Gift card templates

How gift cards get generated

A gift card is a small design with three values that must be right: who it is for, what it is worth, and the code that redeems it. The last one has to be unique per card and has to survive being scanned, which puts the same barcode requirement on this category as on tickets. What differs is the delivery — gift cards are usually issued one at a time, at the moment of purchase, and emailed rather than printed. That makes this a common API case: the checkout completes, your backend posts the recipient name, amount and generated code, and gets back either the image bytes or a hosted URL to embed in the email. Corporate gifting runs the other way, as one large batch before a seasonal send.

In practice: Per-purchase API calls for retail, one big CSV batch for corporate gifting rounds.

Fields you'd usually bind

{{recipient_name}}

Who the card is for. Often paired with a sender name.

{{amount}}

Face value, formatted with the currency in your data rather than in the design.

{{gift_code}}

The redemption code, usually also bound to a barcode element.

{{expiry_date}}

Where terms require one printed on the card.

Any text, image, QR code or barcode on the canvas can become a variable — these are just the ones this category tends to use.