Retail:Gift Cards
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Gift Cards
Introduction
There are several ways to pay products in Web POS. A customer can buy using cash, card, etc. and giftcards.
This module creates a new type of payment method buttons called Gift Card that allows users to buy by some new different ways (some of them behave as Payments and others as Discounts).
Gift Card has different sub types:
- Product Gift Card
- Gift Voucher
- Gift Certificate
- Credit Note
Each payment type has it different way to be created and used, but all are belong to the Gift Card type.
Installation
To install the module (an Openbravo Professional instance is needed because it is a commercial module):
- Login as System Administrator
- Navigate to General Setup -> Application -> Module Management.
- Click the Add Modules tab.
- Find the Gift Cards and Gift Vouchers module within the list of available modules.
- Click on Install Now and follow the guided installation flow.
Product Gift Cards and Gift Vouchers
Product Gift Cards are documents that include a monetary credit. When sold, gift cards include an initial balance that can be consumed in point of sale orders until all the credit is consumed.
Gift Vouchers are documents that include credit in terms of a list of products or services. When sold, gift vouchers include an initial balance for each of the products or services, that can be consumed in point of sale orders that include one of several or the products listed in the gift voucher.
The next link explains how to configure and use Product Gift Cards and Gift Vouchers in Openbravo:
Gift Certificates
 | This feature is available starting from 3.0RR17Q2. |
Gift Certificates are other type of Gift Card. As difference from Product Gift Cards, Gift Vourchers and Credit Notes (see below), Gift Certificates are not created from products consumption or from a payment generated during a ticket synchronization. These Gift Certificates are created setting a quantity and generating a payment in backend linked to a defined G/L Item.
The next link explains how to configure and use Gift Certificates in Openbravo:
Credit Notes
| | This feature is available starting from 3.0RR17Q2. |
A Credit Note is a type of gift card that is generated when doing any return process. When a Credit Note typed negative payment is created and synchronized, a Credit Note is also generated with the same quantity amount (but in positive).
After created, the user can consume that Credit Note to pay anything in the Web POS (with a value equal or less to the Credit Notes value).
The next link explains how to configure and use Credit Notes in Openbravo:
Print Gift Cards and New Entities for Gift Cards
| | This feature is available starting from 3.0RR17Q2. |
Even if these two functionalities exists for a long time ago, in 3.0RR17Q2 they have been integrated to the Gift Cards module.