Run a gift-card programme with a partner

Until now a gift card was something you sold yourself, one at a time. If a hotel
wanted to hand your cards to its guests, or a company wanted a hundred of them
for its staff, there was no way to set that up — and no way to see what was
owed to whom afterwards.

Gift Cards has a new **Partner programmes** tab. A programme holds everything
about that arrangement in one place:

- **What the card is worth** — one fixed amount, a short list the buyer picks
  from, any amount inside a range, or a specific pass.
- **How long it stays valid** — a number of months, or your venue's normal
  expiry rules.
- **Who may buy one** — a cap per client, a cap in total, first-timers only, and
  whether redeeming needs an account.
- **Which partner sells it**, under which agreement, and between which dates.
- **The commission**, with a preview of what a single card settles to before you
  print anything.

**Batches make real cards.** Ask for two hundred and you get two hundred genuine
gift cards, each with its own code — the same cards your desk already knows how
to look up, redeem and refund. Nothing new to learn at the register.

**Barcodes and bulk scanning are built in.** The Card mapping tab is the same
scanner you already use in Settings and on promotions, so a printed batch can be
scanned in one pass rather than typed.

**Once cards go out, the money is locked.** From the moment you hand a batch to
a partner, what a card is worth stops being editable — that promise is now out
in the world on printed cards. Everything else stays yours to change: the name,
the wording, the dates, who may buy and the partner.

**Settlement lands where you already look.** A partner running both a promotion
and a gift-card programme settles on one statement, not two.

Find it under Gift Cards → Partner programmes.