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Reporting on issued gift certificates

Learn how to review options for reporting on issued gift certificates, including reporting on gift certificate balances.

New to Gift Certificates? Read the first article in this series for an introduction to the Gift Certificates feature.

 

Which plan do you need to use this feature?

X Soho | ✓ Pro | ✓ Plus | ✓ Enterprise | ✓ Flex |

 

Where can I find this feature using the top menu?

Inventory > Gift Certificates

 

What prerequisites are there?

  • A plan that includes Gift Certificates.
  • The Gift Certificates feature is activated within your account (Manage > Integrations).
  • Admin permissions or restricted permissions to Manage Gift Certificates and Issue Gift Certificates.

Which Checkfront version supports this feature - classic, new, or both?

  • The Gift Certificates feature is available to both those using items (Inventory > Items), a key feature of our classic version of Checkfront, and those using products (Inventory > Products), a key feature of our newest version of Checkfront.

 

Products

New to Checkfront - Products ✨

Products (Inventory > Products) is the successor feature to (Inventory > Items) and is available in our newest version of Checkfront.

Not yet on our newest version and interested in upgrading? Please get in touch with our Technical Support team for more information.

Discover more product-related help articles here: Products (New).

 

Issued gift certificate reporting

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Gift Certificates Issued All

All gift certificates are viewed and managed from the main Gift Certificates page (Inventory > Gift Certificates > All Gift Certificates). This default view includes gift certificates purchased by Customers and issued manually by Staff.

 

Gift Certificates Staff Issued

Gift certificates issued by Staff may be viewed separately through the Staff Issued Gift Certificates left sidebar menu option.

Both views share the same default columns, which are ID, Booking Code, To, From, Email, Start, Expiry, Last Used, Total, Balance, and Staff. What columns display is customized from the Columns button at the top-right of the list.

Gift certificate entries are sorted by selecting the header of the individual column.

A search field is also available to filter by specific gift certificate criteria.

 

Gift Certificates Dropdown

Both views may be filtered further by selecting from the Show: Active drop-down menu. Options are All, Active, Depleted, Expired, and Void.

 

Learn More

Gift certificates purchased by Customers are also listed briefly in the Booking Index and Sales Report. Find out more about these reports here:

 

Reporting on gift certificates balances

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Reporting on Balances

Do you offer gift certificate sales discounts? You can report the total Balance, Paid Balance, and Bonus Balance, in addition to the total value of the Gift Certificate at the time of sale (Total).

For example, a Guest may have paid $9.00 for a $10.00 gift certificate during a sale period. Initially, the gift certificate has a Paid Balance of $9.00 with a Bonus Balance of $1.00 for a total initial Balance of $10.00. 

You can report on this information by editing which columns are displayed for the list of Issued gift certificates and adding the Paid Balance and Bonus Balance columns.

  1. From the Inventory menu, select Gift Certificates.
  2. Click on the Columns option at the top right of the All Gift Certificates list.
  3. Select the Paid Balance and Bonus Balance options. Reorder the columns as needed.

Don't forget to Save your changes!

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