How to use DFO Gift Cards
How to issue Gift Cards
1. Issue Gift Cards from the Order page
On the order page, in the Payment Details section, users can issue a new Gift Card by taking advantage of the button Issue New Gift Card.
Click on the button Issue New Gift Card
Fill in the Issue New Gift Card tab and
Click on Send button
The Gift Card will be sent via email to the customer and on the order page, it will show all the Gift cards issued, if more than one, underneath the Payment History area
A system note will be created and available in the Notes section of the order (see the below example)
Exception
Please note that ONLY CRM users with the Customer Service Admin or Root roles are allowed to exceed the total value of the order, when adding the Gift Card amount. In this specific case, for these users the system will only show a Warning Message stating that the value of refunds, plus gift cards exceed the total order value, and asking to choose between the option the following two options: Proceed or Cancel.
Any other CRM roles, is not allowed to create a Gift card which amount exceed the order grand total. In this case, it displays an error message stating that the value exceeds the value of refunds plus gift cards, and request to contact the manager.
Gift Cards and the Customer Account
Inside each customer account, at the bottom of it, there is the Gift Cards section where are displayed all Gift Cards issued for this customer (see the below example)
Selecting the i button a small tab pops up displaying the Gift Card details (see below example):
Clicking on the $ button, the tab to recharge the Gift Card will appear (see the below example)
Nonetheless, at this moment, the recharge option is NOT working.
2. Issue Gift Cards from the Gift Card section
The Gift Card can be created in the Gift Card section and sent directly to the customer’s email as explained in the below steps.
Go to the Gift Card section
Click on the + Create New button
Choose which toggle to turn on, please note that users can pick just one, or a combination of two or all three of them.
The Is Customer toggle: Switching this one to Yes allows users to use the field Holder Email only to look for email addresses registered in the instance’s database
The Is Batch Card toggle: Switching to ON this button allows users to send a batch of gift cards to several customers' email addresses.
Just type the email address in the field Holder Email
Click on the Add button
The Is Card Test toggle: this option allows users to create a Test Gift Card to be used in a Test Order within the system. Please also note that:
A Test Gift Card can only be used in a test order.
It is not possible to use a test gift card to pay a real order in production, partially or in total.
It is not possible to use a real gift card to pay a test order, partially or in total
Combining Toggles:
By combining the Is Customer and the Is Batch Card switches, users will be able to send several gift cards at once; however, using only the customers already registered at the instance’s database
By combining the Is Customer and the Is Card Test switches, users will only be able to create test gift cards and use only the customers already registered in the instance’s database
By combining the Is Batch Card and the Is Card Test switches, users will be able to send several test gift cards at once, to external customers.
By combining all 3 options, users will be able to send several test gift cards at once, to customers already registered in the instance’s database.
Once all the above details have been filled in, click on the Create button. The Gift Card will be automatically sent to the email provided.
The new Gift Card(s) will be listed on the Gift Card main page (see the below example)
3. Issue Gift Cards from campaigns
In this specific case, setting the Gift Card in a campaign will enable Gift Cards to be sent to the customers at the end of their purchases, as a bonus for their next shopping with DFO.
To add the above option to CRM campaigns, please follow the below steps.
Log in to CRM and go to the left-side menu
Click on Campaign Management>Settings
Then select the + Create a new button, or you can either choose one of the existing campaigns listed below and click on the Edit button to modify it
Once you are inside the Campaign Settings page, scroll down the page till you reach the Gift Card section, where you can add the Gift Card to the specific Campaign;
Switch to ON the Issue After Sales toggle: which will enable the Gift card to be sent to the customer at the end of the purchase. Then the user can choose one of the below choices.
The Relative Percentage field: the Gift Card amount will be a specific XX% of the order total.
For example, the order is $180,00 and the percentage is set for the 10% over the order’s grand total. The customer will receive a Gift Card of $18.The Absolute Amount toggle: if this option is also set to ON, then the Gift Card amount will be a predefined and unchangeable amount in $ that can be set on the below field Absolute Amount.
Once all changes have been made, click on the Create or Save button.
How to make a purchase using the Gift Card
Go to a DFO checkout pages
Enter the 15 alphanumeric Gift Card codes in the Gift Card field
Once the code is added into the field, this will automatically trigger a process where the FE checks if the amount of the Gift Card is enough to pay the entire order, or if it does cover just part of its cost. Consequently, there are two possible scenarios:
The amount of the Gift Card is enough to cover the order’s grand total: in this case, the system will process the payment as a normal offline payment and send the customer a confirmation email once the purchase is confirmed. Please note that:
Customers will have to fill in the Shipping Address details
When paying with a Gift Card, the system is not registering the CardId as normally does with any offline payments. Therefore, to enable customers to buy any upgrade or upsell, once the customer has selected one or the other, he/she will be requested to fill in the details with another payment method, otherwise, the purchase won’t be allowed.
The amount of the Gift Card is NOT enough to cover the order’s grand total: in this case, the system will process the Gift Card as a coupon, which will partially pay the order, and for the rest of the amount, the customer should add another payment method (Credit Card, PayPal, etc.).
Please see below an example of an order partially paid with a Gift Card:As previously mentioned, the Gift Card is recognized and processed, by the system, as any other payment method. Therefore, this implies that any order, fully or partially paid with it, will display the below:
By going to the Order Page>Payment History
Click on the View Details button
The Transaction Details tab will pop up and there is available all payment information (see the example below)
Gift Cards and orders Shipping & Handling fees
Please note that in all cases, Gift Cards don’t cover the cost of shipping and handling fees (S&H).
Consequently, when customers use the Gift Card as the only payment method, S&H fees will not be paid by it, but the customer will have to pay them using a different payment method (Credit Card, PayPal, etc.)
For example: if there is an order of a total amount of $70 and there is an additional $9 of S&H, the system will automatically check if the Gift Card is able to pay the full amount of $70 and the $9 has to be paid with a normal payment method.
Cancel a Gift Card
A Gift Card can be easily cancelled, and the customer refunded, as long as this one hasn’t been used already.
To cancel a Gift Card, follow the below instructions:
Access the order page
Scroll down to the Payment Details
Click on the Delete button
How do Gift Cards work with refunds?
DFO Gift Cards are considered a normal payment method; therefore, to refund an order partially or fully paid with a Gift Card:
Go to the order page
Scroll down to the Payment History section
Click on the Refund button as any other order.
In such cases, in the Payment History section are listed two transactions, one is the amount paid with the Gift Card and the other one is the one paid with any other payment methods. For each transaction, the refund button has to be selected in order to completely refund the customer, as per the example below:
Fully Refunding with Gift Cards not yet Shipped Orders
By fully refunding with a Gift Card orders that haven’t been shipped yet:
The order status will be set as Shipping Denied
The fulfilment will be automatically cancelled
A system note is added in the Notes section of the order page
Gift Cards and Chargebacks
DFO Gift Card Balance
The DFO Gift Card Balance is the new page designed to check your DFO Global Gift Card status, whether it has got funds, and how much plus the transaction history.
The DFO Gift Card Balance is a public page, and anyone with the alphanumeric code and the link below can check its balance.
DFO Gift Card Public Domain: https://dfo-giftcards-external-prod.azurewebsites.net/
Once the Gift Card code has been pasted on the Check field, the below information will be available:
Transaction id | The unique tracking code to identify a transaction |
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Order Reference | The CRM order number linked to the TransactionID |
Operation | Type of operation that has been performed with the Gift Card |
Date | The date of the event |
Amount | For each event is shown the amount debited or credited on the Gift Card. |