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Leave blank to write it in by hand.
Drawn at 7 by 3 inches at 300 DPI, so three fit on a portrait A4 or letter sheet. Download the SVG if a designer or print shop needs to adjust it. We cannot host uploaded logos, so the certificate leaves a marked area for yours.
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At minimum: the business name, the value, a unique code, an expiry date and the terms of redemption. A space for the recipient and sender names makes it feel like a gift rather than a receipt. If it can be used online, say so explicitly, because customers often assume a printed certificate is in store only.
Around 7 by 3 inches is the common voucher size, which is roughly a third of a portrait letter or A4 sheet. That means three fit per page with clean cut lines, keeping print costs down. This template is drawn at exactly that size at 300 DPI.
The opposite in many places. In the United States, federal law under the CARD Act means gift certificates generally cannot expire for at least five years from issue, and several states restrict expiry further or ban it outright. Rules differ in the UK, EU and Australia. Check your local law before printing an expiry date, since an unenforceable one can create a dispute.
Yes, if the value is meaningful. A code lets you record which certificates have been redeemed and prevents the same one being used twice, which is otherwise trivial with a photocopier. Number them sequentially and keep a simple log of issue date, value and redemption.
Card stock of roughly 250 to 300gsm feels substantial and survives being carried around. Matte takes handwriting well, which matters if you are filling in recipient names or codes by hand. Some businesses use security paper or add a foil sticker for higher values, since anything that is hard to photocopy reduces fraud.
A gift certificate is typically paper, printed for a fixed value and redeemed in one go. A gift card is usually plastic or digital, holds a balance that can be partly spent, and is tracked in your systems. Certificates are cheaper to start; cards handle partial redemption and reloading, which certificates cannot.
For a handful of certificates, a spreadsheet with the code, value, issue date and redemption date is enough. Beyond that it gets error prone, and the usual failure is a certificate being honoured twice because two staff members did not check the same list. At that point a store credit system that tracks balances against a customer record is more reliable.
Generally no. When a certificate is sold you have taken cash but not yet delivered anything, so it is normally recorded as a liability and recognised as revenue when it is redeemed. Rules vary and unredeemed balances are treated differently by jurisdiction, so confirm the treatment with your accountant.
They tend to, for two reasons. Recipients frequently spend more than the certificate value, covering the difference themselves, and a certificate brings in someone who may never have visited you otherwise. The cash also arrives before the cost of goods does, which helps working capital.
Yes. Download the PNG and email it, or attach it to an order confirmation. If you are sending them regularly it is worth moving to a system that issues codes automatically and tracks the balance, since manually emailing images does not scale and creates duplicate redemption risk.
The template leaves a clearly marked area for your logo rather than uploading one, since we do not host customer artwork. Download the SVG and any design tool will let you place your logo in that space, or a print shop will usually do it for you.
Yes. No signup, no email, no watermark, and everything is generated in your browser rather than on a server. It is built by Mage Loyalty, a loyalty, referrals and store credit app for Shopify.
Mage is a loyalty, referral and store credit app built for Shopify. Reward repeat purchases, run VIP tiers, and give customers a reason to come back, without writing a line of code.
