Purchasing Gift Card/Certificates

Purchasing Gift Certificates

A Gift card is very similar to an ATM or Credit Card or it can be considered a prepaid card for services. You can have these designed specifically for your salon. It will be designed with your salon logo, salon Name and phone number. You can also place your salon website & email address on the card. On the back of the card will be your gift card policy.. (E.g The card is non-refundable and will expire in 1 year form the date of purchase.)  The other piece of critical information on the back of the card is the number for the card e.g 10001. This number will be also printed with a unique barcode that only identifies this card. You can use your barcode scanner if you have one to enter this card into the Unique Software to perform a sales transaction or enter the card number manually.

You can call Unique Software to order gift cards. Design and setup is free. Please call the Unique Software Gift Card department at 1 (888) 745-7554 or e-mail us your logo and current address information at uniquesalonsoftware@gmail.com and we can put design a sample card for you.

A Gift Card/certificate can be purchased with any sale. You need to setup a sales code for Gift Card/certificate in the Misc\Register Setup/Services Setup at the Sales Register Menu .  

Select Misc from the Sales Register Menu.  

Then select Register Setup . Next select Services Setup ; choose the next available number and select Ok .  

The following information needs to be entered: 

Description:                   Type "Gift Card" 

Activate Service:          Check this option

Service Type:           Select "Gift Card' 

Taxable:                   Uncheck if non-taxable

Inventory Deletion:    (Leave this option unchecked)

Now select OK to activate the gift card sale. You can then enter a gift card transaction during a retail sale or during a service sale.  See Ringing Up Sales.  

To process a purchased gift Card/Certificate from the Gift menu section: 

Select Gift/Purchase from the Sales Register .  

Enter an employee code to assign to the transaction. Then select or add the client who purchased the gift card. After you select the client; enter the amount of the gift card, the card number, and any type of instructions you would like to attach to the gift card. If there is an expiration date attached to that gift card you can enter it there.  

The final step is just to enter how much and the form of payment.  

The card can be redeemed when making a sale.  

See Enter a Sale paying by gift card/certificate section at the beginning of this section. 

To view the gift Card/Certificate purchase and redemption history: 

Select Gift/History from the Sales Register Menu . A scrollable window appears displaying all the purchases and redemption's of gift card/certificates for your salon.