Gift card

[FurBabiesCloset]

Is there any way to print a GIFT CARD from my Etsy Shop?  Thank You.

[Adorabilities]

Do you mean a gift receipt that goes in with an order you're shipping? Or a gift certificate for your shop or for Etsy?

The gift receipt prints whenever a customer (or you) mark the order as a gift. It's instead of the normal packing slip.

[FurBabiesCloset]

I want to print a gift CARD that's strictly from my shop to give as a gift to someone.  I don't want the standard Etsy gift card that they could use to purchase from anyone on Etsy.  Just wondering if there was an option to do that.

[NanaLetha]

You have to create a listing for the gift card but first research your local gift card laws.

[CarpetCollectionAU]

OP does not want to sell a Gift Card, They want to give a Gift Card (like a Store Credit)

@FurBabiesCloset If the above is correct then you will have to create one yourself using Promo Codes and Word converted to a PDF which can be attached to the message.

But I have 2 concerns about this

1) You would be sharing this Promo Code with the giftee and this could be seen as unsolicited contact which is against Etsy TOUs

2) This could also be seen as "Schilling". For examp;e, a Shop Owner wanting to increase Sales could make 100 of these, give them to friends and family and therefore boost their Sales by 100 overnight. So, it is, probably, for this reason that Etsy does not offer Shop Specific Gift Cards

[NoFrogsAllowed]

@FurBabiesCloset 

Do you want a gift certificate to give to a specific person or do you want to sell gift certificates in your shop for use in your shop.  If you want to give one to someone then create a certificate in word or whatever word processor you use, create an Etsy coupon code with their name in it and insert it in the certificate and give it to them and cancel as soon as they use it.  

If you want 1 to sell you need to follow gift card rules for your area then create the certificate like above and then list as digital made to order.  When someone purchases create coupon code as above, enter in certificate and deliver by message or download to be printed or I suppose you could snail a printed copy.  Just be sure to cancel code as soon as it is used.  Etsy said they were changing coupons to one time use, but I wouldn't trust that as I have no experience with it and because the longer the coupon is active the more chance there is for the wrong people to  acquire the code.

[PillowDetails · Accepted solution]

This can be easy, or complicated.  Complicated, as in going through Etsy requires the Gift Recipient to pay something.  Ideas are specified above, but even with a coupon code, it can't be a truly "free" gift.  If this is someone you know, you would just let them have something from your inventory, right?

Just print up a fancy looking card on Canva or some graphic program, and write that they can choose anything from your shop - and to let you know the specific size/color, etc.  There is no need to go through Etsy, in this case, and it's not fee avoidance, since there is no transaction.

[FurBabiesCloset]

Thank you so much!