Sell Gift Cards

Customers can buy digital gift cards directly through a widget on your website. You can also create and issue gift cards manually from the back office. Each gift card is sent to the recipient by email and can be used as payment at checkout. This gives you full control and an easy way to offer flexible payments to your customers.

Via Your Website

Step 1: Activate Gift Cards

As the first step, it is needed to activate gift cards in the widget settings in Bilberry in order to sell gift cards through your website. Here is how:

1. In Bilberry, in the left main menu, navigate to Widgets.

2. Click Widget Settings.

3. Find and click the Quick Setup tab.

4. Toggle on Activate giftcards and click Save.

Step 2: Embed the Gift Card Button on Your Webpage

Copy and paste the code provided in our widget documentation to the webpage where it should be visible.

Your customer will simply click this button to proceed to the checkout process and purchase a gift card.

Via the Back Office

You can create a gift card manually for your customer in the back office.

Step 1: Create the Gift Card

1. In the left main menu of Bilberry, navigate to Finances.

2. Click Gift Cards and Deposits → Gift Cards.

3. Click Create in the top right corner.

4. Enter all necessary gift card details. See the table below for a detailed description of each field.

5. Click Create.

6. Once the gift card is created, proceed to the steps below to Collect Payment.

Step 2: Collect Payment

When a gift card is created in the back office, the payment method is set to Checkout by default, meaning the customer is expected to pay in person (over the counter). You can either keep this setting or switch to an online payment method to send the customer a payment link via email.

You can collect payment or edit the payment method from the gift card order. You can find the order listed at the bottom of the Gift Cards page, then click the order number (listed in the Invoice column).

Option 1 — Checkout Payment

1. Open the gift card order.

2. Click the gear icon in the top right corner.

3. Click Mark as Paid.

4. Choose whether to send a receipt to your customer via email.

   1. Check the box to send an email.

   2. Uncheck the box if you do not want to send an email.

5. Click Mark as Paid.

Option 2 — Online Payment

1. Open the gift card order.

2. Click the gear icon in the top right corner.

3. Click Set to Online Payment.

4. Enter a Due Date (for when the payment is due).

5. Toggle on or off Bypass Deletion?

   1. Toggled On : The gift card order stays active even if the payment isn't made by the due date.

   2. Toggled Off : The order is automatically canceled and deleted from the system if the payment isn’t received by the due date.

6. Click Set to Online Payment.

7. To send the payment link via email, click the gear icon in the top right corner and click Send invoice on email.

8. A small message will pop up confirming that you want to send the email. Click OK to send.

9. Your customer will then receive the following email below. From there, they click View Your Booking to proceed with the payment process. When they have completed their payment, they will receive a receipt via email.