Gift cards

A gift card page, on your own site

A real Clay site, built from a Google listing

Somebody wants to give your shop as a present and cannot work out how. That is the entire problem, and it is a page.

Every December a lot of people decide to buy somebody a voucher for a place they like, and then spend ten minutes failing to find out whether that place does one.

So the gift card gets a page: what it is, what amounts you do, how it arrives and how long it lasts. The order comes to you as a message and the payment is settled the way you already settle payments, which is why there is nothing per card and nothing held anywhere.

Gift cards

€25Card, in an envelope

€25

€50Card or by email

€50

€100Card or by email

€100

Any amountTell us in the message

The page

Four things a buyer needs before they ask

Amounts, whether it is a card or an email, how long it is valid and whether it can be spent on anything. Those four are the whole conversation and they fit above the fold.

Say what it looks like. A photograph of the actual card in a hand is worth more than the word gift card written four times.

The order

It comes to you, not through us

Somebody picks an amount and sends the order; it arrives as a message with their name and what they want on it. You take the payment however you already do.

That is why there is no fee per card and no float sitting with a platform. It also means the card is your promise, on your terms, which is what a gift card legally is anyway.

What you get

Amounts you choose

Three or four fixed ones and an anything option. More than that and people stop deciding.

Say how long it lasts

The expiry is the question you get asked most and the one most gift card pages leave out.

The order is a message

Name, amount, and whether it is posted or emailed. You reply and settle it however suits you.

Your photographs, already sorted

Clay reads the pictures on your Google listing, grades them, crops them for the shape each band needs and puts the best one at the top. Nothing to upload, nothing to resize.

What it looks like when it is live

Drawn rather than described, the page, the address, and what it can switch on.

In a search result

Found the way people actually look

yourgiftshop.clay.site

Gift shop

Open now · rating and reviews from Google · map and directions

Your address

Free to start, your own name when you want it

https://yourgiftshop.clay.site

Free foreverYour own domain, included on Pro

In short

Amounts, validity and format, above the fold

A photograph of the real card

Orders arrive as a message

No fee per card and no money held anywhere

How it works

Search your business

Type your name, Clay pulls your photos, hours, reviews and contact details straight from your Google listing.

Pick a style

Choose a look and Clay builds a full site around your content. Change anything with a tap, no code, no templates to wrestle.

You're online

Publish to your own name.clay.site in minutes. Add a custom domain and connect your own tools whenever you're ready.

Real sites, made with Clay

Open one. It is the live site in a frame, not a screenshot, so what you see is what it looks like right now.

Questions

Does Clay take the payment?

No. The order comes to you as a message and you settle it the way you already take money, which is why there is nothing per card.

What amounts should I offer?

Three or four, plus an open one. A long list of amounts makes the buyer think about money instead of about the present.

Card or email?

Offer both if you can and say which is which on the page. A card in an envelope is a better present and an email arrives on the twenty fourth.

How long should it be valid?

Whatever your law allows and you can honour. Say the number on the page: it is the most asked question and the most commonly missing answer.

Can I sell gift cards and products together?

Yes, the same page can carry both: what a shop band adds.

What about a business buying twenty?

That is an enquiry rather than an order, and the message box handles it. Say on the page that you do them.

Do I need to print anything?

Only if you want a physical card. Plenty of shops write the amount on a nice card by hand, and it photographs better than a printed one.

Try it with your business

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