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Created: 21/01/2016 | By: Magenest | Email: Support

Introduction

Gift Card extension for Magento 2 is the product developed by Magenest to lets you quickly create gift cards and sell them in your shop.

Please view more detail here: Gift Card

Features for admins

• Create Gift cards product to sell online.

• Set unlimited values of gift card products to be shown as a drop down, fixed amount or a range.

• Configure the gift card module, change the pdf gift card setting.

• Full back end control: create, edit, resend, change status of gift cards, and more.

• Admins can import/export gift cards from CSV files.

• Customize the email template as you want by various available options.

Features for customers

• Gift cards have different values for customers to choose at their convenience.

• Customer can buy gift card for them self or send it as a gift to their friends.

• Gift card can be delivered by email or post office.

• Manage the gift card/gift voucher that they already purchased at the account dashboard.

• The customer can easily check out of their product through Paypal which is the best payment gateway in the world.

System Requirements

Here we will guide you through the installation process of our extension. First off, open FileZilla, log in to your host as follows:

In the above example we switched the local site to the extension directory, and the remote site to the code directory. Now on the remote site window, inside app/code directory, create a folder named Magenest and go inside it. Now on your local site window, right click on Wrapper extension and click Upload. The extension will be uploaded onto your host in a few minutes.

The second method will require you to compress the extension into .zip or .tar.gz format, then execute the following command in your Command Line/Terminal:

    scp <path to your extension> <ssh server>:<path to Magenest directory>

Then log into your ssh server, go to Magenest directory and execute the following command to decompress the module:

    unzip <.zip compressed extension> 

Or

    tar -xzvf <.tar.gz compressed extension>

Now go to your Magento root directory, say it's named magento2, and execute the following commands:

    sudo chmod -R 755 .

    php bin/magento setup:upgrade

    php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

    sudo chmod -R 777 var pub

After running all these, your Command line/Terminal window might look like this:

Finally, you need to flush the cache by either type this into the Command Line/Terminal:

    php bin/magento cache:flush

Or go to System > Cache Management and click Flush Magento Cache

Now you can go to your store and check if the extension is working as expected.

Main Functions

For Admin

• Gift Card Configuration

• Create Gift Card Template
  

       1.  Admin can view available Templates an convenient way by navigating to Gift Card > Gift Card Template.

--> Click on Edit if you want to create any changes related for the Gift Card Template.

2. To add new template, click on button Add New Template. Then the New Template screen will be shown.

            3. Admin can set any of template position through Design Style - our great feature.

     4. Admin can set easily main image by navigating to Main Imagine Uploads of Gift Card Template Configuration.

      5. Admin can set easily Background Image by navigating to Background Imagine Uploads of Gift Card Template Configuration.

     6. Gift Card codes play a critical role for any of Gift Card products. It is necessary to mange this codes. Our product allows admin to view and manage easily by navigating to Gift Card > Gift Card Codes. The Gift Card Codes screen will be shown. 

     7. Click on button Edit if you want to create any changes. The Edit Gift Card screen will be shown.

• Add Gift Card Product

      1. To create a Gift Card Product, admin need to navigate to Product > Catalog > Add Product > Gift Card. This is a new product type developed by Magenest to allow managers to easily create the Gift Card.

   2. After clicking on Gift Card, the New Product screen will be shown to allow admin to set information related the Gift Card product.

    3. In the Basic Settings tag,  choose Gift Card.

      4. Admin can set information related the Gift Card product, such as Gifcard price scheme, Gift card price selector, Expires After, Max Price, Min Price, Giftcard templates.

- Gifcard price scheme: Consist of 3 option to choose:

+ Fixed: Choosing this option if admin want to set a fixed price for the product.

+ Selected: Choosing this option if admin want to display a price list to choose for the customer.

+ Range: Choosing this option if admin want to display a price range that allows the customer to enter the price in the rangeGift card price selector: Allow admin set the price in accordance with the above option.

 - Expires After: Admin can set the expiration date of Gift Card products.

 - Max Price: The max price of the product.

 - Min Price: The min price of the product.

• Please press button Save to make sure the product saved.

For Customer

• Select the Gift Card type

Benefits of Gift Card

With the above great features, this extension make sure to bring many benefits for both your business and customer as follows:

Benefits for your business

• Improve sales.
  
• Attract new customer.
• Increase Brand Awareness.
• Reduce Fraud.
  

Benefits for customers

• Save your customers valuable time.
• Let customers give the gift of convenience.

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