Gift Cards

Turn gift-giving into new customers

Let regular customers buy gifts for their friends and loved ones and drive new business for you. All you have to do is enable gift cards in Occasion.

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— Cambridge School of Culinary Arts

Gifts that grow your business

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Set up in a few clicks

Add your options, get a link, and start selling.

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Paid up front

Collect the money now and deliver the experience later.

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Breakage revenue

Unspent balances stay with your business.

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Gift an experience

Let customers gift a specific experience, not just money.

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Sell gift cards anywhere

Get a unique gift card link and share it on any platform, with a beautiful, easy checkout built in.

Gift value

Offer preset values like $25, $50, and $75, or let customers enter their own.

Gift a specific class

Customers can gift a specific experience from your calendar.

Gift cards on sale

Sell a $100 gift card for $80 as a holiday or Black Friday offer.

Share the link anywhere

Publish it on your site or on social media. It always works.

Redeem online or in person

Unlike other gift card solutions, Occasion gives customers many ways to redeem their balance.

Online, at checkout

They enter their code and the balance applies to the current order.

In person or by phone

Redeem a card for a customer straight from your gift cards page.

Balance carries over

Any leftover stays on the card for next time.

Redeem for anything

If someone was given a specific experience, they can swap it for something else.

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Keep the money in your business

Gift cards are money in your business from the day they're bought.

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Cash today

You're paid at purchase and customers redeem in their own time.

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Grow your breakage revenue

Set an expiry date and unspent balances will stay with your business.

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Track every card

Search by code, name, or email, and see each balance and where it's been used.

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Resend or clear

Resend a lost code, or clear a small leftover balance in a click.

Other gift card tools vs. Occasion

Other gift card tools
Occasion
Where it lives
A separate app to run
Built into your booking platform
Gift options
A cash value only
Cash value or a specific experience
Redemption
Online only
Online and in person

More gift card tools

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Redeem Square gift cards

Customers can spend existing Square gift cards through Occasion.

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Bring your balances over

Import gift cards and credits when you switch to Occasion.

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Your branding on every gift

Add your colors, images, and a personal message to the gift email.

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Turn gift cards into a source of revenue

Sell gift cards from your site and social media, get paid up front, and let new customers come to you. Book a demo to see it in action.

Occasion’s mission is to empower those who build happier communities.

We achieve our mission by giving individuals more time back, enabling them to create and share meaningful human experiences together.

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