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Install Gift Card HeroThe complete guide to maximizing holiday gift card sales
In Gift Card Hero stores, November and December bring 35% of the year's eGift card sales, and 43% of December eGifts are bought in the last week before Christmas. How to prepare: timelines, emails, designs and last-minute delivery.
One gift card online and in store: reloads and refunds on Shopify POS
A Shopify gift card has one balance online and at the register. Here is what Shopify POS does natively, how to top up existing cards, and how refunds to gift cards keep revenue in the store.
How to sell physical gift cards on Shopify (with printed codes)
How to order printed gift cards, get their codes into Shopify, and activate them at the register or when an online order ships.
Gift card app pricing on Shopify: per-order fees vs flat monthly
How Shopify gift card apps charge, how app billing works, and a worked cost table showing when a flat $19.99 plan beats a 2% fee.
Make gift cards work for your revenue
Free to install, 7-day free trial on every plan. PRO is a flat $19.99 a month with no per-order fees.