Automated Generation of Gift Certificates

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Automated Generation of Gift Certificates

Post by carmenmerwin » Sat Nov 22, 2008 11:52 pm

This is my first post, so please a little patience while I get up to speed. By the way I am a terrible speller which I may as well admit right off because you will fiqure it out on your own soon enough. I would like the ability to create several Gift Certificates at once. For example I would like to create 25 $10.00 Gift Certificates without having to do them one at a time. Thanks Carmen
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Re: Automated Generation of Gift Certificates

Post by mazhar » Mon Nov 24, 2008 7:56 am

Not clear, could explain the scenario in detail.

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Re: Automated Generation of Gift Certificates

Post by carmenmerwin » Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:28 am

We sell several items that are price controlled by the supplier. In other words we cannot discount them. Every now and then we like to create a sale where when they purchase an item it ships with a gift certificate. Which should not only result in a sale, but also bring them back to the website for another transaction to help us increase the customer base with loyal repeat buyers.

It takes a lot of time to create each of these individually. I would like to create several at one time so that I can print them all up at once and perform order fullfillment more quickly.

The user interface might be something like this.

Create a batch of Gift Certificates

ABC Name of Batch
(an extension could be added to the name of each individual certificate like a b c ....
so that it would not be necessary to make a change to the underlying data structure)
### How Many
$$$ Amount
MM/DD/YYYY Expiration Date (or none)

For Christmas I like to send Family, Friends and Repeat Customers Gift Certificates so it would be nice for this as well.
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Re: Automated Generation of Gift Certificates

Post by mazhar » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:27 am

You can do this job easily. All you need is to iterate over the required number of times and each time create a GC. Extract the attachment and place the files in Website\Admin\Payment folder. This will enable batch add option on the GiftCertifacte page.

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Re: Automated Generation of Gift Certificates

Post by carmenmerwin » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:42 am

Oh thank you great and glorious one!
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