.
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Base Price
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Enter the unit price of the gift certificate
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Gift Certificate Type
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Select the type of gift certificate from the list of the available options. Gift certificate type can be either of the following choices:
•Pre Printed: User can track the inventory for this type of Gift Certificates. In addition, user would be able to transfer this type of gift certificates to another location.
•System Generated: These gift certificates are generally paper-based gift certificates. These are automatically generated at the time of selling. The user has an option of printing these gift certificates at the time of sales.
•User Defined: User is forced to specify the serial number of the gift certificates that is being sold to customer. These are normally card-based gift certificates for which the inventory tracking is not required.
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Use as Store Credit
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Mark this flag if you want to issue this gift certificate as the Store Credit. Only one gift certificate could be marked as Store Credit in the system.
The store credit comes handy in several situations as if when store does not give the cash back to the customer for the refunds and instead want then to buy other stuff for the value of the returned item.
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Validity Period (Days)
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User can specify the validity period in days for the gift certificate. By default gift certificates has the expiry period as 0, which indicates that the gift certificates will never expire. After the validity period is over the gift certificate expires and customer would not be able to redeem this further.
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Cash Bach
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Select the option to enable the cash back on the gift certificate.
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On Hold
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Select the option if the user wants to put the gift certificate on hold. Gift certificates that are marked as on hold would not be allowed to sell further, however the redemption of the already sold gift certificates would still be allowed.
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UPC Code
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Enter the Universal Product Code (UPC) for the gift certificate. UPC is a type of bar code that is widely used in United States and Canada.
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Open Price
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Select this option to allow the user at POS to specify the price of the gift certificate during a sale. When this option is selected for a gift certificate, on adding this gift certificate to the sale, the system would display the Gift Certificate Item Information screen with the existing price of the gift certificate. The user can change the price, if required.
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Open Description
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Select this option to allow the user at POS to specify the description of the gift certificate during a sale. When this option is selected for a gift certificate, on adding this product to the sale, the system would display the Gift Certificate Item Information screen with the existing description of the gift certificate. The user can change the description, if required.
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Must Swipe Card
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Select this option in case you would like the cashier to swipe the gift card while collecting the payment by Gift Certificate. This would stop cashier entering the gift certificate number and would only allow cashier to take the payment by swiping the gift cards at the PoS.
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Print Gift Certificate
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Select this option in case you would like iVend to print the Gift Certificate when the gift certificates are purchased by the customers. This setting is kept to false when a card based gift cards are used.
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Reprint on Redemption
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Select this option in case you would like to reissue a fresh gift certificate when the original gift certificate is partiall redeemed. This setting is generally done for the paper based gift certificates where the partial redemption of gift certificates is allowed.
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Minimum Amount for Reprinting
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In case the Reprint on Redemption option is selected, user can specify the minimum amount for which the gift certificate should be printed. For e.g. if the balance amount after redemption on the gift certificate is $0.20 and the setting is for $1.00 then iVend would not re-print a gift certificate for the balance amount.
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OK
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The button updates changes to the database and closes the screen.
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Cancel
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The button does not save any changes and closes the screen.
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