Gift Certificates Guide

Creating Gift Certificates
Selecting Gift Certificate Styles
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10 October 2009 Merchant Gift Certificates Guide
z Taiwan New Dollar
z Thai Baht
z U.S. Dollar
When your customers purchase a gift certificate from you in a different currency, PayPal will
either convert the gift certificate to your primary currency or ask you to open the balance in the
currency in which the gift certificate is being purchased.
N OTE: PayPal recommends informing your customers that when redeeming multiple gift
certificates for a single purchase, each gift certificate must be denominated in the same
currency.
Amount
After selecting your gift certificate currency, choose the amount you want your gift certificates
to be sold for.
Gift certificates are available for sale in two amount types – Set Amount and Fixed Amount.
The Set Amount option allows you to sell gift certificates in preset denominations for a given
currency. For example, the denominations for USD are $5.00, $10.00, $25.00, $100.00, up to
$1,000.00. The gift certificate purchaser will choose the desired denomination from a drop-
down menu.
The Fixed Amount option allows you to sell gift certificates for one specified amount, such as
$49.95 USD or $20.00 USD.
N OTE: A monthly purchase limit for gift certificates equal to $500.00 USD, calculated using
PayPal current exchange rates, may apply to some PayPal members.
Shopping URL
Your Shopping URL is the web address where you want your gift certificate recipients to go to
redeem their gift certificates.
PayPal recommends using a short and memorable Shopping URL to make redemption for
your customers easier and more user-friendly. See “Gift Certificate Creation – Quick Setup”
on page 7 for more information.
Selecting Gift Certificate Styles
This section shows how to apply a color or theme and a custom logo image to your gift
certificates.