Plastic Gift Cards for your Online Store

Here's another feature you won't find anywhere else - you can create gift cards loaded with pre-defined balances, upload your artwork, and we'll create high-quality credit-card style plastic cards that work with your store just like the large online retailers use. You can sell gift cards on your site, or use them as a promotional tool and give them away to get them to your online store.

All the big players are doing it! Throughout the retail industry, merchants are selling gift cards, and to remain competitive you should do the same! Cartooga makes it all possible, and EASY - but first, here's why you should be interested:

• Enhance Sales and Revenue
  By offering customers more options and incentives to remain loyal to your business, sales will automatically increase.
  
  
• Encourage, build, and maintain customer loyalty
  To redeem the card value, customers will revisit your store and most likely purchase more.
  
  
• Let customers give the gift of convenience.
  Gift cards offer flexibility because they can be used at any time - but they only work at YOUR store!      

People LIKE gift cards! It's a psychological thing, something about holding that little plastic card in your hand. We don't really know what it is, but what we do know is how to make them and how to allow YOU to accept gift cards in YOUR STORE! All of the big retailers offer gift cards in their stores, and most of them work online too, but if you're a small store owner it's often too difficult and too expensive to offer any kind of customized gift cards for your customers. Not anymore.

Card9's virtual gift card concept makes it so you don't have to put up any real money for the face value of the card! Since it's all handled internally by our system, it works just like an account credit between you and your customer. Within a couple of days, your plastic gift cards arrive in the mail. And let me tell you, these aren't some junk cards either - they're the same quality as the cards you'll find at any national retailer. This is the real deal - near edge to edge printing that looks as good as the artwork you submit. The front contains your artwork, and the back contains information on how to redeem the card on your site and a unique card number. When your customer reaches the checkout page where it normally asks for a credit card or PayPal information, a third "Redeem a Gift Card" option will appear. The user simply enters the number on the back of the card and they check out. If their purchase is greater than the balance available on the card, the screen will refresh allowing them to supply a credit card for the difference, or redeem another gift card. Just like the big stores.

Believe it or not, something as simple as plastic gift cards can elevate the perception of your store in ways you haven't imagined. In a world where everyone and their brother has an online store, to be able to hand out something tangible lends credibility to buyers. Some of our merchants give them away with purchases as a way of saying thank you, or hand them out at events because they want people to come spend them at their stores later. Others sell them online among their other products. Whatever you decide to do, there isn't any easier way to create a high quality plastic gift card than through our system.

Best of all, all of this is COMPLETELY private label! Your customer will never see Cartooga or any bank name or anything like that, just your store's info. You can de-activate lost or stolen cards at any time, and you'll never have to lay out any real cash. Load the cards with as much or as little as you want. We told you it was easy!